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Monday, September 15, 2025

Sometimes children want everything to be 'just so', but in Perfect Pedro, Simon Philip and Ella Okstad remind us that it's okay when things go wrong.

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Thursday, September 11, 2025

Emma Farrarons is the winner of the 2025 Klaus Flugge Prize awarded to the most exciting and promising newcomer to children's picture book illustration. She won for her illustrations in My...

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Monday, September 8, 2025

The shortlist for the Diverse Book Awards 2025 across Picture Books, Children's, YA and Adults published in the UK and Ireland have been announced and include ten titles in each category. The overall winners will be announced at an award ceremony in October.

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Friday, September 5, 2025

The Libraries for Primaries campaign works to support schools that do not have a library space in creating one with training, resources, books and furniture to help them develop a reading for pleasure culture in their schools. School leaders who are interested...

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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Emma Carroll's brilliant new fantasy adventure, Dracula & Daughters, revisits vampire myths and the Dracula story to create a modern classic.

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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Kirsty Applebaum tells ReadingZone how a fairy tale helped inspire her new mystery, The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good, a fable-like story about a missing girl, a hidden garden and an ancient tale.

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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Hear from author PJ Killburn about her new Dead Yard series and the first spooky mystery adventure, Dead Yard: The Seeds of Doom!  Find out how the author's Caribbean roots and childhood in London helped inspire the story.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Rachael Davis-Featherstone introduces her atmospheric YA debut, Oxford Blood, set at Oxford University. Just how far will students go to win a place . . .?

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