Get ready for Simon James Green's new rom com, The Big Ask. Published by Barrington Stoke, this story contains all the joy, humour and wisdom we love in Simon's books, perfectly packed into 100 blissful pages. Look forward to it hitting our Short but Sweet section in June! 📚🌈

🌟I'm excited to share that 🎹 'The Piano at the Station' written by Helen Rutter is part of the 2024 #ReadForEmpathy collection by @empathylabuk. Download the 2024 #ReadForEmpathy Guides here  👉empathylab.uk/RFE-2024 and spread #empathy, one book at a time! 📚💖🎉

Dr. 💀 Assoc. for Children’s Literature in South Asia Little Rebels Award is leading the charge in celebrating radical fiction for children, including the award's most recent winner "Needle" written by the phenomenal @LawrencePatrice.

Fab review here for The Creatures of Killburn Mine Dan Smith Barrington Stoke

We were honoured this week to see RAVENCAVE by Marcus Sedgwick longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Writing. Marcus was an immensely talented author; we're so grateful that he shared this moving story with us and our readers, and so proud to see it recognised in this way.

Thought I’d start blogging about some of the books that I lend out to those reluctant readers that have really helped them find joy in reading. These were from just before half term ReadingRocks Louie Stowell UPDATES ONLY NOT REALLY HERE Jennifer Killick Vashti Hardy 📚 Kazu Kibuishi tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/wha…

Loved this from @Lauren_E_James and Barrington Stoke. At an intergalactic academy, an android watchmaker and a snobby alien student join forces to uncover a potential terrorist threat, and find something else entirely. An absolute gem for top end Y6.👍

After a false start on a book that didn't engage us, this morning's S3 group switched to The Disconnect by Keren David. We're only 2 chapters in but have already had great discussions about mobile phone usage, including an impromptu history lesson about teen life before phones! 🙈

"In the darkest of days, that's when the miracles begin". Set in wartime Cumbria in the aftermath of Dunkirk, ANGEL OF GRASMERE by multi-award-winning Tom Palmer is coming May 2024. 📖Read more: thebookseller.com/rights/barring… HarperCollinsUK

Books from @barringtonstoke are absolute must-haves for every school. This new collection is enlightening, encouraging and full of fun! Jenny Pearson Aleksei Bitskoff Katherine Woodfine (updates) @EllaOkstad @HollyKateWebb Antonia Woodward Serena Patel Louise Forshaw scopeforimagination.co.uk/2024/02/29/sup…

“A dauntless, inspiring little story”So delighted to see Lottie the Little Wonder by ⁦Katherine Woodfine (updates)⁩ and @EllaOkstad in the Guardian! Thank you ⁦@ImogenRW⁩! A wonderful story that made even this couch potato want to get out on the court! 🎾 theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Hot on the heels of The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 last week, we are delighted to welcome Alastair Chisholm to the Barrington Stoke list with his breathtaking novella Reek. Set in post-climate-disaster Edinburgh, Reek is an edge-of-your-seat adventure that you won't be able to put down.

It's official – my new sci-fi adventure REEK is out in July from Barrington Stoke! They are the champions of super-readable, dyslexia-friendly books, with a mission to help everyone enjoy reading. It's brilliant to now be a part of that mission 😊 alastairc.com/books/reek #Reek

Perfect for Y6/KS3, and out now, Echostar by @MESalisbury is a tense and believable thriller investigating the impact of AI on student Ruby who downloads an app to help her study - an app that threatens to take over her entire life… Barrington Stoke worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/ech…

Yippee!!! SO proud The Storm and the Minotaur has won the short story category at the Dudley Children’s Book Award today!! 🏅 Huge thanks to all the young readers and librarians involved in this fabulous award, and warm congratulations to Tia and Carolyn the other winners!🏅🏅🏅 Barrington Stoke

This is the very cool announcement video for my upcoming Barrington Stoke book REEK – play it with the sound up! 🤩 #Reek #sciFi #kidSciFi alastairc.com/books/reek

THANK YOU to all the children and librarians involved in Dudley Children’s Book Award!!! So proud our Minotaur won your beautiful medal 🧡🧡🧡

After Sheep School, Ross Montgomery is back with Porky Pies - a hilarious fairytale twist using The Boy Who Cried Wolf & The Three Little Pigs. Such a brilliant story for 5+ coming 11/4/24 🐷 Thanks Barrington Stoke 📖 checkemoutbooks.wordpress.com/2024/03/24/por…

My new #BarringtonStoke novel REEK is coming out in July, but I'm having a super early family-friendly launch event in June! Join me at The Portobello Bookshop on 26th June – follow the link below! 👇 HarperCollinsUK #Reek #kidLit #scifi