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The Wild Way Home – NSSM2020
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogGuest Post by Sophie Kirtley Hello, I’m Sophie Kirtley, the author of The Wild Way Home. Come and take a little wander with me to one small corner of our wonderful planet; I’d like to share a special place with you – that place is Mandel Forest, where my new book is set. Let’s follow […]
Jungledrop – NSSM2020
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogGuest Post by Abi Elphinstone With my latest book, Jungledrop, I wanted to write a story that revelled in the beauty of the natural world but also highlighted its fragility. A few years ago, I visited the world’s largest tropical wetland: the Pantanal, an enormous patchwork of lagoons, marshes and lakes sprawling Brazil, Bolivia and […]
There’s a Rang-tan in My Bedroom – NSSM2020
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogGuest Feature by James Sellick When first presenting There’s a Rang-tan in My Bedroom to Greenpeace, we pitched it alongside a wide array of ideas, each aiming to bring the horrible truth about palm oil to the surface in its own unique way. Most ideas were, as you’d expect, shocking and controversial. ‘May include charred […]
A Climate In Chaos
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogBlog Tour Post written by Samantha Thomas As the FCBG celebrate NSSM with the theme The Planet We Share this May it seems incredibly fitting to take up a stop on the A Climate In Chaos Virtual Blog Tour to celebrate this latest title by Neal Layton. Published by Hachette (Wren & Rook) the book […]
Nature and Grief – NSSM2020
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogGuest Post by Richard Lambert I am writing this during lockdown. I am lucky – I am not in a small flat in the middle of a city and I have a small patch of garden. It’s a garden I have neglected and, now normal life has been put on hold, it’s a place I […]
Exploring The Planet We Share – NSSM2020
/1 Comment/by FCBG blogGuest Post by Jess Butterworth One of my most favourite things to do is explore the planet that we share and when it comes to writing, it is always the settings that spark the stories for me. Today I want to share with you some of the wonderful places I love and the moments that […]
The Planet We Share – NSSM2020
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogGuest Post by Cressida Cowell I am so happy that The Planet We Share is the theme of this year’s National Share a Story month, because nature and the outside world is a topic I feel very passionately about. Point 10 on my Waterstones Children’s Laureate Charter is that every child has the right to […]
Q & A with Jenny Pearson, Author of The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogFeature Post by Erin Hamilton The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates is being heralded as superb, hilarious and perfect for the current climate. Funny children’s books are a breath of fresh air and supply the much-needed laughter in unprecedented situations. Jenny Pearson kindly took time to answer my questions about her foray into publishing […]
National Share a Story Month 2020 – The Planet we Share!
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogWho could have known that the theme we chose for this year’s NSSM would be so overtaken by events worldwide? That doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy NSSM2020 – we just need to do it in a different way than we would normally. Due to me living in the country – and the Post Office […]
Long Lists Announced for the School Library Association’s Information Book Award 2020
/2 Comments/by FCBG blogby 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 […]
The Strangeworlds Travel Agency
/1 Comment/by FCBG blogGuest 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 […]
Children’s Book Award Older Readers Blog Tour Round-up
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogThe 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 […]
The Unstoppable Letty Pegg
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogCreated 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 […]
Perdu
/1 Comment/by FCBG blogGuest 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 […]
Children’s Book Award Confident Readers Blog Tour Round-up
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogOver 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 […]
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
/1 Comment/by FCBG blogAward-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 […]
Talking is Not My Thing! – The inspiration for my book about being non-verbal
/0 Comments/by FCBG blogGuest Post by Rose Robbins How would you cope if, no matter how much you had to say, you just couldn’t get the words out? For those of us used to being able to say what we feel whenever we like, this concept is unimaginably frustrating! There are some people for whom verbal communication has […]
Children’s Book Award Younger Readers Blog Tour Round-up
/1 Comment/by FCBG blogOver the past couple of weeks we have been lucky enough to have enlisted the help of three fantastic children’s book bloggers to help us celebrate the books in our Younger Readers category. If you missed any of them never fear! Here is a roundup of some of the things we’ve been treated to. We […]