Young People's Book Prize winner getting his trophy
We're very happy to announce that the winner of this year's Royal Society Young People's Book Prize is 'The Wild Life of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals' by award-winning author Mike Barfield, illustrated by Paula Bossio. #YoungSciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2026/04...
It's Autism Acceptance Month.
If you're looking for a book, consider "Maud is Moving"...
www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk/books/maud-is-moving/
Tomorrow we're set to announce the winner of this year's Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, as chosen by 11,000 young readers around the country. Head to our YouTube channel to tune in at 1pm and see who will take the prize. #YoungSciBooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w15go7xthc4
Building anti-ableism through representation in children's material culture. Join us for seminar 2: Books and Reading. 21 April, 1-4:30pm, hybrid event online and at University of Strathclyde, free to attend.
I will be speaking at the anti-ableism in children's books seminar about the project I manage #Sharing #Sensory #Stories - you can join in person or online, so do come along, it will be very interesting!
Book tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anti-ablei...
We’re thrilled to reveal this year’s CLiPPA shortlist! 🌟
Featuring works by Sean Taylor, Traci N. Todd, Sam Gayton, Simon Mole & John Agard, it's a true celebration of poetry’s power and joy!
Sign up to the Shadowing Scheme: https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/1RW5-1LFF/clippa26
Next week we'll be announcing the winner of 2026 Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. Take a look at this year's colourful shortlist featuring the history of plants, animal bodies, the power of patience and more. #YoungSciBooks royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/young-...
🤖 On the blog today- a Q&A with author and illustrator Joe Todd-Stanton! 🖍️
See sketches from the development and read all about Joe's process creating his latest book, The Lost Robot on our blog! > buff.ly/cdDi2cf
one week to go until my trans kids book is in real people’s real hands wtf
Given every other year by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) , the Hans Christian Andersen Awards recognize lifelong achievement and are given to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important, lasting contribution to children's literature.
Almost* 100,000 women have already shown their support of the trans+ community by signing our letter. *Will you you be the one who helps us reach this milestone? Sign & share today! NION Women
We’re so close.
Just 1,500 more signatures to reach 100K women standing up and saying: Not In Our Name
If you’ve already signed, this is your moment to help us pass this milestone
Share our letter with the cis women in your life. Send it to a friend, sister, colleague, your mum, your mum's friend
Saturday 18th April 9.30-2.00 at the IOE. Tickets £10 (includes workshop and lunch) Spring Conference 2026 Keynotes: Mehrunissa Shah, UCL IoE Dr. Darren Chetty (UCL IoE) and Professor Karen Sands-O’Connor (University of Sheffield) Workshops on Reading Groups, Reading Hip Hop, Reading Media, and more Free lunch! Networking!
Come to the LATE conference in a few weeks. It's going to be great!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-sprin...
It sounds great, but sadly no.
And it is what your daughter wants to do, which is fab.
15th May 🙂
Hardcover of Piper at the Gates of Dusk
One more dawn! One more day! ONNNNNNNNNNNNNE DAYYYYYYYYYYY MORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRERRRRRRRRRRRRE!!!!
Piper at the Gates of Dusk, out tomorrow.
4 frame comic. first frame shows a swimmer with a one piece bathing suit. 2nd frame shows an enthusiastic kid with a shirt written waterpolo on it. 3rd shows a man with a shirt that reads "someone I love is trans". 4th frame shows a girl with a trans flag. text reads, across the frames : Being visible or outspoken as a trans person will make you a target of violence and hatred. but it will also show every other trans person that it's possible to exist in their space. visibility empowers and changes heart. I believe in a future in which trans people aren't forced to live in fear, shame and secrecy.
"I believe in a future in which trans people aren't forced to live in fear, shame and secrecy."
My strip for TDOV.
YLG London One Day School
Reading Role Models
Empowering adults to create a reading culture
Friday 15th May 2026 from 9am - 4pm
at Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, London SW2
Please find full details and booking instructions at
mailchi.mp/00ca2173c683...
I *love* this book, it is so clever (& my Bea really enjoyed it read aloud a few years ago). It is on her keep shelf, must get it down and read it again!
Colourful proof and postcard with 2 children looking over their shoulders at each other. One brown skinned with short dark hair and drumsticks, looking hopeful. The other white skinned with long auburn hair and crossed arms, looking grumpy
Max is trying to figure out who he really is. Ella doesn't want anything else to change They each have their own mountains to climb... But when their parents throw them together one weekend, things do not go to plan, and they are both pushed to the edge - in more ways than one. Will they stay stuck, or will they find a way to come together - and the path to their true selves? From the author of THE DOUGHNUT CLUB, comes a warm, heart-filled story about being proud of who you are.
'Max and Ella, Stuck Together' is as enjoyable as @krahim.bsky.social's debut, 'The Doughnut Club'. She writes about children of donors (in this book: a lesbian couple & a single mum), and weaves a great story around them. Thanks for the proof @nosycrow.bsky.social, it publishes on 7th May #KidLitUK
I love the chapter headings in this! Thanks @nosycrow.bsky.social #KidLitUK
I regularly change the books on my 2 display spaces in the library, but the one I put up yesterday has had more comments from staff than any other this year so far...it is simply picturebooks with yellow covers 😂
I didn't like Fia much! My top 3 are Birdie, 24 Seconds, & Wolf Siren
The Diverse Book Awards include non-fiction categories for the 1st time this year, I'm helping longlist, so if you're involved in inclusive information books (for any age) then be sure you're nominated by your publisher! #KidLitUK #TheDBAwards #BookSky www.thediversebookawards.co.uk/enter-the-db...
Early bird booking for #YLGOxford26 ends this Friday. It is a fantastic programme of speakers & lots of your favourite publishers will be there in the exhibition space to chat to & nab freebies from! #KidLitUK #NationalYearOfReading #Libraries
Also 'Pulp' by Robin Talley!
Cover: yellow background with art materials. The Story of Art in red text, Without Men nearly invisible. Katy Hessel in blue text Illustrayed by Ping Zhu.
Introduction: Have you ever been inside an art gallery? What do you think - fun or boring, interesting or unwelcoming? Do you have any favourite pictures? Are they big, small, wide, thin? Of animals, queens, landscapes or people? I love going to galleries. I've been going all my life, ever since I was five or six, when my older sister would take me on a Saturday afternoon. We always brought our sketchbooks, and drew what we saw. Sometimes, it's difficult to relate to the people in the pictures. They can be from 10, 50, 100 or even 500 years ago, living a life that is very different to both yours and mine. Yet we still write and talk about them, and go and visit them in galleries. So, WHAT'S THE FUSS?
BUT WHY IS THIS A HISTORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN? At the grand old age of 21, I noticed something. I was visiting an art fair (like a big shop, where galleries sell pictures by artists). I looked around the artworks, and realized not a single one was by a woman. I was shocked! Not only because of the lack of female artists on view, but because I realized I couldn't name ten female artists myself - let alone any working over 100 years ago. That night, I couldn't sleep. I began an Instagram page and called it 'The Great Women Artists'. The aim then, as it still is now, was to share the work of women artists. And now I've put it into a book. This is a celebration of women in art from the 1500s to the present day. But it can also be your guide to art history, helping you understand and appreciate the works. Who knows, maybe it will encourage you to make some art too! If you notice that a certain community or group of people aren't being talked about, do whatever you can (no matter how big or small) to make a difference. This could include drawing a picture, writing a story or telling your teachers that they've forgotten someone or something.
This is a gorgeous book, thanks @penguinukbooks.bsky.social @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social for sending me a copy! Really interesting (based on Katy Hessel's grownup book) & fabulous illustration by Ping Zhu. Suitable for primary and secondary libraries #KidLitUK #NonFiction #EduSky
Hardback copy of Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. Only the white part is a dust jacket.
Back endpaper artwork by Juliet Nneka - Sephy and Callum gaze longingly into each other's eyes on a grassy cliff edge
Front endpaper artwork by Christopher Taylor. Dust jacket blurb: 'Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers! Sephy is a Cross: her life is one of privilege and power. Callum is a nought: his life is considered to be worth less than nothing. Noughts and Crosses are fated to be bitter enemies- love is out of the question. Or so everyone thought. But this is a love story full of terrible danger. One which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come. Voted as one of the UK's best-loved books, this special edition celebrates twenty-five years of Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses: a seminal piece of YA fiction and a true modern classic. FOREWORD BY STORMZY
Back cover. Plain black top white bottom (and page edges are also black & white) Noughts & Crosses The 25th Anniversary edition
Isn't this just one of the most beautiful things you've ever seen? 25th anniversary edition of @malorieblackman.bsky.social's stunning, heartbreaking, & enraging YA novel, Noughts & Crosses. Must read it again! #KidLitUK Thanks for a copy @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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