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		<title>Zone 13 &#8211; relaunch of an old favourite &#8211; now updated!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Rickard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month we republished six books in the Zone 13 series, all written by David Orme and originally published in 1998 by Stanley Thornes Ltd. For this relaunch David thoroughly revisited the texts, and we have commissioned a complete set of new illustrations and new covers. Well May 2011 sees the publication of six more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;What kids are reading 2011&#8242; &#8211; Blowing our trumpet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Rickard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;What kids are reading 2011&#8242; report, commissioned by Renaissance Learning is now out. Ransom&#8217;s books feature prominently. For struggling readers in Years 7 to 9, it&#8217;s virtually a clean sweep: Books struggling readers read most often, Year 7: no less than 19 of the top 20 books listed are all published by Ransom. (They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;What Kids Are Reading&#8217; 2011: some thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.ransom.co.uk/blog/?p=501</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Rickard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The report &#8216;What Kids Are Reading&#8217; &#8211; commissioned by Renaissance Learning &#8211; has now been published for 2011. You can get a free copy from the &#8216;read to a million kids&#8217; website. If you are involved at all in supporting or teaching literacy, I strongly recommend you to do so. It&#8217;s a 60 page A4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New 2011 Catalogue now available</title>
		<link>http://www.ransom.co.uk/blog/?p=496</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Rickard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to announce that our 2011 catalogue is now available. It&#8217;s 16 page A4 and is brimming with new books to delight and surprise. Highlights this year include more reading books in the Dark Man series, Dark Man software, a reissue of the Zone 13 books by David Orme (originally published over ten years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get them hooked on books &#8211; by Susan Elkin</title>
		<link>http://www.ransom.co.uk/blog/?p=490</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Rickard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quickie: there&#8217;s a nice piece in the UK&#8217;s Yorkshire Post by author Susan Elkin: How to get them hooked on books. You can read it here. As you&#8217;d expect, it&#8217;s full of common sense. &#8220;Every parent is a teacher and every teacher is a teacher of reading. And developing reading – or &#8220;Unlocking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ransom Playstation comics available 27th October</title>
		<link>http://www.ransom.co.uk/blog/?p=486</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Rickard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All twelve Boffin Boy reading books and the first twelve Dark Man reading books (that&#8217;s Sets One and Two) will be available for purchase on the Sony Playstation comics store from 27th October (2010). The price will be £1.19 each. Because there&#8217;s so many books, Sony have decided to release three books from each series [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Man and Boffin Boy are coming to the Sony Playstation</title>
		<link>http://www.ransom.co.uk/blog/?p=482</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Rickard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exciting news! We’ve just reached an agreement to have our Dark Man and Boffin Boy reading books made available as ‘comics’ on the Sony Playstation comics store (http://uk.playstationcomics.com/main.html). Children will be able to purchase the comics online and download a copy to their Playstation to read. The comics are displayed using an “app” that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trailblazers audiobooks now available!</title>
		<link>http://www.ransom.co.uk/blog/?p=473</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Rickard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, not really a blog post. But it seems as good a place as any to mention it. We&#8217;ve just produced audiobook versions of eleven of our Trailblazers books. (Those are the high-low books for reluctant and struggling readers, featuring both non-fiction and fiction in the same book.) Audiobook versions are now available for Comets, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why struggling kids should worry about academies</title>
		<link>http://www.ransom.co.uk/blog/?p=464</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 10:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Rickard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK government has announced that thousands of UK schools are to have the opportunity to opt out of local authority control and become academies. Education secretary Michael Gove is writing to all primary and secondary schools in England with this very invitation. Here&#8217;s the BBC&#8217;s take on it. Is this a good thing? Should we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A special treat for teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.ransom.co.uk/blog/?p=453</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 11:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Rickard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably know Ransom best for publishing engaging high interest-age, low reading-age books for children and young adults who don&#8217;t tend to take to books in the way that ducks take to rivers. (You know what I mean.) So it&#8217;s good news then that we have a new series of books designed not for kids [...]]]></description>
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