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Friday, August 30, 2024

Author Neil Taylor explores some of the myths around Artificial Intelligence My name is Neil Taylor, and I recently wrote a fictional novel called Anticipation in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) p...

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

One year group, one book, one librarian: Reading The Final Year with my whole Year 7 cohort.  School librarian Alice Leggatt shares the impact that reading an entire book had on one Year 7 group - and expl...

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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Author Nathanael Lessore, who has just won the Branford Boase Award 2024 for his debut novel, <a href="/books/steady-for-this-the-laugh-out-loud-and-unforgettable-teen-novel-of-the-year/...

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Readingzone Q&amp;A with Katya Balen, introducing Foxlight  "I like writing about the wildness in all of us, and about how that wildness can connect us to ourselves and to others."

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

AS Hussain's YA novel Desi Girl Speaking is published next month, and in this month's book blog, the author explains how she approached writing about mental illness in her new book, and how conscious authors must be in how they portray mental illness in their writing.

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Monday, August 21, 2023

Julia Jarman, whose novel Hangman has been republished, reflects on the real life inspiration for the story, about bullying, and why she decided to make the book available once again. Read a Chapter...

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Monday, June 26, 2023

Maya MacGregor, author of The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, writes about their relationship with gender, why they creates non-binary characters, and about making a space, in their nov...

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Friday, April 21, 2023

The annual Conference of the Federation of Children's Book Groups is a wonderful occasion. It is quite unique in that teachers, TAs, librarians, parents, grandparents - a wonderful mix of delegates - attend, bringing a wide range of perspectives and interests. ...

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