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  • Chantal Kelleher, SLA School Librarian of the Year Honour List

    Wednesday, June 19, 2019

    Chantal Kelleher is the LRC Manager at Herne Bay High School, a popular, oversubscribed school that prides itself on its culture of high expectations and values. Here we find out more about what made her work stand out.

  • Helen Cleaves, SLA School Librarian of the Year Honour List

    Wednesday, June 19, 2019

    Helen Cleaves is School Librarian at Kingston Grammar School, an independent co-educational day school, and this is how her work and the library impressed the judges.

  • Ros Harding, SLA School Librarian of the Year Honour List

    Wednesday, June 19, 2019

    Ros Harding is Head Librarian and Archivist at The King's School Chester, an independent, co-educational, selective school for ages 4 to 18. This is what made her library and her work stand out.

  • Shadowers and judges unite in award winners

    Tuesday, June 18, 2019

    The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal, while illustrator Jackie Morris has won her first CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal with 'cultural phenomenon' The Lost Words. Both books were also the first choice of thousands of school children for the separate 'Shadowers' Choice Awards.

  • The Children's Bookshow tickets available

    Tuesday, June 11, 2019

    The Children's Bookshow 2019 opens in London with Neal Layton at the Old Vic on Friday 20th September, and will take 16 authors, artists and poets to 15 theatres around the country ending with Michael Rosen in Hull.

  • A book about difference wins award

    Tuesday, June 11, 2019

    Arree Chung's Mixed - a book about colour, tolerance and embracing differences - has been chosen by children as the winner of the Children's Book Award 2019.

  • Story inspired by a gardener's notebook

    Tuesday, June 11, 2019

    Author AM HOWELL was inspired to write THE GARDEN OF LOST SECRETS after discovering a gardener's notebook from 100 years ago, inspiring a story that is brimful of secrets and mysteries!

  • Finding a way to the future

    Tuesday, June 11, 2019

    In NO BALLET SHOES IN SYRIA, Aya has escaped from Syria and now hopes to stay in England. But first she has to let go of the past - can ballet help her to find her future? Author CATHERINE BRUTON tells us more!