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Inclusive Books for Children 2025 report highlights 'catastrophic decline' in Black representation

A new report from Inclusive Books for Children highlights a 'catastrophic decline' in Black representation in children's books. The 2025 Excluded V...
Dip into horror with The Blood Texts

Uncle Zeedie is weird, but at least he's rich and his house is amazing. That's what George and Lacey tell themselves when they arrive at his isolat...
Poetry speaking competition Poetry by Heart 2026 opens for entries

Poetry By Heart, a national poetry speaking competition, opens today, National Poetry Day, 2 October 2025, with a call to all schools in England to...
Little Rebels Award 2025 winner announced

Sarah Hagger Holt has won the Little Rebels Award 2015 for her novel The Fights That Make Us, a cross-generational story that honours the LGBTQ+ ac...
Free Remembrance Day event with Tom Palmer, 11 November 2025

Join author Tom Palmer in marking Remembrance Day with a free online event hosted by Mr Dilly; Why Do We Remember the Second World War? The event...

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