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Shoot for the Stars with Danielle Brown
Video/Vlog
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
If you love sports - and even if you don't, yet! - Danielle Brown's Shoot for the Stars gives tips and ideas to help you find a sport you love, and the determination to stick with it.
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Mudlarking, monsters and misfits
Video/Vlog
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Becca Rogers tells ReadingZone about her new fantasy adventure, The Girl With Gills, a story about mudlarkers who can swim underwater; a debt from the past that must be repaid; and fantastical creatures in the river's depths!
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Children's enjoyment of writing halves in 15 years
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Only a quarter of children and young people aged 8 to 18 enjoy writing in their free time, according to new research by the National Literacy Trust (NLT). Levels of writing enjoyment have almost halved over the past 15 years, particularly among primary-aged children. This report, Childr...
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Join the Summer Reading Challenge 2025
Get Creative
Monday, June 23, 2025
You can take part in the Summer Reading Challenge at your local library or online. The challenge runs from 21 June to 30 September and follows a theme of nature and the great outdoors with Story Garden. Join the Summer Re...
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Colette Hiller wins the 2025 CLiPPA children's poetry award
Book Awards
Friday, June 20, 2025
Colette Hiller has been announced as the winner of the 2025 CLiPPA children's poetry award for her collection Colossal Words for Kids, illustrated by Tor Freeman (Frances Lincoln Children's Books). In Colossal Words for Kids, Hiller defines in rhyme 75 'colossa...
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Winners of the Carnegie Medals 2025 are announced
Book Awards
Thursday, June 19, 2025
The winners of the UK's longest-running book awards for children and young people, The Carnegies, were announced today at a ceremony in London. Debut author Margaret McDonald has won the Carnegie Medal for Writing for her "life changing and emotional" novel <a h...
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Choose Your Own Evolution: Will you survive?
Authors Q&As
Monday, June 16, 2025
Did you know that chickens and penguins are descended from dinosaurs; that evolving to sleep for months helped save crocodiles from extinction; and that octopus and sharks are distantly related? Find out all about how creatures have evolved during their millions of years on Earth from...
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Seaside adventures with Sandy Fin
Video/Vlog
Friday, June 13, 2025
Hear from author Martin Stewart about his funny, action-packed seaside adventure, Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing.
