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2025 CLiPPA Winner Collette Hillier: Children as Wordsmiths
Book Blog
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Children are natural wordsmiths, says Colette Hiller, CLiPPA winning creator of Colossal Words for Kids, and here's how can we encourage their love of language. My introduction to poetry came at a very young age. My mother Glynne was a writer who was hugely influenced b...
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SLA Honours Lists for 2025 school librarian awards announced
Monday, July 14, 2025
The School Library Association has today announced the Honours lists for its annual Secondary School Librarian of the Year Award, the Peter Usborne Primary School Library of the Year Award, and the Enterprise Award. Victoria Dilly, SLA CEO, said that the awards help to showca...
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Government commits to ensuring every primary school has a library
Friday, July 11, 2025
The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has committed to ensuring every primary school in the country will have a library by the end of this Parliament. The announcement was made at the Treasury by Reeves and follows several years of campaigning by litera...
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Glasgow Boys wins the Branford Boase Award 2025 for debut writers
Book Awards
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Margaret McDonald's Glasgow Boys has scored a hat trick with its third top literature award this year, winning the Branford Boase Award 2025 for outstanding debut writers and their editors. Editors Alice Swan and Ama Badu, who edited Glasgow Boys, wer...
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National Year of Reading 2026 to launch a 'reading revolution'
Monday, July 7, 2025
The Department for Education has announced a National Year of Reading 2026 to 'kick start a reading revolution' which aims to halt the decline in children's reading for pleasure. A range of research by organisations including the National Literacy Trust, Booktr...
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Finding comfort in a hug
Authors Q&As
Monday, July 7, 2025
The Hug Button (OUP) by Naomi Jones and Rebecca Ashdown is a comforting story for children experiencing separation anxiety when starting at nursery or school, or other new experiences.
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A beachcombing mystery
Video/Vlog
Monday, July 7, 2025
Taskmaster presenter Alex Horne tells ReadingZone about The Last Pebble, a story about beachcombing, missing treasure and a strange stone....
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Shoot for the Stars with Danielle Brown
Video/Vlog
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
If you love sports - and even if you don't, yet! - Danielle Brown's Shoot for the Stars gives tips and ideas to help you find a sport you love, and the determination to stick with it.
