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Love Ssega unveils The Elementals series, exploring teamwork and the environment
Musician, producer and performing artist Love Ssega chats to ReadingZone about his debut Wanzu Sets Sail (The Elementals series), exploring climate change and teamwork. Love Ssega has Ugandan heritage, and his work often explores themes of justice and...
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Kaz Penney launches the Will Shakespeare Mysteries with The Stinky Stolen Toenails
Discover William Shakespeare as a child in Kaz Penney's new comedy series, the Will Shakespeare Mysteries, beginning with The Stinky Stolen Toenails! Kaz's love of Shakespeare began in her childhood and has now inspired her first series for children. She hopes the Will...
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Get onboard with the Cruise Ship Kid mysteries!
ReadingZone catches up with Emma Swan, author of the the Cruise Ship Kid comedy mysteries, Thief at Sea and her latest adventure, Kidnap at Sea. Emma Swan is a writer, comedian and actor and has starred in a West-End run of Horrible Histories. As well as her children's...
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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 identity. ReadingZone finds out more! Amelia, who grew up in New Zealand and Warwickshire, studied Philosophy at Cambridge University and now...
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Gareth P Jones shares his fun-packed picture book, Chicken vs Egg
Gareth P Jones and illustrator Craig Shuttlewood talk about their hilarious new picture book, Chicken vs Egg, and an action-packed race to find out which came first . . . Gareth P. Jones lives in South East London and divides his time between writing bo...
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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 Celebrate Your Mixed Identity, a deep dive into race and identity from the mixed perspective. Emma also a sustainability consultant, writer,...
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Fiona Lumbers: Celebrating children's imagination in Mo's Stick
ReadingZone caught up with author and illustrator Fiona Lumbers to find out about her new picture book, Mo's Stick (Little Tiger), celebrating children's imagination. Fiona Lumbers has drawn on anything and everything as a child and always insisted she would be an artis...
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Exploring the cycle of violence in Julian Gough's When Tad Kicked Vlad
Julian Gough's hilarious new picture book, When Tad Kicked Vlad, explores the cycle of violence from a child's perspective, helping to guide children towards managing their anger. Julian Gough is the Irish author of five beloved children’s books about a rabbit and a bea...
