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Simon Philip explores the joy in making mistakes in Perfect Pedro
Growing Readers
Friday, September 19, 2025
Sometimes children want everything to be 'just so', but in Perfect Pedro, Simon Philip and Ella Okstad remind us that it's okay when things go wrong.
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Resources to celebrate Harry Potter Book Day, 9 October 2025
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Friends and Foes is the theme for Harry Potter Book Day on Thursday 9 October, and Bloomsbury has created a range of downloadable resources to help you celebrate!
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Free online event to mark Michael Rosen Day, 13 November 2025
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Michael Rosen Day, which will take place on Thursday 13th November, is a chance to celebrate one of Britain's most beloved poets, and to help create a buzz around reading, listening to and writing poetry. The theme for this year's Michael Rosen Day is Funny Food: A Feast of Poems.
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UKLA Book Awards 2026 longlists announced
Book Awards
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
The 2026 longlists for the UKLA Book Awards, announced today, include books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres, topics and themes. The national children's book awards is judged by teachers and aims to showcase high quality...
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Gifting programme aims to donate one million books
Monday, September 15, 2025
The Children's Book Project, which gives away donated books to schools, prisons and community settings, is aiming to give away one million books to children who have few books of their own during this academic year, 2025-2026, in response to "a deepening literacy crisis", the charity s...
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My Hair is as Long as River wins the Klaus Flugge Prize
Book Awards
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Emma Farrarons is the winner of the 2025 Klaus Flugge Prize awarded to the most exciting and promising newcomer to children's picture book illustration. She won for her illustrations in My...
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The Diverse Book Awards 2025 shortlist announced
Book Awards
Monday, September 8, 2025
The shortlist for the Diverse Book Awards 2025 across Picture Books, Children's, YA and Adults published in the UK and Ireland have been announced and include ten titles in each category. The overall winners will be announced at an award ceremony in October.
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Libraries for Primaries 2025 - 2026 campaign
Friday, September 5, 2025
The Libraries for Primaries campaign works to support schools that do not have a library space in creating one with training, resources, books and furniture to help them develop a reading for pleasure culture in their schools. School leaders who are interested...
