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Sophie Anderson revisits Baba Yaga folklore in The House With Chicken Legs Runs Away

Sophie Anderson revisits Baba Yaga folklore in The House With Chicken Legs Runs Away

Award-winning author Sophie Andersen returns to the world of The House With Chicken Legs with a sequel, The House With Chicken Le More...

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Celebrate mixed identity and heritage

Celebrate mixed identity and heritage

Drawing on her own and others' experiences growing up as a mixed-race child in <a href="/books/mixed-explore-and-celebrate-your-mixed-ide More...

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What is a Designer?

What is a Designer?

Theatre isn’t all about acting. It takes a whole team of people working together to make a show happen. In this film you can find out abo More...

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Latest Books & Extracts

  • The House with Chicken Legs Runs Away

    Brimming with fairy-tale magic, friendship and extraordinary adventure, The House with Chicken Legs Runs Away is an epic, spellbi

  • SPYGLASS: Mastermind of Mayhem

    Hilarious, action-packed spy adventure - with pictures! If you like James Bond with a dash of Johnny English, this is for you...

  • Two is a Crowd

    Another stunning contemporary real-life story from the author of Ella on the Outside, beautifully illustrated by Miguel Bustos.

  • We Are Dragon

    The final novel in a bold, thought-provoking adventure trilogy.

  • Café Chaos: The Way the Cookie Crumbles

    Hope Crumble and her family serve up cakes, coffee and a large helping of calamity in the second book of this hilarious new series from m

  • Relic Hamilton, Genie Hunter: The Door of the Dead

    Genies grant wishes! That's all anyone ever cares about. They forget that genies were imprisoned in those lamps for a reason...</

Featured Authors

  • Michelle Harrison introduces her time-twisting murder mysteries

    Michelle Harrison introduces her time-twisting murder mysteries: The Morrow twins, who we first meet in Twice Upon a Time, return in A Clock Strikes Murder. Look out for a strange museum, a curs

  • Sophie Anderson revisits Baba Yaga folklore in The House With Chicken Legs Runs Away

    Sophie Anderson revisits Baba Yaga folklore in The House With Chicken Legs Runs Away: Award-winning author Sophie Andersen returns to the world of The House With Chicken Legs with a sequel, The House With Chicken Le

  • Catherine Wilkins revisits her laugh-out-loud series, Café Chaos

    Catherine Wilkins revisits her laugh-out-loud series, Café Chaos: Meet Catherine Wilkins and find out about her Café Chaos series, a hilarious behind-the-scenes look at chaotic f

  • Judith Eagle introduces her WWII classic in the making, The Blitz Sisters

    Judith Eagle introduces her WWII classic in the making, The Blitz Sisters: Judith Eagle introduces her classic in the making, The Blitz Sisters, which follows a London family through WWII and beyond. </st

  • Amelia Giudici introduces her gripping debut, Anya and the Light Above the Ocean

    Amelia Giudici introduces her gripping debut, Anya and the Light Above the Ocean: Anya and the Light Above the Ocean, Amelia Giudici's stunning debut, takes readers into parallel worlds and big questions about i

  • Celebrating mixed identity in Emma Slade Edmondson's Mixed

    Celebrating mixed identity in Emma Slade Edmondson's Mixed: Emma Slade Edmondson, co-host of the award-wining podcast Mixed Up, talks to ReadingZone about her new book, Mixed: Explore and C

Your Reviews

  • We Are Dragon

    Jacqueline

    Dragon is taking over the world, run by the AI 'Queenie' who thinks she is saving everyone, when in fact she is enslaving them. Rieka, now part of the Cub...

  • Two is a Crowd

    Jenny

    Two is a Crowd is a brilliant, thought-provoking and sensitively written story with Cath Howe's hallmark empathetic understanding of the emotions...

  • The House with Chicken Legs Runs Away

    Sue

    Marinka has a deep bond with the house with chicken legs which has been her home all her life. Recently, however, the house has started to act strangely s...

  • Café Chaos: The Way the Cookie Crumbles

    Sam

    The Way the Cookie Crumbles is the second highly amusing, heartwarming book in the <a href="/books/cafe-chaos-my-family-is-not-a-piece-of...

  • The Impossible Gladiator (Time Keys, book 3)

    Beverley

    Sim, Jeopardy and Nelson are on holiday in Rome with Sim's mother, Callidora, and Jeopardy's father, Emmett, and they are loving every minute. Then they m...

  • Bridge of Storms

    Sue

    Tamzin Pook and her friends are on a new mission, heading for the city of Museion to help save it from the predator suburbs which are trapping it in a mou...

  • Relic Hamilton, Genie Hunter: The Door of the Dead

    Louisa

    This gripping adventure story recasts the traditional tales of genies and explores why they might be trapped in lamps and why they might only be a...

  • Mixed: Explore and Celebrate Your Mixed Identity

    Louisa

    To begin with, a disclaimer. I am not of mixed identity. I found this a very informative read, though, about a neglected subject. For children who...

  • The Last Wolf (The Moonhaven Chronicles)

    Beverley

    Jax, Jovi, Esau and Fourth are the Moonlighters. They love their night time adventures, sneaking out after curfew, when the moon is full, to avoid the Nig...

  • Monsters

    Sue

    When a travelling circus arrives in a remote village, everyone is excited. The Circus of Dreams claims to have the 'Monster of Dreams', a...

Videos & Vlogs

A time-twisting adventure from Michelle Harrison!

A time-twisting adventure from Michelle Harrison!

The Morrow twins, who we first meet in Twice Upon a Time, return in A Clock Strikes Murder. Look out for a strange museum, a curs

Judith Eagle shares The Blitz Sisters, a moving story of family and change

Judith Eagle shares The Blitz Sisters, a moving story of family and change

Author Judith Eagle introduces her classic in the making, The Blitz Sisters, which follows a London family through WWII and beyon

Fails, friends and chaos in Finn and his Epic Fails

Fails, friends and chaos in Finn and his Epic Fails

Hear from author Phil Earle introducing Finn N. O. Hope and his life of epic failure!

This month’s highlights

  • Picture Book

    Create a Picture Book Competition 2024

    Create a Picture Book Competition 2024

    Winners of the ReadingZone Picture Book Competition 2024 announced We are thrilled to announce the winners of the ReadingZone Picture Book Competition 2024, judged by Ste...

  • Book Trailers

    Make a Book Trailer

    Make a Book Trailer

    Create a Book Trailer Create a book trailer of your favourite book or your latest bookclub read for ReadingZone, and encourage others to read the book!  Or you can use it...

  • Podcasts

    Create your own Podcast

    Create your own Podcast

    Bex, a presenter for Fun Kids, has put together a simple guide for us about creating podcasts and gives us some top tips for starting your own podcast.

  • Videos & Vlogs

    Creating a Book Vlog

    Creating a Book Vlog

    Ever wanted to create your own vlog, but don't know how to get started? In these videos, author and book vlogger Lucy Powrie (lucythereader) gives her tips on getting started, what to inc...