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Margaret McDonald and her editors Alice Swan and Ama Badu are winners of the 2025 Branford Boase Award for outstanding debut novel for young people with Glasgow Boys, a moving, beautifully written coming-of-age novel exploring the power of identity, community and masculinity. This brings to three the number of awards Glasgow Boys has received (it […]
Poetry By Heart, the national poetry speaking competition, held its Grand Finale at Shakespeare’s Globe, London on 7 July and crowned four young people National Champions. The competition invites young people to choose a poem, learn it by heart and perform it aloud. Set up in 2012 by then Poet Laureate, Sir Andrew Motion, Poetry […]
Children’s reading is to become a “shared national mission” said Jonathan Douglas, CEO of the National Literacy Trust at the launch of a new National Year of Reading starting in January 2026. The Department for Education and National Literacy Trust are joining forces on the campaign which is intended to bring together parents, schools, libraries, […]
Mevan loves her home in lush hilly Kurdistan in the northern corner of Iraq where she lives with her family who have lived there for generations. So much love surrounds her that she feels ten feet tall. However when Iraqi soldiers push the Kurds from their homes into the mountains everything changes. With heavy hearts […]
Congratulations – again – to Margaret McDonald whose debut novel, Glasgow Boys has been names as the 11-14+ category winner of the UKLA Book Awards, just over one week after winning the Carnegie Medal for Writing. McDonald also won the Shadowing schools’ and student teachers’ vote. The judges praised her book for its ‘beautifully balanced […]
Published in association with The Royal Institution, here is the perfect book for the budding scientist and curious youngster. One of the twenty scientists included is Michael Faraday (1791-1867), who worked at The Royal Institution almost all his life and indeed started the famous and inspiring Christmas Lectures, still running today. It’s an eye-catching publication, […]
In a fast-paced world dominated by screens, instant information, and amidst a reading for pleasure crisis, Zaro Weil’s nature poetry offers something precious and needed: space to breathe. Her latest poetry collection, I Hear The Trees, the third in an unplanned but unmistakable trilogy, gently invites children to step away from distraction and into a […]
Four best friends, Cam, Hetal, Nell and Sasha, head off on the road trip of a lifetime. Instead of the camping trip to the Lake District they’d planned, these young women are driving to Marseille accompanying Sasha to her father’s wedding. There are moments of comedy, e.g. when Nell is knocked into a fountain by […]
The winner of the UK’s only national award for published poetry for children, the CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award) was announced this afternoon at a typically boissterous ceremony at the National Theatre on London’s Southbank, attended by hundreds of children. This year’s CLiPPA is awarded to Colette Hiller for her collection Colossal Words for Kids […]
Curiosity, a zeal for life and a yearning for past traditions and crafts are common themes which run through much of the work of Olivia Lomenech Gill. This year’s Carnegie Medal for Illustration winner creates art which embraces an impressive array of media and techniques often challenging readers to look and think in ways that […]
The winners of the UK’s longest-running book awards for children and young people, The Carnegie Medals, were announced on Thursday 19 June in front of an audience of over 600 young people at a live-streamed ceremony at the Cambridge Theatre, London. 2024 Carnegie Medal for Writing winner, and former Waterstones Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho hosted […]
On every measure this is an outstanding novel. It is extremely hard to believe it is the author’s debut, and impossible to put down. The titular Glasgow boys are Finlay (18) and Banjo (17) and their coming-of-age story is told in their alternating voices ( with Banjo’s Glaswegian dialect perfectly captured). Set in the present, […]
Inclusive Books for Children (IBC) is enlarging its national book-gifting scheme, offering 60 boxes of 100 inclusive children’s books to state primary schools and community libraries across the UK in 2025. The scheme, originally piloted in 2024 with 12 boxes, was expanded mid-year to 34 after an overwhelming response from schools citing lack of funds […]
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