🏆Congratulations to 'Listen to This Story! An Exhibition about Children’s Books and Black Britain' nominated for the #EngageAwardsNCL Engaging for Cultural Benefit Award

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📣We are delighted to reveal the 18 titles longlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2023📣

A dazzling collection of books for ages 0-12 which promote social justice with compassion and joy!

This year…

And for the very first time…

The #LittleRebelsAward will be broadcasting its longlist. There were so many fabulous radical & rebellious reads submitted this year, we wanted to give (at least) some of them a 🚀boost🚀

***NEXT WEDNESDAY!***

OMG! Have you SEEN our 2023 longlists? Aren't the stunning? Each one is a jewel, an entire treasure trove all by itself.

(Links to information on books and where to buy in replies)

#JhalakPrize23

The recent wave of children’s and young adult books about magical Black and Asian characters has been long overdue. Just submitted the latest #BeyondtheSecretGarden for Books for Keeps on this subject! Thanks as ever to Karen Sands-O'Connor!

This World Book Day UK 📚 was nothing short of EPIC! So many awesome costumes 🥹 all of you parents and children deserve applause 👏🏿 here are some of my fave bits from the tons of pics I received. 🤩

Occasionally I write books. This one made beautiful by ⁦Katie Hickey⁩ and bought to you by the wonderful ⁦Barrington Stoke⁩ It’s the early story of the first African/British bestselling author and activist, Oluadah Equiano

Latest CLPE blog stars #LittleRebelsAward Judge Farrah (@storyriver) delving in to the radical content of the 2022 Shortlist:

We're delighted to be co-hosting this webinar with our great friends CLPE Farrah Serroukh

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British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour is now available open access, covering activists from the 19th century to Black Lives Matter UK.

Side by side! Danny Chung Sums It Up (my debut novel title in the U.S.) next to Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu which comes out March 28 in North America.

'Perhaps my book might help a British Chinese child feel seen for the first time in British children’s literature? That’s my personal hope.' Important new blog from Maisie Chan - author (away) for The Bookseller
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Congratulations Sarah Hagger-Holt on winning the Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction 2022 with Proud of Me 🤩🌈🤩🌈

And we’re off! We CLPE ❤️the Little Rebels Award and we are proud that they have chosen our Literacy Library as the place to announce this year’s winner - as Charlotte Hacking says “it’s an award that supports the books that grow children’s hearts and minds”

Judge Farrah Serroukh on Sunflower Sisters:
'I liked the book's heart; its about owning our distinctive beauty.'
#OverheardOnARooftop
#LittleRebelsAward
Dr Monika Singh Gangotra
Michaela Dias-Hayes
Owlet Press

Judge Farrah Serroukh on Proud of Me:
'The narrative is multidimensional and nuanced; it's affirming; there's a real feeling of truth and authenticity; it offers a template into the beginnings of conversations.'
#OverheardOnARooftop
#LittleRebelsAward
Sarah Hagger-Holt
Usborne Publishing

'Exploring West African myths was a way to understand what my ancestors believed, the tales they told and the way they morphed over time.'New Q&A interview with #BranfordBoase shortlisted author & editor, Natasha Bowen & Carmen McCullough #writing #editing
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