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Little Bang: A must-read novel about life-changing moments
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Friday, January 19, 2024
Award-winning author Kelly McCaughrain introduces her new novel, Little Bang, a powerful and timely novel exploring gender parity, a woman's right to bodily autonomy and the issues raised by abortion. Centred on the relationship between Mel and Sid, it's also a coming-of-age exploratio...
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Time-travelling penguins!
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Thursday, January 18, 2024
Discover a penguin who HATES living in the cold! So when he goes on holiday, he tries to find somewhere a bit warmer. What he doesn't expect is to come face to face with a dinosaur!
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Time travel with Ross Welford - and a tortoise!
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Ross Welford introduces Time Travelling with a Tortoise, the sequel to Time Travelling with a Hamster, and a whole new time travel adventure!
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Managing our worries
Author Videos
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Author Ruth Doyle explains how A Horse Called Now by Ruth Doyle and Alexandra Finkeldey can help young children to manage their worries.
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World Book Day £1 Books 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
Find out what books will be available to buy with the £1 book tokens for this year's World Book Day, which takes place on Thursday 7th March! With the range of books on offer including Elmer, Dinosaur Club, InvestiGators, Loki and Dread Wood, there is plenty on offer for children and...
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Reflecting Realities: Increasing representation in children's books
Friday, December 1, 2023
The annual CLPE Reflecting Realities Survey of Ethnic Representation within UK Children's Literature shows a continued move towards inclusion and representation in books for children during 2022, particularly in fiction. However, the report also notes declines in representation in pict...
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Impossible Creatures wins Waterstone's Book of the Year Award 2023
Book Awards
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures has won the Waterstones Book of the Year 2023, a much-coveted award that will see Impossible Creatures supported by Waterstones' booksellers nationally. The bookseller also announced In Memoriam by Alice Winn as Waters...
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Dare you enter the Hollow Hills...?
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Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Author Anna Kemp introduces The Hollow Hills, the sequel to her dark magical tale, Into Goblyn Wood.
