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If you’re looking for children’s books and you want to make sure they reflect the world around us, I urge you to check out Inclusive Books for Children.

This wonderful new website collects hundreds of diverse and inclusive books with full information on each title. You can search for books by age range or category and they even have helpful lists on key topics like ‘Disability visibility’, ‘Girls can be anything!’ and ‘Top-rated read alouds’.

Each book has been carefully selected by expert reviewers, so you can be sure you’re getting the best the publishing world has to offer. Go take a look now!

I’m thrilled to be working with the Jericho Prize, a new competition for unpublished Black-British children’s writers.

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, the Jericho Prize is looking for writers with great stories to inspire children aged 4 years plus and 7–9.

Winners in each category receive a £500 cash prize, exclusive access to publishing industry professionals and much more. The prize is supported by leading children’s publishers Knights Of, Penguin Random House Children’s and Alanna Max, plus the Youth Libraries Group, Storymix and Candid Cocoa.

The project will also be making free resources for new writers available online during the course of the prize, with experienced writers giving advice on every stage of the writing process, from coming up with ideas to working with agents and publishers.

I’ll be helping with the marketing of the prize, as we try to spread the word and unearth all the fantastic writing talent out there. Give us a follow on Twitter or Instagram.

You can find out more at www.jerichoprize.com. The prize is free to enter for unpublished and self-published Black-British writers over the age of 18, with submissions open from 2 August 2021.