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  • Resources to celebrate Harry Potter Book Day, 9 October 2025

    Resources to celebrate Harry Potter Book Day, 9 October 2025

    Wednesday, September 17, 2025

    Friends and Foes is the theme for Harry Potter Book Day on Thursday 9 October, and Bloomsbury has created a range of downloadable resources to help you celebrate!

  • Free online event to mark Michael Rosen Day, 13 November 2025

    Free online event to mark Michael Rosen Day, 13 November 2025

    Wednesday, September 17, 2025

    Michael Rosen Day, which will take place on Thursday 13th November, is a chance to celebrate one of Britain's most beloved poets, and to help create a buzz around reading, listening to and writing poetry. The theme for this year's Michael Rosen Day is Funny Food: A Feast of Poems.

  • UKLA Book Awards 2026 longlists announced

    UKLA Book Awards 2026 longlists announced

    Book Awards

    Tuesday, September 16, 2025

    The 2026 longlists for the UKLA Book Awards, announced today, include books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres, topics and themes. The national children's book awards is judged by teachers and aims to showcase high quality...

  • Gifting programme aims to donate one million books

    Gifting programme aims to donate one million books

    Monday, September 15, 2025

    The Children's Book Project, which gives away donated books to schools, prisons and community settings, is aiming to give away one million books to children who have few books of their own during this academic year, 2025-2026, in response to "a deepening literacy crisis", the charity s...

  • The Diverse Book Awards 2025 shortlist announced

    The Diverse Book Awards 2025 shortlist announced

    Book Awards

    Monday, September 8, 2025

    The shortlist for the Diverse Book Awards 2025 across Picture Books, Children's, YA and Adults published in the UK and Ireland have been announced and include ten titles in each category. The overall winners will be announced at an award ceremony in October.

  • Libraries for Primaries 2025 - 2026 campaign

    Libraries for Primaries 2025 - 2026 campaign

    Friday, September 5, 2025

    The Libraries for Primaries campaign works to support schools that do not have a library space in creating one with training, resources, books and furniture to help them develop a reading for pleasure culture in their schools. School leaders who are interested...

  • Prequel title to Jason Reynolds' RUN series announced

    Prequel title to Jason Reynolds' RUN series announced

    Thursday, September 4, 2025

    Inclusive indie publisher Knights Of is to publish a prequel to Jason Reynolds' bestselling middle grade RUN series, COACH, in October. 

  • A deliciously dark new adventure by Emma Carroll!

    A deliciously dark new adventure by Emma Carroll!

    Authors Q&As

    Thursday, September 4, 2025

    Emma Carroll's brilliant new fantasy adventure, Dracula & Daughters, revisits vampire myths and the Dracula story to create a modern classic.