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- Librarians: 'We do so much more than shelve books and say shhh' - The Guardian, Tuesday January 11, 2011
The Tories clearly don't know how much libraries do. Cuts will threaten the very social bonds they claim to want to promoteLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sherlock Holmes returns in official sequel by Anthony Horowitz - The Guardian, Monday January 17, 2011
Alex Rider author on the case, at request of Conan Doyle estate
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - National curriculum review puts emphasis on facts and 'vital knowledge' - The Guardian, Thursday January 20, 2011
Michael Gove spells out facts to be included in history and geography lessons in curriculum review that teachers condemn as elitist and outdated.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Speak the speech ... Shakespeare's plays to be performed in 38 languages - The Guardian, Thursday January 20, 2011
Globe theatre to stage all of the Bard's plays, each in a different language, as part of 2012 Cultural OlympiadLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Liz Lochhead appointed as makar, Scotland's national poet - The Guardian, Wednesday January 19, 2011
'Inspirational presence in British poetry' is successor to Edwin MorganLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poets enlist for quest to pull St George from jaws of far right - The Guardian, Monday January 24, 2011
Ex-laureate Andrew Motion joins exploration of Englishness in works that redefine patron saint in 'agnostic liturgy'Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Join the Campaign for Fun! - The Guardian, Monday January 24, 2011
On what is officially the most miserable day of the year, it's a very good time to sign up to a drive to make children's reading fun again, says Jeremy Strong.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Philip Pullman's call to defend libraries resounds around web - The Guardian, Thursday January 27, 2011
Impassioned polemic against closures picked up by thousands of readersLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Jo Shapcott takes Costa book of the year award for Of Mutability - The Guardian, Tuesday January 25, 2011
Bookies' favourite Edmund de Waal misses out as judges praise Shapcott's 'very special and unusual and uplifting' collectionLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Theatre doth protest too little and too slowly - The Guardian, Tuesday February 1, 2011
Playwright Simon Stephens is right – writers should take to the stage and make their voices heard, no matter how ugly it gets, says Lyn Gardner
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Joined to Seamus Heaney's Human Chain - The Guardian, Monday February 7, 2011
The winning essay from this year's TS Eliot prize for poetry Shadowing SchemeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - I loved our 'failing' school, flailing teacher realises - The Guardian, Thursday February 10, 2011
You can't beat an inner-city, state school, sixth form – sussed, curious, hungry and bright as pins. Ah, the dappled light on shades of academe as we thrilled to John Donne or Emily Bronte or the Clash. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Martin Amis: Only brain injury could make me write for children - The Guardian, Friday February 11, 2011
Children's authors have expressed anger over 'insult' to their work on BBC programmeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - World Book Night to open with huge public reading in London - The Guardian, Wednesday February 23, 2011
Unprecedented Trafalgar Square event will feature star authors including Margaret Atwood and be hosted by Graham NortonLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Cheesy poems get a new audience - The Guardian, Monday March 7, 2011
McGonagall and McIntyre, two of Scotland's 'persistent bad poets', are remembered with new public recitalsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Cuts threaten plans for special needs children - The Guardian, Wednesday March 9, 2011
The green paper on special needs has many good ideas - but how will they be implemented when services for vulnerable children are being cut, asks Ellen PowerLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents of special educational needs children could get care budgets - The Guardian, Tuesday March 8, 2011
Green paper proposes giving families of special needs children more power to direct health and care plansLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - English as she is spoke? Voice map finds American stresses not so loud - The Guardian, Thursday March 10, 2011
British Library's Map Your Voice scheme records 10,000 English speakers and finds 'Americanisation' of speech may be a mythLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Alfred Lord Tennyson poem to inspire athletes at London 2012 Olympics - The Guardian, Monday March 7, 2011
Line from Tennyson's Ulysses to be visible at Olympic villageLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 'Oliver Twist' workhouse saved from demolition - The Guardian, Monday March 14, 2011
The derelict building that may have served as Charles Dickens's workhouse in his famous novel has been given listed statuLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here