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  • Event pack for Aliens Love Underpants

    Thursday, March 2, 2017

    Publisher Simon & Schuster has created a special events pack to help celebrate ten years of Aliens Love Underpants! You can sign up for the free event pack to help throw your own Underpants-inspired event or party!

  • The World Book Day books

    Thursday, March 2, 2017

    We hope you had a wonderful celebration of all things booky on World Book Day! Here's a reminder of the books available to buy from your local bookshops with your World Book Day book vouchers.

  • Finish a story and win prizes!

    Wednesday, March 1, 2017

    The 2017 Henrietta Branford Writing Competition is now open, inviting anyone under the age of 19 to finish a story started by Branford Boase Award winner Horatio Clare. The closing date is Saturday 22 April 2017.

  • Blue Peter Book Award winners!

    Wednesday, March 1, 2017

    Podkin One Ear and Survivors have won this year's Blue Peter Book Awards. Both tell stories of struggle and strength and both are published by Faber & Faber.

  • McFall wins inaugural Scottish prize

    Wednesday, March 1, 2017

    Borders-based author Claire McFall has won the inaugural Scottish Teenage Book Prize for her third novel, Black Cairn Point. The book was voted for by young people across Scotland.

  • Abi Elphinstone's last Dreamsnatcher book

    Monday, February 27, 2017

    THE NIGHT SPINNER is the final book in the Dreamsnatcher trilogy by ABI ELPHINSTONE, charting feisty heroine Moll Pecksniff's battle against darkness and the shadowmasks.

  • Pet Defenders battle alien beetles!

    Sunday, February 26, 2017

    Look out for Gareth P Jones's latest series, Pet Defenders, and the first book - Attack of the Alien Dung! A gigantic alien beetle is eating its way through Earth - can the Pet Defenders stop it?

  • Monsters, sweets, and a royal quest...

    Sunday, February 26, 2017

    King Edwin Flashypants, the boy king, is back in a new adventure involving monsters, quests and the evil Emperor Nurbison! We asked author Andy Riley to tell us more.