🎉 Join us live for the #Carnegies2026 awards ceremony!
Group leaders have shared why the ceremony is such a highlight. Now you can be part of it! Join us on 23 June at 12pm to celebrate this year’s winners!
👉 Find out how to watch: https://carnegies.co.uk/take-part/live-stream-instructions/
The Carnegies
Read with pride this month and year-round!
We suggest Helen Corcoran’s binge-worthy YA fantasy duology as the perfect world to get stuck into this summer!
My Name Is Samim by Fidan Meikle is the WINNER of the Jhalak Children's & YA Prize 2026! 🤩
We could not be more delighted and we are so proud to publish this incredible book ❤️
If you loved Samim's story, look out for the follow-up, My Name Is Zayn, this August!
#JhalakPrize #MyNameisSamim
I am going to add the Pennington books by KM Peyton. #kidsbookfriday. They are a rather brilliant exploration of masculinity, first and world-changing love, and what it means to have a wild talent and not know what to do with it. Peyton finds the absolute elasticity of a page and revels in it.
NEW BfK Book of the Week: YOUNGEST FAIRCREST AND THE SEARCH FOR A SORCERER by Ollie George Clark, illus by Tom Knightis a fast-moving, funny, super-readable fantasy adventure, Don't miss the author Q&A too #booksky #KidLitUK @dkbooks.bsky.social
booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/young...
A reminder that our new 4+ Timeline features poems by @jamescarterpoet.bsky.social, @joshuaseigal.bsky.social @coralrumble.bsky.social & many more plus classics, including 'Charm' by Ben Jonson & hidden gems eg 'The Strawberry' by Mary Effie Lee Newsome #poetry
poetrybyheart.org.uk/timeline/4plus
🧵📸 Last week, we were delighted to co-host with @theclpe.bsky.social the latest community conversation, Children's Literature: Speculative Fiction and Colonialism, organised so brilliantly by @darrenchetty.bsky.social.
Through a series of activities and group, room and author-led conversations...
Poems for Father's Day by top children's poets. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2022/06/fath... @carolebromley.bsky.social @colinwest.bsky.social
"Refugee is what any of us could become, and every person in this world is entitled to safety."
Congratulations to Fidan Meikle, winner of the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize with MY NAME IS SAMIM @florisbooks.bsky.social
#booksky #KidLitUK
booksforkeeps.co.uk/my-name-is-s...
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by printmaker Robin McKenzie from the limited edition of Michael Morpurgo’s Down Burrow Lane: Life and Love on the Farm, his memoir launched yesterday about founding Farms for City Children with his wife Clare. Woodcut of Nethercott House in Devon. Royalties to the charity.
Father's Day (All poems are featured here with the kind permission of the poets who created them. Thanks everyone.) Dad couldn't Dad could...
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal
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I’ve been sorting book data for work this week and it’s sad to see some great books are now out of print or hard to come by.
For this week’s #KidsBooksFriday, what brilliant forgotten gems should we be looking out for in libraries and second hand bookshops?
#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
