Children’s Literature News June 2026
Children’s book news for June 2026: reading enjoyment rises but gaps widen, with IBC book boxes, Bookstart picks, AI findings, awards, festivals and new inclusive school resources.
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Gavin Scott was a British writer, producer and novelist. He worked as a journalist before moving into broadcasting and screenwriting.
Scott contributed to documentaries and dramas for the BBC and ITV, and later wrote for film and television in the United States. His credits include work on The Borrowers (1997), Small Soldiers (1998) and the mini-series The Mists of Avalon (2001). He also wrote novels, including the historical adventure series featuring Jack Pembleton, beginning with The Age of Treachery (2016).
The Age of Treachery was published by Thomas Dunne Books in 2016.

Children’s book news for June 2026: reading enjoyment rises but gaps widen, with IBC book boxes, Bookstart picks, AI findings, awards, festivals and new inclusive school resources.
Children’s books of the year 2025 – our team has picked a shortlist of great children’s and teen titles published in the last 12 months, with fiction, non-fiction and picture books for 3-18 years and a diverse range of prose, poetry and graphic novels. Vote now!
Here’s our selection of top new titles coming out in spring 2026. These reading recommendations include picture books, early and middle-grade fiction; young adult novels and non-fiction.
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