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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!
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Judith Eagle shares The Blitz Sisters, a moving story of family and change
Video/Vlog
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Author Judith Eagle introduces her classic in the making, The Blitz Sisters, which follows a London family through WWII and beyond.
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The Carnegies 2026 longlists announced
Book Awards
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
The 2026 longlists for The Carnegies, the UK's longest running book awards for children and young people, have been announced, together with a new pilot aimed at making the awards' shadowing scheme available to a wider audience. The award medals for writing and...
