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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Award-winning young adult fiction
Both the sales and publication of YA books are in decline at the moment and many YA books are being cancelled or withdrawn by publishers. (& [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
