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Exploring grief and loss in The Bear-Shaped Hole
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Friday, May 9, 2025
Author John Dougherty and illustrator Thomas Docherty introduce their exploration of preparing for loss in their picture book, The Bear-Shaped Hole.
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How do you make a friend?
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Friday, May 2, 2025
Darren Chetty introduces his new picture book exploring friendship, illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat, I'm Going to Make a Friend, and he reads from the first few pages.
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Moon Girl inspires a love of night time and the dark
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Friday, April 4, 2025
Thomas Docherty tells ReadingZone how his daughters helped inspire his latest picture book, Moon Girl (OUP), about overcoming fears of the dark.
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What happens to our recycling?
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Friday, March 7, 2025
Watch Polly Faber read from Recycling Day as she explains what happens on bin collection day. Recycling Day: What Happens to the Things We Throw Away, follows our recycling through its different processes and shows us how things are re-used, as well as...
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AF Harrold's poetry in your pocket
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Monday, March 3, 2025
Enjoy a Very Short pocket poem or two with poet AF Harrold, who introduces his Pocket Book of Pocket Poems. And see if you can guess how postcards helped inspire the collection!
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Neal Shusterman shares All Better Now
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Friday, February 14, 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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Frank and Bert play Football!
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
Chris Naylor-Ballesteros takes a warm and gentle look at friendship and its challenges in his picture book series, Frank and Bert.
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A new time-travel adventure from MG Leonard!
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Friday, January 17, 2025
MG Leonard's new Time Keys series takes us into the world of time-travel and ancient mysteries! Watch the author introduce book 1, Hunt for the Golden Scarab.