
Sending out Wishes for a Happy, Healthy, Peaceful 2016 with Lots of Books
Superb TEDx talk by Grace Lin –
‘My books are the books that I wished I’d had when I was a child.’
‘As much as kids need books to be mirrors, kids need books to be windows.’
Make sure your child has books that are mirrors and …
Snow – love it or dread it, I think most adults would agree at least that for children there’s something very special about it. And there are also some very special picture books around too. Here, in no particular order, is a small selection of snowy stories set around the …
I was very sad to hear yesterday about the deaths of two special writers.
Poet Francisco X. Alarcón died on Friday. It was …
Sending out Wishes for a Happy, Healthy, Peaceful 2016 with Lots of Books
On 6th October I went to the beautiful West Yorkshire town of Ilkley to attend a presentation by picture book author and illustrator Jessica Souhami as part of The Children’s …
…and to all the illustrators who have won prizes in the prestigious international BIB award in this special, 50th-anniversary year.
I have been enthusing recently about Laura Carlin’s book The Promise, …
WaterBridge Outreach: Books + Water recently announced the books in English they have selected this year for donation to the different schools and libraries they support around the world. WaterBridge Outreach is a non-profit …
Hello, Everybody!
Just to say that I’m back after the summer – a little later than hoped and expected due to some technical issues, now happily resolved!
There’s certainly been plenty going on in the interim, and I’m looking forward to sharing …
Australian publishers Ford Street Publishing are running an international competition to mark the publication of the first three books in the new fantasy Warlock’s Child series (The Burning Sea, Dragonfall Mountain and The Iron Claw) written by Paul Collins and Continue reading …
Gill Lewis has won this year’s Little Rebels Book Award for her book Scarlet Ibis (OUP, 2014). The announcement was made at the London Radical …