Latest Book Reviews
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I shared this with a two-year-old who completed adored it - so will older and younger children! This little package covers so many things - it teaches the...
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The Animal Families board books introduce children to the concept of families, as we meet the mummy, daddy and then find their baby under a sturdy flap.</...
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Where's Mr Polar Bear is the latest in Nosy Crow's 'felt flaps' books that have been hugely successful - after all, what child doesn't adore discovering s...
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How do you do? Have you come far? Who do you actually think that you are? Who Are You? explores the idea of identity for younger readers;...
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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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Tiny Reindeer is a beautifully written, seasonal story focusing on an underdog character with a huge heart and an even stronger determina...
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You Can! is an extraordinary book. It's the result of a collaboration between children, an author and an illustrator: it is, literally, a...
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This book is a must for every classroom as it covers such an important subject and in our classroom led to lots of discussions about race and diversity.</...
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Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam Santa's Stolen Sleigh is a genuinely funny book, one to prompt a warm response even from readers usually...
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"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring…except for one mouse." The classic and well loved Christmas poem...
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The Christmas Department Store is a wonderful heart-warming story of love, laughter and family. The authors have taken the wonderfully tr...
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Who would have thought we needed a Santa Claus origin story? Turns out, we do! Little Santa is a wonderful snapshot of Santa's life as a...
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An adorable and beautifully illustrated picture book which the Year 3 class loved listening to. They liked the note from the author at the front and asked...
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Joe Moorwood has managed to create something very special when it comes to The Outside is Inside. This text is certainly not one that you...
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The Green Giant is not only a book about improving the environment but also describes why some people move from one part of the world to...
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Shifty and Sam are bakers who have been asked by Santa to bake a festive feast. All the elves are poorly and Santa needs help to finish the presents for t...
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Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring - except for one mouse. With Santa as a mouse, a sleigh pulled by...
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The 143-Storey Treehouse - the 11th and latest book in the Treehouse story series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton - is a fun, quick re...
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How I Became a Dog called Midnight is a heart-warming story and is perfect for a whole class shared read. George lives in a cottage in th...
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Einstein the Penguin is a very well written and exciting text. It is definitely a book that children won't be able to put down and will b...
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There are often days when you run out of ideas for something to do, especially with the British weather. But now the National Trust has joined with Nosy C...
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When the Stewart family visit the zoo, they particularly like the penguins. As they are leaving, Mrs Stewart says to one of the penguins that they can com...
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A lovely festive treat! This story is all about a young girl called Aria who is celebrating her puppy's very first Christmas. She has lots of ideas about...
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Natty is forced to leave her home and go with her mother to stay at her cousin's farm in another Welsh village. There she gets to know her wider family, i...
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The Bear Who Sailed the Ocean on an Iceberg is a poignant and upbeat story, warm enough to melt even the iciest of hearts! It deals with...
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I couldn’t wait to start reading Murder on the Safari Star - the third journey of the Adventures on Trains series. I wasn’t disappointed!...
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Book 4 in the series, Danger at Dead Man's Pass, starts at the beginning of the Easter holidays and follows Hal and Uncle Nat as they tra...
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Yianni has moved to Fallow Hall. He hates his new home and hates his baby sister who has forced the move. He feels his parents are shutting him out and he...
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This non-fiction book is packed with information about 50 Great Britons, who have been born in the UK or have made the UK their home. I particularly like...
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Big Picture Press have hit the nail on the head with this new book, Art of Protest: What a revolution looks like, by artivist De Nichols....
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This book guides on how to live your life as a black British girl. It incorporates everything that makes us who we are. Growing up you don’t really see pe...
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Well, this wonderful new author has done it once again, as she has turned out another epic adventure in this sequel book to The Harm Tree... After the dra...
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Adam-2 is the story of a robot with AI caught in a world where Funks (robots who are made to command and do human jobs) and humans are wa...
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This new title by the wonderful Stephanie Garber is a spin off from her amazing fantasy series Caraval. Believe me when I say, that this too leaves you wa...
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Shadow Town is primarily an adventure filled with fantasy and mystery. It is also a powerful thriller with psychological layers which bec...
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Born into a family of West African witches, Sheba has long known of her family’s magical powers and the consequent distrust of the other villagers. Living...
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Kai, Orla and Zak grew up together, their days spent on the patch of wilderness in between their homes; a small green space in a sprawling, grey city. Mus...
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Imagine a world where everyone wears a gun, by law, even children. This is the everyday life for 14-year-old Bluebonnet Andrews, living in the independent...
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In Dark and Shallow Lies, Grey is back in the small town of La Cachette where she was born and brought back to every summer. Except this...
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'So...where do I belong?' says Zara in this new novel by author Sabina Khan. 17 year Zara Hussain has a lot to think about. She's the only Pakistani Musli...
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Three Bullets certainly has a lot going on. The main focus is war. The bloods (white supremacists) are trying to take over Britain. They...
ReadingZone Authors of the Month
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Hoang Giang
Giang has been working as a children’s book illustrator for more than 10 years. She works in a studio with her partner and t...
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Jon Agee
Award-winning author Jon Agee's latest picture book, Little Santa, tells us how Santa Claus came to be. His...
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Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen, one of the most popular authors for children, has written a new picture book, Sticky McStick...
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Tracey Turner
Tracey Turner is a writer and editor and her new book, The Mouse Before Christmas (Sunbird Books), has just...
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Tracey Corderoy
Tracey Corderoy's new Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam adventure, The Stolen Sleigh, has just been published...
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Polly Faber and Harriet Hobday
All Through the Night, the new picture book from Polly Faber and illustrator Harriet Hobday, celebrates tho...
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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 Montgomery
Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, when he should have been doing homework, and continued doing so at un...
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Holly Webb
Author Holly Webb has just written the 50th book in the best-selling Animal Stories series, A Puppy's First Christmas, and a...
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Iona Rangeley
Iona Rangeley has just finished studying English at Oxford. She has wanted to be a writer since her debut n...
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Lucy Hope
Lucy Hope grew up in North Wales, though now she lives in the Cotswolds. After jobs ranging from managing t...
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Sibeal Pounder
Sibéal Pounder is the author of the bestselling Witch Wars and Bad Mermaids series of books and her latest book, Tin...
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Helen Peters
Helen Peters' Jasmine Green series, about a girl who lives on a farm and who loves animals, reflects her own childhood, grow...
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Imogen Russell Williams
Imogen Russell Williams is a writer, editor, children's literature critic and author, and her latest book f...
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Iszi Lawrence
Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Billie...
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Aisling Fowler
Aisling Fowler's debut Fireborn, inspired by a computer game, has just been published. Aisling's love of st...
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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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Alexandra Page
Wishyouwas is Alexandra Page's first children's book, and draws on her early childhood years being airmailed between England...
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Richard Lambert
Shadow Town is Richard Lambert's first novel for children and follows his debut YA novel, <a href="/books/t...
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Sally Nicholls
A Secret in Time is the latest book in Sally Nicholls's Adventures in Time series, which t...
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David Farr
The Book of Stolen Dreams is David Farr's debut novel and is a story he has always wanted to write, and has always...
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Catherine Bruton
Catherine Bruton's new historical adventure, Following Frankenstein, follows her earlier Another Twist in the Tale, both dra...
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Nick Lake
Locked Out Lily is Nick Lake's first middle grade book for children, who is the critically-acclaimed author of many YA novel...
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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...
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Samantha Baines
Samantha Baines is an award-winning comedian, actress, broadcaster, hearing aid wearer and author and her new children's boo...
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Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott
Author and scientist Dr Nick Cumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Dinosaurs is Wrong, brings us up...
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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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Chitra Soundar
Chitra Soundar is an Indian-born British writer and storyteller and her new series, Sindhu an...
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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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Ross Montgomery
Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, when he should have been doing homework, and continued doing so at un...
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Marissa Meyer
#1 New York Times–bestselling author Marissa Meyer's new book, Gilded, is a remarkable retelling of the Rum...
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Lucy Hope
Lucy Hope grew up in North Wales, though now she lives in the Cotswolds. After jobs ranging from managing t...
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Imogen Russell Williams
Imogen Russell Williams is a writer, editor, children's literature critic and author, and her latest book f...
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Iszi Lawrence
Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Billie...
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Melissa Cummings-Quarry & Natalie A Carter
Best friends Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A. Carter are the authors of Grown: The B...
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Aisling Fowler
Aisling Fowler's debut Fireborn, inspired by a computer game, has just been published. Aisling's love of st...
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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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Richard Lambert
Shadow Town is Richard Lambert's first novel for children and follows his debut YA novel, <a href="/books/t...
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David Farr
The Book of Stolen Dreams is David Farr's debut novel and is a story he has always wanted to write, and has always...
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Catherine Bruton
Catherine Bruton's new historical adventure, Following Frankenstein, follows her earlier Another Twist in the Tale, both dra...
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Nick Lake
Locked Out Lily is Nick Lake's first middle grade book for children, who is the critically-acclaimed author of many YA novel...
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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...
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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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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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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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Sita Brahmachari
Sita Brahmachari's powerful new book, When Shadows Fall, weaves together themes of mental health, friendship and the e...
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Marissa Meyer
#1 New York Times–bestselling author Marissa Meyer's new book, Gilded, is a remarkable retelling of the Rum...
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Melissa Cummings-Quarry & Natalie A Carter
Best friends Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A. Carter are the authors of Grown: The B...
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Deirdre Sullivan
Deirdre Sullivan's latest book Precious Catastrophe is the darkly magical follow-up to Perfectly Preventabl...
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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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Iona Rangeley
Iona Rangeley has just finished studying English at Oxford. She has wanted to be a writer since her debut n...
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Lucy Hope
Lucy Hope grew up in North Wales, though now she lives in the Cotswolds. After jobs ranging from managing t...
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Aisling Fowler
Aisling Fowler's debut Fireborn, inspired by a computer game, has just been published. Aisling's love of st...
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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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Alexandra Page
Wishyouwas is Alexandra Page's first children's book, and draws on her early childhood years being airmailed between England...
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David Farr
The Book of Stolen Dreams is David Farr's debut novel and is a story he has always wanted to write, and has always...
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Ross Montgomery
Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, when he should have been doing homework, and continued doing so at un...
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Holly Webb
Author Holly Webb has just written the 50th book in the best-selling Animal Stories series, A Puppy's First Christmas, and a...
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Iona Rangeley
Iona Rangeley has just finished studying English at Oxford. She has wanted to be a writer since her debut n...
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Sita Brahmachari
Sita Brahmachari's powerful new book, When Shadows Fall, weaves together themes of mental health, friendship and the e...
-
Marissa Meyer
#1 New York Times–bestselling author Marissa Meyer's new book, Gilded, is a remarkable retelling of the Rum...
-
Hoang Giang
Giang has been working as a children’s book illustrator for more than 10 years. She works in a studio with her partner and t...
-
Jon Agee
Award-winning author Jon Agee's latest picture book, Little Santa, tells us how Santa Claus came to be. His...
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Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen, one of the most popular authors for children, has written a new picture book, Sticky McStick...
-
Lucy Hope
Lucy Hope grew up in North Wales, though now she lives in the Cotswolds. After jobs ranging from managing t...
-
Sibeal Pounder
Sibéal Pounder is the author of the bestselling Witch Wars and Bad Mermaids series of books and her latest book, Tin...
-
Helen Peters
Helen Peters' Jasmine Green series, about a girl who lives on a farm and who loves animals, reflects her own childhood, grow...
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Tracey Turner
Tracey Turner is a writer and editor and her new book, The Mouse Before Christmas (Sunbird Books), has just...
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Imogen Russell Williams
Imogen Russell Williams is a writer, editor, children's literature critic and author, and her latest book f...
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Tracey Corderoy
Tracey Corderoy's new Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam adventure, The Stolen Sleigh, has just been published...
-
Iszi Lawrence
Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Billie...
-
Melissa Cummings-Quarry & Natalie A Carter
Best friends Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A. Carter are the authors of Grown: The B...
-
Aisling Fowler
Aisling Fowler's debut Fireborn, inspired by a computer game, has just been published. Aisling's love of st...
-
Alex Foulkes
Rules for Vampires is Alex's debut novel. Alex was born in smoky Stoke-on-Trent and grew up in the Stafford...
-
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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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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Deirdre Sullivan
Deirdre Sullivan's latest book Precious Catastrophe is the darkly magical follow-up to Perfectly Preventabl...
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Polly Faber and Harriet Hobday
All Through the Night, the new picture book from Polly Faber and illustrator Harriet Hobday, celebrates tho...
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Alexandra Page
Wishyouwas is Alexandra Page's first children's book, and draws on her early childhood years being airmailed between England...
-
Richard Lambert
Shadow Town is Richard Lambert's first novel for children and follows his debut YA novel, <a href="/books/t...
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Sally Nicholls
A Secret in Time is the latest book in Sally Nicholls's Adventures in Time series, which t...
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Molly Potter
The Same But Different is the latest in a series of books by Molly Potter addressing RSHE topics. Molly cur...
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David Farr
The Book of Stolen Dreams is David Farr's debut novel and is a story he has always wanted to write, and has always...
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Catherine Bruton
Catherine Bruton's new historical adventure, Following Frankenstein, follows her earlier Another Twist in the Tale, both dra...
-
Nick Lake
Locked Out Lily is Nick Lake's first middle grade book for children, who is the critically-acclaimed author of many YA novel...
-
Emma Carroll
Emma Carroll's new historical fiction novel, The Week at World's End, revisits the week of the Cuban Crisis...
-
Samantha Baines
Samantha Baines is an award-winning comedian, actress, broadcaster, hearing aid wearer and author and her new children's boo...
-
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...
-
Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott
Author and scientist Dr Nick Cumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Dinosaurs is Wrong, brings us up...
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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<...
-
Chitra Soundar
Chitra Soundar is an Indian-born British writer and storyteller and her new series, Sindhu an...
-
Alastair Chisholm
Alastair Chisholm's new sci-fi book Adam-2 has just been published by Nosy Crow Books. As well as an author...
-
Bryony Pearce
Bryony Pearce's new book Cruel Castle (from the Red Eye series) is a slick horror version of an escape room...
-
Sarah Massini
Sarah Massini's stand out illustrations for The Witching's Wish bring to life the text by Lu Fraser. Sarah...
-
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey
Roma Agrawal, MBE is an award-winning engineer and author and How Was That Built is her fi...
-
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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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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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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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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Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
Chris Naylor-Ballesteros's early career was as a drummer in a band before he trained in illustration and gr...
