Children’s Literature News February 2026
Children’s book news for February 2026: CLiPPA opens, Carnegies longlists land, BBC screens Lord of the Flies, plus Information Book Award and ALCS Education Writers’ shortlist updates.
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Jo Cotterill is a British author of books for children and young people. She also writes as Joanna Kenrick.
Her Sweet Hearts series for younger teen readers begins with Sweet Hearts: Star Crossed, published by Penguin Random House Children’s UK on 27 May 2010 (ISBN 9781849412056).
She wrote Looking at the Stars, published in paperback by Corgi Children’s on 4 June 2015 (ISBN 9780552566704).
Her middle grade novel A Library of Lemons was published by Piccadilly Press on 5 May 2016 (ISBN 9781848125117).
Under the name Joanna Kenrick, her novel Red Tears was published by Faber and Faber in 2007 (ISBN 9780571234838).
Children’s book news for February 2026: CLiPPA opens, Carnegies longlists land, BBC screens Lord of the Flies, plus Information Book Award and ALCS Education Writers’ shortlist updates.
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