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Who stole all the pizzas??
Author Videos
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Enter the world of superheroes Peng and Spanners! Peng might go to the most boring school on the planet, but it's given him his first mystery to solve: the case of the disappearing pizzas!
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Efua Traoré explores dual heritage in her haunting YA mystery
Video/Vlog
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Efua Traoré introduces her new YA novel, Sister Spirit, which draws on Efua's mixed heritage and years growing up in Nigeria. A haunting, gothic-inspired mystery, Sister Spirit reaches out across time to put right a terrible wrong, and end a family curse. </st...
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A City Beyond the Stars....
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Monday, April 8, 2024
Author Zohra Nabi joins ReadingZone to tell us about her magical new fantasy, The City Beyond the Stars, which follows on from her debut, Th...
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Using maps to explore space and time
Author Videos
Friday, April 5, 2024
Leigh Hodgkinson joins ReadingZone to introduce her picture books, Martha Maps it Out and Martha Maps it Out in Time.
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Celebrate the 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize longlist at Waterstones, Piccadilly
Events
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Find out about new trends in picture book illustration and what characterises the enduring best in picture book art at an event organised by the Klaus Flugge Prize on 14th May, at Waterstones, Piccadilly.
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Return to the wild
Video/Vlog
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Author Nicola Penfold tells ReadingZone why she decided to bring Juniper, Bear and Etienne together once more in her new novel, When the Wild Calls.
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Ginny Myers Sain's thriller, One Last Breath
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Monday, April 1, 2024
Find out about the real life cases that inspired Ginny Myers Sain's new YA thriller, One Last Breath, about unsolved murders in a small town, from the author!
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UKLA Book Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Book Awards
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 UKLA Book Awards, voted for by teachers, have now announced. There are six books shortlisted for each category: ages 3-6 years; 7-10+ years and 11-14+ years, as well as Information Books ages 3-14 years. The UKLA Book Awards judges seek texts from a 'wide and inclu...