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Listen to Mae Gan Bawb Ei Gorff Ei Hun - Everybody Has a Body in Welsh. Part of the BookTrust Cymru Pori Drwy Stori Nursery Book Talk programme.
Listen to a Welsh language reading of Amazing / Anygoel. Part of the BookTrust Cymru, Pori Drwy Stori Nursery, Book Talk programme.
Listen to 1,2,3 Dawnsio Dawns Y Deinosor in Welsh. Written by Michelle Robinson and Rosalind Beardshaw, Addasiad Eurig Salisbury.
Emily Bolam's bright, beautifully illustrated journey through the park, peeking at the friendly animals underneath each flap.
A lovely storybook featuring the lyrics of the well-known song What a Wonderful World, accompanied by beautiful illustrations from award-winning illustrator Tim Hopgood. It follows one little boy as he discovers just how wonderful this world of ours can be.
A Welsh reading of Mary Murphy's bright and beautiful board book introducing the concept of size to young children.
A Welsh reading of Jan Ormerod's funny, noisy book encouraging young children to walk and talk like the animals.
A Welsh-language reading of Emma Dodd's beautiful board book about what makes one little owl happiest of all.
A Welsh-language reading of Petr Horáček's fun and lively animal-sounds board book, adapted by Llinos Dafydd.
A Welsh-language reading of Sanau Cadno/Fox’s Socks by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler for BookTrust Cymru.
A BookTrust Cymru reading in Welsh of:
You... by Emma Dodd, adapted by Eurig Salisbury, published by Atebol Cyfyngedig
Ti... gan Emma Dodd, addasiad Eurig Salisbury, a gyhoeddwyd gan Atebol Cyfyngedig
A BookTrust Cymru reading in Welsh of:
123 Bumblebee by Natalie Marshall, adapted by Gwynne Williams, published by Dref Wen
Gwenynen Brysur 123 gan Natalie Marshall, addasiad Gwynne Williams, a gyhoeddwyd gan Dref Wen
Welsh language reading by Llinos Mai of Lucy Cousins' picture book Diwrnod Prysur yr Adar / A Busy Day for Birds, for National Bookstart Week.
A Welsh-language storytime reading of Fy Seren Anwes/My Pet Star by Corrinne Averiss and Rosalind Beardshaw, Welsh adaptation and reading by Anni Llyn.
Illustrations © Rosalind Beardshaw, 2019. From My Pet Star by Corrinne Averiss and Rosalind Beardshaw. Published and reproduced by kind permission of Orchard Books.
The picture book Car, Car, Truck, Jeep by Katrina Charman and Nick Sharratt, read by Natasha Baker for BookTrust / Pyjamarama 2019.
© Katrina Charman 2018. Published and reproduced by permission of BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS, an imprint of BLOOMBURY PUBLISHING PLC.
The rhyme See the Little Rabbits Sleeping sung by Natasha Baker for BookTrust / Pyjamarama.
Song words reproduced by permission of CYP Music Limited. www.kidsmusic.co.uk © CYP Music Limited
The rhyme Car, Car, Truck, Jeep sung by Natasha Baker for BookTrust / Pyjamarama.
© Katrina Charman 2018. Published and reproduced by permission of BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS, an imprint of BLOOMBURY PUBLISHING PLC.
The rhyme Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star sung by Natasha Baker for BookTrust / Pyjamarama.
The rhyme Star Light, Star Bright sung by Natasha Baker for BookTrust / Pyjamarama.
Song words reproduced by permission of CYP Music Limited. www.kidsmusic.co.uk © CYP Music Limited
The rhyme Dingle-Dangle Scarecrow sung by Natasha Baker for BookTrust / Pyjamarama.
Words reproduced by kind permission of Child’s Play (International) Ltd
Gareth Elis reads Dacw’r Car Yn Dŵad (Car, Car, Truck, Jeep) by Katrina Charman and Nick Sharratt, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC and adapted for BookTrust Cymru by Aneirin Karadog. Dacw’r Car Yn Dŵad (Car, Car, Truck, Jeep) is BookTrust's chosen book for Pyjamarama 2019.
© Katrina Charman 2018. Published and reproduced by permission of BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS, an imprint of BLOOMBURY PUBLISHING PLC.
The rhyme Cysgu ar y llawr recorded in Welsh by Gareth Elis for BookTrust Cymru/Pyjamarama.
The rhyme Si Hei Lwlli 'Mabi recorded in Welsh by Gareth Elis for BookTrust Cymru/Pyjamarama.
The rhyme Llwynog Coch Sy’n Cysgu recorded in Welsh by Gareth Elis for BookTrust Cymru/Pyjamarama.
The rhyme Mae'n Amser Gwely recorded in Welsh by Gareth Elis for BookTrust Cymru/Pyjamarama.
A selection of bird-themed rhymes specially recorded for National Bookstart Week by Tina Fellows, winner of the Bookstart Rhymetime Award.
A selection of bird-themed rhymes specially recorded for National Bookstart Week by Tina Fellows, winner of the Bookstart Rhymetime Award.
A selection of bird-themed rhymes specially recorded for National Bookstart Week by Tina Fellows, winner of the Bookstart Rhymetime Award.
A selection of bird-themed rhymes specially recorded for National Bookstart Week by Tina Fellows, winner of the Bookstart Rhymetime Award.
A selection of bird-themed rhymes specially recorded for National Bookstart Week by Tina Fellows, winner of the Bookstart Rhymetime Award.
A selection of bird-themed rhymes specially recorded for National Bookstart Week by Tina Fellows, winner of the Bookstart Rhymetime Award.
A selection of bird-themed rhymes specially recorded for National Bookstart Week by Tina Fellows, winner of the Bookstart Rhymetime Award.
A selection of bird-themed rhymes specially recorded for National Bookstart Week by Tina Fellows, winner of the Bookstart Rhymetime Award.
Doctor Who and Broadchurch star David Tennant reads the opening of How To Train Your Dragon author Cressida Cowell's new book The Wizards of Once.
The rhyme Little Peter Rabbit sung by Bookstart Coordinator Ben Lawrence for National Bookstart Week 2017 - BookTrust
The rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary read by Bookstart Coordinator Ben Lawrence for National Bookstart Week 2017 - BookTrust
The rhyme Round and Round the Garden sung by Bookstart Coordinator Ben Lawrence for National Bookstart Week 2017 - BookTrust
The rhyme Five Little Speckled Frogs sung by Bookstart Coordinator Ben Lawrence for National Bookstart Week 2017 - BookTrust
The rhyme Row, Row, Row Your Boat sung by Bookstart Coordinator Ben Lawrence for National Bookstart Week 2017 - BookTrust
The rhyme There's a Worm at the Bottom of the Garden sung by Bookstart Coordinator Ben Lawrence for National Bookstart Week 2017 - BookTrust
The rhyme A Hedgehog Is Very Prickly sung by Bookstart Coordinator Ben Lawrence for National Bookstart Week 2017 - BookTrust
Actors David Soul, Chipo Chung and Selina Lo discuss the power of short stories and what's it's like to perform them.
Vikings actor Clive Standen, comedian Gina Bellman and actress Juliet Stevenson talk about their Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award shortlist performances at Foyles Bookshop.
Read all of 2016’s shortlisted stories at: http://shortstoryaward.co.uk/shortlists/2016
On 7 May 2013, to launch Matt Haig's excellent book 'The Humans', Booktrust threw him a launch party. Author Nikesh Shukla was in conversation with him. They talked about writing, about 'The Humans', about rejection, depression, earnestness and they talked about lists. They had fun times. Listen to an extract of the conversation, featuring an introduction from Matt's editor Francis Bickmore at Canongate.
Matt also reads extracts from 'The Humans'.
The audio was recorded at Free Word Centre.
Read Matt's weekly blog at: www.booktrust.org.uk/writing/
@booktrust @matthaig1 @nikeshshukla @freewordcentre
The David Cohen Prize for Literature 2013 has been awarded to the English novelist, essayist and short story writer Hilary Mantel for a lifetime of achievement in literature. The prize, worth £40,000, was presented by the chair of judges Mark Lawson at a gala ceremony hosted at the British Library.
We spoke to Hilary Mantel about her career, her recent success and the recipient of the Clarissa Luard Award, Katie Ward. We also spoke to judges, broadcaster Mark Lawson and journalist/novelist Sam Leith, and Hilary's editor, Nicholas Pearson (Fourth Estate) about judging her work, editing her and why now, after such a long career she's finally getting the recognition she deserves.
Since winning her first Man Booker Prize in 2009 for Wolf Hall Mantel has become one of the UK’s best known authors.
Beyond Black (2005), was shortlisted for a 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize and for the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Wolf Hall (2009), was winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction; and Bring Up The Bodies (2012), her most recent novel, was winner of the Man Booker Prize, and Costa Book of the year 2012. In 2006 she was awarded a CBE. Mark Lawson, chair of judges, said of this year’s winner: ‘It seems paradoxical that giving a major literary prize – the British Nobel Prize, as I think of it – to one of the most generally-admired and well-liked people in the literary world will be, for some, controversial. This is because of a feeling – voiced by some pundits and perhaps secretly thought by authors who feel unrewarded – that Hilary Mantel has recently been given too much too quickly. That issue, however, was rapidly dismissed by the judges. Crucially, while the writer’s other recent prizes have been for two recent books, the David Cohen Prize assesses and rewards an entire career to date. In the case of Hilary Mantel, this means 28 years of work that has produced 13 books ranging across historical and contemporary novels, short stories and a memoir.
‘While the judges were as impressed as most readers by Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, it is our particular hope that this prize for three decades of dedication to the possibilities of narrative imagination and English prose will direct attention to such earlier works as the novels Fludd, A Change of Climate and Beyond Black and the autobiography Giving Up The Ghost. Consideration of this remarkable career soon led us to feel that we had had enough of anyone who will moan that Hilary Mantel has already had enough prizes. It would be ludicrous if a history of high achievement somehow disbarred a writer from the David Cohen Prize’s list of the highest literary achievers.’
On winning the Prize Hilary said: ‘I did at first find it a little bit hard to take in because my husband gave me the news and I said “Oh I think you mean I’ve been invited to the David Cohen awards”. It was not on my horizon, but of course, here I am and it’s a very wonderful place to be.
'There are some readers who think that I was born on the day Wolf Hall was published. This prize acknowledges that there are no overnight sensations in the creative arts. That’s not the way it works. The ground has to be prepared and I feel that this is recognition of the fact that for many many years I’ve been trying to perfect my craft…I want to assure the judges that much as there is a lifetime's worth of work behind me, there is still a lifetime's worth of work still to come...'
Nick Lake and Celia Rees discuss writing for teens with Julia Eccleshare at the London Book Fair 2012