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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Category Archives: Themed booklists
Climate change in children’s books
In the Antarctic the polar ice sheet is breaking up, and there’s sunbathing in Arctic Siberia. While Corona-virus imperils us at per [...]
Children’s literature of War and Peace in the Twentieth Century
This is a longer post than usual, in celebration of a significant project on children’s literature, undertaken by School of Education [...]
Poetry and picture books celebrating fathers
With Fathers Day just around the corner, here are some picture books which celebrate dads: Daddy Long Legs – Nadine Brun-Cosme & A [...]
Useful booklists
We had some students in the Centre recently looking for picture books that they could use to enrich a music lesson. You can search our catal [...]
Science through story
Our latest booklist is a catalogue of good quality picture books that would enrich many a science topic. Click here for the full lis [...]
Recommended books for challenging transphobia
Wednesday 17th May 2017 was International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia and I was fortunate enough to join the related se [...]
New EYS/KS1 inclusive picture book and an old favourite
Some of our students have been looking at using children’s books during sessions on inclusion this week, and I have enj [...]
Brilliant books for Autism Awareness Week
March 27th to 2nd April 2017 is School’s Autism Awareness Week. The National Autistic Society has free teacher resource packs from Ear [...]
February is LGBT History Month
What is LGBT History Month? LGBT History Month is an annual month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history and t [...]
Multimodal children’s books
We’ve had a lot of requests recently from students for recommendations of multimodal children’s books. There has been a bit o [...]
Be prepared for the new academic year
Catch up with what’s been happening in the world of children’s books over the summer with this handy list of recent award win [...]
May is National Share-a-Story Month
May is National Share-a-Story Month (NSSM), an annual celebration of storytelling and story sharing. NSSM was founded by the Federati [...]
