Today marks the first day of my Bookish Advent Calendar! From today until Christmas I'll be posting a children's book a day to inspire...

November's limelight has definitely shone brightest on David Walliams this month with not just one, but TWO publications! Shooting...

Congratulations to Catherine Doyle and her blazingly beautiful book The Storm Keeper's Island for winning the Young Readers (Middle...

The Blue Peter Book Awards 2019 have just released their shortlist and what a fantastic one it is! The award celebrates children’s books...

Mammoth announcements from David Walliams as David has announced not one but TWO new children's books! Walliams’ most thrilling and epic...

In today's Rebel Girl Generation, having strong, female protagonists in children's literature is so important. Young girls need to read...

Today, Saturday 13th October, its been 60 years since the first ever Paddington book was published. In those 60 years millions of copies...

Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, T.S. Eliot, Slyvia Plath, Homer and John Keats are just a few of amazing poets that we have been so lucky...

September has been a fantastic, very busy month for children's publishing. Led by the paperback release of Philip Pullman's La Belle...

With the exciting upcoming release of Julia Golding’s new middle grade children’s fiction book, The Curious Crime, published by Lion...

This year mermaids have been big! We've had mermaid hair, mermaid crowns, mermaid tails (even the knitted mermaid tail blankets!) Not to...

If you haven't come across any of best-selling author Emma Carroll's middle grade books yet I highly recommend to give her a search...

For the majority, William Shakespeare isn't introduced to young readers until around their GCSE's when a range of Shakespeare's most...

Strong women: may we know th1em, may we be them, may we raise them.