📚🚸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...

Proud & delighted to see 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' on the shelves of The White Horse Bookshop - multi-award-winning independent bookshop in dear old Marlborough, Wiltshire! Browse away in the shop's fine Tudor splendour!

A day's rest after 4 days in schools with my free poetry assemblies. Into the garden... where the buzz of busy, happy children seemed to have morphed into the buzz of busy, happy bees.

Thrilled to visit the delightful Trallwn Primary School in the company of Waterstones Swansea children's representative this afternoon! Thanks to both Waterstones & Trallwn P. for a happy poetry assembly! instagram.com/p/DLXeERGNcO...

'What ifs weigh heavy, why nots lift the heart...' Jakub's Otter by @coralrumble.bsky.social is a gentle joy - I can't recommend it enough 👏 📚 ❤️

The mystery of a swan: studio.youtube.com/video/d54H3v...

Outdoor rhyme and song fun with poems from 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' + ukulele at the opening of Rogerstone Library's charming new garden! Every library should have one!! Thanks to Newport & Rogerstone library staff, and well done to my young audience! 👏

Cloudy day? So what! We had IMAGINARY sunshine + make-believe sparkling sea to loll about in at Cefn Cribwr Primary School yesterday! Thanks to all staff and well done children!

School, family, holiday reading?

Celebrating World Environment Week with poems from 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' (Link: www.amazon.co.uk/Squeak-Squaw... )

All sorts of fun venues coming up for me, 'Squeak!' + ukulele, including a library garden 🌱📚 which I shall be helping to open! 😃 June 21st, details to come. Book link: www.amazon.co.uk/Squeak-Squaw...

Keeping up with demand! Feels good to be ordering yet more boxes of 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' Anyone else for a signed, personalised copy? £10 inc. p&p in UK. Or skip sig. and buy at discount from Amazon amazon.co.uk/Sque.../dp/1.... - and perhaps leave a little review?

It's Endangered Species Day. A number of endangered species - and their plights - are glimpsed in Squeak! Squawk! Roar! www.amazon.co.uk/Squeak-Squaw.... Here's one of them:

The Head of Juniors introduced me to an absolutely packed hall, hot sun pouring in, yesterday. Would the children stay focused on poetry for 40 minutes? They DID! Well done Juniors and thanks staff at lovely Gwaunmeisgyn Primary! And thanks parents for buying my book, Squeak! Squawk! Roar!

TEACHERS! FREEEE e-poetry workshops for R-Y6! Just buy a few copies of 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' Simple as that! Invite parents to help!? The more copies, the more online time! Animal or Seaside themes! DM for details.

Getting ready for my WATERSTONES CARDIFF fun session (age 6+) Thursday, 11.30! We'll be thinking up silly rhymes to sing with ukulele, guessing each other's mystery animals, + lots more! Thurs. 24th. Waterstones, Hayes, Cardiff: www.waterstones.com/bookshops/ca... - 'Events' Do drop in!

In Cardiff or in reach? Have children age 6-12? See you in Waterstones - Hayes, Cardiff (UK) on Thursday morning 11.30 for all sorts of animally, rhymey, giggly fun! 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' - my new book - joining in! Just grab a FREE ticket from Waterstones to secure your place!

🦇 It's International Bat Appreciation Day - a good time to get your bats and non-bats sorted! Here are 2 rhymes to help, from 'SQUEAK! SQUAWK! ROAR!' of course. Anyone who still thinks a wombat is a kind of bat (as I used to!!) after reading these little rhymes must be a bit of a dingbat! 🤣

Easter egg gift alternative? How about poetry with a spring animal or two? How about 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Amazing Animal Poems' - 5-star ratings, recommended for both home and school?

A very interesting read by a wonderful poet.

Easter holiday entertainment for children age 7+ with me and my new book of animal poems! Do come and join in! (Just secure your free ticket first.) WATERSTONES CARDIFF, Thurs. 24th! www.waterstones.com/events/easte...

Such fun sharing the stage with the dazzling Alex Wharton, Children's Laureate for Wales, at the FCBG annual conference, Monmouth, last night! Thank you, lovely FCBG audience!

Received @brian_bilston's delightful-looking 'Let Sleeping Cats Lie' through door yesterday, but frustratingly, could only peep, as intended as a birthday present for someone else (another adult!), but glimpsed just enough to confirm fizzing with clever fun and wordplay, as I'd hoped.

⛵ Hello teachers! Here are my poetry workshop TOPICS for summer: SEASIDE & OCEAN, JUNGLE, WILD WOODS, and ANIMALS. Details + (fab) teacher-feedback:- katewilliamspoet.com/workshops/ All sessions are fun and exciting, with ukulele & acting out! DM for details.