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Enjoy a live author event with The Children's Bookshow 2025
Author Events
Friday, August 22, 2025
The Children's Bookshow autumn programme for primary schools across England has been announced. The organisation is offering a range of author events - including perfomances and writing workshops - at theatres around the country for primary-aged children. These experien...
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Help judge the Young People's Book Prize 2025 science award
Book Awards
Friday, August 22, 2025
This September, schools and youth groups will be able to apply to help judge science book award, the Young People's Book Prize. Selected schools will join judging panels from across the UK to help pick the winner. Hundreds of judging panels receive a free set of shortlisted books - so t...
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Global reading challenge from World Kid Lit
Get Creative
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Where will you travel by book? World Kid Lit is launching a reading challenge for schools to encourage international and inclusive reading. The World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award is open for entries from 1 September to 10 October. Winners will be awarded for...
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Dip into The Post Bag with Emma Yarlett
Growing Readers
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Find out what inspired The Post Bag books and why Unicorn Post is so close to author and illustrator Emma Yarlett's heart!
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Enter a world of dark academia...and murder!
Video/Vlog
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Rachael Davis-Featherstone introduces her atmospheric YA debut, Oxford Blood, set at Oxford University. Just how far will students go to win a place . . .?
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Travel into the past with The Time Machine Next Door
Authors Q&As
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Meet famous people from Leonardo Da Vinci to Henry VIII and get a glimpse of life in the past with Iszi Lawrence's hilarious time-travel series, The Time Machine Next Door!
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Odd Girl Out, a novel about finding your place in your world
Video/Vlog
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Tasneem Abdur-Rashid tells us what inspired her to write her contemporary YA debut, Odd Girl Out, and how her niece's experiences of moving to the UK helped inspire her to write it.
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Dying to save a life
Authors Q&As
Thursday, July 24, 2025
When her sister Asha dies, Calico agrees to take part in an experiment that will save her. But first, Calico will have to die... Author Kathryn Clark tells ReadingZone about her new YA novel, Things I Learned While I Was Dead.
