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2025 Outstanding Books for Children with Disabilities List IBBY UK entries

1 week ago | booksforkeeps.co.uk | Andrea Reece

Shit Bag by Xena Knox (Hachette) and I Am, You Are by Ashley Harris Whaley, illustrated by Hannah Wood (Ladybird Books, Penguin Random House) are the entries selected by IBBY UK for inclusion in the 2025 Outstanding Books for Children with Disabilities List. This list comprises forty titles selected from 200 submissions from IBBY sections around the world. This year’s final selection came from 24 countries and includes 18 languages.
My Name is Samim

2 weeks ago | booksforkeeps.co.uk | Andrea Reece

Bfk 272 May 2025ISBN: 978-1782509301Price: £7.99Publisher: Floris BooksGenre: Age Range: 10-14 Middle/SecondaryLength: 296pp Buy the Book This, as the title suggests, is Samim’s story. Samim is thirteen and the book begins with him in an adult detention centre – because he is tall. He has been travelling since he was nine years old and left Afghanistan following the death of his family.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce and BookTrust release first Reading Rights Report

2 weeks ago | booksforkeeps.co.uk | Andrea Reece

Waterstones Children’s Laureate, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and BookTrust have released the Children’s Laureate’s inaugural ‘Reading Rights’ Report. The Reading Rights: Books Build a Brighter Future Interim Report calls on national and local leaders in early years, health, education and culture to come together to make reading a part of daily life for every child in the first seven years of life.
Once I Was a Tree

3 weeks ago | booksforkeeps.co.uk | Andrea Reece

A tree tells us the story of its life, from seed to … well, you’ll have to wait until the end of the story to find that out, but it’s worth it. Once I was a tree, it begins, and we have to turn the book on its side to see the tree in all its leafy glory. We hear how it got to be so tall, how it started as a seed in a pinecone, was eaten by a squirrel named Derek and, in a scene children will love, emerged some days later from Derek’s bottom.
Authorgraph 272: Matt Goodfellow

3 weeks ago | booksforkeeps.co.uk | Andrea Reece

Matt Goodfellow interviewed by Clive Barnes. It has taken Matt Goodfellow a while to discover where his talent might find a home.
Reimagining Little Red Riding Hood: an interview with Beth O’ Brien

3 weeks ago | booksforkeeps.co.uk | Andrea Reece

Talented and charming, poet Beth O’Brien is the founder and editor of Disabled Tales, a website dedicated to analysing the way disability is represented in folkloric literature. Wolf Siren, her dazzling debut novel for Middle Grade readers, is empowered by her own voice, her affinity with nature and her reimagining of an iconic fairy tale. Tanja Jennings spoke to Beth for Books for Keeps. Born visually impaired, Beth O’Brien grew up learning about how other people see through the art of reading.
Traumaland - Books For Keeps

1 month ago | booksforkeeps.co.uk | Andrea Reece

Fresh from the success of his dystopian HappyHead series, Silver’s new novel is a mind melting psychological thriller which delves into the stark realities and scars of mental health and trauma, juxtaposing them with a sinister virtual reality. This is fuelled by a visceral horror movie scape that is being manipulated for nefarious ends.
Next stop Shakespeare’s Globe - finalists of Poetry By Heart competition 2025 announced

1 month ago | booksforkeeps.co.uk | Andrea Reece

Poetry By Heart, the national poetry speaking competition, has revealed the names of the young people chosen to compete in its 2025 Grand Finale, taking place at Shakespeare’s Globe, London on Monday 7 July. Amongst those cheering them in the audience will be Minister of State (Minister of School Standards) Catherine McKinnell MP. Founded by former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion and current co-director Dr Julie Blake MBE, Poetry By Heart is open to all schools and colleges in England.
School Library Association announces Information Book Award longlist and new nationwide Book Club

1 month ago | booksforkeeps.co.uk | Andrea Reece

The School Library Association has announced the longlist for the Information Book Award (IBA). Schools across the UK can now also sign up to join a nationwide Book Club, based around the Information Book Award, and organised by the SLA. Schools who take part in the book club will have the opportunity to vote for four winners in the IBA’s Children’s Choice categories.
Good Golden Sun - Books For Keeps

1 month ago | booksforkeeps.co.uk | Andrea Reece

Filled with all the light and warmth of the sun, Brendan Wenzel’s picture book leads readers through a day, tracking the sun from the first rays of dawn until it disappears over the horizon at day’s end. We experience it through different living creatures, each of whom rely on the sun, the text, in gentle, perfectly paced verse, posing their questions: ‘Good golden sun, where have you been?