Giving school library staff the recognition they deserve The SLA School Librarian of the Year Award is the School Library Association’s prestigious honour to recognize the excellent work that is carried out in school libraries every day and highlight the best practice of those whose work is outstanding. This year Ros Harding at The King’s […]
The winner of the 2019 Branford Boase Award for outstanding debut novel for children is Muhammad Khan for his YA novel I Am Thunder. Branford Boase Award Winner – Muhammad Khan I Am Thunder chronicles the radicalisation of a young Muslim girl growing up in London, the choices she is presented with, and how she […]
How did Roger and Louise (aka Loulou) meet, and what made them leave Europe to live in America in the late 1920s? Both of my grandparents were born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. My grandfather met my grandmother when they were both painting ceramics in a factory in Geneva. Along with friends, they moved […]
THE 2019 WICKED YOUNG WRITER AWARDS, presented in association with the National Literacy Trust, last Thursday (20 June 2019) announced its winners during a ceremony involving 120 shortlisted finalists and their families and teachers at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, home of the award-winning musical WICKED. Amongst this year’s finalist entries were stories, poems and non-fiction […]
by Alison Tarrant The shortlist for the Information Book Award 2019 was released last month, with 10 books across three age categories – however, there are two opportunities for books to win overall, as there is a ‘Judges’ Overall Winner’ and a ‘Children’s Choice Overall Winner’. The Children’s Choice winners (there’s one for each age […]
a guest post by Ali Pye My children loved their picture books but there came a time when they wanted to try a wordier read but were not yet ready for middle grade, so we started to browse the young fiction shelves of bookshops rather than the picture book rails. Now I have my own […]
The School Librarian of the Year Award is the School Library Association’s prestigious honour to recognize the excellent work that is carried out in school libraries every day and highlight the best practice of those whose work is outstanding. Three exciting and innovative librarians have made it onto to the Honour List for the SLA […]
On 8th June authors, publishers, children, friends and members of the FCBG and our headline sponsor BookLife came to celebrate the Children’s Book Award ceremony 2019 at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in London. It was an amazing turnout with all bar one of our shortlisted books represented by the author, illustrator or in some cases […]
Today, at a brilliant and well attended Awards Ceremony at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in London, the winners of the 2019 FCBG Children’s Book Award were announced. Arree Chung won the prize in the Books for Younger Children category with his book MIXED, a wonderful picture book about tolerance, diversity and embracing difference. The prize […]
TO YOUR SCHOOL AND £250 WORTH OF BOOKS WITH LOVEREADING4KIDS’ NEW POETRY PRIZE LoveReading is thrilled to announce the launch of The LoveReading4Kids Poetry Prize in association with National Poetry Day. National Poetry Day is the biggest annual celebration of poetry in the UK, bringing people together to enjoy, discover and share words that matter. […]
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