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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

The 2025 Henrietta Branford Writing Competition is now open for entries! The competition is open to writers aged up to 19 years and the closing date is Friday 30 May 2025. The judges are looking for <s...

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Friday, February 7, 2025

Have questions about dealing with toxic friends, or how to tell your parents about a problem you have, or things being said on socials?  Anu Adebogun's new guide for young people, It's a Brave Young Wo...

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Friday, February 7, 2025

Picture books are the perfect medium to explore and help understand the world around us and to explore how we feel.  

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Thursday, February 6, 2025

With a focus on reading for pleasure, Waterstones' booksellers have voted for the books they believe are the very best in new children's writing and illustration. Previous winners of the prize have included Katherine Rundell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Rob Biddulph. Last year's winner...

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Monday, February 3, 2025

Find out which ten £1 / €1.50 books are available for children to buy with their free World Book Day tokens!  World Book Day takes place on Thursday 6th March 2025. Children can exchange their free World Book Day token, distributed through schoo...

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Thursday, January 23, 2025

Chris Naylor-Ballesteros takes a warm and gentle look at friendship and its challenges in his picture book series, Frank and Bert.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

More than six in ten children chose kindness as their word of the year, according to research by OUP. Researchers found that the word choice reflected children's awareness of mental health and current affairs. The research also showed children are cautiously optimistic...

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The longlist for the 2025 Branford Boase Award has been announced. The Branford Boase Award is given annually to the author and editor of the year's outstanding debut novel for children.  It is the only award to honour the editor of the winning book as well as the book's autho...

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