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Long Lists Announced for the School Library Association’s Information Book Award 2020

April 29, 2020/2 Comments/by FCBG blog

by Chris Routh This is the tenth year of the School Library Association’s Information Book Award and my fourth year as a member of the panel of judges. The number of books submitted for the award keeps growing, with almost 150 received this year! Copies of all the titles were sent to each of the […]

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The Strangeworlds Travel Agency

April 27, 2020/1 Comment/by FCBG blog

Guest Post by L.D.Lapinski At parents’ evening in year five, my mum and dad were told by my teacher that I had been repeatedly “caught” reading (with the open book on my lap under the table) when I should be working. I’d also been collared for standing books up and propping their pages open with […]

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Children’s Book Award Older Readers Blog Tour Round-up

April 22, 2020/0 Comments/by FCBG blog

The final leg of our blog tour took a look at the three amazing titles that our teenaged voters chose as their shortlisted books for older readers. Golden Books Girl, Amy, started by telling us about book number 1; Becoming Dinah Written by Kit De Waal Published by Hachette Amy began by telling us more […]

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The Unstoppable Letty Pegg

April 21, 2020/0 Comments/by FCBG blog

Created by Erin Hamilton. As an avid reader I am always in awe of the authors whose books I have enjoyed.  I know they all put an incredible amount of time, effort and research into their works, ensuring they are relevant, factual and interesting.  Recently, I have had the honour of putting some questions to […]

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Perdu

April 18, 2020/1 Comment/by FCBG blog

Guest Post by Richard Jones, Author and Illustrator I began working for the library service just as I was finishing off a research degree. I’d moved down from the Midlands to study illustration seven years earlier, and after graduating somehow found myself enrolled on a PhD studentship. It was an inspiring, happy and often frighting […]

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Children’s Book Award Confident Readers Blog Tour Round-up

April 12, 2020/0 Comments/by FCBG blog

Over the past couple of weeks, we have enjoyed reading posts from three more fantastic children’s book bloggers to help us celebrate the books in our Confident Readers category. Don’t worry if you missed any of them as we have put together a selection of the best bits from each. Rachel from Get Kids Into […]

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UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND FOR CHILDREN’S CORONAVIRUS INFORMATION BOOK: DOWNLOADED OVER 100,000 TIMES IN 24 HOURS PUBLISHERS AROUND THE WORLD REQUEST RIGHTS IN 14 LANGUAGES

April 8, 2020/1 Comment/by FCBG blog

Award-winning independent children’s book publisher Nosy Crow has been overwhelmed by the worldwide response to its digital book for primary school age children, illustrated by best-selling Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler. On Monday (6th April) afternoon Nosy Crow issued a digital book FREE for anyone to read on screen or print out, about the coronavirus and […]

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