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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

Scottish schoolgirl among child cancer survivors who inspired poem about courage

Former children’s laureate Joseph Coelho was assisted by the youngsters to write Courage Looks Like Me.

Evening Standard

Have a stately Christmas: 10 historic houses and gardens to get the festive party started

Scrooge, Santa, polar bears, gingerbread and light shows are among this year’s seasonal family delights at castles, palaces and Palladian piles throughout the UK

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Konnie Huq launches free climate crisis ebook for UK primary schools

Children for Change contains stories, poems, and illustrations from more than 80 collaborators including Jamie Oliver, Mary Portas, David Baddiel and Adam Kay

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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’

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‘Extraordinary’ Joseph Coelho novel wins Carnegie medal for children’s writing

‘Extraordinary’ novel The Boy Lost in the Maze takes prestigious honour while sister prize for illustration goes to Aaron Becker’s wordless The Tree and the River

The Guardian - UK

Tracey Emin and Imelda Staunton get damehoods in king’s birthday honours

Others honoured from cultural world include the writer Monica Ali, choreographer Wayne McGregor and children’s laureate Joseph Coelho

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Carnegie medal for children’s books shortlist announced

A reinterpretation of the Minotaur myth, poetry exploring refugee experiences and a picture book looking at the human impact on nature all feature on the shortlist judged solely by librarians

The Guardian - UK

Best children’s books of 2023

Dream-seeking bears, a pancake-making lion, an ingenious guide to rewilding and more

The Guardian - UK

‘Libraries are the heart of community’: children’s laureate Joseph Coelho on inspiring the next generation of writers

Since his first anthology in 2014, Coelho has become a prolific author for children and YA readers – and it all started, he says, in a vital community space

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A very grumpy toddler; poems for the planet; ancient demons unleashed; and a moving YA trafficking tale

The Guardian - UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Trackers by Charles Frazier and Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead.

The Independent UK

Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows

RSL president Bernadine Evaristo highlights need to change to become an organisation for all writers rather than just the white and middle class

The Guardian - UK

I set out to find the happiness I felt as a child, and it worked – let me tell you how I did it

Rediscovering old, simple joys such as music, photography and Lego made me wonder why I abandoned them in the first place, says poet Joseph Coelho

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Camilla shares love of poetry with children’s laureate Joseph Coelho

The Queen Consort and Coelho met in the Clarence House library to celebrate World Poetry Day.

The Guardian - UK

Poetry can move souls and thrum hearts: why wouldn’t we teach our children about it?

A dispiriting new survey has found that nearly a quarter of schools teach poetry only once a year or less. What a shame that is, says children’s laureate, Joseph Coelho

The Independent UK

Marcus Rashford and Joseph Coelho make children’s empathy book list

Rashford’s book You Can Do It: How To Find Your Voice And Make A Difference is on the list.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve been banned since the beginning’: Jason Reynolds talks to Joseph Coelho

The UK children’s laureate and America’s ambassador for young people’s literature discuss finding a voice and how to get kids reading

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Camilla holds her first audience as Queen Consort

Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho was welcomed to Buckingham Palace by Camilla on Thursday.

Belfast Live

Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho visits North Belfast school to share joys of poetry

Author hopes to get children to "read for pleasure"

The Guardian - UK

Truss urged to invest in libraries and abolish tax on audiobooks

Authors and publishers’ organisations have also called on the new government to support author visits to schools and to introduce an online sales tax

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

Bad manners in the jungle; a magical inner-city tree; galactic danger; a conservationist call to arms; plus the best new YA novels

The Guardian - UK

Picture books for children – reviews

The human body is brought to life, difference is celebrated – and a very long dinosaur is tickled pink

Evening Standard

New Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho wants to make a country of poets

The new Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho said he wants to use his role to encourage the whole country “to become poets”.

The Guardian - UK

Joseph Coelho chosen as Britain’s new children’s laureate

The poet and children’s author, who takes over from Cressida Cowell, was praised as an ‘extraordinary advocate for making poetry accessible to all’

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