Latest Book Reviews
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The very knowledgeable and talented Penny Tassoni MBE gifts us with Time to Care. This picture book teaches our children a fundamental li...
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Time to Go to Nursery is an absolute must-have book to help prepare any child for starting nursery or to settle any children who have alr...
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This is a beautiful board book that cleverly takes the introduction of colour a little further than most board books for young children. In Tim Hopgood's...
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Prepare to fall head over heels in love with Ruffles and his little puppy friends in David Melling's latest picture book series for young readers. Beautif...
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Percy the Park Keeper has been a common addition to libraries and book collections for over 30 years and this latest release is aimed at the youngest of P...
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What a joyful approach to counting, I can see fun-loving youngsters really enjoying this journey on the 'Numbers Train'! In this space-themed counting boo...
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This is no ordinary book. This is a book where the audience become the stars of the show and are encouraged to dive into every hilarious and interactive p...
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Young children will love Tiptoe Tiger and won't be able to stop themselves becoming fully engaged and involved with the story! It's a fan...
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This Book is Pants! is the latest release from John Kane, author of the superb I Say Ooh, You Say...
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This enchanting story of the little witchling illustrates how sometimes life is even more beautiful when it doesn't quite go to plan. The witchling wishes...
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The Dragon with the Blazing Bottom is a funny, fast-paced rhyming picture book that will have young children giggling at the hapless drag...
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'This heart-warming story is a celebration of unconditional family love.' Adam and Charlotte Guillain bring us an important, relevant story about parents...
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A fantastic text covering the topic of parent separation. This can often be a tricky and delicate topic to address with children, particularly younger chi...
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The Dragon with the Blazing Bottom is a funny book that had the Year 2 class and their teacher in stiches. The children loved the rhyming...
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This book's message is so important and is delivered in a way that is accessible to younger children. To begin with, we learn about habitats and the amazi...
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The Witchling's Wish by Lu Fraser and Sarah Massini is a wonderful tale of friendship. The little Witchling lives in the misty mountains...
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The Wind May Blow by Sasha Quinton and Thomas Hegbrook is a book that every parent should read to their child. Its pages are reminiscent...
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The Wind May Blow is a beautiful book about resilience. It advises a child that as soon as they are born they will experience happiness t...
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This beautifully illustrated picture book by Maliki Chopra and Izzy Burton takes a child through a guided meditation using the colours of the rainbow and...
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Whilst other towns are celebrating Hallowe'en, the residents of Eerie-on-Sea enjoy Ghastly Night. Legend has it that people must light manglewick candles...
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I have to admit that as someone that lacks any artistic bone in their body, I did worry that I wouldn't be able to relate to Peanut Jones in Peanu...
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Cookie and the Most Mysterious Mystery in the World is the third instalment of the hilarious series by Konnie Huq. This book is full of m...
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Feast Your Eyes on Food by Laura Gladwin, is a food encyclopaedia of more than 1000 delicious things to eat. This beautiful book stipulat...
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This stunning book is fabulous for a migration topic in school. Time to Move South for Winter tells the tale of a tiny black-capped tern...
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The False Rose, Sally Jones has returned to tell a tale of theft, deception, gang warfare and vengeance. From the first page the reader i...
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In Horror Heights: The Slime, 11 year old Connie has yet to find her niche at Secondary School, and while some children are known for the...
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Nandi has always had a special relationship with her Great Aunt Ellie. She has loved her stories and the very essence that makes her so special. When Elli...
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Having joined the Black Sky Wolves, Echo is determined to prove herself as a Sky Pirate. She loves her new life aboard the Scarlet Margaret, digging for t...
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Each one of the 30 young people featured in We Have a Dream is an activist in one or more environmental spheres - politics, education, in...
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Torn Apart - the Partition of India is a powerful and absorbing dual narrative story focusing on the fates of two young boys - one a weal...
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Twelve has given up her name and her previous life to take an oath of allegiance to the Hunting Lodge. She has sworn she will, "never lower her weapons in...
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Rex has gone to stay with his godfather, Sparky, but a lot has changed since his last visit... Rex has lost his dad and is struggling with overwhelming gr...
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Set in Australia following a global disaster, Catch Me If I Fall is the story of twins living a privileged life in a safe community. The...
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There is a new boy at Ash House. He cannot remember his name, so he is given one, Solitude or Sol for short. He knows he is there because Ash House might...
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Murder, mystery, clues to solve, and a brilliant courageous character, what more could you want in a book? In The Five Clues, Edie...
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This wonderful YA author has done it once again in creating a realistic fantasy world with likeable characters. She has given the reader an action packed...
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If you like a short but scary story, that keeps you on the edge of your seat and guessing who did it until the very last pages, then this is the book for...
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In this sequel to Savage Island, we see Ben, Lizzie and Grady working together to take on the mighty Gold in revenge f...
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The Bloods are in control and they're desperate to turn Britain into the world they want to see: right, white, Christian supremist. Anyone who they call a...
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This brilliant YA book bluntly asks the reader: '30 Days Until The End Of The World - What Would You Do?' Despite the short period it covers, the story ca...
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Wayward Son is the second title in the Simon Snow series. This is where the main characters get their 'happy ever after' after the trauma...
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Phoenix Flame is a solid sequel to Haven Fall, which is full of action from the get go as it picks up almost straight after the end of th...
ReadingZone Authors of the Month
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Angela Woolfe and Duncan Beedie
Angela Woolfe's latest picture book Agent Llama brings us a super cool Bond-style spy. Ang...
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Sarah Massini
Sarah Massini's stand out illustrations for The Witching's Wish bring to life the text by Lu Fraser. Sarah...
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Lou Carter & Deborah Allwright
Lou Carter's There is No Big Bad Wolf in this Book follows the hugely suc...
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Clare Helen Welsh
Clare Helen Welsh's new book, Time to Move South for Winter, illustrated by Jenny Løvlie,...
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Beach
Before becoming an illustrator, Beach worked as a pizza chef; if you can think of it, he has probably put it on a pizza. Bea...
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Ross Collins
Ross Collins's primary 1 teacher, Mrs Spears, told his parents that he should go to art school. 13 years went by until he wa...
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Tom Percival
Tilda Tries Again is the latest picture book in Tom Percival's acclaimed Big Bright Feelings</stron...
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Charlotte and Adam Guillain
Adam and Charlotte Guillain's new picture book, My Big Fantastic Family, explores some of the questions rai...
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Anna Wilson
Anna Wilson lives in Penzance, Cornwall, with her family, cats, chickens, ducks and a tortoise called Hercu...
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Em Lynas
Em Lynas loves to write funny books and her latest picture book The Cat and the Rat is an hilarious tale ab...
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Anna Kemp
Anna Kemp's latest picture book, Mammoth (illus Adam Beer), explores trying to fit in - when your really st...
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Karl Newson
Karl Newson creates picture books and his new book, How to Mend a Friend, describes all th...
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Steve Small
Steve Small has worked in animation for over 30 years as a director, designer, and animator. The work has v...
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Sally Anne Garland
Sally Anne Garland grew up in a small town called Alness in the Highlands of Scotland. According to her parents, her first r...
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Peter Brown
Peter has always loved telling stories. Growing up in New Jersey, he told stories by drawing characters and scenes from his...
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Sean Taylor & Alex Morss
SEAN TAYLOR is a British children's author, storyteller and teacher. Sean has taught in three continents an...
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Naomi and James Jones
Naomi has loved stories for as long as she can remember and has always wanted to write books. She w...
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David Melling
David grew up in London with various siblings and a selection of animals (the dog is probably worth a mention). His father w...
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Barry Timms & Ged Adamson
Barry Timms grew up in Cornwall. He spent his early years mending pop-up books brought home from the librar...
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Anne Booth, David Litchfield
ANNE BOOTH had always wanted to be a children's writer, but on the way to becoming one has worked in many j...
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Sheryl Webster and Helen Shoesmith
Sheryl Webster was born in Liverpool, and studied at Liverpool Hope University. With a degree in En...
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Catherine Barr; Steve Williams
Catherine Barr worked at Greenpeace International for seven years as a wildlife and forestry campai...
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Rebecca Colby
REBECCA COLBY started 'writing' before she learned the alphabet, creating songs from her imagination and memorising the lyri...
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Larry Hayes
Larry Hayes talks about siblings, imagining the future, and a trip to Nasa that helped inspire his new book...
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Michelle Robinson & Sharon Davey
Michelle Robinson is the bestselling, award-winning author of picture books including The World Made a Rain...
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Alex Foulkes
Rules for Vampires is Alex's debut novel. Alex was born in smoky Stoke-on-Trent and grew up in the Stafford...
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Mya-Rose Craig and Sabrena Khadija
Mya-Rose Craig's new book We Have a Dream gives a voice to environmental activists from ar...
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Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal is a poet, performer and workshop leader; Yapping Away is his latest collection. Joshua spend...
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Sam Sedgman and MG Leonard
MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman are the writing duo behind the brilliant Adventures on Trains series! MG...
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Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey
Roma Agrawal, MBE is an award-winning engineer and author and How Was That Built is her fi...
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Emma Carroll
Emma Carroll's new historical fiction novel, The Week at World's End, revisits the week of the Cuban Crisis through the eyes...
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Anthony Kessel
Professor Anthony Kessel is a public health physician, academic and author. Since 2019 Anthony has been working...
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Laura Gladwin
Laura Gladwin trained at Leith's School of Food and Wine before working as a freelance chef. She then spent...
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Konnie Huq
Former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq published her first children's book, Cookie and the Most Annoying Bo...
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Perdita and Honor Cargill
Honor and Perdita Cargill are a daughter/mother writing partnership and the authors of Diary of an Accidental Witch<...
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Robin Scott-Elliot
Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Hide and Seek, takes us to warti...
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Karen McCombie
Best-selling author Karen McCombie explores unexpected friendships in her latest novel, How to be a...
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Stephanie Burgis
Like her earlier titles, Stephanie Burgis's new MG fantasy adventure The Raven Heir</stron...
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Vita Murrow
Vita Murrow is an author, artist and educator whose latest collection of stories, Once Upon Our Pla...
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Ayisha Malik
Ayisha Malik's new book for children, Seven Sisters, is a story about seven very different...
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Theresa Lola: Happy Here
Theresa Lola, who has contributed to the Happy Here collection by Black writers and illustrators, is a Brit...
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Patrice Lawrence: Happy Here
Patrice Lawrence was brought up in a Trinidadian-Italian family in Sussex, so had no other choice than to b...
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Phil Earle
Phil Earle's new book, When the Sky Falls, set in London during WWII, and starring an angry teenager and an awe-inspiring si...
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Josh Lacey
Josh Lacey's Hope Jones Saves the World series (Andersen Press) is a must for all young environmentalists a...
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Jeff Norton
Jeff Norton is a writer and filmmaker, and his new series Dino Knights, published by Scallywag Press, is now available....
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Alastair Chisholm
Alastair Chisholm's new sci-fi book Adam-2 has just been published by Nosy Crow Books. As well as an author...
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M.A. Bennett
MA Bennett's S.T.A.G.S. series is currently in production and there are now four books in the series, inclu...
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Mya-Rose Craig and Sabrena Khadija
Mya-Rose Craig's new book We Have a Dream gives a voice to environmental activists from ar...
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Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey
Roma Agrawal, MBE is an award-winning engineer and author and How Was That Built is her fi...
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William Sutcliffe
William Sutcliffe's The Gifted, the Talented and Me is a rare funny book for teenage readers and his latest...
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Emma Carroll
Emma Carroll's new historical fiction novel, The Week at World's End, revisits the week of the Cuban Crisis through the eyes...
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Angharad Walker
Angharad Walker's debut children's books, The Ash House, explores a house made of ash and...
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Anthony Kessel
Professor Anthony Kessel is a public health physician, academic and author. Since 2019 Anthony has been working...
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Robin Scott-Elliot
Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Hide and Seek, takes us to warti...
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Karen McCombie
Best-selling author Karen McCombie explores unexpected friendships in her latest novel, How to be a...
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Susin Nielsen
Susin Nielsen's new book, Tremendous Things, explores the life of a teenaged boy who already feels as if he's a loser. Niel...
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Theresa Lola: Happy Here
Theresa Lola, who has contributed to the Happy Here collection by Black writers and illustrators, is a Brit...
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Patrice Lawrence: Happy Here
Patrice Lawrence was brought up in a Trinidadian-Italian family in Sussex, so had no other choice than to b...
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Phil Earle
Phil Earle's new book, When the Sky Falls, set in London during WWII, and starring an angry teenager and an awe-inspiring si...
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Holly Bourne
Holly Bourne is the bestselling author of books including The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting, Am I Normal Yet? and Are W...
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Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo was born in Jerusalem, grew up in Los Angeles, and graduated from Yale University. These days, she lives in Ho...
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Fleur Hitchcock
Born in Chobham, by an airfield, and raised outside Winchester on the banks of the river Itchen, Fleur Hitchcock grew up as...
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Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Stroud's new series, The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne, is published by Walker Books, where he wrote his first novel...
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Hilary McKay
Hilary McKay is an award-winning author, having won the Guardian Fiction Prize for her first novel, The Exiles, and going on...
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Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teache...
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Anthea Simmons
Anthea Simmons lives in Devon with her polydactyl cat, Caramac. After a successful career in the City and a spell of teachi...
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M.A. Bennett
MA Bennett's S.T.A.G.S. series is currently in production and there are now four books in the series, inclu...
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Bryony Pearce
Bryony Pearce's new book Cruel Castle (from the Red Eye series) is a slick horror version of an escape room...
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William Sutcliffe
William Sutcliffe's The Gifted, the Talented and Me is a rare funny book for teenage readers and his latest...
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Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess is regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature, having won the Carnegie Medal a...
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Angharad Walker
Angharad Walker's debut children's books, The Ash House, explores a house made of ash and...
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Anthony Kessel
Professor Anthony Kessel is a public health physician, academic and author. Since 2019 Anthony has been working...
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Robin Scott-Elliot
Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Hide and Seek, takes us to warti...
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Susin Nielsen
Susin Nielsen's new book, Tremendous Things, explores the life of a teenaged boy who already feels as if he's a loser. Niel...
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Holly Bourne
Holly Bourne is the bestselling author of books including The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting, Am I Normal Yet? and Are W...
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William Hussey
William Hussey's The Outrage, set in a future England that has become a fascist state, is published this mo...
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Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Stroud's new series, The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne, is published by Walker Books, where he wrote his first novel...
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Hilary McKay
Hilary McKay is an award-winning author, having won the Guardian Fiction Prize for her first novel, The Exiles, and going on...
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Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teache...
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Anthea Simmons
Anthea Simmons lives in Devon with her polydactyl cat, Caramac. After a successful career in the City and a spell of teachi...
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Elen Caldecott
Elen Caldecott graduated with an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University. At the end of the course she was h...
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Wibke Brueggemann
Wibke Brueggemann grew up in northern Germany and the United States, but London is now her home.<br /...
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Alex Foulkes
Rules for Vampires is Alex's debut novel. Alex was born in smoky Stoke-on-Trent and grew up in the Stafford...
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Mya-Rose Craig and Sabrena Khadija
Mya-Rose Craig's new book We Have a Dream gives a voice to environmental activists from ar...
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Angharad Walker
Angharad Walker's debut children's books, The Ash House, explores a house made of ash and...
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Ella Risbridger
Ella Risbridger is a journalist, anthologist and cookery writer. In a former life she was a beauty columnist fo...
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Gianna Pollero
Gianna Pollero was born and raised in Kent but also spent a considerable amount of her childhood in northern Italy, where th...
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Hannah Gold
Hannah Gold worked in the film and magazine industries before taking time out to pursue he...
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Em Norry
Emma (she also writes as EL Norry) has a BA (Hons) in Film and an MA in Screenwriting and has written a number of short stor...
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Alastair Chisholm
Alastair Chisholm's new sci-fi book Adam-2 has just been published by Nosy Crow Books. As well as an author...
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M.A. Bennett
MA Bennett's S.T.A.G.S. series is currently in production and there are now four books in the series, inclu...
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Larry Hayes
Larry Hayes talks about siblings, imagining the future, and a trip to Nasa that helped inspire his new book...
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Angela Woolfe and Duncan Beedie
Angela Woolfe's latest picture book Agent Llama brings us a super cool Bond-style spy. Ang...
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Michelle Robinson & Sharon Davey
Michelle Robinson is the bestselling, award-winning author of picture books including The World Made a Rain...
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Alex Foulkes
Rules for Vampires is Alex's debut novel. Alex was born in smoky Stoke-on-Trent and grew up in the Stafford...
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Mya-Rose Craig and Sabrena Khadija
Mya-Rose Craig's new book We Have a Dream gives a voice to environmental activists from ar...
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Bryony Pearce
Bryony Pearce's new book Cruel Castle (from the Red Eye series) is a slick horror version of an escape room...
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Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal is a poet, performer and workshop leader; Yapping Away is his latest collection. Joshua spend...
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Sarah Massini
Sarah Massini's stand out illustrations for The Witching's Wish bring to life the text by Lu Fraser. Sarah...
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Sam Sedgman and MG Leonard
MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman are the writing duo behind the brilliant Adventures on Trains series! MG...
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Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey
Roma Agrawal, MBE is an award-winning engineer and author and How Was That Built is her fi...
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Lou Carter & Deborah Allwright
Lou Carter's There is No Big Bad Wolf in this Book follows the hugely suc...
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William Sutcliffe
William Sutcliffe's The Gifted, the Talented and Me is a rare funny book for teenage readers and his latest...
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Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess is regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature, having won the Carnegie Medal a...
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Emma Carroll
Emma Carroll's new historical fiction novel, The Week at World's End, revisits the week of the Cuban Crisis through the eyes...
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Angharad Walker
Angharad Walker's debut children's books, The Ash House, explores a house made of ash and...
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Anthony Kessel
Professor Anthony Kessel is a public health physician, academic and author. Since 2019 Anthony has been working...
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Clare Helen Welsh
Clare Helen Welsh's new book, Time to Move South for Winter, illustrated by Jenny Løvlie,...
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Laura Gladwin
Laura Gladwin trained at Leith's School of Food and Wine before working as a freelance chef. She then spent...
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Laura Dockrill
Laura Dockrill, a performance poet and novelist, has written her second book focusing on children's mental health. ...
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Beach
Before becoming an illustrator, Beach worked as a pizza chef; if you can think of it, he has probably put it on a pizza. Bea...
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Konnie Huq
Former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq published her first children's book, Cookie and the Most Annoying Bo...
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Perdita and Honor Cargill
Honor and Perdita Cargill are a daughter/mother writing partnership and the authors of Diary of an Accidental Witch<...
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Ross Collins
Ross Collins's primary 1 teacher, Mrs Spears, told his parents that he should go to art school. 13 years went by until he wa...
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Robin Scott-Elliot
Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Hide and Seek, takes us to warti...
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Karen McCombie
Best-selling author Karen McCombie explores unexpected friendships in her latest novel, How to be a...
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Stephanie Burgis
Like her earlier titles, Stephanie Burgis's new MG fantasy adventure The Raven Heir</stron...
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Vita Murrow
Vita Murrow is an author, artist and educator whose latest collection of stories, Once Upon Our Pla...
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Ayisha Malik
Ayisha Malik's new book for children, Seven Sisters, is a story about seven very different...
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Tom Percival
Tilda Tries Again is the latest picture book in Tom Percival's acclaimed Big Bright Feelings</stron...
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Pippa Curnick
Pippa Curnick has always written her own stories and loves illustrating, so it's no surprise that she has now written and il...
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Ella Risbridger
Ella Risbridger is a journalist, anthologist and cookery writer. In a former life she was a beauty columnist fo...
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Susin Nielsen
Susin Nielsen's new book, Tremendous Things, explores the life of a teenaged boy who already feels as if he's a loser. Niel...
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Charlotte and Adam Guillain
Adam and Charlotte Guillain's new picture book, My Big Fantastic Family, explores some of the questions rai...
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Theresa Lola: Happy Here
Theresa Lola, who has contributed to the Happy Here collection by Black writers and illustrators, is a Brit...
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Patrice Lawrence: Happy Here
Patrice Lawrence was brought up in a Trinidadian-Italian family in Sussex, so had no other choice than to b...
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Anna Wilson
Anna Wilson lives in Penzance, Cornwall, with her family, cats, chickens, ducks and a tortoise called Hercu...
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Phil Earle
Phil Earle's new book, When the Sky Falls, set in London during WWII, and starring an angry teenager and an awe-inspiring si...
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Holly Bourne
Holly Bourne is the bestselling author of books including The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting, Am I Normal Yet? and Are W...
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Josh Lacey
Josh Lacey's Hope Jones Saves the World series (Andersen Press) is a must for all young environmentalists a...
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Em Lynas
Em Lynas loves to write funny books and her latest picture book The Cat and the Rat is an hilarious tale ab...
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Jeff Norton
Jeff Norton is a writer and filmmaker, and his new series Dino Knights, published by Scallywag Press, is now available....
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Anna Kemp
Anna Kemp's latest picture book, Mammoth (illus Adam Beer), explores trying to fit in - when your really st...
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William Hussey
William Hussey's The Outrage, set in a future England that has become a fascist state, is published this mo...
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Karl Newson
Karl Newson creates picture books and his new book, How to Mend a Friend, describes all th...
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Steve Small
Steve Small has worked in animation for over 30 years as a director, designer, and animator. The work has v...
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Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Stroud's new series, The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne, is published by Walker Books, where he wrote his first novel...
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Hilary McKay
Hilary McKay is an award-winning author, having won the Guardian Fiction Prize for her first novel, The Exiles, and going on...
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Michelle Paver
Michelle Paver is an international bestselling author with over 3 million copies of her books sold across the globe. She was...
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Sally Anne Garland
Sally Anne Garland grew up in a small town called Alness in the Highlands of Scotland. According to her parents, her first r...
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Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teache...
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Peter Brown
Peter has always loved telling stories. Growing up in New Jersey, he told stories by drawing characters and scenes from his...
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Jessie James & Tamara Anegon
Tamara Anegon attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2008. Following this, she studied for a masters d...
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Naomi and James Jones
Naomi has loved stories for as long as she can remember and has always wanted to write books. She w...
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David Melling
David grew up in London with various siblings and a selection of animals (the dog is probably worth a mention). His father w...
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Barry Timms & Ged Adamson
Barry Timms grew up in Cornwall. He spent his early years mending pop-up books brought home from the librar...
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Anthea Simmons
Anthea Simmons lives in Devon with her polydactyl cat, Caramac. After a successful career in the City and a spell of teachi...
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Wibke Brueggemann
Wibke Brueggemann grew up in northern Germany and the United States, but London is now her home.<br /...
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Catherine Barr; Steve Williams
Catherine Barr worked at Greenpeace International for seven years as a wildlife and forestry campai...
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Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
Chris Naylor-Ballesteros's early career was as a drummer in a band before he trained in illustration and gr...
