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2015 Little Rebels Children’s Book Award – Shortlist Announced

The UK’s 2015 Little Rebels Award shortlist has been announced – and it’s an exciting, diverse selection of eight books, featuring both new and well-established book creators.

2015 Little Rebel Children's Book Award - shortlist

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US Children’s Book Week 2015 Poster Now Available

Children's Book Week 2015 (US) - poster designed by Grace Lee; bookmark designed by Raúl ColónCheck out the gorgeous poster for this year’s Children’s Book Week in the US – designed by Grace Lee, who won the Children’s Book Choice …

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Happy Chinese New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choi! Xin Nian Kuai Le!

Happy Chinese New Year 2015 from Mirrors Windows Doors

Gung Hay Fat Choi! Xin Nian Kuai Le! Happy Year of the Sheep/Ram/Goat!

So how are you celebrating? Here are some of my favourite children’s books for Chinese New Year:

The …

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Happy International Book Giving Day!

international Book Giving Day - 14 February 2015However you’ve been celebrating International Book Giving Day, I hope it’s been a good one. It’s still not too late to join in – get some ideas here…

I took part in Zoe’s …

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Nami Concours 2015 – Winners

Nami Concours 2015I somehow missed this – if you did too: sound the fanfare!  The Nami Concours 2015 winners have been announced!

Congratulations to Grand Prize winner Marcelo Pimentel from Brazil, for the illustrations from his first self-authored …

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Multicultural Children’s Book Day – Celebrating OSU Children’s Library Fund’s Photographic Picture Books

Today we are celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day! It’s a chance to revel in the vibrant cultural diversity that is out there waiting to be explored in children’s and YA literature – and for my celebration today I am launching a new series of posts highlighting photographic picture …

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Lee & Low’s New Voices Awards Announced

Lee & Low New Voices Award
Congratulations to…

Andrea J. Loney of Inglewood, California, winner of Lee & Low’s 2014 New Voices Award for her manuscript, Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee. This sounds as though it’s …

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Asian Festival of Children’s Content: Writers & Illustrators Retreat 2015

Asian Festival of Children's Content 2015An exciting addition to the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) programme in Singapore next year:

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‘Love, Sex and Darkness in Books for Children’ – SCBWI India event 27 November 2014

SCBWIIndia Event November 2014‘Should children’s books only deal with happy things? What about death, violence and sexuality? What about darkness and ugliness? Some people think we should protect children from the nasty things in life for as long as possible, whereas others …

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Nominations Now Open for the Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction 2015

 

Letterbox Library - logoThe Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is delighted to announce that the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award for radical children’s fiction is back for …

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