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Big Dreams online festival
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Authors including Jacqueline Wilson, Robin Stevens, Nick Sharratt, Dapo Adeola and Nadia Shireen will be appearing on a screen near you as part of the Puffin Festival of Big Dreams.
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Children's illustrators shortlisted
Friday, May 22, 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Klaus Flugge Prize, which highlights the most promising and exciting newcomers to picture book illustration, has been announced.
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Information Book Awards shortlist
Friday, May 22, 2020
The shortlist for the School Library Association Information Book Award 2020 has been announced, with 11 books across ages from under seven years to 16+ included.
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Online book events - 27th May
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Authors including Sharon Gosling, Tom Huddleston and David Owen - whose book launches have taken place during the global pandemic - have banded together to create a day of online events on 27th May including competitions, readings and live interviews.
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Lockwood and Co series coming to Netflix
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Lockwood fans and those who love their adventures a little spooky...Netflix has commissioned an action adventure series based on the Lockwood novels by Jonathan Stroud.
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Fact-checking real-life disasters
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
In this blog author Susan Martineau tells us how she set about fact-checking the information she wanted to use in her new book, Real-Life Disasters (b small publishing), including the catastrophic effects of an earlier pandemic, the Black Death.
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Big Dreams writing competition & festival
Monday, May 18, 2020
Puffin is to launch a Big Dreamers Writing Competition for children aged 6-18 years in the run-up to its online Festival of Big Dreams (8th - 14th June), part of its 80th birthday celebrations.
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Is this class worse than yours?
Friday, May 15, 2020
Look out for biscuit battles, killer dogs and escaping rats in THE WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD, the start of a hilarious new series by JOANNA NADIN, illustrated by RIKIN PAREKH.
