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SLA Information Book Award 2024 longlist announced
Book Awards
Thursday, April 25, 2024
The School Library Association has announced the 2024 longlist for the Information Book Award (IBA), which aims to highlight the importance of non-fiction by celebrating the high standard of children's information books being published.
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Author Katya Balen introduces Foxlight
Book Blog
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Readingzone Q&A with Katya Balen, introducing Foxlight "I like writing about the wildness in all of us, and about how that wildness can connect us to ourselves and to others."
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Writing for young people about mental health
Book Blog
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
AS Hussain's YA novel Desi Girl Speaking is published next month, and in this month's book blog, the author explains how she approached writing about mental illness in her new book, and how conscious authors must be in how they portray mental illness in their writing.
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Community, friendship and A Girl on the Fly
Video/Vlog
Friday, April 19, 2024
Author Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl introduces Girl on the Fly and tells us how her own dual heritage, her love of running and close friendships, helped inspire the her to write Girl on the Fly.
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Shortlists announced for the 2024 Jhalak Prize
Book Awards
Thursday, April 18, 2024
The shortlists for the Jhalak Children's and YA Prize have been announced. The Jhalak Prize and the Jhalak Children's & YA Prize, celebrate books by writers of colour in Britain and Ireland.
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Oscar's Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Book Awards
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Five books have made it to the shortlist of the Oscar's Book Prize 2024, which celebrates pre-school books. This year's selection ranges from anxious dogs, hungry dinosaurs and subverted fairy tales to a grief-stricken turtle and a tiny blue whale, with the...
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Catherine Cawthorne explores fairy tales with the Big Bad Wolf!
Author Videos
Friday, April 12, 2024
Fact-check your favourite stories with the bad guy of fairy tales, the Big Bad Wolf! Find out whether big ears are really 'all the better to hear you with'; discover if it's possible to dance in glass slippers; and learn just how much breath it would take to blow down a house made of...
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Flying with dragons in Dragon Force!
Video/Vlog
Friday, April 12, 2024
Hear from Katie Tsang and Kevin Tsang about their new dragon adventure, Devourer's Attack, book two in the Dragon Force series. Katie and Kevin tell us all about the Dragon Force books and read from a short section from Devourer's Attack.
