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The Guppy Open Submission winner is…
Congratulations to the wonderful Janeen Hayat, whose book EVIE AND MARYAM BREAK THE CODE has won the 2023 Open Submission Competition! The judges and I all loved the relationship between…
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Nick Ward, author of the Charlie Small series, talks about his life as an author
Where did the idea for the Charlie Small books come from? I had always loved books as a child, the feel and smell of the pages and knowing that by…
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Learn TEN facts about Lisa Williamson! New series Bigg School is published this Thursday…
1 Lisa Williamson is a British children’s author. She has written four fiction titles for young adults and three non-fiction titles for younger children, including a biography of Dwayne ‘The…
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Finding the Joy: Myles McLeod, one half of the Brothers McLeod, talks about why funny books are so very important…
Hands up all of you who think reading is a bad thing and should be discouraged? I’m guessing that’s none of you! No wonder we are all worried by the…
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Guppy Open Submission Update!
A huge thank you to everyone who submitted to our competition – we had well over 400 entries, which is amazing! We’ve been reading away and slowly whittling down to…
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The Guppy Open Submission competition for middle-grade writers is back!
In April, we were over the moon that Nadia Mikail’s YA novel, The Cats We Meet Along the Way, won the Waterstones Overall Children’s Book Prize 2023 – it was…
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