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: Secondary
Diverse Book Awards 2020
The winners of the Diverse Book Awards have just been announced. In the Children’s Book category, in third place is Planet Omar: Accid [...]
Summer reading highlights
Here, in no particular order, are this summer’s personal highlights. Malcolm Duffy, Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. (Zephyr) Danny is a fou [...]
Book news
Tribute to a literacy champion For any readers who missed it, here is yesterday’s Guardian obituary and tribute to the inspirational W [...]
Ebooks for English education
After receiving a request from a student looking for help with accessing theory books electronically, I thought it would be useful to do a b [...]
Are you ready for World Book Night?
There has been some good news from the Reading Agency today, as it revealed the results of its survey, which shows that the nation is readin [...]
Shortlist for the UKLA Book Awards 2020
The shortlist for the UKLA book awards 2020 were announced earlier this week. This year, teachers involved in selecting titles for the short [...]
World Autism Awareness Day & International Children’s Book Day
Today is World Autism Awareness Day. Running annually on the 2nd of April for the past 13 years, autism-friendly events and educational acti [...]
Online resources available
NATE have made a range of teaching resources and publications available online for staff and students. These include teaching resources for [...]
Carnegie & Kate Greenaway shortlist 2020
The shortlist for the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals were announced today. There were 8 books selected for each category. It is particul [...]
Shortlisted books for the Children’s Book Award 2020
We hope you are all enjoying stories and activities for World Book Day today! Earlier this week, the shortlist for the Children’s Book Awa [...]
Creative writing resources
There are plenty of creative writing teaching resources available online, which can be very useful if you are planning a lesson for a writin [...]
Longlist for Carnegie/Kate Greenaway Medals
The longlists for CILIP’s Carnegie Medal and Kate Greenaway Medal 2020 were announced yesterday. This year marks the first year that a [...]
