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Enticing New Readers into the Library
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
School librarian Shelley Fallows explores what has worked, and what hasn't, in her latest 'books and bribery' blog - or, 'How to entice new readers into the library'!
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Book group set of Check Mates by Stewart Foster
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
We're thrilled to offer a set of ten copies of Check Mates by Stewart Foster (The Bubble Boy, All the Things That Could Go Wrong) to a book group! The prize is made available by publisher Simon & Schuster Children's Books.
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Chantal Kelleher, SLA School Librarian of the Year Honour List
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Chantal Kelleher is the LRC Manager at Herne Bay High School, a popular, oversubscribed school that prides itself on its culture of high expectations and values. Here we find out more about what made her work stand out.
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Helen Cleaves, SLA School Librarian of the Year Honour List
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Helen Cleaves is School Librarian at Kingston Grammar School, an independent co-educational day school, and this is how her work and the library impressed the judges.
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Ros Harding, SLA School Librarian of the Year Honour List
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Ros Harding is Head Librarian and Archivist at The King's School Chester, an independent, co-educational, selective school for ages 4 to 18. This is what made her library and her work stand out.
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Shadowers and judges unite in award winners
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal, while illustrator Jackie Morris has won her first CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal with 'cultural phenomenon' The Lost Words. Both books were also the first choice of thousands of school children for the separate 'Shadowers' Choice Awards.
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The Children's Bookshow tickets available
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
The Children's Bookshow 2019 opens in London with Neal Layton at the Old Vic on Friday 20th September, and will take 16 authors, artists and poets to 15 theatres around the country ending with Michael Rosen in Hull.
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A book about difference wins award
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Arree Chung's Mixed - a book about colour, tolerance and embracing differences - has been chosen by children as the winner of the Children's Book Award 2019.
