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Shortlists Announced for The UKLA Book Awards 2024

The shortlists have been announced for the UKLA Book Awards, the only national UK children’s book awards judged entirely by teachers. The Awards highlight texts from a ‘wide and inclusive range’ of publishers that ‘recognise a broad range of perspectives, experiences and voices’ but first and foremost the judges are looking for well written, engaging […]

In Reviews

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Measuring ME!

‘My body is amazing. Just look at some of the reasons why!’ Children are drawn to books about the human body and Measuring ME! will be no exception. It’s bright, full of energy, and really catches the eye. Numbers can fascinate young readers, too, but larger quantities bring their own challenges, and if we want […]

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There’s a Tiger on the Train

A little boy is on the way to the seaside with his dad. When they get on the train something amazing happens – a tiger in a top hat gets on too, sits right next to the little boy and starts reading a comic! Dad doesn’t notice, he is too busy with his phone. The […]

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The Djinn’s Apple

This is a historical novel set in Baghdad in a period that many young readers may know little about: the Abbasid Caliphate of Harun al-Rashid 786-809 CE. Others may recognise it as the time of the beginning of the Golden Age of Islam, in which scholars of many faiths flocked to Baghdad not only to […]

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Alyssa and the Spell Garden

Alyssa is eleven. She is annoyed because both her parents who have been arguing more than usual for a long time now, have to go on work trips during the summer holidays. So Alyssa is being sent to stay with her Auntie Jasmine whom she has never met because Jasmine and Alyssa’s mother, Violet, fell […]

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The Golden Hare

Combining the warmth of family love, the thrill of an adventure in wild open spaces, the beauty and magnificence of the natural world, and the magic of a mythical creature, The Golden Hare is a very special picture book. Little Meara is disconsolate, she’s never seen a dinosaur, a shark or a giraffe, the implication […]

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Clever Crow

On the front cover, a glossy-feathered crow is playfully exploring ink. It’s an eye-catching opener for a book that wants its audience to think differently about this familiar yet often misunderstood bird. But who is watching, and who is being observed? As readers quickly discover, crows are clever, crafty problem-solvers with long memories, able to […]

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A First Book of Dinosaurs

Children, even the youngest, are fascinated by dinosaurs. The dinosaur galleries at the Natural History Museum are always crowded, and library kinder boxes sport innumerable stories featuring dinosaur characters. These naturally present the dinosaur protagonist as very humanized – essentially the child. What about the facts? How to make the long names, the amphibian and […]

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A Horse Called Now

‘When I’m afraid, I breathe in and out and let the feelings come…. And then go. Nothing lasts for ever’, says Horse.  So begins this delightful book about tackling imagined fears. Horse, called Now, lives in the moment, and continues to dispense his wisdom, as one after another, a group of rabbits, a hen and […]

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