Books for Keeps
National Children's Bureau
Celebrating research examining mental health support for young people with a social worker
PUBLISHERS LUNCH
Imprints: Kwame Alexander Books
Publishers Weekly
Sourcebooks Announces Launch of Kwame Alexander Books
Il Libraio
Books for children and young readers (Indovina chi viene a merenda?)
Andersen
The finalists of the Andersen Prize 2026 (Indovina chi viene a merenda?)
GOA Magazine
The finalists nominated for the Andersen Prize: the award ceremony at the Ducal Palace in May (Indovina chi viene a merenda?)
EL PAÍS
The best children’s and young adult books of 2025 (Porridge Please)
Donde viven los monstruos
The best illustrated children’s books of 2025 (¡Papilla, por favor!)
Letra Global
Letra Global selects the best children’s and young adult titles of 2025 (¡Papilla, por favor!)
Nueva Tribuna
‘¡Papilla, por favor!’, a fun children’s retelling with characters from classic tales
esRadio / Libertad Digital
Manolo Morán, Christmas stuffing, the unusual turkey, and ‘¡Papilla, por favor!’
Revista CALCO (Fira Educación)
Issue 29 — Encouraging reading (¡Papilla, por favor!)
Un abrazo lector — José R. Cortés Criado
‘¡Papilla, por favor!’ de Laura Mucha
Daily Mail
Porridge Please (review)
Anika Entre Libros
‘¡Papilla, por favor!’ — Laura Mucha y Marc Boutavant
El País — Mamas & Papas
Ten new books for the enjoyment of readers aged 3 to 6 (¡Papilla, por favor!)
Branches Culture
Oh là là, quelle histoire…
Valle de Elda
‘¡Papilla, por favor!’ de Laura Mucha con ilustraciones de Marc Boutavant — El libro de la semana
Red Reading Hub
Porridge Please (Review)
La Griffe Noire / Sud Radio
Booksellers’ favourite picks (Oh là là, quelle histoire!)
Books for Keeps
Ten of the Best: books to inspire young poets
Art Quarterly
A library of food solutions for the planet (book review, Welcome to Our Table)
Schools Week
Please Find Attached: book review
The Week Junior
Make a book of favourite recipes: Laura Mucha and Ed Smith celebrate fab foods
The Bookseller
What Counts?
Irish Independent
Knowing your attachment style could improve your relationships – here’s how
Psychologies Magazine
Busting the myths about attachment
Week Junior
A very special poetry lesson
CBBC Newsround
Children break world record for Largest Poetry Lesson
Guinness World Records
British author sets inspiring record with massive poetry lesson
Book Brunch
Poetry world record broken
ITV
The schoolchildren broke two world records whilst writing poetry
The Bookseller
Judges for The British Book Awards 2025
The Psychologist
We need to talk more openly about the impact our upbringing has on us in later life
Daily Mail
I’m a female commitment-phobe
Sunday Times
Please Find Attached by Laura Mucha review
Daily Mail
Book Review (Please Find Attached)
The Bookseller
January Highlights (Please Find Attached featured)
Booktime
Personal Relations (Interview)
Yorkshire Evening Post
Poetic pupils play their part in world record attempt
CBBC Newsround
Newsround (interview)
Week Junior
Take a look at the 2024 awards in action…
School Library Association
The Week Junior Book Awards 2024 Winners Announced
The Week
Winners of The Week Junior Book Awards 2024 announced
Books for Topics
2024 Week Junior Book Award Winners Announced
The Bookseller
The Week Junior Book Awards 2024 Winners Announced
Times Radio
Culture Crunch (Interview)
BBC Breakfast
BBC Breakfast (interview)
Daily Star
BBC Breakfast guest scolded for using ‘problem’ word live on air during awkward moment
Daily Record
BBC Breakfast guest reprimanded by Charlie Stayt for mentioning ‘problem’ word live on air
Daily Express
BBC Breakfast guest scolded by host for ‘problem’ word live on air Copy
Daily Express
BBC Breakfast guest scolded by host for ‘problem’ word live on air
Mirror
BBC Breakfast guest scolded by host for using ‘problem’ word live on air
Manchester Evening News
BBC Breakfast guest scolded for using ‘problem’ word during live segment
The Bookseller
National Poetry Day: Laura Mucha to attempt world’s largest school poetry lesson
First News Kids
Special Report (Guinness World Records Title Attempt)
BBC Radio London
BBC Radio London (Interview)
Teach Primary
Teach Awards Shortlist 2024 (Welcome to Our Table Shortlisted)
Country Living
Read these five poems that celebrate summer
BookTrust
Using the CLiPPA Shortlisted Poetry Books in the Classroom
Bookseller
Cressida Cowell, Rob Biddulph and Axel Scheffler celebrate 30 years of the National Literacy Trust
The Week Junior
Children’s Book of the Year: Non-Fiction (Welcome to Our Table shortlisted)
The Bookseller
The Week Junior Book Awards 2024 (Welcome to Our Table shortlisted)
THE BOOKSELLER
Alan Bissett, Laura Mucha and Ed Smith shortlisted for the Information Book Award
School Library Association
Worms, Superhumans, Dancing And More: SLA Announce Shortlist For 2024 Information Book Award
LoveReading 4 Kids
Shortlist for the SLA’s Information Book Award 2024 (Welcome to Our Table)
Books for Keeps
What is poetry and can AI write it?
National Poetry Day
AI and Poetry
Fortnum and Mason
The Shortlist is Here! (Welcome to Our Table)
Essex Magazine
£100,000 worth of books donated to fifty schools in Barking & Dagenham
Bookmark Reading Charity
£100,000 worth of books donated to 50 primary schools across Barking & Dagenham
Books for Keeps
BBC Radio 1 Broadcasters Greg James And Chris Smith Win The Ruth Rendell Award 2024 With Poet Laura Mucha Runner-Up
The Bookseller
BBC Radio 1 broadcasters Greg James and Chris Smith win Ruth Rendell literacy award
School Library Association
CLiPPA Announce 2024 Judges
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education
Announcing our CLiPPA 2024 Judges!
Books for Keeps
Get Ready For CLiPPA 2024
The Poetry Society
CLiPPA announces 2024 judges amidst children’s poetry boom
The Bookseller
Liz Berry to chair judging panel for the CLPE poetry award in a year of record submissions
ALCS
Ruth Rendell Shortlist 2024
Audible Blog
Laura Mucha on understanding your attachment pattern
Reading Zone
Celebrate! (book review)
LoveReading4Kids
Pick of the Month – Celebrate! (book review)
GQ Magazine
Best children’s cookbook 2023: Welcome to Our Table
Cambridge University
Laura Mucha is new Children’s Author in Residence at the Primary Care Unit
Grazia
How Attachment Theory Can Help Us Be Better Parents
Delicious Magazine
The booklist (book review)
BBC Good Food Magazine
Welcome to Our Table (book review)
Children's Books Ireland
Reading Matters – Reading Guide
Books for Topics
Recommended children’s books about food
CLPE
Welcome to Our Table (blog)
Waitrose Weekend
Finding a novel way to teach children about food (book review)
Booklist (American Library Association)
Welcome to Our Table (book review)
Kirkus (US)
Welcome to Our Table (book review)
Telegraph
The Way We Eat Now (feature of Welcome to Our Table)
Reading Zone
Welcome to Our Table (book review)
Red Reading Hub
Welcome to Our Table (book review)
Talk TV
Trisha Goddard (interview)
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education
My Heart is a Poem
UNICEF
How Love Shapes a Child’s Life
Books for Keeps
Celebrating CliPPA 2022
Federation of Children's Book Groups
The Belonging of Books
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education
Announcement of the CLiPPA 2022 Shortlist
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education
Being Me: Poems About Thoughts, Worries and Feelings
BBC Radio London
Jeanette Kwakye (interview)
IPAPER
Why you shouldn’t wait to tell your date about a geeky hobby
OUP Reading for Pleasure
Author Spotlight – Laura Mucha
NSTBA
2021 Poetry Award Winner – Laura Mucha
Cybils Award
Dear Ugly Sisters – Bite Sized Reviews
Ed Psy
Being Me (book review)
Głos Kultury
Miłość, zauroczenie, pożądanie — Laura Mucha — ‘No właśnie, miłość’ [recenzja]
Books for Keeps
Being Me (book review)
Red Magazine
Meant to be?
Just Imagine
Rita’s Rabbit (book review)
NSTBA
Bookshelf Poetry – Being Me
Picture Book Den
What a Waste!
NSTBA
Bookshelf Poetry – Dear Ugly Sisters
Just Imagine
Being Me (book review)
Youth Libraries Group
Actually I Haven’t Met My Father
Red Reading Hub
Being Me (book review)
Reading Zone
Being Me (book review)
Ipaper
Did Bill and Melinda Gates stay together for the children – and should you?
The Bookseller
Children’s Book Previews: Rita’s Rabbit
LITERACY TREE
May Literature Review (Being Me)
Glamour Hungary
A szerelem szakirodalma — A hét könyve: Kit, miért, hogyan szeretünk?
Képmás magazin
Kit, miért, hogyan szeretünk?
Jogászvilág
Kit, miért, hogyan szeretünk?
Przewodnik Duchowy
No właśnie, miłość — Laura Mucha
Kirkus (US)
Dear Ugly Sisters (book review)
iPaper
Love in the time of Covid: How our intimate relationships fared during the pandemic
Teaching English (NATE)
Book Box: three new poetry collections
BBC Radio London
Jo Good (interview)
The Bookseller
Children’s Book Previews: Being Me
Stylist Magazine
Attachment Theory (interview)
The Bookseller
Children’s Buyer’s Guide: Being Me
Ctrl Alt Delete
Laura Mucha: Love, Relationships & Attachment Theory
Marseille News
Le Poeme Emotionnel des Medecins
UNICEF
The Science of Love in Childhood: Conversations with leading experts in childhood love, adversity and mental health.
Children's Poetry Archive
Featured Poet: Laura Mucha
Adventures in Homeschool
Dear Ugly Sisters (book review)
The Open University Recommends
Top Texts for November
Countdown, The School Magazine
Blip (poem)
Reading Zone
Book Club: Poetry Recommendations
Countdown, The School Magazine
Alien Dictionary (poem)
Evening Standard
Doctors’ emotional poem tells of plight of trapped children trapped during pandemic
Books for Keeps
Poetry Special
National Literacy Trust
Help pupils learn the importance of Remembrance with The Royal British Legion
BookTrust
Books we Love
The Royal Society of Medicine
Listen up! Paediatricians co-write and perform a poem for children
The Hippocratic Post
Poetry and politics: Paediatrics 2.0
Reading Zone
Dear Ugly Sisters (book review)
Book Monitor
Dear Ugly Sisters, poems by Laura Mucha and illustrated by Tania Rex
Woman's Own
This week’s hot list: The movies and books not to miss
Independent
10 best kids’ poetry books: Anthologies that inspire and educate
Orbit, The School Magazine
Apatosaurus Rap (poem)
Woman's Weekly
Book Club – Zoe West picks the best reads for you
National Literacy Trust
Author of the Week
Children's Poetry Summit
Andrea Reece: P is for … Reasons to be Cheerful
Poetry Roundabout
Dear Ugly Sisters (book review)
Bustle
This Author Spoke To Hundreds Of Strangers About Love – Here’s What She Learnt
Deliciously Ella (Podcast)
Love and Relationships: 15 Facts (interview)
Monocle
Kiss Off, The Monocle Minute
Monocle
Meet the Writers, Monocle Reads: Laura Mucha
Psychologies Magazine
Let’s Talk About Love (interview)
National Literacy Trust
Write a Thank You Poem for Key Workers
TalkRadio
Bad Ass Women’s Hour (interview)
BBC RADIO LONDON
Jo Good (interview)
The Children's Poetry Archive
Mission: Write a Poem Using The Archive
BBC West
Kids star in poem for key workers
CBBC Newsround
Check out this poem for key workers!
CBBC Newsround
Newsround Bulletin
National Poetry Day
Guest Blog Post (about the Poetry Summit 2020)
WWDB TALK RADIO (US)
Women to Watch (interview)
Poems in the Waiting Room (New Zealand)
What’s the Point of Eyebrows? (poem)
Stylist Magazine
Why are we so obsessed with Jennifer Aniston? (interview)
WJR Radio (US)
The Warren Pierce Show (interview)
WGCH Radio (US)
The Way Home (interview)
KPNW Radio (US)
Wake Up Call (interview)
KTRS Radio (US)
Art & Jennifer (interview)
WGSO Radio (US)
Ringside Politics (interview)
WHBU Radio (US)
Mitch in the Morning (interview)
Business Talk Radio (US)
The Lifestyle Show (interview)
BBC Radio Ulster
The Lynette Fay Show (interview)
WRHI Radio (US)
Mornings (interview)
KLPW All Talk (US)
Morning Show (interview)
The Irish News
Ahead of Valentine’s Day, we ask an expert to tell us the secrets and science of love
The Royal Exchange
Conversations in the Courtyard (interview)
KBOO FM (US)
Love Understood: The Science of Who, How and Why We Love (interview)
The Bookseller
Audible scoops Mucha audiobook on attachment theory
BBC RADIO JERSEY
Breakfast Show (interview)
Adulting Podcast
Why Do We Fall In Love? with Laura Mucha
Poetry Society
Laura Mucha wins the first YorkMix Poems for Children Competition
YorkMix
Meet the winners of the YorkMix Poems For Children competition 2019
BBC Radio London
Jo Good (interview)
CHANNEL 10 (Australia)
Studio 10 (interview)
i Paper
Why people seem to be having less sex than ever — and the importance of dispelling myths
Deliciously Ella (Podcast)
Who, Why and How We Love (interview)
The Caterpillar
Spider (poem)
ABC, RADIO NATIONAL
What is love?
Poems in the Waiting Room (New Zealand)
Travel By Book (poem)
Scala Radio
Simon Mayo (book club)
Channel 10 (Australia)
Studio 10 (interview)
Marie Claire
This Is The Reason People Cheat On Their Partners
news.com.au
How a catastrophic accident revolutionised one woman’s love life
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Book Review: Pick of the Week
New Zealand Herald
Love Factually: The truth about sex and cheating
With Her in Mind (WHIMN), News Corp Australia
I Was Alone In A Paper-Thin Hospital Gown, Drenched In My Own Blood
BBC Radio 4
Woman’s Hour (interview)
i Paper
This is what I’ve learned from hundreds of interviews about love
BBC Radio 3
Free Thinking (interview)
Waterstones
Shelfie with Laura Mucha
BBC Manchester
Breakfast Show (interview)
British Science Association
Love Factually: The Science of Who, How and Why We Love
Channel 4
Sunday Brunch (interview)
Sunday Post
After love literally helped mend my broken heart, I had to discover how it worked
Triple J, ABC (Australia)
The Hook Up (interview)
The Guardian
Love Factually by Laura Mucha review
The Daily Telegraph (Saturday)
The science of love, Romantic researcher Laura Mucha crunches the data with Boudicca Fox-Leonard
Sydney Morning Herald
Does infidelity only happen in unhappy relationships?
ABC Adelaide (Australia)
Mornings (interview, featured as book of the week)
The Daily Express
I can tell you the truth about love: LAURA MUCHA spent a decade talking to people all over the world about the key to a successful relationship. What she discovered might just surprise you.
BBC Radio London
Jo Good (interview)
ABC, Radio National (Australia)
Life Matters (interview)
BBC World Service
World Update (interview)
talkRADIO
Eamonn Holmes Drivetime (interview)
WNYC (New York Public Radio)
All of It (interview)
The Daily Mail (Femail supplement)
One lonely heart’s quest to understand love factually: That’s what LAURA MUCHA set out to do with help from scientists and relationship experts, it transformed her love life and could revolutionise yours, too
Classic FM
The Land of Blue (interview following performance of poem)
Publishers Weekly
Book review: Love Understood: The Science of Who, How & Why We Love
Countdown, The School Magazine
What’s the Point of Eyebrows? (poem)
Touchdown, The School Magazine
Just One (poem)
BBC Radio 3
In Tune (interview and poetry performance)
Poetry Ireland, Transport for Ireland & Irish Rail
Poems on the DART
Poetry Roundabout
M is for children’s poet Laura Mucha (Poetry A – Z)
Countdown, The School Magazine
Dear Ugly Stepsisters (poem)
BBC Radio 6 Music
Radcliffe and Maconie (poetry performance of The Land of Blue by Allie Esiri)
The Pool
The Land of Blue (poem) featured in: Reading a poem a day will make you see the world differently
Touchdown, The School Magazine
How Many Friends Can You Have?
BBC Radio 3
In Tune (interview and poetry performance)
Blast Off, The School Magazine
Travel by Book (poem)
The Caterpillar
The Knee Incident (poem)
Teach Primary
Accessing Verse Can Seem Intimidating, But Laura Mucha Is Here To Show You How To Write A Poem
Writers' Forum
Competitive Edge: Helen talks to prize-winning children’s poet Laura Mucha about her success
The Caterpillar
How Long? (poem)
Book Week, Children’s Book Council of Australia NSW Branch
Travel By Book (poem)
The Caterpillar
Winner of the Caterpillar Poetry Prize: Dear Ugly Sisters by Laura Mucha
The Irish Times
Rags to riches: Cinderella poem wins €1,000 Caterpillar poetry prize
Stew Magazine
Knives are Sharp (poem)
The Caterpillar
The Sweetest Thing (poem)
Brian Moses' Blog
Guest Poet: Laura Mucha
Stew Magazine
Topple (poem)
The Caterpillar
What’s the Point of Eyebrows? (poem)
Stew Magazine
Lunch (poem)
Stew Magazine
Cake (poem)
The Caterpillar
Trombone (poem)
BBC World Service
World Update (interview)
The Caterpillar