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  • World Book Day 2025 £1 books unveiled

    World Book Day 2025 £1 books unveiled

    Tuesday, September 10, 2024

    World Book Day has announced the ten £1 / €1.50 books for next year's celebrations, which will take place on Thursday 6th March 2025.  Children can exchange their free World Book Day token, distributed through schools, some libraries and booksellers, from 13 Fe...

  • Meet Nibbles - the Very Hungry Book Monster!

    Meet Nibbles - the Very Hungry Book Monster!

    Growing Readers

    Thursday, September 5, 2024

    Nibbles the book monster is very hungry, and in Nibbles: The Very Hungry Book Monster, he has found his way into a library! Oh no! Which of our favourite fairy tales and nursery rhymes is he going to chew through this time?</st...

  • BB Alston reads from Amari and the Despicable Wonders

    BB Alston reads from Amari and the Despicable Wonders

    Author Videos

    Tuesday, September 3, 2024

    Men in Black meets the magic and myths of Percy Jackson in the spectacular series that started with Amari and the Night Brothers.  

  • Open the door to a world of mischievous imps!

    Open the door to a world of mischievous imps!

    Author Videos

    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 &amp; 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!