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  • Environmental theme for the 2021 Summer Reading Challenge

    Environmental theme for the 2021 Summer Reading Challenge

    Friday, June 18, 2021

    Teenage naturalist Dara McAnulty and award-winning explorer and presenter Steve Backshall will be ambassadors for this year's Summer Reading Challenge.

  • Winners of the Carnegie Greenaway Medals 2021 announced

    Winners of the Carnegie Greenaway Medals 2021 announced

    Wednesday, June 16, 2021

    Poet and novelist Jason Reynolds has won the Carnegie Medal 2021 for his novel, Look Both Ways (Knights Of), while author while illustrator Sydney Smith wins the Kate Greenaway Medal for Small in the City (Walker Books).

  • #CarnegieGreenaway winners' speeches

    #CarnegieGreenaway winners' speeches

    Wednesday, June 16, 2021

    Here are the speeches from both winners of today's Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals 2021, Jason Reynolds and Sydney Smith.

  • Podcast with Jason Cockcroft, We Were Wolves

    Podcast with Jason Cockcroft, We Were Wolves

    Video/Vlog

    Tuesday, June 15, 2021

    Students Elizabeth, Alex and Mihai spoke to Jason Cockcroft about his novel We Were Wolves (Andersen Press), which he wrote and illustrated. <iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/show/5N0MzTWtDRGwbFJJh9jNMt" width="60%" height="232" frameborder="0" allowtransparen...

  • School Librarian of the Year 2021

    School Librarian of the Year 2021

    Meet A School Librarian

    Friday, June 11, 2021

    Kristabelle Williams of Addey &amp; Stanhope School, a voluntary aided state secondary in inner South East London, has been awarded the honour of School Lib...

  • Pop-Up launches ten books to celebrate diversity

    Pop-Up launches ten books to celebrate diversity

    Thursday, June 10, 2021

    10 Stories to Make a Difference - A shelf full of stories celebrating difference represents a collective giant leap towards diversity by UK children's publishing.

  • Emmie and Friends giveaway!

    Emmie and Friends giveaway!

    Thursday, June 10, 2021

    Win five full-color graphic-novel hybrid books in the bestselling Emmie &amp; Friends series from award-winning author and cartoonist Terri Libenson! A great gift for the middle school graphic novel fan in your life.

  • Information Book Awards 2021 shortlist

    Information Book Awards 2021 shortlist

    Book Awards

    Wednesday, June 9, 2021

    If you're looking for some great information books for your classroom or library, check out the shortlist for the SLA's (School Library Association) 2021 Information Book Award (IBA).