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: Secondary
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 [...]
Shortlisted books for the UKLA Book Awards 2019
The shortlists for the UKLA book awards were revealed this morning. The UKLA book awards are judged entirely by teachers, who are looking t [...]
Shortlists for 2019 CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals
The shortlists for the 2019 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals were announced this morning. CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal s [...]
Longlists for Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals
The longlists for the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals have been revealed today. Poetry and verse novels feature heavily on the longlist [...]
Winners of the Lollies Award 2019
The winners of the Lollies Award 2019 were announced this morning. Lots of schools tuned into the livestream to hear the results. Congratul [...]
IBBY Honour List 2018
The IBBY Honour List is a biennial selection of outstanding, recently published children’s books honouring writers, illustrators and trans [...]
Longlist for the Branford Boase Award 2019
The longlist for the Branford Boase Award 2019 has just been announced. The award, which marks its 20th anniversary this year, celebrates th [...]
2017 IBBY OBYPD Selection : Category 3
The Curriculum Centre is currently hosting the 2017 IBBY Selection of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities. Our previous blo [...]
Shortlisted books for the Costa & Blue Peter Book Awards
Yesterday evening, the shortlist for the Costa Book Awards were announced. Congratulations to all of the following authors, who were selec [...]
Resources for Remembrance
It’s Remembrance Sunday this weekend, so I thought it might be useful to take a look at some resources that are available for teaching [...]
Are you ready for National Poetry Day (4th Oct)
Tomorrow is National Poetry Day and many teachers and librarians will be hosting poetry events in schools and libraries throughout the count [...]
Promoting reading for pleasure in secondary schools
Booktrust has a reading for pleasure programme for secondary schools, which is funded by the Arts Council. The programme offers a free Scho [...]
