If you like your stories ghostly, scary, supernatural and steeped in legend & folklore, then The Red Gloves by Catherine Fisher is the collection for you. @fireflypress.bsky.social Here’s my review for @justimaginecentre.bsky.social justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

We're having a poetry parade! A F Harrold joins us for a Children's Authors Live event on Friday, 24th October at 10.00. There will be poetry readings and lots of ideas for writing your own poems, too. Details here buff.ly/PuwcSUq

Join Aaron Becker in his studio this Friday afternoon. Find out about the making of The Last Zookeeper, take a peek at what Aaron is working on now and see the space where he works. Schools and home educators can register here justimagine.co.uk/childrens-au...

Bright Beginnings. There's still time to register Classic Nursery stories with James Mayhew. James' events are among the most popular of our Evening in series - entertaining and informative. All welcome @otterbarrybooks

Here are this week’s book reviews. Thank you to all our fantastic reviewers: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Coming up Thursday, 16th October, 7.00 pm... one of our most popular evenings of the year. Our Halloween special with Jack McKay, Laura Theis, Christopher Edge and Michelle Robinson. Make it a family night in. justimagine.co.uk/evening-in/h...

Here are our latest round-up of book reviews. Thank you to all our reviewers this week: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

This week’s round up of book reviews did you. Thank you to all our fantastic reviewers this week: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Drumroll 🥁 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Just Imagine’s 3000th book review! Thank you Lucy Timmons for your fantastic review of Fablehouse: Heart of Fire: ‘a tale of hidden magic, shapeshifting talents, friendship and belonging...’ Read full review here: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Our friends @englishassociation.bsky.social are collecting stories of how teachers are planning to support the National Year of Reading. Let them know here: bit.ly/4-11YearOfRe... #nationalyearofreading

Here are this week’s round-up of book reviews. Thank you to all our reviewers this week: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Does your class love graphic novels? We are thrilled that Mai K. Nguyen is joining us for a Children's Authors Live event on Friday, 26th September at 1:15 justimagine.co.uk/author-live/... @uklitassociation.bsky.social @sconnor7.bsky.social @samcreighton.bsky.social

Here are all our latest book reviews this week. Thank you to all our reviewers: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

All the details for Michael Rosen Day November 13 www.michaelrosen.co.uk/michaelrosen...

Your 2026 UKLA Book Awards Longlists are here - the only national children’s book awards judged by teachers! This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes. Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...

Start with a Teapot by Enric Lax is such an original, imaginative and funny book to encourage us to be creative, have a go, make mistakes and draw! Love it! @geckopress.bsky.social

Shoes! A Footwear Fashion Frolic by Anna Davies and Daisy Wynter from Cicada Books is a visual treat from cover to end, filled with fascinating facts about shoes, shoe designers through the 20th century. I love it!

An exciting fast-paced adventure by Katya Balen filled with quirky characters, mudlarking, magic and history. Another new @justimaginecentre.bsky.social Reading Gladiators book club choice for Year 2. My review for Just Imagine here: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

The River Thief is a highly engrossing multi-layered story combining early seventeenth history, folklore, adventure and nature. And a new @justimagine_books Reading Gladiator Book Club choice for Year 5. @templarbooks.bsky.social Review for Just Imagine here: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Our first September book reviews. Thank you to all our wonderful reviewers: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Join Justin Somper for this fun-filled event to kick start the new school year..

Registration for the Reading Gladiators and Power-Up Book clubs is now open. vimeo.com/1114671306?s... To find out more about this award-winning book club, visit readinggladiators.org.uk

August book review round-up. Thank you to all our reviewers this month: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-book… Many of them are on our new recommended booklists: justimagine.co.uk/book-lists/ And they are all available to purchase at Best Books for Schools: bestbooksforschools.com

Part 2 of this week’s book reviews. We hope you find some inspiration for bank holiday reading. Thank you to all our reviewers this week: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Part 1 of this week’s book reviews. Many of our books reviewed this week are on our recommended book lists for the new school term: justimagine.co.uk/book-lists/ Thank you to all our reviewers this week: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Totally agree with you @stephenjdilley.bsky.social An incredibly powerful YA story with very real characters. Full of tension that keeps you reading and very relevant themes of today. @nmgarrard.bsky.social @oldbarnbooks.bsky.social

Our reviewers have been busy this week! Thank you to everyone who has reviewed for us this week. Happy weekend reading everyone: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Here are all our latest reviews for you. Thank you to all our reviewers this week! justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Here are the latest book reviews for this week, many of which are on our updated recommended book lists. Thank you to all our reviewers this week: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Here are all our book reviews from the month of July. Thank you to all our wonderful reviewers! justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo... Many of these books are on our newly updated Recommended Book Lists for the new school year. You can find them here by year group: justimagine.co.uk/book-lists/

Our reviewers have been very busy reading this week! Part 3 of this week’s book reviews for you. Thank you @mrwcardiff.bsky.social and Eve Bearne: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Here is our 2nd round-up of book reviews for you this week. Thank you to all our reviewers: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Here is this week’s round-up of book reviews for you. Thank you to all our reviewers this week: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Here is our first round-up of reviews for the summer holidays for you. Happy reading everyone! Thank you @librarylady.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @samcreighton.bsky.social @barbaraevav.bsky.social and all our other reviewers this week: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

The shortlist for the 2025 #LittleRebelsAward has been announced, one of our favourite awards. Congratulations to all the interrupters on this year's list! Winner announced in October @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social #BookSky #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/debut-author...

Out now! #BfK273, our #summer special! Authorgraph interview Kenneth Oppel, Windows into Illustration Jarvis, new Beyond the Secret Garden, new Picture This, Nikesh Shukla on reading for pleasure + interviews, new #childrensbook reviews & more #KidLit #BookSky 😎 booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...

Part 2 of our latest round-up of reviews this week. Thank you to all our reviewers this week! justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Here is our latest round-up of reviews this week. Thank you to all our reviewers this week! justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Here they are in all their glory! Congratulations to all the 2025 Spark! Book Award Winners and a huge thank you to all the children and young people who read the books, entered the competitions, came to the author visits and voted for our winners! ✨📚🏆

How do we build a diverse curriculum that addresses harmful material in historical literature? Join @literacy_trust @rapclassroom @ksandsoconnor @connor_allen92 for FREE CPD – and take away a FREE copy of ‘Beyond the Secret Garden’ 📆10 July 📍Cardiff Book now: literacytrust.org.uk/events/creat...

Just announced: the winners of the 2025 @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Awards. Congratulations to all the winning authors and illustrators and to the UKLA judges #UKLA25 #teachersbookawards #KidLitUK 💐 booksforkeeps.co.uk/winners-of-t...

Part 1 of our latest book reviews this weekend. Thank you to all our reviewers this week: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Part 2 of our latest book reviews this weekend. Thank you to all our reviewers this week: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

📖✨Get free access to Glasgow Boys, the #Carnegies2025 Medal for Writing winner! 👥 Read the digital title with your group for a two-week period, with no waitlists! It will be available on Sora or @libbyapp.com from 20 June to 4 July.📱💡 Find out how to take part here 👉 carnegies.co.uk/together-we-...

Clever Crow has won the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Illustration! Congratulations to Olivia Lomenech Gill and @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social‬! #Carnegies2025

Part 1 of our latest round-up of book reviews for you this week! Thank you to all our fantastic reviewers: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Part 2 of our latest round-up of book reviews for you this week! Thank you to all our fantastic reviewers: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

NEW READING RECORD: We would love you to try out The Reading Journey, so we are offering a month's free trial with no obligation this June. To take advantage of this offer, email your request to [email protected], and we will do the rest.

Thrilled to have Barbara Henderson's Rivet Boy in Reading Gladiators next year.. Our reviewer @librarylady writes '‘The intertwining of historical fact and exciting story is extremely well executed, enabling readers to learn alongside being entertained.’ @scattyscribbler.bsky.social‬

We're excited to see the strong interest in Reading Gladiators since our launch on Wednesday. If you missed it, you can watch the replay here justimagine.co.uk/2025/06/07/r.... Register by the end of June to receive books before the end of the term.