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January 2024

  • Michael Morpurgo

    Michael Morpurgo backs call to ensure poorer children have access to books

    Leading children’s author says deprived children in UK are missing out on lifetime of reading for pleasure

February 2023

  • SF Said.

    Let kids read for fun says new BookTrust writer in residence SF Said

    The British Muslim author thinks no adult should belittle a child’s choice of reading and looks forward to a ‘representative ecology’ in UK children’s publishing

November 2022

  • Illustrator Dapo Adeola in front of his artwork and holding paintbrushes

    Children’s authors of colour published in UK rose to 11.7% of market in 2021

  • Half of the children surveyed by BookTrust said they wanted to receive a book that makes them laugh.

    BookTrust launches Christmas appeal with research showing parents buying fewer presents

July 2022

  • A Blue Peter badge.

    Children’s books world reacts to ‘horrible loss’ of Blue Peter book awards

    BookTrust which ran the awards said its limited resources would now be directed to disadvantaged families

November 2021

  • John Agard

    John Agard becomes first poet to win BookTrust lifetime achievement award

    Reading charity pays tribute to ‘incredible words’ of Afro-Guyanese author, who came to Britain in 1977 where he has become a staple of English lessons

July 2020

  • Wendy Cooling running activity happy hours at Bookaroo in Delhi, India, in 2017

    Wendy Cooling obituary

    Teacher, author and anthologist who founded Bookstart to give babies and toddlers their first reading experiences

June 2020

  • Jacqueline Wilson

    Jacqueline Wilson asks children to join Silly Squad this summer

    Tracy Beaker author says theme for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge is reading for fun and asks young readers to pick books that make them happy

May 2020

  • Richard Osman, the Gruffalo and Harry Potter.

    Lockdown reading
    From Harry Potter at Home to the National Shelf Service: bookish fun for the lockdown

    An updating list of online treats for bibliophiles of all ages, including Hogwarts quizzes, Simon Armitage and a star-packed reading of James and the Giant Peach

April 2019

  • Malorie Blackman

    Fewer than 2% of British children's authors are people of colour

    Only 1.96% of authors and illustrators between 2007 and 2017 were British people of colour, compared to 13% of the population

February 2018

  • Illustrators comp - John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury

    Helen Oxenbury and John Burningham win top books honour

    The couple, whose children’s books include We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and Borka, receive BookTrust’s first ever joint lifetime achievement award

November 2016

  • Kitchen Disco cover

    Thanks to Tories, not all kids have kitchens

    Letters: The austerity agenda of Clare Foges’ former employer, David Cameron, continues to create poverty and homelessness

July 2016

  • Author and illustrator Judith Kerr , who fled Hitler's Germany as a child and went on to write over 30 children's books,including one of the best selling of all time, "The Tiger who came to tea", recieves the Booktrust Lifetime Achievement Award 2016. Presented at ZSL[London Zoo] by Michael Morpurgo. Afterwards she took a wander to the Tiger enclosure to thanks the Tigers for the inspiration.6/7/16. Photo Tom Pilston

    Judith Kerr awarded lifetime achievement prize at London zoo

  • judith kerr

    Children's books
    Judith Kerr wins BookTrust lifetime achievement award 2016

March 2016

  • A primary school pupil in Vaasa, Finland.

    Finland ranked world's most literate nation

    Report pooling studies of ‘literate behaviour characteristics’ from around the world puts the Nordic country first, 16 places ahead of the UK

January 2016

  • Phil Earle. Mandatory credit David Owens

    Children's books
    Phil Earle is the new BookTrust writer in residence

    Newsflash: Wave farewell to the outgoing BookTrust writer in residence Sita Brahmachari and say hello to Phil Earle!

February 2015

  • Sita Brahmachari

    Children's books
    Booktrust's New Writer in Residence Announced

    Newsflash: Topical children's writer Sita Brahmachari has taken her place as Booktrust's 12th writer in residence.

July 2014

  • Allan Ahlberg

    Allan Ahlberg refuses Amazon-sponsored Booktrust award

    Author, with late wife Janet, of The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill says the Amazon tag attached to it is 'unacceptable'

March 2014

  • David Walliams

    Children's books
    Discover the Booktrust 2014 Best Books awards shortlist!

    David Walliams, Jeff Kinney and Jonathan Green make the shortlist for the Booktrust's Best Book awards – which children's books do you think should win?

September 2012

  • Long-term security in Afghanistan depends on aid for its people

    Letters: Peace cannot be achieved without determined efforts to reduce poverty
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