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Anthony Burt puts a refreshing spin on the adventure island story in his debut children’s novel. Our hero Jim (of course), was washed up on a tropical island in a barrel of rum as a baby and has grown up there under the care of the island’s animals. It’s no ordinary island though, and the […]
The School Library Association has announced the 2022 shortlist for their Information Book Award (IBA). Now in its twelfth year, the IBA aims to emphasise the importance of non-fiction by highlighting and celebrating the high standard of children’s information books. The awards are divided into three age categories, judged by a panel of educators. Children […]
Meet Martha, a little girl with a big vision. We’re invited into her world through the maps she draws, each one carefully labelled, full of interesting facts and quirky Martha-chosen insights. Her book opens with a map of the universe, followed by a map of Earth, ‘a planet full of land and sea’, zooming in […]
Katya Balen has just been named winner of the 2022 Yoto Carnegie Medal for her book October, October (Bloomsbury), illustrated by Angela Harding. Balen’s October, October has done the double too and scooped this year’s Shadowers’ Choice Award for the Yoto Carnegie Medal, after tens of thousands of young people across the UK and internationally […]
Danica Novgorodoff has just been named winner of the 2022 Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal for her illustrated edition of Jason Reynold’s 2019 Carnegie-shortlisted book, Long Way Down. Long Way Down is the first graphic novel to win since Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas in 1973. Jake Hope interviewed Danica for Books for Keeps. The studio which […]
The winners of the UK’s longest running book awards for children and young people, the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards have been announced. The Yoto Carnegie Medal is awarded to Katya Balen for her second novel October, October (Bloomsbury), illustrated by Angela Harding. October, October has also done the double and won this year’s Shadowers’ Choice […]
Every two years, IBBY invites nominations for its international list of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities. Nominations are made by IBBY national sections and the final list is selected from these by the IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Young People with Disabilities which is based in Toronto. Because of its international content, […]
Rex is a dinosaur in New York. Happily roaming swamps hunting stegosauruses one moment, frozen in a block of ice-age ice the next, then defrosting and washing up in the Big Apple. How will a T Rex navigate modern life? With difficulty basically, although he is lucky enough to be found and taken in by […]
A little jellyfish delivers an important message in Julia Seal’s timely picture book, Bloom. Julia answered our questions about her book. Can you introduce Luna to our readers? Luna is an adventurous jellyfish who loves to roam the oceans. She always returns full of stories to tell her friends about the amazing things she’s seen […]
This new novel follows the success of Phil Earle’s When the Sky Falls. Not exactly a sequel, it is also set in the Second World War and like his earlier novel, has at its heart the relationship of children and animals. It is a tale of the period before the blitz: the ‘phony war’ when […]
Caryl Lewis has won Wales Book of the Year twice for her literary fiction and the Tir na n-Og Award for best children’s fiction. Seed, the story of a heartening and magical transformation, is her first English novel for children. She answered our questions about the book. Seed is a story about the power of […]
All sorts of things grow in the most unexpected ways in Caryl Lewis’s story, and if readers don’t see gardening as something slightly magical when they pick up the book, they will by the time they reach the end. Marty values the evenings he spends with his grandad on his allotment. Since his father left, […]
Award-winning author Ross MacKenzie has come up with a terrific story here, and the title is very clever, too. In the Dominion, most of the world is in shades of grey, as the Emperor, or rather his evil aunt, a Necromancer, has stolen all the colour, and they keep it for themselves, enjoying its life-giving […]
The mice love cheese so their ears prick up when from ‘UP Above’ they hear the word… but there is no cheese! Did someone say ‘Cheese’ again? But where is the cheese? It is a puzzle and a disappointment…or is it? This is a charming debut picture book where the concept and the illustrations work […]
An important story about pollution, consumerism and the dangers of extinction, this picture book turns the usual plot about the extinction of animals into one about humans being the ones who may disappear from earth. As such, it is chilling at the end, but very thought-provoking for older children. The elephant family is enjoying spraying […]
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