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: Primary
Poetry Live! and poetry resources online
Poetry Live!, an event which is aimed at GCSE English students, is taking place at Brighton Dome tomorrow (22nd November 2019) with performa [...]
CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medal 2020 nominations
91 nominations for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2020 and 71 nominations for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2020 have been revealed this week. A [...]
Halloween is coming…
Halloween is in the air and here is a look at what resources are available for this celebration. The National Literacy Trust have published [...]
Creative writing & poetry competitions
If you are looking for competitions to inspire your students to do some creative writing or poetry, here are two options which are currently [...]
Libraries Week 2019 : podcasts & audio resources
We are currently celebrating Libraries Week and this year’s theme is the role of libraries in the digital world. Libraries often provide f [...]
Celebrating National Poetry Day with verse novels
It’s National Poetry Day today and we hope that you have all been busy writing or talking about poetry. One way of writing poetry is [...]
National Poetry Day – 3rd October 2019
Are you ready for National Poetry Day next week? It’s the 25th anniversary this year and the theme is Truth. On the National Poetry Day w [...]
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 [...]
