Kids' Books UK

Would the person who insists on sending unwanted and unreadable comments in Chinese to my blog please stop doing so. All comments are moderated by me and so do not appear on the blog. You are was...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2010/07/please-stop-leaving-unwanted-comments.html

Hi! Thanks for visiting and supporting Kids Books UK. For various reasons I have decided not to continue posting to this blog. I will remove or update posts with out of date information, but leav...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2010/06/message-from-dorothy.html

Apologies for not posting to my blog for such a long time. I've been very busy, writing and reading children's fiction. I have written two pieces of children's fiction for the Writing for Chi...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2010/05/lancashire-book-awards.html

Writing this from Kabwe where I'm with the Sport in Action Students getting letters for The letters to Africa project. I've made lots of contacts and will be going to my first school tomorrow. Ye...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2010/03/letters-to-africa_28.html

Next week I am going to Zambia to research and write material for a book produced by students of the MA in Writing for Children and MA in Publishing at the University of Central Lancashire....

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2010/03/letters-to-africa.html

David Almond up for double honours Once again, congratulations are due to multi-award-winning author David Almond, who has been shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen prize, awarded bienn...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2010/03/david-almond-shortlisted-for-hans.html

Did you know that you can listen to the stories featured in this year's World Book Day books read by famous authors and actors online. This is available through a project called, Read to a Milli...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2010/03/read-to-million-kids.html

Don't miss this research-based article from the Independent. It's extremely interesting to anyone interested in children's reading. Boys read as much as girls, but prefer the simpler books At ...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2010/03/revealing-article-from-independent-on.html

WOW! Women On Writing Issue 37: Fall in Love with Romance Writing

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2010/02/wow-women-on-writing-issue-37-fall-in.html

The White Giraffe by Lauren St John was so good I read it in one go. Eleven-year old Martine loses both parents in a house fire. She goes to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in So...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2010/01/book-review-white-giraffe-by-lauren-st.html

The winner of this year's Costa Book Awards Children's Book Category is Patrick Ness for The Ask and the Answer, the second book in his Chaos Walking trilogy in which Todd and Viola are sep...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2010/01/costa-book-awards-childrens-book-winner.html

Did you watch the Gruffalo film on TV? I did and I really enjoyed it. The animation and voices were fabulous. I also watched The Bridge to Terabithia today. Christmas is a great time to watch...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/12/gruffalo-bridge-to-terabithia-and.html

Check out this show, all in rhyme. It's really good, you'll have a fun time. There's poems and limericks; one was written by me, a little love poem to my hero, Pudsey! (Well it is for C...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/11/rhyme-for-pudsey.html

The Gruffalo was revealed yesterday as the nation's favourite bedtime story in a poll by Radio 2. Find out more about the Gruffalo's  author Julia Donaldson at http://www.juliadonaldson.co.uk/ ...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/11/wwwjuliadonaldsoncouk.html

Hugh Lupton is a well known British Storyteller. He co-founded the Company of Storytellers with Ben Haggarty and Pomme Clayton in 1985. Lupton tells a wide variety of stories, including Epics s...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/10/hugh-lupton-storyteller.html

The double story line and rather challenging language make this a book I'd recommend for teenagers and adults rather than children. It's very much a coming of age novel, but there's much more to ...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-review-bog-child-by-siobhan-dowd.html

Please vote for your favourite author site by the end of October. So far only one person has done so! The sites I've listed are well worth a visit. They are fun and informative and tell you abou...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/10/dont-forget-to-vote-for-your-favourite.html

On the 10th July 2009 the Secret Seed Society launched the first in a series of adventure packs that make growing and eating your own food simple and so much fun that it is quite literally chi...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/09/secret-seed-society-let-you-in-on-their.html

At the bottom of this post are links to my top ten favourite UK children's author websites: I'd like you to roam all the sites using the links below then vote for your favourite. To vote, ju...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/09/vote-for-your-favourite-uk-childrens.html

Graphic novel The Savage, written by David Almond and illustrated by Dave McKean, has been chosen as the Liverpool Reads book for 2009. The city-wide initiative, coordinated by The Reader Organi...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/09/north-east-author-david-almond-is.html

Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see an inspirational video with quotes from lots of famous people including children's authors Philip Pulman and Ursula le Guin. If you love stories, (a...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/08/inspirational-video.html

Sasha Pryce, an eleven year-old girl from Kent, has self-published her first novel and will donate all revenues from the sales of Labby's Adventures to the RSPCA and Batttersea Dogs and Cats Hom...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/08/eleven-year-old-girl-self-publishes.html

The Society of Civil and Public Service Writers is pleased to announce THE W.F. and F.G. FROUD ANNUAL CHILDREN’S STORY COMPETITION 2009 SHORT STORY OF UP TO 2000 WORDS FOR CHILDREN OF ANY AG...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/07/scpsw-annual-childrens-short-story.html

The late author, Siobhan Dowd, has won the Bisto Children's Book of the Year for Bog Child. This is the second year running that she has received the prize. In 2008 she won with The London Eye M...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/07/bog-child-wins-bisto-childrens-book-of.html

I've recently discovered a host of websites on one of my favourite authors, Neil Gaiman, and would like to share their delights with you. The official publisher's website is http://www.neilgai...

http://kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com/2009/06/meet-author-neil-gaiman-on-web.html