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New campaign for children's writing
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Bestselling author Cressida Cowell is launching a new campaign for schools - Free Writing Friday - to encourage writing for pleasure.
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Test out your football knowledge!
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Test out your football knowledge - and catch out your friends - in the latest Football School book, The Amazing Quiz Book!
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Poetry shortlist & shadowing scheme announced
Thursday, April 26, 2018
The 2018 shortlist for the CLiPPA (Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award) poetry award with poets from John Agard to Sarah Crossan shortlisted and primary schools around the country beginning to shadow the award.
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Writing competition with 'China' theme
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
The Liverpool Literary Festival Writing Competition is looking for your stories of up to 500 words on the theme of China, and the competition will be judged by the author Philip Pullman.
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Authors fight to save our seas
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
50 top UK children's authors and illustrators including Michael Morpurgo Jacqueline Wilson, Chris Riddell and Quentin Blake are behind a new campaign, Authors4Oceans, to save our seas.
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Latest trends in children's publishing
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Children's sales have remained steady during 2017 but low literacy levels, the continued closures of public libraries and a steep decline in parents reading to their children are all expected to impact on children's reading.
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Picture book shortlist
Saturday, April 14, 2018
The English Association has announced the shortlist for the 2018 English 4-11 Best Picture Book Awards with a strong showing for non-fiction illustrated books as well as more traditional picture books.
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Design a t-shirt for YALC
Saturday, April 14, 2018
If you're a YA fan then how about designing a t-shirt for this year's YALC (YA Lit Con) (27-29 July) - and you could win a VIP Entrance to the event! You have until 4 May to send in your entry.
