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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Sara Barnard tells ReadingZone what inspired her novel about first love, festivals and fame - This Song is About Us (Walker Books). When stardom calls, can love survive? 

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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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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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Friday, March 7, 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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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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Friday, February 7, 2025

Have questions about dealing with toxic friends, or how to tell your parents about a problem you have, or things being said on socials?  Anu Adebogun's new guide for young people, It's a Brave Young Wo...

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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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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.

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