We were delighted to receive so many entries for the Golden National Non-Fiction November cake design competition – around 300 in total and from all around the UK – England (including Claire’s Court, Epworth Primary Academy, Ravenswood Community Primary School, Springwell Junior School and The Woodroffe School), Northern Ireland (Limavady High School), Scotland (Elgin Academy) […]
A guest post by author and illustrator Steve Antony Every time I visit my step-dad in Alamogordo, New Mexico I love rifling through old things from my childhood. Once, I returned to the UK with a suitcase full of Star Wars toys that belonged to my older brother. For his 40th surprise birthday I stood […]
By Nicky Parker, Publisher, Amnesty International UK Today, EmpathyLab announces the 45 books chosen for the 2019 Read for Empathy Guides. I can vouch for them, as I was one of the judges. I have to admit that there were times during the judging process when I wondered why I’d agreed to take it on. […]
by Chris Routh (Chair) This year’s Wicked Young Writers Awards (WYWA) was launched in October 2018 at the Loogabooga Festival in Loughborough with the help of author Dan Freedman, the new Ambassador for the awards. Over 25,000 entries have been submitted since the first WYWA in 2010, but the organisers are eager to increase the […]
By Amber Lee Dodd At school, I was plagued with the feeling of being different. As a student with dyslexia and dyspraxia, I struggled with reading and writing, was put into the special needs classes and always seemed to get everything wrong. Like most neurodiverse people, I constantly felt my brain just wasn’t wired up […]
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