Not Now Goldilocks! by Holly Ryan & Navya Raju is shortlisted for the Portsmouth Book Award 2025 (Picture Bk) #PortsmouthBookAwards2025 📚 Buster Books 📚

Three books in Year 5 category of Portsmouth Book Award. Being judged by over 1,400 Year 5 pupils from 21 Portsmouth schools #PortsmouthBookAwards2025

Starminster by Megan Hopkins shortlisted for the Year 5 Portsmouth Book Award 2025 #PortsmouthBookAwards2025 HarperCollins Children's Books

Toxic by Mitch Johnson shortlisted for the Year 5 Portsmouth Book Award 2025 #PortsmouthBookAwards2025 Hachette Children's Group

Flame Chasers by Julie Pike shortlisted for the Year 5 Portsmouth Book Award 2025 #PortsmouthBookAwards2025 Firefly Press

Four books in Longer Novel category of Portsmouth Book Award. Being judged by 100 Year 8/9 pupils from 9 Portsmouth schools #PortsmouthBookAwards2025

Electric Life by Rachel Delahaye = racheldelahaye.bsky.social shortlisted for the Portsmouth Book Award 2025 (Longer Novel) #PortsmouthBookAwards2025 Troika Books

Wintour's Game by #BríanDungan shortlisted for the Portsmouth Book Award 2025 (Longer Novel) #PortsmouthBookAwards2025 Little Tiger Books

Running Away For Beginners by Mark Illis shortlisted for the Portsmouth Book Award 2025 (Longer Novel) #PortsmouthBookAwards2025 Scholastic UK

Thunder City by Philip Reeve shortlisted for the Portsmouth Book Award 2025 (Longer Novel) #PortsmouthBookAwards2025 Scholastic UK

Your #PortsmouthBookAwards2025 shortlists!

First in person visit of the year and it was an an fab day visiting 2 schools with Portsmouth School Library Service #SharedHistory #inclusiveclassrooms

Congratulations to our Year 6 team of four for participating in the Portsmouth School Library Service Literature Quiz! They not only got to compete but also had the opportunity to meet the authors of the books they’ve been reading. Well done for an impressive performance. We are proud of you 😀

The SLS book fairies are out delivering a very special set of books to every school in celebration of Portsmouth’s Year of Literature, In Our Words. 🌈 📚 #LoveReading Portsmouth Creates

Brilliant news - well done to our Literature Quiz team who returned yesterday with 1st and 2nd place! Congratulations team! #extracurricular #WorthingHigh

Congratulations to Medina Primary School for coming 1st place at our Portsmouth Junior Literature Quiz 2025 and taking home the trophy 🏆 Thanks to authors Guy Bass Ross Welford Yarrow Townsend and Alex Bell for joining us #LoveReading

Congratulations to St Edmunds for coming 1st place at our Portsmouth Literature Quiz 2025 and taking home the trophy 🏆 Thanks to authors Tom Mitchell Sylvia Bishop Nathanael Lessore and Melinda Salisbury for joining in the fun #LoveReading

Congratulations to Worthing High School for coming in 1st place at our Chichester Literature Quiz 2025 and taking home the trophy 🏆 Thanks to authors Sylvia Bishop Nathanael Lessore Tom Mitchell and Melinda Salisbury for attempting to beat them! #LoveReading

Thank you to the fantastic Guy Bass for a fun filled day visiting Portsmouth schools, come back again soon! #ButWhy #LoveReading 📚

Thank you to HarperCollins Children's Books & David Walliams HQ for a great morning at the Kings Theatre this morning, entertaining nearly 1400 kids with stories about his books & the superpower of being different! What a way to end the half-term!