Newsflash! Chris Wormell’s Scruffy Bear and the Six White Mice won the category for Younger Children at The Red House Children’s Book Awards 2012! The ceremony took place on Saturday where Chris Wormell and shortlisted Kali Stileman (for Peely Wally) attended and answered questions on stage. Voted for solely by young readers from a shortlist drawn up by children’s book groups across Britain, the Red House award is recognised as a key indicator of which books are popular with children.
World Book Day 2012 
This is the 15th year there’s been a World Book Day, and on 1st March children of all ages will come together to appreciate reading. Very loudly and very happily. The main aim of World Book Day in the UK and Ireland is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their own. World Book Day, in partnership with schools all over the country, will be distributing more than 14 million £1 World Book Day book tokens to children (that’s almost one for every child/young person under 18 in the UK and Ireland).
This year there will be eight £1 books available, including Jacqueline Wilson's Big Day Out. For more information, plus downloads, fun activities and details on how you can get involved, visit their website.
To celebrate World Book Day, from 9.30am on 1st March an online festival - The Biggest Book Show on Earth - will take place, featuring a stellar line-up of top authors and illustrators including Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler, Eoin Colfer, Jacqueline Wilson, Cressida Cowell and Derek Landy. Performing together for the first time the event will be streamed LIVE into nurseries, schools, bookshops and libraries nationwide. Find out more here.
There will also be a World Book Day App author event between 4.30-5.30pm on 1st March at the Apple Store, Covent Garden, featuring Charlie Higson, Malorie Blackman and Sophie McKenzie in conversation. If you can’t make it to the event, it will be available to view on iTunes from 2nd March. A FREE World Book Day app, featuring exclusive new short stories from Malorie Blackman, Neil Gaiman, Charlie Higson, Anthony Horowitz, Sophie McKenzie and Rachel Vincent, will be available to download from the App Store from 23rd February.
Did you know, you can now buy Roald Dahl stamps from the Royal Mail? Featuring the unmistakable artwork of Quentin Blake and many of your favourite characters, these Gloriumptiously collectable stamps can be purchased now via the Royal Mail website.
And don’t forget, you can buy The BFG, The Twits, Matilda and many more Roald Dahl classics in hardback now. Find out more here.
Tamarind Books has announced that Michael Rosen, Benjamin Zephaniah, Jamila Gavin and Meera Syal are to be taken on as Tamarind Patrons. Read the full article here.
For more news and events - read the latest publicity newsletter here
Wyrmeweald Bloodhoney with Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart
Time:
11.15am, Sunday 25 March
Venue:
The Guardian Open Weekend festival
The Library, the Hub King's Cross, 34b York Way, London N1 9AB
Award-winning duo Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell will entertain and delight with tales of the awesome dragon-like beasts and richly imagined worlds from their new series, Wyrmeweald. Think True Grit meets Avatar! While hearing about this spellbinding fantasy from Paul, acclaimed illustrator Chris will do some jaw-dropping live drawing, and a lucky audience member can win one of his creations! For more information please visit the
website.
DINOSAUR DAY!
Come along for tons of dino-tastic activities and storytelling with Jane Clarke, author of Dance Together Dinosaurs
On:
Saturday 25th February 2012
At:
11am-12pm
Waterstones,
9b Westwood Cross,
Margate Road,
Broadstairs,
CT10 2QF
For more info please contact Gabe at the store: 0843 290 8643
Check back soon for more author events!
Learning notes:
Andy Mulligan - Trash
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Anne Fine - The Road of Bones
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Joseph Delany - The Spooks series
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Notes and teachers'
notes
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
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To celebrate the new book series, That's So Gross, we are giving you a chance to WIN a lesson Mitch Symons!
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Check out Emerald Atlas competition page for your chance WIN a Nintendo Wii! Click here for all the entry details
The Wizard of Oz needs new cover and we are giving you the chance to design it! Click here for all the entry details
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