Charity Dahlicious Dress Up Day is Back! Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity is once again inviting primary school teachers to step into the unique world of Roald Dahl with their school chiddlers, and register now for 2013’s Dahlicious Dress Up Day. Friday 27th September 2013 is the Dahlicious Dress Up Day and primary school children [...]

The shortlist for this year’s Scottish Children’s Book Awards, which celebrates the most popular children’s books by Scottish authors or illustrators, was announced earlier today! THE SCOTTISH CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS 2013 SHORTLIST: Bookbug Readers (3-7 years) Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb (Macmillan) What’s the Time Mr Wolf by Debi Gliori (Bloomsbury) Jumblebum [...]

The Children’s Bookshow is an annual tour of children’s authors and illustrators from the UK and abroad. Visiting local theatre venues across England, the Bookshow gives teachers and school children the opportunity to hear world-class artists talk about their work. There are still tickets available to see Patrick Benson, September 245th 2013, Bexhill on Sea [...]

On November 9th 2013 the Federation of Children’s Book Groups will be holding a one day Festival of Children’s Literature in Birmingham by way of celebrating the FCBG’s 45th anniversary and our receipt of the Eleanor Farjeon Award last year. Inspired by the venue in which the Festival is taking place, the Birmingham Conservatoire, the [...]

On World Book Day this year, King Edward’s School in Bath hosted an attempt for the Guinness World Record for the largest reading lesson ever. FCBG Secretary, Karen Hellewell acted as a steward – part of the team looking after the 288 children who packed into the school hall for an hour of reading fun [...]

2013 sees the 10th birthday of one of the most mischievous troublemakers in children’s books – the one and only Dirty Bertie! Created by one of the UK’s foremost children’s illustrators, David Roberts, Bertie is the star of two picture books, Dirty Bertie and Pooh! Is That You, Bertie? as well as a fabulously funny [...]

Tariq Mehmood has won the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award 2013 for You’re Not Proper. A story that Jake Hope, for the judges, described as: “Contemporary and hard-hitting, You’re Not Proper is the story of two girls with one religion and two very different lifestyles. It offers powerful insight into young people’s lives [...]

On Monday I was delighted to unveil Giada Giusti’s logo as the winning entry to our competition for a design for the Festival of Children’s Literature we’re holding in Birmingham on November 9 2013. I’ve since had the opportunity to talk a little with Giada about her work, and today I share that interview with [...]

Holly Webb has two new books published this month, the first instalments in a new Victorian detective series, featuring a plucky heroine by the name of Maisie Hitchins. To celebrate their publication I asked Holly if she would share with us some thoughts about her favourite children’s books set in Victorian times. Here’s what Holly [...]

We were delighted to receive over 50 submissions for our competition to design a logo for our November Festival of Children’s Literature. We shortlisted 5 entries, and today I’d like to showcase the 4 which made it to the shortlist in addition to the logo we chose as our winner. I’m sure you’ll agree they [...]