Nilanjana Banerji, Editor of Children’s Dictionaries for Oxford Education gives us a sneak peek behind the creation of the brand new edition of the Oxford Children’s Colour Dictionary for primary schools, which includes writing tips from top children’s authors for the first time. Charlie Higson, Andy Stanton, Jeremy Strong, Jacqueline Wilson are all well-known names in […]
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Anne-Marie, head of rights at Oxford Children’s, once worked out that her team travel over 109,000 miles every year. Their job is to sell rights to publishers from around the world to publish OUP children’s fiction, picture books, dictionaries, home learning and schoolbooks into their own languages. The team visit publishers in their offices and […]
Read moreWith the new emphasis on spelling, punctuation and grammar in primary schools, including a test in year 6 , it’s more important than ever to make sure that children have lots of opportunity to practise their spelling. We’re very excited to introduce Spell with Pip – a fun new spelling app for children from the team behind the world-famous Oxford […]
Read moreWriter and lexicographer John Ayto gives us a glimpse into The Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins , a fascinating insight into words and where they came from… Have you got a tabby cat? Brown or grey with dark stripes? If you have, do you know why it’s called a tabby? If not, you could guess a thousand times and never […]
Read moreThe Bologna Children’s Book Fair is now in full swing. From Monday to Thursday this week our rights team have scheduled meetings every 30 minutes from 9.00am till 5.30pm with children’s editors from around the world. It’s our chance to showcase the OUP titles that we are planning to publish over the next year or […]
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Today marks the start of this year’s BBC Radio 2 500 Words competition , run by the Chris Evans Breakfast Show. The competition asks children aged 13 or under to compose an original work of fiction of 500 words. The entries are judged by a star-studded cast of children’s authors, with the winning entries read out live on the Chris Evans […]
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