Children's column: reaching the teensFriday, 3rd April 2009
Puffin has recently published a debut novel for teens, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden , by Helen Grant, under the Penguin logo. Research has shown that teenagers will...
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Children's column: come into the gardenFriday, 27th March 2009
One of the many successes of the National Year of Reading, we were told , was the establishment of Reading Gardens, with over 100,000 visitors to the Reading Garden at...
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Children's column: books for all agesFriday, 20th March 2009
Patrick Ness's inspiring blog is offering advice for writers. Although Ness, Booktrust's writer-in-virtual-residence, has come to our attention with his...
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Library column: children's books show the wayTuesday, 17th March 2009
The apparently gloomy CIPFA figures reveal a formula for success in libraries, Liz Dubber and Miranda Mckearney write On the face of it, the latest Chartered Institute of...
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Children's column: make 'em laughFriday, 13th March 2009
Red Nose Day today (13 March) makes me think of children's authors who have done something funny for money. Mark Twain wrote: There are several kinds of stories, but only...
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Library column: Orange at the grassrootsTuesday, 10th March 2009
Orange has used its prize sponsorship to promote reading far beyond medialand, Penny Shapland writes I ve always admired the way Orange uses its sponsorship of the Orange...
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Children's column: Bookstart and future readersFriday, 6th March 2009
While helping out at a bookstall at a school f te a few years ago, I overheard a woman say with pride that she had a new grandchild, a few months old. In that case, I...
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Dubai - celebrating the infinite variety of life and literatureTuesday, 3rd March 2009
According to the map on the screen in front of me, I'm 36,006 feet above ground and travelling at 'a true air speed' of 554mph aboard an Emirates flight out of Dubai en...
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Children's column: heroic readersFriday, 27th February 2009
The book trade is in most ways a business like any other, about selling and the bottom line. But every now and again something reminds us of the specialness of this...
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Opinion: It's all in the sauceMonday, 23rd February 2009
If we're going to get through the recession, we need to tackle some fundamental trade issues, Trevor Dolby writes With two months of 2009 nearly gone, we are all looking...
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