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  • Open the door to a world of mischievous imps!

    Open the door to a world of mischievous imps!

    Video/Vlog

    Monday, September 2, 2024

    "What if every papercut, every missed bus, every time you are pooed on by a bird... what if an imp did that?" Alex Foulkes tells ReadingZone about the world of mischievous imps in Ministry of Mischief (Simon & Schuster Chil...

  • Celebrate poetry on National Poetry Day 2024, 3rd October

    Celebrate poetry on National Poetry Day 2024, 3rd October

    Monday, September 2, 2024

    National Poetry Day is the biggest mass celebration of poetry in the UK with people sharing in the pleasure of poetry in homes, schools and libraries.  Some 1.5 million people are expected to take part on National Poetry Day 2024 on 3rd October, and there are m...

  • Croaky sets off on a new adventure!

    Croaky sets off on a new adventure!

    Video/Vlog

    Monday, September 2, 2024

    Remember Croaky's Search for the Sasquatch?  Well Croaky is back again and it's time for a new adventure - a Quest for the Legendary Berry!  Find out more from Croaky's author and illustrator, Matty Long!

  • Myth-Busting AI

    Myth-Busting AI

    Book Blog

    Friday, August 30, 2024

    Author Neil Taylor explores some of the myths around Artificial Intelligence My name is Neil Taylor, and I recently wrote a fictional novel called Anticipation in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) p...

  • Free virtual author events with ReadingZone Live

    Free virtual author events with ReadingZone Live

    Author Events

    Wednesday, August 28, 2024

    Keen to support reading for pleasure in your classrooms, and to introduce students to new authors? Join our FREE ReadingZone Live online author events!

  • Sharing The Final Year with a whole-year group

    Sharing The Final Year with a whole-year group

    Book Blog

    Wednesday, August 28, 2024

    One year group, one book, one librarian: Reading The Final Year with my whole Year 7 cohort.  School librarian Alice Leggatt shares the impact that reading an entire book had on one Year 7 group - and expl...

  • A new horror story from STAGS author

    A new horror story from STAGS author

    Video/Vlog

    Monday, August 26, 2024

    STAGS author MA Bennett introduces us to her terrifying Young Gothic horror novel, which draws on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein novel, and its creation in a villa in Italy.  Only for this new generation of young writers, the terrifying creatures don't stay in the book's pages....</strong...

  • Hear from Sophie McKenzie with new thriller

    Hear from Sophie McKenzie with new thriller

    Video/Vlog

    Monday, August 26, 2024

    Secrets and Lies are everywhere you look! And the storm is coming! Sophie McKenzie, the bestselling author of Girl Missing, introduces her new teen thriller, Storm of Lies!