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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This blog was originally created in 2014 by Lucy RowlandOur library catalogue
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Tag Archives: Diversity
Diverse Book Awards 2020
The winners of the Diverse Book Awards have just been announced. In the Children’s Book category, in third place is Planet Omar: Accid [...]
Black History in Children’s Literature
October is Black History Month. However problematic the concept of naming certain days, or months, as the time to concentrate on areas of [...]
National Poetry Day – today
Today is National Poetry Day, and the culmination of my week of choosing and posting a daily poem. Among the many online and real-time event [...]
Poetry picks, day 6
Curriculum Centre staff – including the original creator of this blog – have long and deep links, both familial and professional [...]
Poetry picks, day 4
Today’s poem is another choice from Happy poems chosen by Roger McGough, an edited collection whose merits were extolled in yes [...]
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 [...]
Book news
Tribute to a literacy champion For any readers who missed it, here is yesterday’s Guardian obituary and tribute to the inspirational W [...]
Black lives represented
Now seems an appropriate time to remind readers of two important projects from the children’s literature community. Both projects combin [...]
Inclusivity in Children’s Books
We were privileged last evening to attend an interesting event hosted by Lewes Children’s Book Group. Our own children’s literature ex [...]
Reflecting Realities Report
Reflecting Realities: Survey of Ethnic Representation within UK Children’s Literature 2018 was published this morning on CLPE’s webs [...]
Reflecting Realities : a new report on the way
In July 2018, CLPE published a report called Reflecting Realities, which showed that there was a significant need for better ethnic represe [...]
Launch of Pen&inc. & Round Table Books
In 2017, only 4% of the children’s books published featured BAME characters and only 1% had a BAME main character. These were the al [...]
