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CLiPPA 2020 poetry shortlist announced
Thursday, October 1, 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 CLiPPA (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award) has been announced. The schools' shadowing scheme will launch when the overall winner is announced on 9th October.
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Step through the mirror...
Thursday, October 1, 2020
When Darwen discovers Silbrica on the other side of a mirror, he enters a world of adventure, marvels - and terrible danger... Welcome to the BEYOND THE MIRROR trilogy by AJ HARTLEY.
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A cat with nine lives
Sunday, September 27, 2020
We all know that cats have nine lives, but Furry Purry Beancat is very lucky - he gets to live in different times as well! Author PHILIP ARDAGH tells us more about Furry Purry Beancat.
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Monster family
Sunday, September 27, 2020
When an orphaned brother and sister stumble across a secret house hidden in the woods, there they discover a family that is very different from any other... Author PADRAIG KENNY tells us more about THE MONSTERS OF ROOKHAVEN.
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Nursery rhymes giveaway
Sunday, September 20, 2020
We're celebrating poetry and nursery rhymes for younger children with a giveaway of Jeanne Willis's feminist retellings of nursery rhymes in What Are Little Girls Made Of, illustrated by Isabelle Follath, and A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Poems by Frann Preston-Gannon, both published by Nosy C...
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Encouraging children as poets
Sunday, September 20, 2020
We asked Charlotte Hacking, central learning programmes leader at CLPE, to provide some tips for inspiring children to enjoy poetry, and encouraging them to write their own.
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Shadowers' Choice Awards Vote
Friday, September 18, 2020
Voting is now underway for Shadowing Group's favourite book from the Carnegie and/or Kate Greenaway shortlists to win the Shadowers' Choice Awards!
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Rising star of picture books
Friday, September 18, 2020
Eva Eland has won the 2020 Klaus Flugge Prize, awarded for the most exciting and promising newcomer to children's picture book illustration, for her picture book When Sadness Comes to Call (Andersen Press).
