Keeping up to date
The following is a selection of journals and websites that carry information about new books and other resources for primary schools. Your local schools library service will also provide information about new books.
Books / Journals
- The School Librarian Journal of the School Library Association, free to SLA members. www.sla.org.uk/the-school-librarian
- Who Next…? A guide to children’s authors. Loughborough: LISU, 2011 9781905499403 £21.99 (See below for website)
Websites
- www.goodreads.com . Visit the children’s section of this site. Includes author interviews and reviews.
- www.whonextguide.com Available on subscription
- Books for Keeps Formerly a journal, but now a website. You can sign up for their newsletter
- www.lovereading4schools.co.uk Helps teacher develop reading lists for children
- www.storiesfromtheweb.org A reader development programme managed by Birmingham libraries, available for a subscription
- www.readingzone.com Has a children’s zone, a family zone and a school zone. Subscribers can chat about books, but information can be accessed without subscribing
- www.achuka.co.uk A book review site for young people that links titles to Amazon.co.uk reviews
- www.thediversebookawards.co.uk The best of diverse publishing the UK each year
- Puffin have a number of booklists on their website that focus on diverse aspects of their own publications e.g. KS1/KS2 books with South Asian characters, Empowering books with Black characters and “our pick of children’s books with dual-heritage characters”
