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Friday, April 25, 2025

The Dark That Hides Us is the follow-up to Andy Darcy Theo's bestselling romantacy, The Light That Blinds Us, and he tells us what inspired the books in this short introduction to the series.

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

The Branford Boase Award celebrates new children's writers, helping to identifying trends and new directions in children’s literature. It is also is the only award to honour the editor of the winning title and highlights the importance of editors in nurturing...

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Schools around the country are shadowing the CLiPPA poetry award, with children choosing their favourite poems to perform and helping to spark a life-long love of poetry. The best performers could also win a place at this year's CLiPPA Poetry Award in London!

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Author Abi Elphinstone tells ReadingZone what inspired her new Ember Spark adventure, and how travelling to the wilderness islands of South America helped inspire the lush setting for Ember Spark and the U...

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The shortlist for the annual CLPE children's poetry award, CLiPPA, has been announced with five collections by children's poets selected. Schools around the country will now start to shadow the awards, choosing their favourite poems to perform. 

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Monday, April 21, 2025

Following on from his award-winning book The Final Year, about Nate's last year at primary school, Matt Goodfellow reads from his new novel about Nate, The First Year. 

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Monday, April 21, 2025

I Am Raven, the follow-up to Alastair Chisholm's acclaimed science fiction novel, I Am Wolf, is set in a desolate landscape where vast mechanical animals roam and fight, protecting their territories and destroying intruders. 

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Friday, April 18, 2025

Owning It is a new anthology by disabled authors, who share their stories and experiences of growing up disabled.  Author Jen Campbell tells ReadingZone why the authors are sharing their childhood experiences

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