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The quiet joy of just being: an interview with poet Zaro Weil

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

In a fast-paced world dominated by screens, instant information, and amidst a reading for pleasure crisis, Zaro Weil’s nature poetry offers something precious and needed: space to breathe. Her latest poetry collection, I Hear The Trees, the third in an unplanned but unmistakable trilogy, gently invites children to step away from distraction and into a deeper awareness of the natural world, their emotions, and the quiet joy of just being.
Effervescent, scintillating, riveting!’ Collection of ‘colossal’ word poems wins the CLiPPA

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

The winner of the UK’s only national award for published poetry for children, the CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award) was announced this afternoon at a typically boissterous ceremony at the National Theatre on London’s Southbank, attended by hundreds of children. This year’s CLiPPA is awarded to Colette Hiller for her collection Colossal Words for Kids (illustrated by Tor Freeman, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books).
Summer Under the Stars

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

Four best friends, Cam, Hetal, Nell and Sasha, head off on the road trip of a lifetime. Instead of the camping trip to the Lake District they’d planned, these young women are driving to Marseille accompanying Sasha to her father’s wedding.
Winners of the 2025 Carnegie Medals announced

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

The winners of the UK’s longest-running book awards for children and young people, The Carnegie Medals, were announced on Thursday 19 June in front of an audience of over 600 young people at a live-streamed ceremony at the Cambridge Theatre, London. 2024 Carnegie Medal for Writing winner, and former Waterstones Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho hosted the event.
Extraordinary Moments from the Everyday: Olivia Lomenech Gill interview

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

Curiosity, a zeal for life and a yearning for past traditions and crafts are common themes which run through much of the work of Olivia Lomenech Gill. This year’s Carnegie Medal for Illustration winner creates art which embraces an impressive array of media and techniques often challenging readers to look and think in ways that are both detailed and deep. Jake Hope interviewed Olivia for Books for Keeps. Art was an early interest for Olivia Lomenech Gill.
Inclusive Books for Children book-gifting scheme expands again

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

Inclusive Books for Children (IBC) is enlarging its national book-gifting scheme, offering 60 boxes of 100 inclusive children’s books to state primary schools and community libraries across the UK in 2025. The scheme, originally piloted in 2024 with 12 boxes, was expanded mid-year to 34 after an overwhelming response from schools citing lack of funds and limited representation in their book provision. Now, 6,000 more books will be gifted in 2025.
School Library Association Announces 2025 Shortlists for the Information Book Award

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

The School Library Association (SLA) has announced the shortlists for the Information Book Award (IBA). The shortlisted books cover a diverse range of themes, from exploring different cultures to managing emotions, how the world works to how others experience it. The 2025 IBA shortlist shows the endless possibilities for engagement with information books, spanning everything from burps to jellyfish and art to physics.
Twenty-Four Seconds From Now An interview with Jason Reynolds

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

Jason Reynolds is the award-winning, internationally celebrated author of books for children and young adults. These include Long Way Down, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and All American Boys, co-written with Brendan Kiely. He was in the UK recently on publication of Twenty-Four Seconds From Now, a tender, honest love story about sex, desire and curiosity. Darren Chetty interviewed Jason Reynolds in person for Books for Keeps.
Naeli and the Secret Song

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

Bfk 272 May 2025ISBN: 978-1915947031Price: £7.99Publisher: Chicken HouseGenre: Age Range: 8-10 Junior/MiddleLength: 272pp Buy the Book Naeli has few memories of her father, who left for England when she was very young and never returned, but her Indian childhood has been full of the music that he and her mother shared. All she has is his name and the beloved violin he left with her, which when she plays it, makes her feels as if he is right there by her side.
Choice and reading relevant to their interests = reading for pleasure

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

The latest National Literacy Trust research into children’s reading habits is out, with its Chief Executive Jonathan Douglas describing the data as ‘stark’ and claiming that, ‘We are witnessing the lowest levels of reading enjoyment and daily reading in a generation – a critical challenge for literacy, wellbeing, and life chances.’ In the sort of gloomy statistics we are becoming used to, the research reveals that just 32.7% of children and young people aged 8 to 18 said they enjoyed reading...