The Carnegies celebrate outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration and are unique in being judged by children’s and youth librarians, with the respective Shadowers’ Choice Medals voted for by children and young people. 16 books have been shortlisted in total, with eight in each category for the Carnegie Medal for Writing and Carnegie Medal … Continue reading The Carnegies 2025 Shortlist Announced!
A total of 35 titles have been selected from 19 different publishers; 19 titles for the Carnegie Medal for Writing, and 16 for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration. – common themes include masculinity and a search for self, grief and recovery. Click here to read more about the fantastic books that have been chosen. The 2025 Carnegie … Continue reading The Carnegies 2025 – Longlist Announced
Whenever a new series of books is announced by a publishers myself and fellow BookBound blogger, Helen, are always eager to get our hands on them and dive right in. When we met up to discuss who would be reviewing the titles we had in mind for our blog it fell to Helen to read … Continue reading Little Experts Series by Red Shed
The Midnight Guardians Christmas 1940 and Col has been evacuated from London to the country to stay with an aunt. Both Col’s parents are dead and he only has a sister who is left behind in London. Together with Col's childhood imaginary friends ( a Bengal tiger, a badger and a miniature knight ) they … Continue reading Looking back at some of my Literary favourites
As this years Dyslexia Awareness Week draws to a close we at BookBound wanted to share titles that have featured on our blog so far this year that have been published with Dyslexic children in mind in both content and design, and the fantastic Barrington Stoke publish just such books. The books are written by … Continue reading Wrapping Up Dyslexia Awareness Week with a round up of Barrington Stoke 2022 titles to date
No Such Thing Written and Illustrated by Ella Bailey Before we know it Halloween will be upon us, and we will be thinkingof trick and treating.Well Georgia has more on her mind, strange things keep happeningand she needs to get to the bottom of it. She finds a simpleexplanation for all the strange happens but … Continue reading Fantastic titles from Flying Eye Books
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