Northamptonshire CBG

Congratulations to the outstanding school librarians on the honours list for the 2025 @uksla Secondary School #Librarian of the Year Award, the Peter Usborne Primary School #Library of the Year Award, & the Enterprise Award. Be inspired🔽 booksforkeeps.co.uk/the-school-lib…

COMPETITION TIME! To celebrate the launch of @philearle's much-anticipated follow-up to When the Sky Falls, we're giving away a class set of THE DAWN OF ADONIS plus posters & bookmarks to one lucky school. Plus an extra 10 schools will win a book & poster RT by 26/06 to win!

An island of strangers? Just imagine what British children's books would be like without the work of migrants & their children – all of these & more! sfsaid.com/2017/02/one-da…

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Taken literally, ‘Island of Strangers’ is nonsensical. But symbolically it weaves Powellism, notions of belonging, and blood and soil nationalism into one phrase. And it further emboldens the racists.

What a lovely Easter hamper to win! Thank you @QuartoKids @FCBGNews. @NorthantsCBG - we need to find a kitchen for an event!

On Tue Mar 4th join illustrator Nanette Regan in a live school zoom event at 10.30 FREE to NCBG members ( school membership just £25) Contact Secretary.ncbg@gmail.com to book your place

A few snaps from our Beyond the Secret Garden launch. We chatted & celebrated, listened to some lovely speeches, and then chatted some more after the event. Delighted that so many people could make it along. Thanks to everyone who did and to everyone who sent messages of support.

"Children's programmes, as we know them, are in crisis." Guest editor Baroness @FloellaBenjamin tells #R4Today she believes not enough is being done to make children's television 'for now'.

Good luck to all the shortlisted authors and illustrators in this very special award! 🌟 #FCBGCBA24

On Saturday we will be finding out who our FCBG Children's Book Award winners will be! If you are not attending the ceremony - Good News! We are live streaming again this year via our YouTube channel & a recording will be made 🥳🎉 #FCBGCBA24

Thank you @michaelsheen for these lovely thoughts on school libraries 🙌 #GreatSchoolLibraries

We are thrilled to share a guest blog from @KidsBloomsbury about the feast of food featured in Katherine Rundell’s stories! We are also giving away 1 set of these fab books to 1 Winner - Like, RT & share a Foodie GIF by 12 noon Fri 17th May. UK only. fcbg.org.uk/?p=20550

Here are some photo highlights from last weekends INCREDIBLE Federation conference. What a brilliant weekend it was, full of books, authors, poets, illustrators, wine, tea and lots of cake!! That’s our kind of weekend😉 #FCBG24 @FCBGNews

A week on from our #FCBG24 Conference weekend and we thought we would share a few of 'the best bits....' . We cannot wait to head to Monmouth for next year's Conference! Photograph Credit: David Bartlett

What a brilliant virtual author visit with @CatherineWard0 for our Member schools this morning. Talking about her book The Emerald Forest, we learnt lots of conservation facts and even drew our own orangutans! 🦧 📚 thank you Catherine!

Happy #WorldBookDay from all of us at Northamptonshire Children’s Book Group! How are you celebrating today? Share the costumes you’ve made and the books you’re reading! 📚💗

#northantsschools Still time to book your spot at this fantastic virtual author event! 👇👇👇 To book, contact us secretary.ncbg@gmail.com and find more details in the Facebook event link.

Check out #TheEmeraldForest, winner of the #BooksForTopics Book of the Year 2023, awarded for Best Curriculum Support by @CatherineWard0with illustrations by #KarinLittlewood. Order the hardback from our website 👉 otterbarrybooks.com/books/the-emer…