Authors Tasneem Abdur Rashid Explores Identity&Belonging in Odd Girl Out

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Odd Girl Out, a novel about finding your place in your world

Tasneem Abdur-Rashid tells us what inspired her to write her contemporary YA debut, Odd Girl Out, and how her niece's experiences of moving to the...
Introducing mindfulness in As the World Goes By

Jonny Lambert's new picture book, As the World Goes By, introduces young children to mindfulness, with a story about pausing to notice the beauty o...
CLPE becomes part of the National Literacy Trust

CLPE, the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, has become a subsidiary charity of The National Literacy Trust. The organisations say the new s...
Neal Shusterman shares All Better Now

What if there was a virus that people wanted to catch? Neal Shusterman tells us what inspired his contemporary thriller, All Better Now.
Reading Rights: Children's Laureate launches 'urgent roadmap' to tackle reading inequalities

Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell Boyce has launched a reading report with an 'urgent roadmap' to turn children's reading from 'an invisible privi...

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