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'French Braid' Reading Group Guide

THE MAJOR NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST STORYTELLERS OF OUR TIME

French Braid is a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family’s foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today

When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves… read more

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'Madame Burova' Digital Assets

These digital assets can be used by libraries and other organisations to promote <i>Madame Burova</i> by Ruth Hogan, published by John Murray on 17 March 2022.

The pack contains:

  • Printable bunting template
  • A4 printable poster
  • Digital assets for sharing on social media, including an… read more
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Big Book of Boats - digital pack

Big Book of Boats by Luogo comune, translated from Italian by Catherine Bruzzone

Get ready to set sail!

Embark on a voyage of discovery across the seven seas – and learn all there is to know about boats.

In this fascinating non-fiction book, Italian artist Luogo Comune's charming… read more

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'This Girl Can Do Anything' Digital Pack

<b><i>'This Girl Can Do Anything'</i> by Stephanie Stansbie and illustrated by Hazel Quintanella is an empowering picture book that celebrates strong girls the world over. Publisher Little Tiger is offering schools and libraries a digital activity pack to promote the book and celebrate its… read more

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The Reading Agency's March Booklist for Children & Young People: Wonder Women

To mark International Women’s Day (8 March) and celebrate the achievements, triumphs and general brilliance of women and girls around the world, we have created a booklist for children and young people. From Paralympic swimmers to pioneering footballers, a 19th century classic to thrilling… read more

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How to Make a Book digital activity pack

Publisher Little Tiger is offering schools and libraries a fantastic digital activity pack for How To Make A Book by Becky Davies and illustrated by Patricia Hu, which looks at all the stages of creating a full-colour children's book.

This book is best suited to children aged 4-8 years.

The… read more

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John Agard reads When Creature Met Creature

WHEN CREATURE MET CREATURE by John Agard and Satoshi Kitamura

_Creature-of-No-Words lives a happy life on his own, but one day he gets a feeling like ‘the chill
touch of ice’ and nothing can lift his sadness. Just then Creature-of-Words arrives and senses his
despair. How can she help… read more

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Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good – digital pack and book trailer

Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good – digital pack (9+)

Packed with doodles and cartoons, this is the wry, witty and very funny diary of Norse god Loki and the trials of being trapped on Earth as a weedy eleven-year-old boy.

After one prank too many, trickster god Loki is banished to… read more

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Otherlands by Thomas Halliday - digital pack

Discover the past as you’ve never seen it before in Otherlands

Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up… read more

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The Tower at the End of Time by Amy Sparkes - book trailer

Nine and her friends have broken the curse on their marvellous, magical House, and are free to travel the worlds once more! Their first stop: The Wizarding Hopscotch Championships.

There's only one problem: the House is nervous about travelling – and gets the hiccups! Bouncing from world to… read more

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Rabbit and Bear - discussion notes and teaching resources

Rabbit and Bear: A Bad King is a Sad Thing by Julian Gough and Jim Field

The next book in the bestselling series for newly independent readers with these laugh-out-loud tales of friendship, adventure and a little bit of poo!

Icebear has arrived in Rabbit and Bear's valley, and he wants to… read more

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