We're celebrating poetry and nursery rhymes for younger children with a giveaway of Jeanne Willis's feminist retellings of nursery rhymes in What Are Little Girls Made Of, illustrated by Isabelle Follath, and A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Poems...
To celebrate National Poetry Day on 1st October, ReadingZone is asking for your nature-based poetry activities. The prize for the two winners is a set of Nosy Crow's gorgeous poetry books - Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright by Fiona Waters and Britta...
Join Gary Northfield in a special Create a Comic online workshop, at 2pm on Wednesday 14th October, when children will create their own comic character and comic strip. Gary will also answer children's questions during the programme.
The shortlist for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards has been announced. The award aims to highlight the best children's books for families to share together, and to encourage parents and carers to spend more time reading with their children.
Eva Eland has won the 2020 Klaus Flugge Prize, awarded for the most exciting and promising newcomer to children's picture book illustration, for her picture book When Sadness Comes to Call (Andersen Press).
Voting is now underway for Shadowing Group's favourite book from the Carnegie and/or Kate Greenaway shortlists to win the Shadowers' Choice Awards!
Liz Hyder and her editor Sarah Odedina of Pushkin Children's Books have won the 2020 BRANFORD BOASE AWARD for her debut novel, Bearmouth. The award recognises the author and editor of an outstanding debut novel for children.
Here's the full line-up for the children's digital book festival, Reading is Magic, 27 September to 2 October 2020. Best-selling authors and illustrators including Cressida Cowell, Robin Stevens, Steven Camden, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Jasbinder...
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