
Piers Torday
Piers Torday is the author of the award-winning trilogy The Last Wild and many other children’s books.
Piers Torday is the author of the award-winning trilogy The Last Wild and many other children’s books.
Sue Hardy-Dawson is an award winning poet and an illustrator.
Vashti Hardy is a writer of children’s books. Vashti has a special interest in children’s writing, especially free-writing.
Elen Caldecott is a children’s author and was highly commended in the PFD Prize for Most Promising Writer for young people.
Catherine Fisher is an acclaimed poet and author of children’s fiction.
Liz Brownlee is a poet and children’s poet with work in over 80 children’s poetry anthologies in the UK.
Chitra Soundar is an internationally published, award-winning author of over 40 books for children
Sally Gardner is a multi award-winning novelist who has sold over 2 million books in the UK.
John Dougherty is a former teacher and now author of the Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face series, the Zeus stories and many more.
Karl Nova’s debut book “Rhythm And Poetry” was declared winner of the CLPE, CLiPPA 2018 Poetry award
Tom Palmer is the author of 50 books, most of them for children. Armistice Runner, won the UK Children’s Book Award in 2019.
Maz Evans debut novel Who Let the Gods Out was selected as the Waterstone’s Children’s Book of the Month
Lisa’s first novel, The Goldfish Boy, was one of the biggest selling debut books of 2017
Jo Cotterill is a multi-award-winning author with over forty books for children, including new novel ‘Jelly’
The award winning author of over 50 books for children, including the much loved Mixed Up Fairy Tales.
A new primary school teacher, David Lucas has created 15 children’s books as an author and illustrator.
Morag Hood is an award-winning picture book author and illustrator from Edinburgh.
A.F. Harrold is a poet and performer who writes for children and adults. He loves working with talented illustrators.
Our featured author is a poet and children’s author. His latest poetry collection celebrates his childhood love of nature.
Gill Lewis a multi-award winning children’s author who writes stories about the natural world and our human relationship with it
Author of fiction, non fiction and poetry, she won the first SLA award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Non Fiction.
This month we are delighted to profile the engaging work of Isabel Thomas who has written more than 150 books for young people.
The author of Strange Star, the Financial Times Book of 2016, Secrets of a Sun King and many more
The author of Max and the Millions and Perijee and Me answers our fiendish questions!
Varjak Paw author SF Said talks books!
Author Nicky Singer lets us into her world of reading
Creator of the Bad Bunnies talks to us about books!
The author of the Beetle series tells us about her favourite books
Karen Napier, CEO of The Reading Agency shares some of her favourite books.
Kiran Satti selects some empowering and inspiring read aloud books for KS1 and EYFS
John Murray chooses text to make you think, to make you smile and to laugh your socks off.
Annie Everall selects text that brings stories, poetry and illustration to life.
October’s favourite read aloud books are chosen by Sarah Paxton, lead of the New Wave English Hub based in Hackney.
This month’s favourite read aloud recommendations are made by Sonia Thompson, Head Teacher at St Matthew’s C.E. Teaching and Research School.
Great read aloud choices here for older readers, our top texts for August have been chosen by Fiona Evans, who is Director of Programmes at the National Literacy Trust.
Karl Duke selects some high quality texts to promote reading to inspire learning for all.
Richard Charlesworth introduces picture books and graphic novels that create an emotional response in the reader.
Carol Carter maintains her passion for building reading communities and finding the right book to make every child a reader
Miranda McKearney of EmpathyLab selects texts that enable children and young people to develop the skills that build empathy.
Nicki Cleveland has revolutionised the way the teaching staff at Cannon Park Primary think about Reading for Pleasure, it is now at the forefront of the school’s ethos
Bob Cox seeks to support schools’ work on using quality texts for quality writing.
Caroline Sence of charity ‘Read for Good’ recommends entertaining, diverse and accessible picture books for all ages.
This month’s selections are drawn from the School Library Association’s Information Book Awards, and chosen by Alison Tarrant.
Chosen by Diane Leedham, these texts are aimed at older readers and reflect a wider awareness of diversity.
Using a theme of “old but gold” our top texts for October have been chosen by Ben Harris.
September’s top texts have been chosen by Susannah Herbert, Executive Director of the Forward Arts Foundation.
This month’s top texts have been chosen by Ben King, founder of the Teacher Book Awards. He has chosen three fiction books, each with a ghostly theme.
This month’s Top Texts have been chosen by Joy Court, Reviews Editor for The School Librarian journal. She has chosen three thought provoking and enjoyable books that will stimulate much conversation!
This months texts have been chosen by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. She has selected non-fiction that is both lyrical and informative, and above all really engaging.
This month’s Top Texts have been chosen by Emily Drabble, head of children’s book promotion and prizes at the reading for pleasure charity BookTrust. Some thought provoking choices here, including Ghost!.
This month’s texts have been chosen by Morag Styles who retired in 2014 as Professor of Children’s Poetry at the Faculty of Education, Cambridge and is an Emeritus Fellow of Homerton College.
This months Top Texts have been chosen by Jane Bednall, a former teacher and Deputy Head.