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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...
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Nominations announced for the 2025 Carnegie Medals
Book Awards
Monday, November 4, 2024
The nominations for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing and Carnegie Medal for Illustration have been announced. Schools that would like to follow the judging process for the Carnegies can now sign up to the process. Key Dates: The 20...
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You'd Better Watch Out....!
Author Videos
Friday, October 25, 2024
Find out how Frank Cadaver's love of Christmas led him to write a horror story about a Christmas elf - You'd Better Watch Out.
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Romantasy inspired by Indian folk tales
Author Videos
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Zeena Gosrani introduces her romantacy, This Dark Heart (UCLan), and tells us how the Indian myths and folk tales that she loves helped inspire her to write it.
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Little Rebels Award 2024 winners
Book Awards
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Lizzie and Belle: Portraits and Poison by JT Williams (Farshore) has won the Little Rebels Award for Radical Children's Fiction 2024. Lizzie and Belle: Portrait...
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Discover your Witchspark!
Video/Vlog
Friday, October 11, 2024
Dominique Valente introduces her magical new adventure, Witchspark, which sees two girls trying to find, and control, their magical abilities - via a mail order witchcraft course!
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Adventure awaits in Maisie vs Antarctica
Author Videos
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Discover how Jack Jackman's journey to Antarctica helped inspire him to write Maisie vs Antarctica, a story about plane crashes, survival and accidental heroes, told by 11-year-old Maisie.
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A Wintertide murder
Authors Q&As
Thursday, October 10, 2024
With Christmas lights twinkling and last-minute shopping for gifts, no-one expects a body to be washed up along the shoreline... Is this a murder? And how is it connected to the story of ancient treasure in the neighbourhood?
