What are picture books, and why are they useful? | Series 1, Episode 32
Season 1, Episode 32 of the School Reading List podcast. New book post, 30 great books for July 2025 and What are picture books, and why are they useful?
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Rory Power is an American author of young adult and fantasy fiction. She earned a Master of Arts in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia.
Her debut novel, Wilder Girls, was published by Delacorte Press in 2019 and became a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel, Burn Our Bodies Down, followed in 2020, also with Delacorte Press.
In 2022, Power published In a Garden Burning Gold, her first adult fantasy novel, with Del Rey Books. Her novels are published in the UK by Macmillan Children’s Books and Del Rey UK.
Season 1, Episode 32 of the School Reading List podcast. New book post, 30 great books for July 2025 and What are picture books, and why are they useful?
June 2025’s book club recommendations feature titles by Zaro Weil, Donette Williams-Harry, Julie Flett, Eirinn McGuiness, Jasbinder Bilan, Pari Thomson, Alexandra Sheppard, Abdi Nazemian, and Rory Power.
Here’s our selection of top new titles coming out in Summer 2025. These reading recommendations include picture books, poetry, early and middle-grade fiction; young adult novels and non-fiction.
Kill Creatures is a must-read for those who appreciate psychological depth, unreliable narrators, and stories that refuse to provide easy moral answers. It’s is an essential addition to your reading list.
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