The shortlists for the 2018 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards have been announced, and there’s a great range of authors and illustrators up for them!
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Out Now: The Nothing To See Here Hotel
By author Steven Butler and illustrator Steven Lenton (Simon & Schuster Children’s UK)
Are you a ghost tired of going bump in the night? Perhaps a troll who wants a break from the all the goats trip-trapping over your bridge? Then head for the best holiday destination for magical creatures, and Brighton’s best kept secret, The Nothing to See Here Hotel!
Give It A Go! The Bad Guys in the Furball Strikes Back
By Aaron Blabey (Scholastic)
If you haven’t caught up with the Bad Guys yet, then you really don’t know what you are missing!
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Costa Children’s Book Award Winner 2017
The Costa Book Awards for 2017 have just been announced, and our congratulations go to Katherine Rundell who scoops the Children’s Book category prize with her book The Explorer.
‘The World Around Us’ – National Non-Fiction November 2017
It’s easy when thinking of books for children to only think of fiction titles, but every year the Federation of Children’s Book Groups (FCBG) celebrate a month of all things factual with National Non-Fiction November. The month is an opportunity to promote reading non-fiction for pleasure and encourage children to be curious about facts and information, as well as laud sections of our bookshops and libraries that are too often ignored.
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Out Now: I Killed Father Christmas
By author Anthony McGowan, with illustrations by Chris Riddell (‘Little Gems’ from Barrington Stoke)
It’s Christmas Eve when Dad, looking at Jo-Jo’s extensive Christmas list, tells him that due to the economy Father Christmas doesn’t have much money for presents this year.
Hiding under his pillow to avoid the argument that this sparks between his parents, Jo-Jo overhears Mum accuse Dad of “killing Christmas”. What does she mean? Then Jo-Jo realises Dad must have killed Father Christmas…and it’s all Jo-Jo’s fault.
Cressida Cowell Talks of Dragons and Wizards
Author Cressida Cowell, best known for the How To Train Your Dragon books, visited Waterstones book store in Canterbury on Thursday 21st September to promote her new book The Wizards of Once, the first entry in her new series of the same name.
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Out Now: Letters from The Lighthouse
By Emma Carroll (Faber & Faber)
Set in World War II, this thrilling and tense mystery adventure will keep you guessing to the very end!
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Award Winners 2017
The winners of the 2017 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals have now been announced, with both winners coming from the United States for the first time.
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Give It A Go! Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit’s Bad Habits
By Julian Gough, with illustrations by Jim Field (Hodder Children’s)
Woken early from hibernation by a robber leaving her cave, Bear discovers a snowstorm raging outside. Well, if she can’t sleep, then she may as well do something she has always wanted to – build a snowman!
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