I feel like this year I've read far fewer of the newly released middle grade books - I think I've read more grown-up books this year...

Empathy is a vital human force. One that creates happier children, stronger communities and a better world. It’s come into sharp focus dur...

Back in the summer of 2016 I blogged about how I'd become a Reading Teacher ( with a capital R and T, as Teresa Cremin says ). I re...

An extract from Chris Riddell's latest book 'Guardians of Magic', the first book in the new 'The Cloud Horse Chronicles'...

I remember very clearly when my love affair with Jane Austen began. It was the summer between fifth and sixth year of high school, when I ...

In what must be the article with the shortest shelf life that I've ever written I've made some tongue-in-cheek predictions for th...

This year's Empathy Day falls on June 11th. Today EmpathyLab has revealed the titles in its Read For Empathy Guide . The day focuses o...

I had the immense pleasure and privilege of putting together a list of some of the best primary children's books of 2018. I ended up ...

Reading for pleasure is all the rage in schools, but how often do we, and the children we teach, read for displeasure? Or, perhaps more a...

Last year for Empathy Day , organised by Empathy Lab UK , I recommended 6 books that encourage children to read for empathy : 'The Un...

Our new graphic novel, ILLEGAL, started life with a desire to make our readers feel empathy for people in a very unusual and terrible sit...