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Winners of the Carnegie Medals 2025 are announced
Book Awards
Thursday, June 19, 2025
The winners of the UK's longest-running book awards for children and young people, The Carnegies, were announced today at a ceremony in London. Debut author Margaret McDonald has won the Carnegie Medal for Writing for her "life changing and emotional" novel <a h...
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Information Book Award 2025 shortlist announced
Book Awards
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
The 12 shortlisted titles for the Information Book Award (IBA) have been announced by the School Library Association (SLA) and include a diverse range of information books that provide readers with new ways of looking at the world around them.
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Choose Your Own Evolution: Will you survive?
Author Videos
Monday, June 16, 2025
Did you know that chickens and penguins are descended from dinosaurs; that evolving to sleep for months helped save crocodiles from extinction; and that octopus and sharks are distantly related? Find out all about how creatures have evolved during their millions of years on Earth from...
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Seaside adventures with Sandy Fin
Video/Vlog
Friday, June 13, 2025
Hear from author Martin Stewart about his funny, action-packed seaside adventure, Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing.
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Kenneth Oppel reads from his new YA, Best of All Worlds
Authors Q&As
Friday, June 13, 2025
Kenneth Oppel reads from his new YA novel, Best of All Worlds, a thrilling speculative novel about clashing politics, first love and human survival set within the imprisonment of a dome against an invisible enemy.
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I Am Rebel wins the FCBG Children's Book Award 2025
Book Awards
Monday, June 9, 2025
The Federation of Children's Book Groups has announced the Overall Winner of the 2025 Children's Book Award: I Am Rebel by Ross Montgomery. The Children's Book Award, now in its 45th year, is the only national award voted for entirely by children.
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Neal Shusterman shares All Better Now
Video/Vlog
Monday, June 2, 2025
What if there was a virus that people wanted to catch? Neal Shusterman tells us what inspired his contemporary thriller, All Better Now.
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CLPE becomes part of the National Literacy Trust
Monday, June 2, 2025
CLPE, the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, has become a subsidiary charity of The National Literacy Trust. The organisations say the new structure will help the national literacy charities to "turbo-charge the charities' combined impact on literacy education in the UK and inte...
