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January 31, 2024 39 mins

School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom Tolkien

Season 1: Episode 17

For transcripts, resources, show notes and contact details, see https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-17/

Part 1
Book post

  • Meet the Wildlings by Gwen Millward
  • The Best You by Nima Patel
  • I Love You to the Moon and Back: All Year Long by Amelia Hepworth
  • Nikhil and Jay by Chitra Soundar
  • The Shape of Rainbows by Neal Zetter
  • Diamond Jack: Your Magic Or Your Life by Anna Rainbow
  • The Floating Witch Mystery by Nicki Thornton
  • Winner Takes Gold by Eloise Smith
  • Beastlands: Race to Frostfall Mountain by Jess French
  • How Do Meerkats Order Pizza by Brooke Barker
  • Love is in the Little Things by Stella J Jones and Jane Massey
  • Signed Sealed Dead by Cynthia Murphy

Rundown - top 30 children's and YA books to buy in February 2024

  • Bronte Tempestra and the Lightning Steeds by Bex Hogan
  • Habitats by Hannah Pang and Isobel Lundie
  • Peng and Spanners by Steve Webb
  • Red Sky at Night; Poet's Delight by Alex Wharton
  • The Time Travellers: Adventure Calling by Sufiya Ahmed
  • Feather by M. G. Leonard
  • The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts by Alex Bell
  • Mo's Best Friend: A Stone-Age Story by Bridget Marzo
  • On Silver Tides by Sylvia Bishop
  • It's Time to Hush and Say Good Night by Chitra Soundar
  • Paper Dragons by Siobhan McDermott
  • Yomi and the Power of the Yumboes by Davina Tijani
  • A Cure Ever After by Angharad Walker
  • Queerbook by Malcolm MacKenzie
  • Blue's Planet: Australia by Lucy McRobert
  • Most Haunted Theatres by Yvette Fielding
  • Goddess Crown by Shade Lapite
  • Soren's Seventh Song by Dave Eggers
  • Measuring Me by Nicola Kent
  • Dim Sum Palace by X Fang
  • The Crayons Love our Planet by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
  • The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert
  • Little Chick by Petr Horacek
  • Marnie Midnight and the Moon Mystery by Laura Ellen Anderson
  • National Trust: Blossom Origami by Nick Robinson
  • Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek
  • Miss Cat by Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jolivet
  • Supertato: Eviltato vs Superpea by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet
  • Finding Hope by Nicola Baker

February 2024 books of the month

  • Fiction:  A Cure Ever After by Angharad Walker
  • Nonfiction:  Measuring Me by Nicola Kent
  • Picture book:  The Crayons Love Our Planet by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

Part 2
LGBT books for children (https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/books-for-topics/lgbtqia-themed-books-for-primary-school-aged-children/)and LGBT books for teens (https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/books-for-topics/lgbtqia-fiction-for-secondary-aged-children-and-teens-aged-11/)

New book pitches: There was an Old Woman who Followed a Spy! by Tommy Furmato; Cable Goes Camping by Lorna Chantelle Scott

Part 3
Why school libraries are so important to children's learning. 

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