Earlier this month Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell ran an online 'Summer Camp' for children and young people, introducing poets, illustrators, storytellers and authors. If you missed it, you can catch up with the videos here.
The winners of the UKLA Book Awards - the only awards to be judged entirely by teachers - have been announced. The teacher judges look for texts that can 'enhance all aspects of literacy learning'.
Publisher Andersen Press is marking publication of The Bolds Go Wild written by Julian Clary and illustrated by David Roberts with a series of online-exclusive readings from Julian Clary, known as The Bold Hour!
Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell, creator of the How to Train Your Dragon and Wizards of Once series, has announced a week of 'Summer Camp' activity to celebrate and showcase children's creativity.
More young people have been writing during lockdown, if the record number of entries to the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition is anything to go by.
Independent booksellers have awarded The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson (Usborne) the Children's Fiction award for the Books are My Bag award. Don't Worry, Little Crab by Chris Haughton (Walker Books) won the Picture Book category.
CILIP has created a letter to support those whose schools do not have a professional school librarian, which you can download here and send to a head teacher, senior leader or school governor.
Anthony McGowan has won the Carnegie Medal for Lark (Barrington Stoke) while the Kate Greenaway Medal has gone to Shaun Tan for Tales from the Inner City (Walker Books), which he wrote and illustrated.
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