Showing posts with label Booktrust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Booktrust. Show all posts
Thursday, 7 February 2019
"Flights of Fancy: Stories, pictures and inspiration from ten Children's Laureates" by various authors / illustrators (Walker Books)
It's the 20th Anniversary of the Waterstones Children's Laureateship, in partnership with Booktrust and Walker Books are publishing this very special book to celebrate the talents of Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen, Julia Donaldson, Anthony Browne, Malorie Blackman, Chris Riddell and Lauren Child. So yep, a "who's who" of just about all our favourite book folk then, so you just know this is going to be good!
Children's Laureates are the perfect ambassadors for children's literature, and have each spent their years working in conjunction with Book Trust and other organisations to promote and enhance children's literary experiences in each case.
This beautiful gift anthology marks twenty wonderful years of the Laureateship, with some wonderful anecdotes from each of the laureates from their time in the chair, to stories, poems and pictures by all ten former honourees. Among others, Quentin Blake tells the stories behind his pictures of weird and wonderful beasts, Michael Morpurgo draws on childhood memories for a moving wartime tale and Michael Rosen plays with language and shapes in his witty, read-aloud poems.
Each contribution is designed to inspire children to create their own work, and is accompanied by a note from the authors – rare insights from the finest talent in the world of children’s books. Above all else, Flights of Fancy celebrates the Laureateship's most important achievement: encouraging children to let their imaginations soar.
50p from every copy sold goes to Booktrust.
Sum this book up in a sentence: A fantastic collection of inspirational stories, poems and illustrations from some of the mightiest talents working in kid lit today.
"Flights of Fancy" by various authors and artists, is out now published by Walker Books (kindly supplied for review).
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Catching up with awesome BookTrust things with lots of news for 2017
Labels:
BathBookBed,
Booktrust,
Nadia Shireen,
Sarah McIntyre
This year’s Bath, Book, Bed campaign has been launched, which aims to help parents get little ones to sleep with reading as a vital part of the bedtime routine. Here’s this year’s bedtime booklist for little ones: http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/children/booklists/444/ and the campaign, supported by Supernanny Jo Frost and dad superstar Daddy Pig - http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/children/bath-book-bed
This month, BookTrust have the theme of nature for their online content, it being May and all! Check out Fish Boy author Chloe Daykin’s recommendations for nature-themed children’s books here: http://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-blogs/blogs/booktrust/1123 and a nature nonfiction booklist here: http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/children/booklists/445/
The BookTrust current Writer in Residence is the awesome Sarah McIntyre who has been blogging some amazing stuff! This week, why it’s fantastic to be a co-author: http://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-blogs/blogs/booktrust/1129
BookTrust are also really excited to announce that this year’s Time to Read book, sent to every Reception-aged child in England, will be Nadia Shireen’s The Bumblebear! http://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-blogs/news/1445
Awesome news all round. Keep up with the BookTrust website for more information and news.
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Booktrust Bookbuzz 2013 Titles announced!
Labels:
Bookbuzz 2013 titles list,
Booktrust
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| Books Buzzing with Excitement! |
It's a cracking line-up including some of our recent favourite EY readers including:
Soldier Dog by Sam Angus (Macmillan)
Butterfly Summer by Anne-Marie Conway (Usborne)
After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross (Oxford University Press)
Dear Scarlett by Fleur Hitchcock (Nosy Crow)
Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud by Andrew Lane (Macmillan)
Sky Hawk by Gill Lewis (Oxford University Press)
Payback by Graham Marks (Franklin Watts)
Space: The Whole Whizz Bang Story by Glenn Murphy (Macmillan)
Gods and Warriors by Michelle Paver (Penguin)
Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things by Michael Rosen (Penguin)
Dark Lord: The Teenage Years by Jamie Thomson (Orchard Books)
My Best Friend and Other Enemies by Catherine Wilkins (Nosy Crow)
Killer Animals: The Wimp’s Guide by Tracey Turner (Franklin Watts)
Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants by Giles Andreae and Korky Paul (Penguin)
The Pirates Next Door by Jonny Duddle (Templar)
Oh Dear Geoffrey! by Gemma O'Neill (Templar)
Giggle Giggle What's So Funny? by Ben Mantle (Macmillan)
Schools can register and qualify for Early Bird bonuses if applications are received before 7th June, netting them an extra set of books for the school library.
If you're a teacher or a parent on the Parent Teacher Committee, hop onto the Bookbuzz website for more details!
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Booktime 2013 Titles Announced - our super-secret mission earlier this year!
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| Happy reading books! It's Booktime! |
We're now able to tell you what it was all about, and it's very exciting news indeed.
The Booktime 2013-2014 titles have been officially announced and they are:
"But Excuse Me, That is My Book" by Lauren Child (Charlie and Lola) - Published by Puffin
"Tom's Mad Mop" by Celia Warren and Bill Ledger (Bug Club Series) - Published by Pearson UK
730,000 children aged 4-5 in England and Wales will each receive a free Booktime book pack in their first year of primary school. With two free books in every pack, along with additional copies for teachers and librarians, 1.5 million books in total will be given through Booktime, which aims to inspire a lifelong love of reading by encouraging families to have fun reading together.
The selection panel included teachers, librarians and us and the selection process was pretty tricky, so many great books were included this year and it was an extremely tough job to choose between them.
You can see our review of "But Excuse Me, That Is My Book" by clicking the link. It's a glorious celebration of libraries and books, and several changes - driven by feedback from the panel - have now been included in the book (a busier library, yay!) Charlie and Lola are a massive hit with Charlotte, and she loves trips to the libraries so the book was a brilliant choice.
"Tom's Mad Mop" is also brilliant, an early reader book that fizzes with energy and excitement and with a little sunshine slowly creeping out from behind the clouds, the perfect book to celebrate watery antics in the garden this summer. We can't wait to get out there and do exactly that!
We really hope you enjoy the books, we really enjoyed being involved in the process and are right behind Bookstart and Booktime all the way.
Here's a pic from the super secret selection process!
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| The lovely Booktrust 2013 Selection Panel. Many biscuits were consumed, particularly by that fellah in the middle! |
Friday, 22 February 2013
Booktrust, The Duchess of Cornwall and James Patterson behind new "Get Dads Reading" campaign
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| How cool and rewarding is reading to your child? We know! Want to know more? |
The Booktrust is spearheading a campaign to encourage more dads to read to their children. With the aid of "The Dad's Army", an A-List of celebrities, authors and high profile dads, they're encouraging dads to become more involved and to find out for themselves just how rewarding reading to their children can be.
Obviously this is a delicious idea and a good fit for the #readitMD2013 (Read It Mummies and Daddies 2013) campaign we started way back in January. We initially thought it would be a good idea to focus on dads, but widened the campaign to include mums who also miss out on reading to their children. Though the numbers show that just 26% of dads are the "main readers" to their children at home, with all sorts of reasons given for why they don't read more often to their kids, mums too need the same support and encouragement for the same reasons, particularly in households where they are the main or indeed the only breadwinner.
We're right behind the Booktrust campaign every step of the way! Join the Dad's (And mums) army who already know how great reading to your children is.
There's an awesome post from a reading daddy here that is definitely worth a read through. We are out there, we really are.
There's an awesome post from a reading daddy here that is definitely worth a read through. We are out there, we really are.
Monday, 1 October 2012
It's Children's Book Week over at BookTrust! Here's how to participate...
Labels:
Booktrust,
CBW,
Children's Book Week,
Rebecca Cobb
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| Children's Book Week Illustration by Rebecca Cobb |
It's Children's Book Week over at the BookTrust and to celebrate, there are a whole host of activities and busy little things going on to entice parents, kids, libraries and schools to take part.
To start with, visit the BookTrust CBW Website to kick off your week in children's books.
Then click through the links for activity sheets in different categories:
and plenty of resources to back up Key Stage 1 in schools.
Children's Book Week has been running for the past 80 years! Wow! We're happy to endorse CBW here at ReadItDaddy (where it's ALWAYS Children's Book Week!) so please take a few moments to visit and support a very worthy cause.
Friday, 10 August 2012
The Bookstart Pre-School Treasure Bag arrives!
Labels:
Axel Scheffler,
Bookstart,
Bookstart Bear Club,
Booktrust,
Julia Donaldson,
Kali Stileman,
Peely Wally,
The Smartest Giant in Town,
Treasure Bag of Stories
All through Charlotte's time at Nursery / Preschool we've received these fantastic Booktrust Bookstart bundles, and every time a new one arrives it's so exciting to delve in and find out what's inside.
The BookStart "Treasure Bag of Stories" contains a superb set of coloured pencils, a sketch pad, lots of great activities and ideas and of course two absolutely corking good picture books - Peely Wally by Kali Stileman, and "The Smartest Giant in Town" by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (your pack contents may vary but rest assured, whatever you get, it'll be superb!)
The goodies come in a lovely sturdy little bag perfect for children's first books brought home from "Big School" library.
We've long been champions of the Booktrust Bookstart project, and it's good to know that celebrities such as Jamie Oliver, Colleen Rooney and Michael Rosen back the Booktrust.
There's a ton of useful information for parents and pledgers on the Bookstrust Website.
Drop by today and make a pledge, and also sign up for the Bookstart Bear Club to get personalised books and other superb little goodies.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Richard & Judy-endorse new Kid's Book Club
Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan are extending their book recommendations to cover children's books, in a partnership with both WH Smith and The Book Trust.
The initial selection of books carries recommendations from contemporary titles, such as 'Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder' (highbrow stuff) as well as classics like Elisabeth Beresford's 'Wombles' books.
The aim is a good one - to make more and more parents aware of both the Book Trust, and a selection of new and established writers whose works are worthy of mention in the Richard and Judy 'list'.
As with the adult book recommendations, a team of individuals work in conjunction with the popular daytime TV presenters to ensure that recommended books meet exacting standards.
The adult scheme has seen many authors propelled into the best sellers list almost overnight. Anything that generates a huge amount of interest in reading and books can only be a good thing particularly when it's aimed at youngsters.
More information is available from the Book Trust website: http://www.booktrust.org.uk/Home
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