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Friday, May 2, 2025

Darren Chetty introduces his new picture book exploring friendship, illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat, I'm Going to Make a Friend, and he reads from the first few pages.  

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Friday, May 2, 2025

An inexperienced Guardian. A missing kelpie. A growing threat. Callen may have befriended a gargoyle, but he's yet to complete his training....

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Thursday, May 1, 2025

ReadingZone caught up with Rachel Chivers Khoo to find out about her magical new series, The Finders of Silverthorn Forest: The Lost Treasure. Find out how classic stories like The Borrowers and The Wombles helped inspire the first story in the series, The Los...

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Friday, April 25, 2025

The Dark That Hides Us is the follow-up to Andy Darcy Theo's bestselling romantacy, The Light That Blinds Us, and he tells us what inspired the books in this short introduction to the series.

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

The Branford Boase Award celebrates new children's writers, helping to identifying trends and new directions in children’s literature. It is also is the only award to honour the editor of the winning title and highlights the importance of editors in nurturing...

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Schools around the country are shadowing the CLiPPA poetry award, with children choosing their favourite poems to perform and helping to spark a life-long love of poetry. The best performers could also win a place at this year's CLiPPA Poetry Award in London!

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Author Abi Elphinstone tells ReadingZone what inspired her new Ember Spark adventure, and how travelling to the wilderness islands of South America helped inspire the lush setting for Ember Spark and the U...

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The shortlist for the annual CLPE children's poetry award, CLiPPA, has been announced with five collections by children's poets selected. Schools around the country will now start to shadow the awards, choosing their favourite poems to perform. 

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