In today’s blog, Catherine Bruton shares her inspiration for Bird Boy. This books reflects the theme of National Share A Story month brilliantly. “Tell children stories and let them tell their stories. Through stories children can start to heal.” My name is Catherine Bruton and when I’m not writing books for children, I’m also a […]
The theme of National Share a Story Month 2025 is about changing the world through nurturing a love of the environment whether close to home or further away. Watch Me Bloom by Krina Patel-Sage (from Lantana Publishing), seemed to sum that up; we loved the way that it illustrates how connection to the natural world […]
Author Rachel Keating shares a very personal blog with us today about her Grandad and the inspiration for The Bird Thief. ‘My favourite eldest Granddaughter.’ Didn’t matter if I was aged 6 or 36, if it was written on the back of a newspaper cutting about British songbirds sent in the post or spoken softly […]
Mission Manta Ray is one of three book in Philip Kavvadias’s series and he shares insight into these books in his guest blog below. In my day job I help hundreds of companies set carbon reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement, in other words I help them make their contribution to keeping the […]
Author Lui Sit shares her experiences and how they impacted her writing of Land of the Last Wildcat. If you told me, thirty odd years ago, when dressed as a koala doing acrobatics under the baking Australian sun, that the experience would culminate in my writing a children’s middle-grade book with underlying themes of conservation […]
This year’s National Share–a–Story Month theme, “Changing the World, One Book at a Time”, celebrates the power of storytelling to inspire environmental awareness, hope, and action. In February, Guppy Books and the Federation of Children’s Book Groups launched Stories for Change – a short story writing competition for children aged 7-12, inspired by the themes […]
We have an enchanting blog post today from Tamsin Rosewell about being the illustrator for The Seamaiden’s Odyssey. Imagine if… Imagination is one of the most powerful forces on earth. As William Blake put it: ‘What is now known was once only imagined’. The human imagination is the driving force of huge things: it the […]
Emily Gravett’s captivating books about Pete the Badger and his woodland friends introduce children to the importance of environmental issues in a gentle, hopeful, entertaining way. Tidy shows the need for wild spaces. Too Much Stuff looks at over-consumption. The latest in the series, Bothered By Bugs, explores the importance of insects to the ecosystems […]
The Federation of Children’s Book Groups is excited to be partnering with Sweet Cherry Publishing to launch a special competition inspired by the environmental theme of National Share-a-Story Month 2025. Blue’s Planet by Lucy McRobert has been selected for our booklist partly because it’s a rollickingly good story with appealing illustrations. We also liked the […]
National Share-a-Story Month: ahead of its time Great stories are the greater for sharing! Humans have known this since the birth of language although it’s easy to forget that in our global but fragmented world. The start of National Share-a-Story month Almost 50 years ago the Federation of Children’s Book Groups launched National Tell-A-Story week: […]
