Children’s Literature News May 2026
Children’s book news for May 2026: Reading Rights, the Children’s Booker, Michael Rosen at 80, the Klaus Flugge and Branford Boase shortlists, BookTrust winners, LitUp results and shared reading data.
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Andy Darcy Theo is a British-Greek Cypriot young adult fantasy author. On his official website and publisher page, he states that he has academic and professional backgrounds in clinical psychology and teaching.
Theo has said that he began writing his Descent into Darkness series at the age of thirteen. The first novel in the series, The Light That Blinds Us, was published in April 2024.
The second book, The Dark That Hides Us, was published in April 2025. Simon & Schuster lists a third novel in the series, The Shadow That Finds Us.
His official site also records school-visit bookings through Authors Abroad. The Shadow That Finds Us is listed by Simon & Schuster as book three in the Descent into Darkness series.

Children’s book news for May 2026: Reading Rights, the Children’s Booker, Michael Rosen at 80, the Klaus Flugge and Branford Boase shortlists, BookTrust winners, LitUp results and shared reading data.
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