Red House Children’s Book Award – Shortlist announced today

Today the shortlist has been announced for the Red House Children’s Book Award, the only national book award in the UK voted entirely for by children. Here’s who’s made it onto the shortlist: For Younger Children Can You see Sassoon? by Sam Usher, published by Little Tiger Press Dog Loves Drawing by Louise Yates published [...]

Nominate your favourite children’s book from the last year

Nominations open tomorrow for the Children and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literaray Awards, aka The Cybils. Is there a children’s /YA book you think is the best-of-the-best which was published during the last year? Why not nominate if for a Cybils award? Anyone may nominate one book per genre during the public nomination period (slightly different [...]

Getting up to all sorts in the name of science

What we’ve been getting up to recently includes… …watering the garden with coca-cola… …making lava lamps with vitamin tables… …turning liquids into solids without the use of the freezer… (in other words, making butter) ..making an egg which was wider than the neck of a bottle magically find itself INSIDE the bottle without us even [...]

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