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SLA to launch social book clubs in 100 secondary libraries
Thursday, February 26, 2026
From September 2026, the SLA's Reading Reboot programme will deliver 1,000 social book clubs in over 100 secondary school libraries in London, the West Midlands and the North East of England.
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Here's Steve Cole talking about his dystopian thriller, New You For Ever
Authors Q&As
Monday, February 23, 2026
New You For Ever is science fiction, but some of its ideas and concepts are scarily possible says author Steve Cole. Can you save the world by living for ever? Anders uncovers the sinister truth about Pleekas in this gripping dystopian thriller.
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Celebrate World Book Day 2026 with author events & writing activities
Author Events
Friday, February 20, 2026
A wide variety of digital events are available for this upcoming World Book Day, which also marks a special event in the National Year of Reading calendar. ReadingZone has a round-up of some fabulous author events and writing workshops happening during the week of World Book Day. </st...
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Is Storytime key to inspiring reading for pleasure?
Monday, February 16, 2026
How can we inspire every child to love reading for pleasure during the National Year of Reading? ReadingZone asked Alison David, consumer insight director at HarperCollins Children's Books and Farshore, what research into reading aloud to children - at school and at home - has shown. <...
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Chris Bradford shares his new space adventure, Nova!
Authors Q&As
Friday, February 13, 2026
Bestselling author Chris Bradford joins us from somewhere deep in space to share his new space adventure, Nova.
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Celebrating our differences with Rock and Roll
Growing Readers
Friday, February 13, 2026
Rock and Roll are very different. Rock is strong, Roll is soft. Rock hates attention. Roll loves it. But maybe they're not so different after all!
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Schools can now register to shadow CLiPPA 2026 poetry award
Get Creative
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Record numbers of children are expected to take part in this year's CLiPPA poetry award. Schools can now sign up for the CLiPPA shadowing programme, which will get underway on 15 April with the live announcement of the shortlist and poetry performances by shortlisted poets.</p...
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Koalas in Capes face zombie chickens!
Video/Vlog
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Meet superhero duo Koalas in Capes as they try to save their town, Pawtonia, from an evil ostrich - and some tricky zombie chickens!
