A HISTORICAL fantasy set in a magical mash-up of Georgian and Elizabethan Britain has been announced as the winner of this year’s East Sussex Children’s Book Award.
The Hatmakers by Tamzin Merchant claimed top prize at a celebration event attended by nearly 200 school children.
Local children’s author Ed Boxall hosted the event which was held at The Royal Hippodrome Theatre in Eastbourne last month.
MORE children and young people will benefit from free activities and nutritious food this summer as the popular Holiday Food and Fun programme is expanded.
Additional funding from the Department for Education will enable the council’s Holiday Food and Fun scheme to run an extra 2,000 activity sessions in East Sussex during the summer school holidays.
A NATIONAL campaign to find parents for the children waiting longest to be adopted is being backed by the regional adoption agency for the south east.
‘A Life Less Ordinary’ has been launched to find families for children aged five or over, children with additional and/or complex needs, brother and sister groups, and those from an ethnic minority background.
YOUNG readers in East Sussex are being encouraged to discover the science and innovation in the world around them as they take on the Summer Reading Challenge.
East Sussex libraries are calling on children aged four to 12 to read six books over the summer months as part of The Reading Agency’s Gadgeteers Summer Reading Challenge 2022.
