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All of The Week Junior shortlists for 2025, happily gathered uk here, in to one place, by Books for Keeps
Burps to jellyfish and art to physics, it can only be the shortlists for the 2025 School Library Association (SLA) Information Book Awards 🏆 Discover which 12 books have made the shortlists and schools, there's still time to sign up for the #IBABookClub booksforkeeps.co.uk/school-library…
Here's one of my children's poems that's just gone up on The Dirigible Balloon 🎈 website. A good one for waking up and starting your day, whoever you are, wherever you are? Maybe for sharing with your classes? dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Starting-…
Inclusive Books for Children Inclusive Books for Children is enlarging its national book-gifting scheme, offering 60 boxes of 100 inclusive children’s books to state primary schools and community libraries across the UK in 2025. Find out more and put in an application booksforkeeps.co.uk/inclusive-book…
Book treasures from the latest #BeyondTheSecretGarden* column are now standing tall on our Bookshop.org shelves: uk.bookshop.org/lists/beyond-t…? (* Karen Sands-O'Connor & Darren Chetty in Books for Keeps)
“It’s just an examination of the interior world of a boy and his girlfriend…it’s special enough to exist as it is.” Jason Reynolds News interviewed by Darren Chetty for Books for Keeps on his latest novel Twenty-Four Seconds From Now. booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/twenty…
Not long to wait now: the WINNERS of the The Carnegies are announced tomorrow, Thursday 19 June. We'll also discover the Shadowers' choices 👀 Remind yourself of the shortlists here ⬇️Picked you winners? booksforkeeps.co.uk/shortlists-ann…
"There’s a lot of pressure on them, but I think young men are awesome and I hope my books celebrate that." Thank you to The Carnegies shortlisted author Luke Palmer for answering our questions on his new book LIVE Firefly Press booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/a-qa-i…
The winners of the Carnegie Medals have been announced! Congratulations to Margaret McDonald and Olivia Lomenech Gill, Carnegies Medal winners, and to winners of the Shadowers' Choice Medals Nathanael Lessore & Theo Parish. #Carnegies2025 The Carnegies booksforkeeps.co.uk/winners-of-the…
Curiosity & a zeal for life are common themes which run through much of the work of Olivia Lomenech Gill. The #Carnegies2025 winner creates art which embraces an impressive array of techniques. NEW Jake Hope #BFK interview with Olivia. The Carnegies booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/extrao…
Congratulations to Olivia Lomenech Gill on winning the #Carnegies2025 Medal for Illustration with CLEVER CROW. Find out more in this excellent NEW interview with Olivia by Jake Hope Walker Books The Carnegies booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/extrao…
ICYMI, the winners of the The Carnegies were announced today Thursday 19 June at the Cambridge Theatre, London. Congratulations to the winners Margaret McDonald & Olivia Lomenech Gill & Shadowers' Choice Medal winners Nathanael Lessore and Theo Parish booksforkeeps.co.uk/winners-of-the…
‘Effervescent, scintillating, riveting!’ Congratulations Colette Hiller, named winner of the #CLiPPA2025 at a typically boisterous ceremony attended by 800 excited young poetry lovers. Congrats to all the shortlisted poets & to the young performers CLPE booksforkeeps.co.uk/effervescent-s…
