Hello TEACHERS! Excited and delighted that Squeak has found its way onto a map of the UK - The UK Reading Road Map! In fact, two maps, for Yrs 3-4 and Yrs 5+6! In great poetic & all-round literary company too! www.ukreadingroadmap.org Launching in October, so get revving, schools!

I'm now posting a poem a day on my YouTube channel, in case handy for school or family. Here's the latest: Whooshing with the Swoosh: www.youtube.com/shorts/0se60...

For teachers - a fun and meaningful reading incentive for new and hesitant readers - the school dinner menu! Tips and ideas for development - www.youtube.com/shorts/rPOEU...

If only indeed! Enjoyed.

TEACHERS! 🚀 SPACE WRITING ideas, tried & tested with rewarding outcomes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Hq...

Hi teachers! April's a great month for mini-beasts, and this little video offers quick tips, ideas & examples for snail writing: www.youtube.com/shorts/ACNg7...

With the moon in the news this week, it seems a good time to share 'Moonpower' from 'Squeak', for any child (or adult!) awake on a moonshiny night: www.youtube.com/shorts/AIPbp...

Spring at last - if breezy! Here's 'Blossom's Moment' - www.youtube.com/shorts/fwx5f...

Teachers! Discussing sustainability, ocean creatures, endangered species or our precious world? Here's a supporting poem about a vulnerable sea turtle: www.youtube.com/shorts/CGgQ9...

Lovely to be back at Waterstones Croydon last week, celebrating World Book Day with 10 school classes, with the help of 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' Copies in stock at the store, Whitgift Centre. Thanks to all staff for their warm welcome & support!

Zebra Crossing (Did you see it?) www.youtube.com/shorts/XrpRm...

Hi teachers & parents! Here's my latest poem video - bringing poetry alive for children 'Cobra gets Comfy' 🐍 (from Squeak! Squawk! Roar!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVG5...

Latest little poem video for sharing in school - and taking off from: Chimpantease: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjwT... Ask - What else might this cheeky chimp throw? Can you spot any rhymes? (e.g. chimpanzee/tree, back/smack).

Teachers, parents and carers - LOTS of fun little poem videos on my YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/@KatesPoems111 Keeping kids busy, entertained, thinking, learning and imagining. Here's Sharky Lurky, for instance: www.youtube.com/shorts/v4wO7...

In my latest poem video you'll spy a lion... but has he spied you too? L-L-L-Look Out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIR...

🐟 'Fishy Wishes' - my latest poem video - offers a starting point for home or class discussions on love, care, friendship, positive thinking, self-esteem, and nature, besides being a fun little rhyme. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON3J...

The animals of SQUEAK & I would like to wish everyone a VERY HAPPY 2026! 🍾

Smarty Snail - from 'Squeak': www.youtube.com/shorts/y_gGY...

We wish you a Merry SQUEAK! SQUAWK! and a Happy New ROAR! 🐭🦜🦁 "Delightful" - BookTrust. 🐧

Anyone with bored kids at home? Try them with this!🐧

🐘Nice to see my 'Elephantine Problem' - from SQUEAK! SQUAWK! ROAR! - picking up a bit of interest on YouTube lately. There's a question about the lifestyle of giraffes too that viewers seem to be sticking around for...🦒 www.youtube.com/shorts/hxcoj...

No. 1 done of my 7 Libraries of Newport: lovely, rural Bettws. Greeted with immediate offer of coffee - REAL, GROUND coffee! 11/10 stars!

Feels good to be stocking up for Christmas!

💨Funny how some things catch on against the odds! My little rhyme 'The Wind' is one of those, always getting top views on my channel despite muzzy sound and one still image! But tonight it has the real wind of Storm Claudia to spin with! Take care all! www.youtube.com/shorts/rqfhv...

📚🚸Today is National Young Readers' Day, so - noses into books, kids! Or snuggle up close to whoever may be reading to you! There's plenty to choose from... Sitting comfortably?

Hi teachers, parents and child carers - If you're celebrating fireworks, here are some warm-up actions I use to get creative ideas going in my poetry workshops (excuse the background mess!): www.youtube.com/shorts/TlEa3...

So true - what Ana Sampson says here: "For readers intimidated by a whole book, poetry can expand their imaginations and vocabularies in small, easy steps. Pick up a poem, and you’re on the road to raising a reader." childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/11/06/a...

🎇Teachers and families! Here's a fun, punchy fireworks rhyme to share with your classes. Join in the Snap! Crackle! chorus, act out the firework actions, make the sounds, and make up more verses! Kate Williams Author: 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' Animal poems.

Schools and families! Here's an array of firework-celebrating poetry ideas and examples! Chuffed to have my 'Snap Crackle' included! brian-moses.blogspot.com/2024/11/nove...

🦇? Too late for Halloween, but all those bats flying about put me in mind of my batty old rhyme: Batman Comes Undone Help! Disaster! Fire and smoke! Robin's trod on Batman's cloak! Torn a rip right up the back! He'll have to wear his anorak.

🎃Hope you're all surviving Halloween! 🪄Here are some silly magic spells for the kids. (Harmless - no turning people into frogs!) www.youtube.com/shorts/vgwWL...

🎃🪄Friendly Halloween rhymes are fun to concoct, and can keep children happily busy at this exciting time, so - parents, families, teachers, carers - feel free to take a screenshot of this, or message me for a downloadable version. 🌛 Used rewardingly in my October school workshops.

🎃A spooky Halloween rhyme for older children - Jack o' Tricks: www.youtube.com/shorts/9QZvW... Plenty more rhymes, poems & ideas for home & school creative fun on my channel to browse while you're there too!

John Dougherty: Writing a Rhyming Picture Book childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/10/23/j...

Spook time is almost upon us, so here's my 'Haik-Who?', featuring in scaryness.com, inspired by a strange phenomenon once reported: 👻 We’re all in the hall mirror with one more figure not here in the hall.

Rhyme needs rhythm. Through a digital screen? Why not? Here - briefly - are Reception & Yr 1 at Hagbourne Primary, Oxon, and me... in Wales!

World Animal Day was yesterday, and I'm sure it set the creatures in 'Squeak' shuddering and snorting in their different ways. Here's my post about it - and them: katewilliamspoet.com/2025/10/05/w...

A very happy National Poetry Day with Hagbourne Primary School, Oxon, via Zoom! Here are the younger children enacting a wood, ready for animal rhymes! Then 4/5 & I explored emotions, with wonderfully expressive outcomes! Well done all! @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

I'm squeaking and squawking with delight to see 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' on the updated, September version of the excellent School Reading List - poetry for 7-11 year olds category - and in fine company too! schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/poetr...

I've just been tidying and smartening up the Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' page of my website: katewilliamspoet.com/squeak-squaw...

Teachers - friendly spells & free prompt sheet for your class? Almost every day of the year I get viewings on this post on my blog, and now, as Halloween nears, more than ever! katewilliamspoet.com/2020/10/21/h...

Teachers! Zillions of poetry and literacy resources at my TES shop: www.tes.com/teaching-res... Schools are also finding my new book 'SQUEAK! SQUAWK! ROAR!' handy for topic work on nature, animals, environment and sustainability.

Today is International Cat Day 😼 so here's 'A Cat's Day In' from my new book of animal poems - 'SQUEAK! SQUAWK! ROAR!'

CREATIVE HOLIDAY FUN FOR YOUR CHILD! 🖋🎨 Write a poem/draw a picture inspired by the title of one of the 54 animal poems in 'SQUEAK! SQUAWK! ROAR!' 🐁🦜🦁 DM with photo + child's first name + age + poem title chosen, by Sat. August 16 and I'll share! Poems 10 lines max.

Today is WORLD NATURE CONSERVATION DAY, and the animals in 'Jungle Shrink' are as nervous as ever. So am I. Whole poem & illustration available in my animal collection, 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!'

I wrote this before armchair shopping started taking over from Saturday trips into town, with all it's weekend colour, sound & bustle! If you have children, perhaps they could add to it!? youtu.be/P1jt8DadOVQ

Just to say 'Hungry Hedgehog' - a poem from 'Squeak', is now on YouTube, set to music with a few still images. Offers thought-provoking entertainment for school use or home enjoyment. youtu.be/dJb2SSUFJx8

Could stretch out in that golden grass today (30c here), just gazing at that glassy water.

😀 Lovely ending to a term of poetry assemblies - a teacher ordering a great stack of 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!'s for her school, because "we absolutely love the book". I'm purring.😸

Hi from the UK! Just to mention my new book of animal poems -SQUEAK! SQUAWK! ROAR! - publishes in the USA today! Recommended by numerous reviewers for school & home. Details on Amazon listing: www.amazon.com/Squeak-Squaw...