Tonight's the night we discover the winner of the 2025 @littlerebsprize.bsky.social (one of our favourites)👀Revisit the shortlist, which do you fancy for the win? #LittleRebelsAward #UKKidLit booksforkeeps.co.uk/debut-author...

With 87 days to Christmas, it’s time to think about festive reads and The Boy Who Grew Dragons: A Christmas Delivery by @andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social, illustrated by Sarah Warburton, looks perfect for younger readers! Out 09/10, huge thanks to Pippa @templarbooks.bsky.social 🎄 #KidlitUK #UKKidlit

Frame this. Hang it in every primary school classroom in the UK. Organise a daily pledge of allegiance. #KidLit #KidLitUK

Dear #LittleRebelsAward Folk: Ahead of tomorrow evening’s Award Ceremony, let’s remind ourselves of our very brilliant 🪧LITTLE REBELS AWARD SHORTLIST 2025🪧 Books which are ⭐️plump⭐️with social justice content and hopeful activism! #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #bookawards #kidsbookawards

Chuffed to see Fallout on this lovely list! Thank you all at Lancashire SLS. #fantasticbookawards #kidlitUK

Dungeon Runners Level 1: Hero Trial, written by @kieranlarwood.bsky.social and illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton, has won the Children's Book of the Year in the Younger Fiction (5-9 year olds) category at the Week Junior Book Awards. Congratulations! ⚔️🧩

The 2025 Nero Book Awards are underway with the category judges announced! Children’s books judges are author Sharna Jackson; Emily Bearn, Children’s Literary Critic & author, The Telegraph; Nick Campbell, Children’s Campaign Manager, Waterstones 📚 #UKKidLit booksforkeeps.co.uk/sharna-jacks...

Part 1 of new @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social As @rory-stewart.bsky.social says at end of Part 2 (next week or immediately for TRIP+ members) he had never heard her so open and reflective. alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/149-...

What an amazing book, one which totally encapsulates the futility of War. “The Good Son” by #PierreJaquesOber, #JulesOber and #FelicityCoonan is a trulying stunning and powerful story. The art is created using miniatures and and is frankly astounding. Heartbreaking #PictureBookPage

Well that has been a lovely escape. Properly got my reading mojo back this holiday, lovely to feel free enough to sink into a great book.

A lovely and new history of London book for children by Laura Carlin. 200+pages of wonderful illustrations spanning from the Stone Age to the death of the Queen.

This book is a work of art #KidLitUK

Publishing 8/5, Shrapnel Boys is @jennypearson.bsky.social first historical fiction novel & it's an absolute triumph. It's definitely a book to pre-order. kandobonkersaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/02/shra...

Congratulations to our illustrator Claudia Ravalli, for making it onto the list with The Dolls’ House - very well-deserved!

We reached over 1.4 million children through our programmes in 2023/24, helping families to discover the lifelong benefits of reading together. Find out more about the difference our wonderful supporters have made here: www.booktrust.org.uk/support-us/h...

With strong themes of true friendship and the importance of being confident enough to stand out from the crowd, Zak Monroe is (Not) My Friend by Simon Packham is a great transition read for Y6. Out 03/04 @uclanpublishing.bsky.social @antswilkinson.bsky.social #KidlitUK #UKKidlit

This is coming soon!

Back in 2018 I reviewed Малый театр/Maly Theatre's 'Life & Fate'/Жизнь и Cудьба at London's #Theatre Royal Haymarket bsky.app/profile/west... Think what #Russia cd do with soft power instead of #Putin's unprovoked #Ukraine invasion with its death toll + ZERO benefits for #Russians on.ft.com/3ID1fhP

Our Deputy CEO Annie Crombie has written this piece for Research in Practice about the transformative power of shared reading and why it's a powerful tool to support children’s wellbeing 👇 #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek

It was fantastic to see so many people attend the reopening of #Beckenham Library today after a big revamp. @floellabenjamin.bsky.social was guest of honour along with Stella the cat. A total honour to meet them both! @liamconlon.bsky.social @joshclockhouse.bsky.social @jessicaarnold.bsky.social

From the FT the other day. I had no idea.

Hello! I'm new to @bsky.app (part of the #Xodus), keen to share thoughts on #Russia As the #author of a #thriller/#comingout #novel set in #1990s #Moscow, a snapshot of #Soviet collapse pre-#Putin era, my love for #Russian #culture is soured by the sickening #Ukrainewar go.bsky.app/6Wd964S

It's been a busy month in the world of children's books. Here's your chance to catch up with what you may have missed. My Reading Matters round up includes book awards, free events, resources and new books to tempt you. #UKKidLit alibrarylady.blog/2025/02/01/r...

Finished up by checking out Oscar’s Lion by Adam Baron which we are reading for the 7+ category of @sparkbookaward.bsky.social. Utterly heartwarming and beautifully written with gorgeous illustrations by Benji Davies. @harpercollins.bsky.social #KidLitUK

The first book by @suchmo83.bsky.social revolutionised reading in my school. This one looks even better and has already got my mind ticking to how we can improve further.

The second #SundayMorningBookChat is in honour of great series! Series are a great way to hook someone in to reading… so what are your favourite series both complete and not finished yet…

Here’s 5 things I’ve learned about handwriting from writing the chapter. 🥉Handwriting isn’t prioritised that much in English schools anymore. While much of the work that is done in school is with paper and pen, as adults type day-to-day, handwriting’s not seen as important.

Flew back to Russia. Picked up a newspaper. Read this: “The USSR may come back to life this year.” Then this: ““It cannot be ruled out that this year Ukraine will cease to exist.” Bluster? Belligerence? Makes you wonder where things are heading. #ReadingRussia

Just received a copy of the second Dungeon Runners book: Sky Battles! Out next month, with stunning illustrations from Joe Todd Stanton. You can pre-order it now, if you want to be my best friend

Links to all the picturebook list blogs i have done… aiming to add a few more and update soon. #PicturebookPage smithsmm.wordpress.com/2020/08/23/y...

We have 4 FANTASTIC copies of #MurderForTwo - A Tariq Twins Mystery by @niylafarook.bsky.social to #WIN! For a chance to solve this dual-POV mystery with the estranged, neurodivergent twins, Ani & Riri to prove their dad’s innocence… Retweet & Follow by Jan 17 @piccadillypress #WRDMagComp

#PrimaryArt Sophie is a true inspiration

We spend a whole term focusing on Shaun Tan’s art in Y5/6. After incredible pencil work the children are now completing paintings based on (best book ever)The Arrival. #primaryart #shauntan #thearrival

The incredible @martinimpey.bsky.social has created a masterpiece in Blitz: One Family’s War. We’ll definitely be sharing this with Y5/6 next term. A stunning piece of work…and it will be continued!

Hello children's book lovers. Here's my first Reading Matters Children's Book News round up of 2025. A look back at the best of 2024, a preview of books in the coming months. There are free events & resources too so why not settle down and explore. #UKKidLit alibrarylady.blog/2025/01/04/r...

Today's review...'The One Where Bert Plays Football' by Chris Naylor- Ballesteros @nosycrowus.bsky.social Out on the 16th January, Frank and Bert are back! throughthebookshelf.com/reviews/fran...

My latest article for @neunion.bsky.social Educate magazine. Society is changing and what constitutes reading is also changing. Schools need to try and keep up. Link here: neu.org.uk/latest/union...

Hello - I wrote a new blog about the teaching of whole class reading, which I haven't in a while. It's over 9000 words so quite a read, but I hope the comprehensive nature of it comes across as helpful, rather than patronising. Anyway - hope it's useful! mrboothy6.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/w...

LAST CHANCE! I'm doing a festive giveaway of my book! Oracy: 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers. Like, follow and retweet to enter. Winners will be selected at random on Friday 3rd January 8pm UK time. bit.ly/100IdeasOrac... @edusky.bsky.social

Profound implications within neurolinguistics and second-language acquisition studies

Publishing 27/2, The Forbidden Atlas is the brilliant second installment in the Isaac Turner Investigates series. Secrets, lies & daring weave perfectly through the streets of Paris in this brilliant book. #samsedgman #kidlit kandobonkersaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

And keep your eyes peeled for ESCAPE ROOM: GAME ZERO in 2025... youtu.be/qhG3DIkjHmU?...

“I WILL STILL BE PRESIDENT THIS TIME NEXT WEEK”. In case you missed @therestpolitics.bsky.social interview with Georgia President Salome Zourabichvili earlier today here it is. Remarkable woman in remarkable times in her battle for democracy v autocracy. open.spotify.com/episode/4FuP...

Liz Truss’ roast potato recipe is a great explainer for British politics 2016-2024. Aggressively contrarian, determinedly simplistic, objectively wrong. A masterpiece.

“When the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back…” It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens. Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel. You can listen along, an ep a day, here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Hello UK based teachers and librarians. As we countdown to the end of term I have a giveaway of a trio of advances of @johngreenart.bsky.social brilliant InvestiGators: Class Action. Out in paperback 30/1/25. Please follow & RT to be in with a chance. Ends 9am Saturday.

This is TOMORROW (Saturday). Grab a ticket, log on, get the kids drawing cartoons and comics with me. We’ll be taking suggestions and coming up with nonsense things together. These events are always so random and unpredictable it’s a ton of fun 🤩

This article is so on the nail: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Welcome to Asia! Discover its incredible history and diversity with this beautifully illustrated and fact-filled encyclopaedia! Written by @rashmiwriting.bsky.social and stunningly illustrated by @jasonlyon.bsky.social #UKLA members repost to WIN 3 signed copies for your class! #uklalucky13th