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Summer, festivals and first love: This Song Is About Us
Authors Q&As
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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Moon Girl inspires a love of night time and the dark
Author Videos
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 if Nazi Germany had won the war?
Video/Vlog
Friday, March 21, 2025
In time-travel adventure Westfallen, two groups of friends speak to each other across time, one in 1944, the other in the present day. What they say to each other will change the cou...
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2025 UKLA Book Awards Shortlists announced
Book Awards
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
The UKLA Book Awards are judged by teachers who sought 'positive, empowering or innovative representation of children's lives' in the judging process, so that all children and young people can find themselves represented in the books that they read or study.</...
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Year 3: Design a Bookmark Competition
Get Creative
Monday, March 17, 2025
The Children's Bookshow is challenging Year 3 children (ages 7-8 years) to design a bookmark featuring a favourite bird, in a competition run in partnership with the British Trust for Ornithology. The competition asks children to design a bookmark with a picture...
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Chaos reigns in Cafe Crumble
Video/Vlog
Friday, March 14, 2025
Hope Crumble and her family serve up cakes, coffee and a large helping of calamity in this hilarious new series, Cafe Chaos! We're joined by author Catherine Wilkins to find out more about Hope's life and family - and how she sorts out the class bully!
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Jericho Prize 2025 writing competition for Black-British children's writers
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
The Jericho Prize for Children's Writing has launched its 2025 writing competition, dedicated to showcasing new Black-British children's writers.
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A Deep Dark secret in the heart of London
Video/Vlog
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Discover Deep Dark, the first adventure in Zohra Nabi's thrilling new Cassia Thorne Mysteries. 19th century London holds a dangerous secret....
