Fun Kids Book Club

Live from the Barnes Literature Festival and…. Punjabi Zombies?!?!

Sean from the breakfast show has recently visited the Barnes Literature festival and catches us up on all that happened there, including his chats with Horrible Histories Simon Farnaby, David Baddiel and Chris Smith! We also hear an exclusive reading f…

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Glow in the Dark Squirrels and Winner of the Carnegie Greenaway Award!

Winner of the YOTO Carnegie Greenaway Award, Katya Balen joins us to chat about her winning book October October and we hear from some of the shadowers who were at the event on behalf of their school! We also get an exclusive reading from Lucy Brandt, …

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Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone 25th Anniversary Special!

Join Fun Kids presenters Bex and Dan for this very special episode of Book Worms as they celebrate and remember the 25th Anniversary of the first Harry Potter book: Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone! 
Featuring interviews with children acr…

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Alison Hammond, Romesh Ranganathan and Lolly Adefope!

This week we have a host of guests, Alison Hammond chats about the secret history of the UK in Black in Time : The Most Awesome Black Britons from Yesterday to Today where we hear the stories behind the most influential black britons in Histo…

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An Anthony Horowitz Classic Returns, and James Acaster Eats Mice with Rice?!

Author legend Anthony Horowitz joins us this week to chat about his hilarious new book in the Diamond Brothers series, Where Seagulls Dare. And we hear Roald Dahl classics coming to life through some of Britain’s most loved comedians.. this week we hea…

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Spreading the Sunshine with Benjamin Dean!

Author of our Book of the Month : The Secret Sunshine Project, Benjamin Dean joins us to chat about his inspirations for the book, how people from his own life have made their way into the pages and how we can share our own sunshine! We reveal some of …

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Michelle Paver on the Final Book In the Chronicles of Darkness!

Author legend of the Chronicles of Darkness featuring Torak and Wolf and their stone age adventures chats about the final book in the series Wolfbane including an exclusive Book Worms reading! We also hear from author Polly Ho-Yen on her book The Boy W…

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Michael Rosen and a Cat that LOVES Pasta?

Children’s Laureate, author, poet and legend Michael Rosen joins us this week to chat about his new book Rigatoni the Pasta Cat, how to get into writing and an exclusive reading too! Bex has her list of Books to look out for this week, including one ab…

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Jamie McFlair Returns with The Ultimate Brain Hack!

Sean Thorne and Luke Franks give us an exclusive behind the scenes look at their new book Jamie McFlair and the Ultimate Brain Hack and we take a look back to our chat with the amazing Katie and Kevin Tsang to celebrate their newest book in the Dragon …

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Escape Room And The Thief Who Sang Storms!

Sophie Anderson joins Book Worms to talk to Bex about her book The Thief Who Sang Storms! Christopher Edge chats about his new book Escape Room plus we chat about the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards.
As always if there is a book that you can’t get enou…

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