For Every Child With A Big Dream
Follow A special feature on Toby Little author of Dear World, How Are You? Reading changes lives. We hear that saying quite a lot, it’s on book vouchers in the shops, on posters in schools, on...
View ArticleIf you live in Scotland watch out for Bookbug Week
Follow Bookbug Week 2016 will take place between 16 and 22 May, with hundreds of free story, song and rhyme events for families with babies and young children held across the country. The theme this...
View ArticleTom Palmer’s book launch for Wings: Flyboy
Follow We were lucky enough to be invited by Lovereading4kids to attend the official book launch of Tom Palmer’s Wings series at RAF Hendon. First, we went to the main museum and saw some planes....
View ArticleShaun Tan – A Surrealist Vision A New Collection of Original Artwork
Follow From 11 May – 18 June 2016 at 22 Bury Street, St. James’s, London, SW1Y 6AL Children’s Book Artist Shaun Tan will be displaying a new collection of Original Artwork. Shaun Tan is one of the...
View ArticleThe 2016 Betjeman Poetry Prize for young poets aged 10-13
Follow Only 7 weeks to go till the DEADLINE on 31st JULY 2016 Now in its 10th anniversary year (huzzah!), the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy will be sifting through your poems with her co-judge, the...
View ArticleA chance for children to enter a short story competition
Follow Hugless Douglas creator David Melling and Baroness Floella Benjamin, OBE will judge children’s entries in the 2016 Dragonfly Tea Short Story Competition. Award-winning author-illustrator...
View ArticleWhat’s it like being a Lovereading4kids Book Reviewer?
Follow Our names are Alexander (11) and Daniel (9) and we are the ‘Book Brothers‘. We have been reviewing books for Lovereading4kids since 2013. The first books we were lucky enough to review were...
View ArticleThe inside scoop on SCOOP a new magazine for children aged 8 – 12
Follow Serving a feast of thought-fizzling fiction, features, creative competitions and awesome activities in every collectible forty-page issue! Launching 22nd September 2016 What? Scoop is an...
View Article14 – 18? Love Books? Want to be a judge on a Book Award?
Follow The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition 2017 are looking for young judge to help discover a new children’s bestseller The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition, the...
View ArticleFree KS2 literacy resource & chance to win a £10,000 library!
Follow Your literacy resource full of activities for writing reviews Top-notch free KS2 literacy resource & chance to win a £10,000 library! We’re on a mission to help you create top-notch...
View ArticleMake your child part of a beautifully illustrated story… the perfect...
Follow We have come across a beautiful ‘bookie’ idea that we think is a brilliant Christmas gift, so we wanted to share it with you. It’s called Message in a Bottle and your personal message (the...
View ArticleMeet the Illustrator – In conversation with Helen Oxenbury
Follow Helen Oxenbury chats to Shelley Fallows from Lovereading4kids. I (Shelley) have a nine year old son. Those nine years have flown by in a flash as I was warned they would and yet one of the...
View ArticleHARINGEY CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD SHORTLIST 2017
Follow What is the HCBA? The Haringey Children’s Book Award is now in its 3rd year, set up by the librarian community in Haringey to promote literacy across the borough through interaction between...
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View ArticleLive in or near Dorset? Discover a delightful play coming to a local venue...
Follow ‘The Fisherman’s Daughter’ Part I& II by The AsOne Theatre Company ‘Heart-warming, intimate family theatre with song, music, and puppetry dusted with AsOne magic.’ The Fisherman’s...
View ArticleFinish a story started by Branford Boase Award winner Horatio Clare
Follow Call for entries: 2017 Henrietta Branford Writing Competition. For young people who enjoy writing stories! The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition, the annual competition for young people...
View ArticleCan you name the children’s book from the opening line?
Follow With World Book Day upon us once again why not take the quiz below to find out how well you know your Children’s books… Many thanks to Ruth Ward Library & Resources Manager at Great...
View ArticleWin a Wheatle
Follow Win award winning Alex Wheatle visiting your school in 2017! To celebrate the release of Straight Outta Crongton, the new book from award-winning author Alex Wheatle, the...
View ArticleHarpercollins Children’s Books Have Arrived on the Hopster app
Follow To inspire toddlers to read for fun, Hopster, the preschool learning and entertainment app, has teamed up with HarperCollins Children’s Books to bring its little users a range of hit stories....
View ArticleYour chance to star in a comic!
Follow The Phoenix, the weekly story comic, is looking for the STAR of a NEW COMIC by Neill Cameron for its 300th issue this autumn. That’s right! The Phoenix is opening its pages so a new hero or...
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