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A new time-travel adventure from MG Leonard!
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Friday, January 17, 2025
MG Leonard's new Time Keys series takes us into the world of time-travel and ancient mysteries! Watch the author introduce book 1, Hunt for the Golden Scarab.
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Holly Webb reads from The Bold Kitten
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Thursday, January 16, 2025
How many of Holly Webb's stories about animals and pets have you read? Can you believe that she has written 60 Animal Stories?! Here she is to tell us about her 60th Animal Stories book, and you can enjoy a reading from the start of the story.
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2025 BBC Young Writers' Award opens
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
You can now enter the 2025 BBC Young Writers' Award with Cambridge University, which is open to writers between the ages of 14-18 years. Entries close at 9am on Monday 24th March 2025. To enter, write a story of up to 1,000 words - no theme or subject is provi...
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Wicked Writers: Be the Change writing competition!
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Monday, January 13, 2025
Wicked Writers: Be the Change writing competition, which runs until 28 February 2025, is a persuasive writing competition inspired by the themes of Wicked the musical, which gives pupils a chance to have their voice heard and to win some exciting prizes in the process.
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Making positive choices in My Path
Author Videos
Friday, January 10, 2025
In her new picture book, My Path, Jana Curll explores the unique journeys and positive choices that children can make during each day of their lives.
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Poetry By Heart 2025 launches
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Thursday, January 2, 2025
Poetry by Heart is a national poetry-speaking competition for schools and colleges, which supports students in developing confidence with poetry in an accessible and engaging way. Schools are invited to send filmed entries of their pupils performing a poem that has been chosen from the Poetry...
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Learning about Mindfulness in The Search for Carmella
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Friday, November 8, 2024
The Search for Carmella is a simple but profound picture book that can be used to introduce the concept of mindfulness to children of any age
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NLT's 2024 Annual Literacy Survey shows steep decline in reading enjoyment
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Just one in three children and young people say that they enjoyed reading in their free time, and only one in five children read daily in their free time, according to the National Literacy Trust's 2024 Annual Literacy Survey. The organisation is now calling on...
