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
Read for Empathy Book Collections 2020
The Read for Empathy Book Collection 2020 was announced yesterday. This is a collection of 50 books which have been chosen for their value i [...]
Upcoming children’s literature talks
Students can avail of the opportunity to attend some interesting children’s literature talks in January. Read to Inspire &# [...]
Costa Children’s Book Award Winner & Young City Reads 2020
Costa Children’s Book Award Congratulations to Jasbinder Bilan who won the Costa Children’s Book Award for her magical realism s [...]
Voting opens in the East Sussex Children’s Book Award
The shortlist for the 2020 East Sussex Children’s Book Award has been revealed. These awards are open to children aged 8 to 11. Famili [...]
School & Library Book Awards in Sussex
The shortlist for Picture Books to Shout About: West Sussex Children’s Picture Book Award 2019 – 2020 was revealed last week. West Susse [...]
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 [...]
