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Philip Pullman joins call for compulsory school libraries
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Philip Pullman, the author of His Dark Materials, has joined authors including Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson in calling for legislation to ensure that every school has a library; around 14% of primary schools have no library, and the number of secondary schools with lib...
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Becoming your best self
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Friday, January 19, 2024
In The Best You, author and parenting coach Nima Patel encourages children to think about not what they want to be when they grow up, but who they want to be.
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Little Bang: A must-read novel about life-changing moments
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Friday, January 19, 2024
Award-winning author Kelly McCaughrain introduces her new novel, Little Bang, a powerful and timely novel exploring gender parity, a woman's right to bodily autonomy and the issues raised by abortion. Centred on the relationship between Mel and Sid, it's also a coming-of-age exploratio...
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Time-travelling penguins!
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Thursday, January 18, 2024
Discover a penguin who HATES living in the cold! So when he goes on holiday, he tries to find somewhere a bit warmer. What he doesn't expect is to come face to face with a dinosaur!
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Time travel with Ross Welford - and a tortoise!
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Ross Welford introduces Time Travelling with a Tortoise, the sequel to Time Travelling with a Hamster, and a whole new time travel adventure!
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Managing our worries
Author Videos
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Author Ruth Doyle explains how A Horse Called Now by Ruth Doyle and Alexandra Finkeldey can help young children to manage their worries.
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World Book Day £1 Books 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
Find out what books will be available to buy with the £1 book tokens for this year's World Book Day, which takes place on Thursday 7th March! With the range of books on offer including Elmer, Dinosaur Club, InvestiGators, Loki and Dread Wood, there is plenty on offer for children and...
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Reflecting Realities: Increasing representation in children's books
Friday, December 1, 2023
The annual CLPE Reflecting Realities Survey of Ethnic Representation within UK Children's Literature shows a continued move towards inclusion and representation in books for children during 2022, particularly in fiction. However, the report also notes declines in representation in pict...
