by Kate Poels (CBA Co-organiser) It is our absolute pleasure to be able to share this year’s FCBG Children’s Book Award Top 10 titles. At the CBA we pride ourselves on being the only national children’s book award voted for entirely by the people the books were written for – the children! Over the course […]
By Chris Routh (Chair) If you are one of those people who feels compelled to go to all the sessions at conferences, it may be worth trying a slightly different approach at FCBG’s annual conference this year – just to ensure you get the full benefit of what’s on offer. Identify one or two sessions […]
Calling young budding writers! Enter Wicked Young Writer Awards! Closing date 18 March 2019. Wicked, the award-winning West End musical that tells the untold story of the witches of Oz, together with the National Literacy Trust, celebrates its ninth year of the prestigious Wicked Young Writer Awards. As in previous years, entrants can enter one […]
by Chris Routh (Chair, FCBG) The FCBG annual conference provides a great opportunity to find out about upcoming publishing and discover new authors and illustrators. On Friday afternoon, exhibiting publishers will be racing against the clock with just three minutes each to tell us about the highlights of their year ahead. New names in publishing […]
by Jane Elson Every February the charity Nacoa run a Children of Alcoholics Week to shine a light on the hidden problem of parental drinking – 2.6 million children are growing up in the UK with a parent who drinks too much. Nell Hobs, my eleven-year-old heroine in Will You Catch Me? has a mother […]
It’s not often you read a novel told from the point of view of a bird. But that’s exactly what Cory Leonardo decided to do with her debut children’s novel, Call Me Alastair, which is part-narrated by an African grey parrot. With a bird’s-eye view of love, and a message about what it means to […]
by non-fiction author, Christopher Lloyd In the first of a series of blogs about our annual conference, author and publisher Christopher Lloyd, who will have a stand in the publishers’ exhibition, talks about his passion for non-fiction. All of the exhibiting publishers will be invited to introduce their upcoming titles on Friday afternoon prior to […]
In this, the 20th anniversary of the unique Branford Boase award, there is a particularly strong longlist, announced yesterday 31st January. The Award was set up in memory of author Henrietta Branford and her editor Wendy Boase, one of the founders of Walker books, and is given annually to the author of an outstanding debut […]
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