News

The Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards 2022

Are you passionate about encouraging your students to read for pleasure? The Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards are back to recognise those teachers and schools who really make a difference! To celebrate the triumphant teachers who successfully promote children’s reading for pleasure, both within and beyond the classroom, we’re once… Read More

Reading for Pleasure Book Club

Information about the Reading for Pleasure Book Club now lives on the Book Squad website. Take a look here.  If you would like to catch up on previous book clubs (academic years 23/24 and earlier) then see below! Get ready to use your imaginations — and your bodies!… Read More

Children’s gift giving guide: Middle grade recommendations

The festive season is here and what better gift to give than the gift of reading. We have compiled a list of some of our best-selling middle grade fiction, perfect for holiday reading! Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston When… Read More

Stocking Fillers for Young Readers

Struggling to find the perfect gifts for the young readers in your life? From Christmassy winter-warmers with powerful messages to beautifully illustrated classics, there’s something for the whole family to enjoy in this Christmas gift guide. Cindergorilla By Gareth P. Jones, Illustrated by… Read More

Cosy Winter Reads

It’s the most wonderful time of the year and nothing gets us in a more festive mood like sitting in a candle-lit room with a fluffy blanket, some hot cocoa, and a carefully selected book from our TBR pile. Allow us to share with you some of our… Read More

Shop The Beano Collection

Beano Dennis & Gnasher: Battle for Bash Street School Can a group of ten year old mates (and one scruffy dog) really outwit the most fiendish, cunning teachers in the universe and, after millions of years, finally make school cool?! When mysterious new teachers arrive to lay down the… Read More

Electrifying Books for Spooky Season

A spooky reading list is as essential to Halloween as the age old traditions of rewatching Hocus Pocus for the 80th time and adding pumpkin spiced flavouring to literally everything. So, naturally, we had to sprinkle some Halloween energy onto our recommended reads for October. Discover why these thrilling… Read More

Spend Christmas with Thomas and his Friends!

Join Thomas and his friends for a festive adventure! In this beautifully-illustrated picture book, Thomas and Percy must work against the clock to clear the snow and deliver the presents for Christmas. Can they make it in time? AMAZON | WATERSTONES The Thomas… Read More

It’s coming home! And by it, we mean these football-themed books…

Huddle up, it’s time to chat football! If the Euros means footy-fever has taken over your house, then we’re here to help take it off-screen and into your TBR pile instead. Teamwork, playing by the rules, and good role models, there’s plenty to learn from football, so we’ve gathered our… Read More

WIN with The Caravan at the Edge of Doom

To celebrate the release of Jim Beckett’s hilarious new book The Caravan at the Edge of Doom we’re giving you the chance to win a signed copy, along with a limited edition bookmark and postcard. Enter below for your chance to win… Win a signed copy… Read More

Read the first four chapters of Dark and Shallow Lies!

La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. When seventeen-year-old Grey makes her annual visit to La Cachette, Louisiana – the tiny bayou town that proclaims to be the “Psychic Capital of the World” – she knows it will be different from past… Read More

Farshore to drop punctuation throughout their books and communications

HarperCollins imprint Farshore has made the groundbreaking announcement they will no longer be using punctuation in their books or communications This momentous move is based on unique new data gathered by their senior researcher Dr Lucas Matthews Read More