Book box - for children and young people

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Book box is here to provide stacks of reading ideas and book related features for children and young people. Also hear from your favourite authors and find out about the latest top reads.

We love books too!

Find out more about books for children and young people including:

  • loads of great books in giant print, braille or audio
  • borrow up to six books at a time from the library, postage is free
  • we also have book lists for children on themes like relationships, horror and school stories

Latest from Book box

Summer Reading Challenge 2012

This year the Summer Reading Challenge will be an official programme within the Cultural Olympiad London 2012 Festival, the largest cultural celebration in the history of the modern Olympic and Paralympic Movements.

Carnegie Award 2012

Why not apply to be a Carnegie Shadower this year? The Carnegie Medal is an annual young people's book prize awarded by librarians for outstanding children's writing.

Mysteries and thrillers

If you enjoy exciting books that keep you guessing all the way through you might like to choose from some of these great mysteries and thrillers available from the library.

Author interview - Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness was the 2011 winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for his book Monsters of Men, the third and final instalment in his Chaos Walking trilogy. Pupils Sonia and Jess from New College Worcester went on stage at the Carnegie Awards at Bafta to hand Patrick a braille copy of the book.

Halloween

For Halloween read our booklists of spooky horror and ghost stories in braille, giant print and Talking Book.

Summer Reading Challenge 2011 - Circus Stars and Performance

With the summer holidays fast approaching, we thought we would bring to your attention this year's Summer Reading Challenge, the theme of which is Circus Stars. This will cover all aspects of theatre and performance- and lots of other things besides!

Carnegie Shadowing

Blind and partially sighted children have again taken part in the Carnegie Medal shadowing scheme this year. RNIB National Library Service and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals: Youth Libraries Group worked together to ensure that the titles were ready in alternative formats at the same time as the shortlist was announced.

Funny books

If you like a good giggle, get your ribs tickled with some of the titles from this funny selection.

BBC Radio 2 - '500 Words' children's writing competition

Young budding writers may be interested to know that BBC Radio 2 in association with 'Hay Fever', the children's programme of the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts are running a children's writing competition.

Meet... Moira Butterfield

Moira Butterfield was just seven years old when she began writing stories. She's since gone on to write many children's books, including a popular series about fairies. Clare Carson met up with her at the Cheltenham book festival where she was surrounded by a gaggle of avid young fairies keen to get some tips about how to turn their imagination into books.

Last updated: 20 September 2012

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