The year’s outstanding debut authors for children: shortlist for the 2023 Branford Boase Award announced.Jacqueline Wilson - our Guest Editor of the Month.Branford Boase 2023 – what the judges had to say about the shortlist.Read Hour returns for its third year in the UK with Moomin Characters.In its 20th year, the shortlist for CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award) reflects the wealth of talent in children’s poetry.Soon, he’s hiding acorns in his pockets to feed to her every time he sees her. He also meets Jemima the pig: she smells and she slobbers, she breaks out of her pen to steal potatoes, and she’s the undisputed queen of the farm. When a young boy goes from the city to stay on the farm, he discovers a world he never knew existed – a world of vegetable gardens, ducks and geese, where the sheep graze in the fields, where apples and pears grow in the orchard. You’ll eat like kings and queens, sleep like logs, and you’ll hardly be out of your wellies, except in bed.’ ‘You’re farmers for a week, so you’ll be busy. The first of many Farm Tales to come, it is a window onto the countryside, and the way its landscape and animals can leave an impression on a child’s heart (£1, WBD Book, published 17 Feb) From Michael Morpurgo, co-founder of the charity Farms for City Children, this charming story for early readers evokes the wonder, muck and magic of a week on the farm. World Book Day wants to see more children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with a life-long habit of reading for pleasure and the improved life chances this brings them. Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success – more than their family circumstances, their parents’ educational background or their income.
Its mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own.
World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and shared reading. These charming stories for early readers evoke the wonder, muck and magic of a week on the farm. Farms for City Children enables children with their teachers to live and work for a week on one of the charity’s three farms. These books are inspired by the charity, Farms for City Children , that Michael Morpurgo founded with his wife Clare in 1976. The book is the first of many Farms for City Children Tales written by Michael Morpurgo. The children and teachers were dressed up in their World Book Day costumes for the reading (and Michael Morpurgo even 'borrowed' Mr Kimber's Cat in the Hat costume for the event!) which made the event even more atmospheric.
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