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Books on the Bard: Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary
By David Crystal and Ben Crystal (Oxford University Press)
If you don’t know your bodkin from your falchion, this is a book for you!
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Books on the Bard: Brick Shakespeare
To help celebrate Shakespeare’s anniversary on 23rd April, we look at some interesting and fun children’s books surrounding the bard – and my, how many there are!
Costa Children’s Book Award 2016
The winners of the Costa Book Award categories have been announced, and Young Adult author Brian Conaghan has taken the Children’s Book prize with his third novel The Bombs That Brought Us Together.
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Award Winners 2016
The winners of the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards 2016 have been announced!
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The Lollies – New Children’s Book Award
Have you joined the ‘Lollies’?
The ‘Lollies’ is a new book award launched by Scholastic for funny children’s books.
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Shortlists 2016 Announced
The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal shortlists have been announced, and there’s a fantastic range of authors and illustrators on them!
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Children’s Novel Wins Costa Book of the Year
Congratulations to Frances Hardinge for winning the prestigious Costa Book of the Year Award 2015 with her Victorian murder mystery The Lie Tree – and for being only the second children’s novel to win since the award began!
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