The shortlists for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, the UK's oldest book awards for children and young people, have been announced but it is unclear how this year's Shadowing and Shadowers' Choice Award will be managed in the light of...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling has won the Blue Peter Winner of Winners Award. The winner of this year's award for the Best Story has also been announced - Vashti Hardy's Wildspark.
One Shot by Tanya Landman (Barrington Stoke) gained 40% of the vote by Scottish teenagers for their favourite book, and has therefore won the Scottish Teenage Book Prize.
An emphasis on literacy over reading for pleasure, failing to read aloud to children and increases in screen time are contributing to a 'long term decline' in the percentage of children reading for pleasure, according to a new report from publisher...
Phase 2 of the Great School Libraries (GSL) campaign is now underway, following the survey of school libraries that formed the first phase said Caroline Roche, chair of the GSL committee.
A dog that plays jazz, a human soul captured in an animal-like machine and ... PEAS are all shortlisted for the Children's Book Award 2020 - chosen and voted for entirely by children.
The BBC's adaptation of Malorie Blackman's novel Noughts and Crosses will start to air on Thursday 5th March on BBC1, with all episodes available to stream on BBC iPlayer after that date.
Sometimes there are books that we love so much at ReadingZone, that we want more book groups and classrooms to be able to read them. So we are offering sets of Where the World Turns Wild by Nicola Penfold (Stripes Publishing) at a reduced rate of...
