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Summer, festivals and first love: This Song Is About Us

Sara Barnard tells ReadingZone what inspired her novel about first love, festivals and fame - This Song is About Us (Walker Books). When stardom ca...
Moon Girl inspires a love of night time and the dark

Thomas Docherty tells ReadingZone how his daughters helped inspire his latest picture book, Moon Girl (OUP), about overcoming fears of the dark.
What if Nazi Germany had won the war?

In time-travel adventure Westfallen, two groups of friends speak to each other across time, one in 1944, the other in the present day. What they...
2025 UKLA Book Awards Shortlists announced

The UKLA Book Awards are judged by teachers who sought 'positive, empowering or innovative representation of children's lives' in the judging proce...
Year 3: Design a Bookmark Competition

The Children's Bookshow is challenging Year 3 children (ages 7-8 years) to design a bookmark featuring a favourite bird, in a competition run in pa...

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