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Announcing the shortlist for Big Book Award 2026…
We are very excited to reveal the six books shortlisted for Big Book Award 2026. Each of them has been enthusiastically recommended by Year 5 and 6 pupils in Shropshire primary schools. Between them, they spent 8 weeks reading more than 70 titles nominated for the Award by leading UK publishers – all published in
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Calling all children’s authors, illustrators and publishers…
…send in your submissions to the Big Book Award 2024 longlist NOW! Shropshire Bookfest’s Book Awards is...
Call for Submissions to Shropshire Bookfest Book Awards 2022
Shropshire Bookfest’s Book Awards is a child-led reading development initiative delivered into Shropshire primary schools every two...
Land’s End to John O’Groats – DONE and DUSTED!
Chair of Shrewsbury Bookfest Trustees, Sophie Peach, and her husband Huw arrived in John O’Groats on Saturday...
Land’s End to John O’Groats
Chair of Shrewsbury Bookfest Trustees, Sophie Peach, is in en route from one end of the country...
Winners of the Schools’ Week 2021 Creative Writing Competition are announced
Inspired by the fantastic workshops delivered into classrooms by leading children’s authors at earlier in the year,...
“Miss…I never liked English before we did this (Schools’ Week 2021)”
Year 6 teacher, Corinne Davies-Griffith divulged this piece of news to the world from one of her...
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