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Tom Fletcher launches Blue Peter ‘Amazing Authors’ Writing Competition

Winning entry will be turned into a book and read as a CBeebies Bedtime Story

Singer and children’s author Tom Fletcher is giving his backing to Blue Peter’s latest competition offering budding young writers a money can’t buy prize.

The Amazing Authors competition, run in partnership with The Reading Agency and BBC Arts, opens for entries from Friday 27th January and asks young...

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WIN A CLASS CHAT WITH A BEST SELLING AUTHOR! 

Win a Zoom chat for your class with Zanib Mian, best-selling author of Planet Omar, plus lots of amazing books for yourself and your school, just by writing a book review in the summer holidays!

Open to all UK primary school pupils the Schoolreaders Summertime Book Review competition is so easy to enter. All you need to do is submit a review of your favourite book (up to 600 words)....

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Gangsta Granny: Interview with author David Walliams

What inspired Gangsta Granny ?

When I was a child, I would spend lots of time with my grandmas. Sometimes I would selfishly think spending time with them could be boring but when I got them on a subject like living in London during World War II when bombs were raining down, they would become very animated, and I would be enthralled. I realised everyone has a story to tell.

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Dear Zoo comes to life at ZSL London Zoo this Easter

Dear Zoo... Classic children’s story comes to life at ZSL London Zoo this Easter The Dear Zoo Experience: Saturday 2 - Monday 18 April 2022

ZSL London Zoo is bringing children's classic Dear Zoo to life this Easter, through a series of roarsome activities celebrating the 40th anniversary of the famous book.

Author Rod Campbell’s much-loved tale of a child who writes to the zoo to ask...

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New parenting book to get kids talking

A new, illustrated, hardboard book has been launched to aid and develop children’s speech. Published by Little Frog Media, DeeDee and DanDan’s Busy Day is an interactive reading book that has been written by parents of a late talking child.

Following extensive research into how best to support and encourage their son’s vocabulary, Aneta and Mariusz Wojcik established that reading to...

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