Guest post by Dr Steven Kershaw Book Cover It was a joyous moment. I’m a Classicist, a person who spends his life in the world of dead languages and the people who don’t speak them anymore, when, out of the blue, a fantastic opportunity came my way. Wide Eyed Editions, who produce utterly gorgeous children’s […]
A Guest Post by Hilary Robinson Fifty years ago, on 20th July 1969, the Eagle module from Apollo 11, landed on the moon. Six hours later, Neil Armstrong became the first person in history to step on this moon. Planet Earth’s one and only. The achievement became a defining moment in a voyage of discovery […]
Guest Post by Chris Routh Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books which is based in Newcastle, opened its doors on 19th August 2005 and has been engaging thousands of visitors in children’s literature through its exhibitions, events and education programme ever since. It’s a great place to visit if you live nearby or […]
Guest Post by Darren Simpson My debut children’s novel, Scavengers, was published by Usborne in March. It feels like aeons ago, thanks to the lifetime’s worth of emotion that’s been crammed into the last five months. It took me a decade to get published and – on hindsight – that period was a gruelling, ten-year […]
Georgina Atwell, Founder of Toppsta, shares why she’s hoping for a “Full House” of books this summer At Toppsta we share the FCBG’s passion for getting children reading for pleasure and sharing their book recommendations. Often, reading is seen as homework and it can be hard to get kids excited about books, particularly when they have […]
A Guest Post by Tom Palmer This summer I took part in my first archaeological dig on the banks of Lake Windermere. We were excavating the foundations of one of the hostels where 300 children came to live in August 1945. Children who had survived the concentration camps of the Second World War, losing everyone […]
Written by Damaris Young My name is Damaris Young and I’m the author of The Switching Hour, a fantasy story aimed at 8-12-year-old readers. In my story, my main character must save her young brother from the Badeko, a dream eating creature that is awoken by a terrible drought. The Switching Hour is influenced by […]
Guest post by Kimberlie Hamilton Everyone loves a story, right? As a children’s author who writes nonfiction about animals, nothing made me happier than to learn recently about a wildly innovative idea to bolster children’s reading skills – having kids read to dogs. Yes, really. As it turns out, reading to dogs helps improve children’s […]
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