Delighted to say that @catwrote.bsky.social is one of the amazing lineup of speakers at the @ibbyuk.bsky.social conference Whose History? on 8th November www.ibby.org.uk/activities/c...

The @ibbyuk.bsky.social committee has revealed the books chosen as this year's UK Honour Books, including books in Welsh alongside books in English. This is the first time books in Welsh have been included. #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/ibby-uk-anno...

Really sorry to see this. A great loss to inclusive & diverse children’s publishing.

Interrogating the tellers of history. @ibbyuk.bsky.social conf. Saturday 8thNov 🤩starry lineup!🤩 Incl.: Farrah Serroukh @theclpe.bsky.social @gitaralleigh.bsky.social @balirai.bsky.social @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @darrenchetty.bsky.social @chrishaughton.bsky.social

#kidlituk #ukkidlit Streaming and in person tickets still available!!!

We hope to see you at out conference this November, we have a full and exciting day planned and guest speakers that shouldn't be missed! Tickets are still available: Buy tickets – The IBBY UK 2025 Conference – Open Ealing Arts Centre share.google/RDgMepljlkGg... We hope to see you there!

Have our conferences caught your eye, but travel or cost held you back? For the first time EVER, we’re thrilled to offer online tickets to our upcoming conference "Whose History" for just £35! Tickets are selling fast - get them before they're gone! 🎟 www.tickettailor.com/events/ibbyu...

📚 What stories do we tell children about the past? 📚 From whose point of view are these stories told? 📚 Whose lives are considered important — and whose are forgotten? 📚 What are historical “facts,” and who gets to interpret them? We’ll explore these questions at our conference on November 8th!

Great Line up! Tickets available: www.tickettailor.com/events/ibbyu... @ibbyuk.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @theclpe.bsky.social @chrishaughton.bsky.social @gitaralleigh.bsky.social @balirai.bsky.social @candygourlay.bsky.social @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social

Very excited about the upcoming @ibbyuk.bsky.social conference! Come along and hear from these AMAZING speakers or stream online. WHOSE HISTORY? Challenging historical narratives through writing for children and young people #kidlituk #ukkidlit #edusky

Tickets are going fast for this amazing day of deep dives into history in a #kidlituk context with star speakers including @balirai.bsky.social @catherinejohnson.bsky.social and THE @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social !! @ibbyuk.bsky.social #whosehistory

Join authors, educators and publishers as we explore how children's books can challenge dominant historical narratives and open space for new voices. 🗓 8 November 2025 📍Open Ealing Arts Centre + online 🎟 £35 to £95 🌐 www.tickettailor.com/events/ibbyu... #whosehistory #IBBYUK

I welcome the news that the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has lost her appeal and failed to block the legal challenge to the proscription of Palestine Action:

Final warning! You have until midnight tonight 17 October to apply for a FREE place @ibbyuk.bsky.social conference Whose History 8 November via our special offer. Find out more, and get your entry in🤞#KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/books-for-ke...

Not long until @ibbyuk.bsky.social conference 8 November, even less time to apply for a FREE place via our special offer. Find out more, and enter by Friday 17 October🤞#KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/books-for-ke...

The report featured in the Guardian today on the inclusion of women in hustory lessons is really important - lets make women’s voices heard and their actions remembered. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

And still, Keir Starmer’s government arms Israel, enables its genocide in Gaza and hasn’t even expelled the Israeli Ambassador. Shame on him.

We all know *the person* in No. 10 who thought they were playing 5D chess by reviving Enoch Powell’s fascistic phrase “island of strangers”. Keir Starmer approved it — then parroted it. Shame on all their houses.

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

Netanyahu — wanted by the ICC for war crimes — has declared plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and annex Gaza. This follows 64 days of starving a besieged population by blocking food and aid. The UK must implement a full arms embargo and expel the Israeli Ambassador NOW.

We’ll be at Nunhead Cemetery Open Day on Sat, 17th May! 🎬 Come meet the team, learn about the festival & get involved! See you there! #PNFFF

If you missed the documentary about the children of Gaza shown last Monday that the BBC has now taken down you can view it here drive.google.com/file/d/1Q7v-...

The UK welcomes Ukrainians but shuts out Palestinians — even as UK-made weapons fuel their genocide. Safe routes for some; moral panic and cruelty for others. There’s a name for that: anti-Palestinian racism.

This will be the 26th review of adult social care. In 2028 we can expect the 27th. Well, will you look at this can in the long grass.

If we care about the future of our children - we need a library & a librarian in every single school, to help every single child find the books that will make them lifelong readers! Libraries & librarians create the readers of the future! #libraries #librarians #literacy (Art: Chris Riddell)

"The occupation is targeting our minds and our bodies, but it does not realise that ideas cannot die. The value of books and libraries, the knowledge they carry, and the identities they help shape are indestructible." — #AJOpinion by Shahd Alnaami ⤵️

Currently reading this book. Definitely recommend.

Trends are for genres, surely not for representation itself, says Fen Coles. After a promising period, publishers’ commitment to representation seems to be waning. Is inclusion being relegated to just another trend? 👇 www.thebookseller.com/comment/clpe... #BookSky

“If you’re invested in producing inclusive literature…You have to back that investment at every stage through time, through money, through infrastructure and through promotion.” #ReflectingRealities director Farrah Serroukh on the latest @theclpe.bsky.social report.

'So yes, it is easier to sell them another book by one of those celebrities who Blacked-up on television, rather than by an unknown author who is consciously trying to avoid telling the kind of story they grew up reading.' www.thebookseller.com/comment/clpe...

🔊 Our 7th annual #ReflectingRealities report is out now! This year’s report shows a significant drop in the presence of racially minoritised characters in books published for children in 2023 in the UK.

And the latest:

I was particularly thrilled with this review (despite typo!!), but despite being about as zeitgeisty as you can get (excuse the neologism) this book, published in April 2021, hasn't done as well as many people, very kindly, feel it should. #ClimateAction All my books published by Andersen Press