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.

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

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we also have book lists for children on themes like relationships, horror and school stories

Latest from Book box

Books around the world

Children's Book Week is from 4-10 October this year and is all about books around the world. Here are our recommendations that will give you an insight into some different cultural perspectives.

Chris Riddell is a children's book illustrator and writer. He has won the Kate Greenaway medal twice and has been shortlisted again this year for his illustrations in Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. Chris has recently redrawn the pictures for a new edition of an old story of his called Mr Underbed.

Books to chill out with

Long summer evenings are perfect for catching up with some light reads and old favourites that you can turn to when you need a bit of quality 'you' time. Why not chill out in the garden or on the balcony with a nice cold drink and a good book? Bliss!

Meet... Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo has written over 100 books for children. Clare Carson met him at Cheltenham Literature Festival where he was signing copies of his book The Best of Times.

Book review - How I live now by Meg Rosoff

We were delighted to receive this review from Megan, a student at New College, Worcester.

Meet... Keith Gray

Keith Gray is the author of the popular Ostrich boys, we asked him about the book and how he became a writer.

Meet... Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks wrote Black rabbit summer and was recently shortlisted for the Carnegie medal.

Author profile - Siobhan Dowd

The winner of the 2009 Cilip Carnegie Medal was Siobhan Dowd for her book, Bog child. The Medal was awarded posthumously as Siobhan sadly died in Oxford on 21 August 2007, following an illness. She wrote a number of books for children including The London Eye mystery and A swift pure cry.