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: Primary
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 [...]
Winner of the Klaus Flugge Award 2019
As we being a new academic year, we’d like to welcome all our new students. We hope you are settling in well. In the world of children [...]
UKLA & Little Rebel Children’s Book Award winners
Little Rebels Children’s Book Award Freedom by Catherine Johnson, a short historical novel about slavery, was announced as the winner [...]
Poetry and truth
Everything All at Once by Steven Camden (AKA PolarBear) was announced as the winner of the annual poetry award yesterday at the National The [...]
Children’s Book Award & Empathy Day 2019
Children’s Book Award 2019 The winners of the Children’s Book Award were announced last weekend at a ceremony in London. What makes this [...]
Life outside of technology
BookTrust published some disturbing research this week, showing that a quarter of parents now use technology to give their children a bedtim [...]
Shortlist for the Klaus Flugge Prize
The shortlist for the 2019 Klaus Flugge Prize was announced last night. This award highlights the most promising and exciting newcomer to pi [...]
Shortlist for Branford Boase Award
The shortlist for the 2019 Branford Boase Award was announced yesterday. The Branford Boase Award identifies outstanding authors at the st [...]
CLiPPA & Foyle Young Poets Award
CLiPPA (Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award) celebrates poetry that has been published for children in the UK and the shortlist for [...]
Shortlist for the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award
The shortlist for the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award was announced last week. This award celebrates children’s fiction (0 [...]
FCBG Conference 2019 : Opening Doors
The Federation of Children’s Book Groups held their annual conference over the weekend and I was delighted to be able to attend. It was an [...]
