About this blog
Welcome to the Curriculum Centre's blog on children's literature. The blog is designed for trainee teachers in the School of Education at the University of Brighton and aims to keep students up to date with new and recommended children's books for use in their teaching practice. The blog also aims to encourage the use of children's literature to make links across all subject areas.
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Tag Archives: Book Reviews
Invisible Prize
Pam Smy has been awarded the inaugural Invisible Prize for children’s book illustrators. The prize was set up by the cleverly-named [...]
Poetry picks, day 3
In the run-up to National Poetry Day (October 1st), each day I am posting a poem that I hope will have wide appeal. Let’s have [...]
Summer reading highlights
Here, in no particular order, are this summer’s personal highlights. Malcolm Duffy, Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. (Zephyr) Danny is a fou [...]
Recommended reading
 With two weeks to go before the winners of the prestigious Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards are announced, here is a look at two of the [...]
The house on the mountain, by Ella Holcombe, illustrated by David Cox
After the recent summer of horrendous bushfire in Australia, with the TV news footage still frightening and fresh in our minds, this [...]
Exciting new picture books
We hope you all enjoyed World Book Day yesterday, especially those of you who were running activities with children or dressing up as book c [...]
Newly published books
We are very excited about some new books that have been published and are eagerly awaiting their arrival at the Curriculum Centre. Here are [...]
