The Savage by David Almond: From Book to Stage
Author David Almond, a past winner of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award, has just brought his acclaimed story The Savage to …
Author David Almond, a past winner of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award, has just brought his acclaimed story The Savage to …
On Friday I finally made it up to Newcastle to catch the National Centre for Children’s Books, Seven Stories’ exhibition Painting with Rainbows – A Michael Foreman Exhibition, which closes today (sorry!). The good news is that it will be heading out on tour: so far, it’s …
Author Sita Brahmachari‘s latest book is Car Wash Wish, her second novella for Barrington Stoke, a UK publisher who specialise in making books accessible to struggling readers, with a special emphasis on dyslexia. It’s an …
The UK’s 2016 Little Rebels Award shortlist has been announced – and once again it sets a challenge for the judges… It presents a good mix of books for all ages. There are some big names among the books’ creators – and notable is Gill Lewis’s Gorilla Dawn, …
A few weeks ago, amidst the deepening refugee crisis from the war in Syria, many people and organisations around the world came together for …
…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 …
Trees are so much a part of our daily lives, whether we take them for granted or find ourselves fighting for their survival: so it is perhaps unsurprising that there are many stories from all over the world that feature trees, woods or forests as a central theme or ‘character’… …
Set in a grim, grey, arid urban landscape where ‘Nothing grew. Everything was …
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.
From the press release …