A library in every primary: what £10m means | Series 1, Episode 35
Season 1, Episode 35 of the School Reading List podcast. New book post, 30 great books for October 2025 and A library in every primary: what £10m means.
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Jasmine Floyd is a children’s book illustrator and designer whose work appears across non-fiction and novelty publishing. She is credited for bold, high-impact artwork that supports fact-led storytelling for primary and middle-grade readers.
Floyd illustrated Tom Adams’s A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic: Discover history’s best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks, and illusions, first published by Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of the Quarto Group, in September 2023. Her earlier non-fiction collaboration with Alex Woolf, Beyond Belief: The Science of the Future, was published by Little Tiger on 3 March 2022. She also illustrated Ben Hoare’s large-format novelty title The Incredible Pop-up Bug for Templar Books, published in October 2024.
Season 1, Episode 35 of the School Reading List podcast. New book post, 30 great books for October 2025 and A library in every primary: what £10m means.
Children’s books of the year 2024 – 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!
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