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2026 Branford Boase Award longlist announced

The longlist for the 2026 Branford Boase Award has been announced. As well as recognising new writers for children and young people, the Branford B...
Poetry By Heart extended to KS1 and EYFS

Poetry By Heart, the popular poetry speaking competition, has launched new materials for four to seven-year-olds to support the very youngest scho...
Coram Beanstalk campaigns to help 1,000 more children into reading

The Society of Authors is partnering with reading charity Coram Beanstalk in a campaign to support 1,000 children in becoming lifelong readers duri...
Secondary schools offered free 'Unlocking Reading' training

State secondary schools can now sign up to the Unlocking Reading CPD, a free training programme provided by the Department for Education. Some 25%...
Championing your school library in the National Year of Reading

With its £10m pledge to fund a 'library for every primary', and £5m book fund for secondary school libraries, the government has put its backing fi...

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