Booktrust news: October

The Roald Dahl judges with the shortlisted books

This month: Julia Donaldson's library tour, get to know the books shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, and the winner of this year's BBC International Short Story Award speaks

As well as managing Bookstart, Booktrust also runs other bookgifting programmes, as well as prizes, awards and other projects. Here's what's been going on this month:

Children and younger readers

Julia Donaldson's library tour: read highlights from the Children's Laureate's recent trip from John O’Groats to Land’s End

Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012: the view from the judges. Who better to introduce you to these hilarious reads than the people who chose them?

New bilingual reading programme in Wales, Pori Drwy Stori, builds upon Bookstart for all reception-aged children in state maintained schools

Author Jeremy Strong helped launch Read for My School, our new national reading competition for primary schools

Older readers and adults

Author Libby Bray, author of young adult book The Diviners, talks to us about why she wanted to write about New York City in the Roaring Twenties

Authors Bali Rai and Chris Ould talk to teenage readers about young people, writing and crime

Celebrating Mo Yan's Nobel Prize for Literature, read our favourite books by previous Nobel Prize winners

Alex Strick on a recent event discussing dyslexia and Maggot Moon, the new novel by Sally Gardner

Love short stories? Read an interview with the winner of this year's BBC International Short Story Award, Miroslav Penkov

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