Beetle Boy News Today

Youngsters have tackled environmental issues through creative writing this year

All four winning students have won whole-class or writing group trips... Michael McCabe, judge and Executive Producer of Wicked: "We are particularly proud to announce the winners and runners up of the Wicked Writers: Be The Change competition on Earth Day 2024. These outstanding pieces of persuasive writing demonstrate how environmentally conscious young people are,

It's been a truly fantastic year for young book lovers. Here's our rundown of the best children's books of 2023.

As 2023 draws to a close BBC Scotland has a stocking full of festive goodies across television and radio to entertain audiences over the holidays. A traditional mix of heart-warming and uplifting stories, laughs, festive warmth and musical treats will be served up alongside opportunities for reflection, making BBC Scotland the perfect Christmas companion and

MG Leonard’s latest novel, The Ice Children, takes Andersen’s classic The Snow Queen and infuses it with quickfire prose and new characters

A highly acclaimed children’s author will be a special guest at Birdland Park & Gardens during February half term.

An award-winning children’s author is set to visit one of the Cotswolds most popular family attractions.

An award-winning children’s author is set to visit one of the Cotswolds most popular family attractions.

MG Leonard, best known for her insect-crazy Beetle Boy series and her Adventures on Trains mysteries, the latter a collaboration with loco-nut Sam Sedgman, has a new feather in her hat. Her latest

Magic can be controversial, though. Not in the sense of US fundamentalists decrying Harry Potter, but in that it sometimes provides a cheap way out of a plot hole. A selection of this season’s books pivot on some otherworldly powers, but this is the internally-consistent stuff of fable and legend, not just deus ex machina hocus pocus. Efua Traoré, author of Children of the Quicksands. Photograph: Boubacar Traoré The setup for Kirsty Applebaum’s of Lonny Quicke (Nosy Crow) is...