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Shortlists announced for the 2024 Jhalak Prize
Book Awards
Thursday, April 18, 2024
The shortlists for the Jhalak Children's and YA Prize have been announced. The Jhalak Prize and the Jhalak Children's & YA Prize, celebrate books by writers of colour in Britain and Ireland.
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Oscar's Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Book Awards
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Five books have made it to the shortlist of the Oscar's Book Prize 2024, which celebrates pre-school books. This year's selection ranges from anxious dogs, hungry dinosaurs and subverted fairy tales to a grief-stricken turtle and a tiny blue whale, with the...
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Free virtual author events with ReadingZone Live
Author Events
Friday, April 12, 2024
Keen to support reading for pleasure in your classrooms, and to introduce students to new authors? Join our FREE ReadingZone Live online author events
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Catherine Cawthorne explores fairy tales with the Big Bad Wolf!
Author Videos
Friday, April 12, 2024
Fact-check your favourite stories with the bad guy of fairy tales, the Big Bad Wolf! Find out whether big ears are really 'all the better to hear you with'; discover if it's possible to dance in glass slippers; and learn just how much breath it would take to blow down a house made of...
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Flying with dragons in Dragon Force!
Video/Vlog
Friday, April 12, 2024
Hear from Katie Tsang and Kevin Tsang about their new dragon adventure, Devourer's Attack, book two in the Dragon Force series. Katie and Kevin tell us all about the Dragon Force books and read from a short section from Devourer's Attack.
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Who stole all the pizzas??
Authors Q&As
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Enter the world of superheroes Peng and Spanners! Peng might go to the most boring school on the planet, but it's given him his first mystery to solve: the case of the disappearing pizzas!
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Efua Traoré explores dual heritage in her haunting YA mystery
Authors Q&As
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Efua Traoré introduces her new YA novel, Sister Spirit, which draws on Efua's mixed heritage and years growing up in Nigeria. A haunting, gothic-inspired mystery, Sister Spirit reaches out across time to put right a terrible wrong, and end a family curse. </st...
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A City Beyond the Stars....
Video/Vlog
Monday, April 8, 2024
Author Zohra Nabi joins ReadingZone to tell us about her magical new fantasy, The City Beyond the Stars, which follows on from her debut, Th...
