Month: February 2023

The Bookery’s Top Titles 2023

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Top Titles

Browse this years’ 20 Top Titles. The reviews below are written by our schools team, who read hundreds of books and selected these as good reads offering a range of themes and cultural and gender diversity to promote Reading for Pleasure.  Click on the covers to find out more about individual titles and click to buy discounted book bundles from £40.00. Picture Books Ten Delicious Teachers by Ross Montgomery This funny, colourfully illustrated counting book tells the story of 10 … Read more

Interview: Mike Dilger

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One Thousand Shades of Green follows The One Show’s wildlife expert Mike Dilger on an epic mission to see one thousand different species of plants in Britain in 2021. Ahead of our event next week, here’s a little interview with Mike about flora, family and more by our friends at Booktime. The book is about your search for a thousand plants around Britain. Do you think that plants are often forgotten when people think about the natural world? Absolutely. I started off … Read more

Review: How To Make A Story

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  Stuffed with creativity, this is a gorgeous picture book about Milo, a little boy who wanted a brand new story and the exciting journey he goes on to make up the story himself. Making a story seems like a great idea, the only problem is that Milo’s not sure how to start. With a little help from his family, some real-life inspiration, and a lot of imagination, Milo’s story is soon off to a flying start. Cleverly woven into … Read more

Bologna Children’s Bookfair – The BolognaRagazzi Award

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It was an honour and a privilege for Dee to be invited to represent The Bookery and join the BolognaRagazzi Award Jury last month, to spend time with passionate book advocates from across the world and make some tricky decisions about the very best 2023 submissions. A total of 2,349 titles were submitted by 644 publishers from 59 countries and regions around the world with books from Bangladesh, Cyprus, Macedonia, Malaysia, Puerto Rico and Venezuela arriving on the tables for … Read more