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Screenwriter Reveals How Queen Elizabeth II Helped Shape Her Most Iconic TV Moment

“She put herself up for that, she wanted to be in the sketch," writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce revealed.

Marie Claire

Parents warned children with no reading experience start school as ‘second-class citizens’

Children’s laureate, Frank Cottrell-Boyce outlined how almost 50% of children arrive at school without having been read to by their parents

The Independent UK

Gisèle Pelicot and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among Hay Festival 2026 speakers

The line-up for this year’s festival includes Emma Thompson, Malala Yousafzai, Ian McEwan and other prominent authors and figures

The Guardian - UK

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Children being ‘sedated’ by algorithmic YouTube content, MPs hear

Experts including children’s laureate lament low quality of entertainment and call for more funding for children’s TV

The Guardian - UK

BBC is our last hope for saving children’s TV, says Children’s Laureate

Frank Cottrell-Boyce gave evidence during the CMS Committee’s opening session into its inquiry on children’s TV and video content.

Evening Standard

The Children’s Booker prize will include works of translation – here are five expert recommendations to get your kids excited

The buzz around the newly announced Children’s Booker has focused on its potential to “tell kids they matter”, as they get their own version of this prestigious literary prize. With children actually included in the judging process, the prize has the power to bring thousands more young people “into the…

The Conversation

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce

The Guardian - UK

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Booker Prize launches children’s fiction award with £50,000 up for grabs

The winner will be chosen by a combined panel of child and adult judges

The Independent UK

Booker Prize announces launch of first award for children’s fiction

The Children’s Booker Prize winner will be chosen by a combined panel of child and adult judges and awarded £50,000.

Evening Standard

‘The crosser Jeremy Paxman got, the more we giggled’: what it’s like to come last on a TV show

From scoring so badly at Eurovision it made Terry Wogan resign to having Paul Hollywood call your cake ‘tough as old boots’, here are the contestants who lost big on the nation’s favourite shows

The Guardian - UK

Children’s Laureate calls for action over ‘indefensible’ reading inequality

All children and families should have access to high-quality books that are ‘representative of the contemporary UK’, a report says.

Evening Standard

The Guardian view on the Gruffalo: a well-timed comeback, wart and all

Editorial: The next challenge for Julia Donaldson’s monster is to get its claws into parents and persuade more of them to read aloud

The Guardian - UK

How Covid changed children in Britain

Uncertainty, disruption, increased screen use and crippling anxiety are some of the legacies of pandemic school closures

The Guardian - UK

Martha Mills young writers’ prize 2025 opens for entries

This year’s competition for 11- to 14-year-olds, in memory of the budding writer who died aged 13, is on the theme of A New World

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Children facing a ‘happiness recession’ says laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Author will highlight the ‘enormous disadvantage’ handed to children without access to books, and call on government to improve early-years literacy

The Independent UK

Children’s Laureate Cottrell-Boyce warns early years reading at ‘crisis point’

Author Frank Cottrell-Boyce wants the Government to address the ‘invisible privilege and inequality’ of ‘more and more children’ falling behind.

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Today’s guest editors; A Point of View; Monstrosities Mon Amour; Shipping Forecast Day – review

Radio 4’s Today guest editors ranged from the glum to the glorious, while the station truly excelled in a day-long celebration of the Shipping Forecast at 100

The Guardian - UK

Rundown schools risk ‘irreparable’ harm to pupils, UK children’s laureate says

Exclusive: Frank Cottrell-Boyce says Conservative funding freeze over 14 years has created ‘enormous’ equality gap

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Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure

National Literacy Trust finds only 35% of eight to 18-year-olds enjoy reading in their spare time, a sharp drop on last year to the lowest figure yet recorded

The Conversation

Frank Cottrell-Boyce is the new children’s laureate – four reasons he’s the perfect choice

Children’s publishing is awash with celebrity authors. So when Frank Cottrell-Boyce was named BookTrust’s Children’s Laureate, some fellow writers may not have been wholly delighted. After all, Cottrell-Boyce is better known by many for his screenwriting work. He has written successful screenplays for a roster of films, including Millions (2004),…

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Frank Cottrell-Boyce as children’s laureate: a timely champion

Editorial: His belief in reading as the foundation of happiness ensures that young readers could not have a better advocate

The Guardian - UK

‘Reading’s in danger’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce on books, kids – and the explosive power of Heidi

He has written hit films like 24 Hour Party People and cooked up the Queen’s Olympic skydive. But now, having been crowned Children’s Laureate, he’s on a mission to show kids that books will change their lives

The Guardian - UK

Frank Cottrell-Boyce chosen as new children’s laureate

The children’s author and screenwriter, who takes over from Joseph Coelho, pledged to address ‘invisible privilege and inequality’

TechRadar

Netflix's The Beautiful Game trailer looks like a feel-good winner

Based on a real competition, The Beautiful Game is a movie about second chances and soccer as a force for good.

WhatToWatch

The Beautiful Game: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and everything about the Homeless World Cup movie

The Beautiful Game on Netflix stars Bill Nighy, Michael Ward and Callum Scott Howells as part of the England football team at the Homeless World Cup.

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