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The Booker Prize launches The Children’s Booker Prize
Book Awards
Friday, October 24, 2025
The charity behind two of the world’s most significant literary prizes has announced a new £50,000 award for children's fiction, supported by the AKO Foundation.
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Inclusive Books for Children 2025 report highlights 'catastrophic decline' in Black representation
Thursday, October 9, 2025
A new report from Inclusive Books for Children highlights a 'catastrophic decline' in Black representation in children's books. The 2025 Excluded Voices report found that only 5.9% of books published in the UK in the last three years featured marginalised main characters, and only half...
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Books to celebrate Black History Month - and beyond!
Reading Resources
Thursday, October 9, 2025
With a new report recording a 'catastrophic decline' in Black representation in children's books and very low Asian representation, ReadingZone is sharing some recent titles by Black and Asian authors and illustrators, highlighted by our teacher and librarian reviewers as 'must-haves'...
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Dip into horror with The Blood Texts
Authors Q&As
Friday, October 3, 2025
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 isolated mansion in the Welsh woods . . .
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Poetry speaking competition Poetry by Heart 2026 opens for entries
Get Creative
Thursday, October 2, 2025
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 sign up - and with a preview of Poetry By Heart: the Movie, the inspiring new feature film documentary following schools as they enter the...
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Little Rebels Award 2025 winner announced
Book Awards
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
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+ activists of the 1980s and 90s and their struggle against Section 28, and role of contemporary activists.
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Free Remembrance Day event with Tom Palmer, 11 November 2025
Author Events
Wednesday, October 1, 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 is aimed at students aged seven to 14 years (KS2–KS3) and will be aired live from the D-Day Story Museum in Portsmouth. It...
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A library for every primary by 2029
Monday, September 29, 2025
The Libraries for Primaries campaign, which recently celebrated transforming 1,500 school libraries, will work with the government to ensure every primary school has a library by the end of 2029, following the government's pledge of £10m funding to establish a library in every primary...
