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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

The 2026 longlists for the UKLA Book Awards, announced today, include books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres, topics and themes. The national children's book awards is judged by teachers and aims to showcase high quality...

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Monday, September 15, 2025

The Children's Book Project, which gives away donated books to schools, prisons and community settings, is aiming to give away one million books to children who have few books of their own during this academic year, 2025-2026, in response to "a deepening literacy crisis", the charity s...

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Monday, September 15, 2025

Inclusive indie publisher Knights Of is to publish a prequel to Jason Reynolds' bestselling middle grade RUN series, COACH, in October. 

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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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