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
Launch of Pen&inc. & Round Table Books
In 2017, only 4%Â of the children’s books published featured BAME characters and only 1%Â had a BAME main character. These were the al [...]
IBBY Honour List 2018
The IBBY Honour List is a biennial selection of outstanding, recently published children’s books honouring writers, illustrators and trans [...]
International Literacy Day – 8th September 2018
As we get ready to begin another academic year, we would like to extend a very warm welcome to all of our students and we look forward to me [...]
Fairy tales around the world
We have recently added to our Traditional Tales section a series of Beloved Tales published by Raintree. These are collections, in one sli [...]
Recommended books for challenging transphobia
Wednesday 17th May 2017 was International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia and I was fortunate enough to join the related se [...]
Reflecting Realities in Children’s Literature
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Reflecting Realities: British Values in Children’s Literature conference last w [...]
February is LGBT History Month
 What is LGBT History Month? LGBT History Month is an annual month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history and t [...]
Exhibition of books for young people with disabilities 16th to 20th May 2016
    WHAT:                2015 IBBY Selection of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities WHEN:       [...]
Poetry award shortlist and other award news
CLiPPA (Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award) The shortlist has been announced for the annual poetry prize and includes a novel writt [...]
Reflections on hosting the IBBY Honour Book 2014 collection
   The Centre recently hosted a touring collection of international illustrated books from the IBBY Honour List 2014. Every two year [...]
Challenging stereotypes through fairy tales
   Ensuring that the books we share with children include characters which represent our diverse world can be difficult when it comes to [...]
Books featuring LGBT characters
February is LGBT History Month and I thought that I would take this opportunity to recommend a few children’s books featuring LGBT cha [...]
