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Odd Girl Out, a novel about finding your place in your world
Authors Q&As
Friday, June 6, 2025
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 UK helped inspire her to write it.
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Introducing mindfulness in As the World Goes By
Author Videos
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
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 of the world around us. Here, he reads from the first few pages of As the World Goes By....
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CLPE becomes part of the National Literacy Trust
Monday, June 2, 2025
CLPE, the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, has become a subsidiary charity of The National Literacy Trust. The organisations say the new structure will help the national literacy charities to "turbo-charge the charities' combined impact on literacy education in the UK and inte...
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Neal Shusterman shares All Better Now
Video/Vlog
Friday, May 30, 2025
What if there was a virus that people wanted to catch? Neal Shusterman tells us what inspired his contemporary thriller, All Better Now.
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Reading Rights: Children's Laureate launches 'urgent roadmap' to tackle reading inequalities
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell Boyce has launched a reading report with an 'urgent roadmap' to turn children's reading from 'an invisible privilege to a universal right' - and gives a stark warning about the consequences of continuing to neglect addressing the 'indefensible' readin...
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Marked decline in children's reading for pleasure highlighted in 2024 report
Thursday, May 15, 2025
An annual report into children's reading habits shows a continued decline in children reading for pleasure, with just 25% of children and teenagers choosing to read four or more times a week. The report highlights a 'perfect storm' of converging trends impacting...
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Klaus Flugge Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Book Awards
Thursday, May 15, 2025
The shortlist for the Klaus Flugge Prize, which highlights the most promising and exciting newcomer to children's picture book illustration, has been announced. This is the only prize specifically to recognise a published picture book by a debut illustrator.
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Bookclub trial for disengaged Year 8 readers "changes attitudes" to reading
Thursday, May 15, 2025
A weekly book club in 17 secondary schools for disengaged readers aged 12 to 13 years successfully changed many students' attitudes to books and reading, according to the results of a 12-week trial run by publishers HarperCollins Children's Books, Barrington Stoke and Farshore.</strong...
