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Catherine Cawthorne explores fairy tales with the Big Bad Wolf!
Author Videos
Friday, April 12, 2024
Fact-check your favourite stories with the bad guy of fairy tales, the Big Bad Wolf! Find out whether big ears are really 'all the better to hear you with'; discover if it's possible to dance in glass slippers; and learn just how much breath it would take to blow down a house made of...
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Using maps to explore space and time
Author Videos
Friday, April 5, 2024
Leigh Hodgkinson joins ReadingZone to introduce her picture books, Martha Maps it Out and Martha Maps it Out in Time.
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Celebrate the 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize longlist at Waterstones, Piccadilly
Events
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Find out about new trends in picture book illustration and what characterises the enduring best in picture book art at an event organised by the Klaus Flugge Prize on 14th May, at Waterstones, Piccadilly.
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Winners of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2024 announced
Book Awards
Friday, March 22, 2024
Pari Thomson, author of Greenwild: The World Behind The Door, is the Overall Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for her debut fantasy adventure, as voted for by Waterstones booksellers.
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How to steal a cloud
Video/Vlog
Friday, March 15, 2024
In The Cloud Thief we visit a future world where, as a result of climate change, clouds have to be made in a factory, and are then bought and sold.
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New kid at Pirate Academy!
Video/Vlog
Thursday, March 14, 2024
We caught up with Vampirates author Justin Somper, whose new series Pirates Academy returns us to the high seas of adventure!
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Carnegie Medals 2024 shortlists are announced
Book Awards
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
The shortlists for the Carnegie Medals 2024 for writing and illustrating books for children and young people have been announced, with poetry dominating the shortlist for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing and picture books the focus of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration shortli...
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I Love Books is sure to inspire a love of stories
Author Videos
Monday, March 11, 2024
Mariajo Ilustrajo's I Love Books explores what a love of reading really means and will help inspire even the most reluctant of readers to get lost in a story....