We had a fab day discussing @minecraft with @andrewclemson.bsky.social today at school.for #worldbookday! Thank you! ❤️📖👏

Happy to promote this fab new book from @dkbooks by Dr. Lucía Pérez-Díaz - #HowTheEarthWorks @drlperezdiaz My review and pics of the fab illutrations now at whatiread.co.uk/post/how-the-e… Happy @WorldBookDayUK! If you are near Oxford, you can meet the author this afternoon @blackwelloxford

My turn on the @fcbg_news Book awards blogtour, and an honour to write about and host a guest blog from brilliant author, Hannah Gold (@hannahgold_author) for her book, Turtle Moon ( from @harpercollinsch ) Congratulations to all nominated, but I've got my 🤞! www.whatiread.co.uk/post/turtle-...

Blogtour kickoff today for #RingsideGamble by @sjclarkeauthor Thanks to @literallypr for the copy to review My thoughts and more at: www.whatiread.co.uk/post/ringside-gamble-s-j-clarke

The latest Read for Empathy collection has been launched. As always, it's full of absolutely superb books, including graphic novels, poetry, picturebooks and non-fiction. The work @empathylabuk.bsky.social are doing is incredibly important. More information here: www.empathylab.uk/rfe

Alexander von Humboldt: Explorer of the Americas and Beyond is one of the most amazing books I've received! Beautifully illustrated & designed,it's made up of 6 huge fold out map pages Illustrated by @rociomartinez published next week by @prestel_publishing Thanks to @antoniawilkinson for my copy

Great time at the @iwstoryfestival, being entertained by and finally meeting the fab @mazevansauthor Getting to be the #first to get my copy of her new book signed was a proper treat, too....it's out next week #ThatllTeachHer @headlinepg whatiread.co.uk ❤️📖👏

I absolutely loved @J_C_Pearson 's upcoming release #ShrapnelBoys from @Usborne....Best yet from this fab author in my opinion...brilliant! ❤️📖👏thanks to @FrithaL for my copy. Train time today let me write my review! www.whatiread.co.uk/post/shrapnel-boys-jenny-pearson

Absolutely loving #HiddenTreasure by @jessieburton from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social and thrilled to have the opportunity to meet and mudlark with her for real in London on Sunday! Thank you @emilymarples ❤️📖

Second blogtour of the day....this one definitely not for schoolkids, though! #TheSeventhFloor is a brilliant spy thriller from @mccloskeybooks and @_SwiftPress, and one of the best proof package I've ever received....felt like James Bond opening it! 🤣 www.whatiread.co.uk/post/the-sev...

My turn on the blogtour for #AllBrainsAreWonderful by the fab @MrEPrimary from @bsmallpub www.whatiread.co.uk ❤️📖👏

A pair of picture books from @BIGPictureBooks @WalkerBooksUK in today's #bookpost #TheEndlessSea by #ChiThai and #LinhDao #WheresWallyAMazeIngJourneys by @MartinHandford Thank you, these are 😍👌 👏📖❤️whatiread.co.uk

More details of the #bookpost I posted here yesterday: #ZacMonroe @baldambitions #DoNotSayTheseWords @FrancesTosdevin, both @publishinguclan #KwasiAndNanaRubyLearnToSwim @kobinawrites @BarefootBKS #ShadowhallAcademy @Hickesy Thanks to all ❤️📖🙏 whatiread.co.uk #bookpost #bookblogger

Loved being a part of this! Thanks for sharing, @bbray27.bsky.social ❤️🙏📖

Back from a weekend away to this #bookpost bonanza! For starters... Thank you @Usborne for #JennyPearson #ShrapnelBoys & @GMcCaughrean #UnderAFireRedSky @barringtonstoke for @thelucystrange #TheBoyAtTheWindow @DanSmithAuthor #DeadsoulProject & #chickenhousebooks for Gary Panton #TheNotwitches

Libraries & librarians have never been more important. If we care about the future, we must make sure every school, every community, every child has access to a library & a librarian. And we have to give them all our support, so they can do their vital work, which benefits us ALL! #SaveLibraries

Thrilled to have an early read of this new @anthonymcgowan book from @barringtonstoke.bsky.social #TheBeck ❤️📚👍

Fun packed pages and illustrations that are bound to raise a smile make #BadPanda a classroom favourite with my pupils! Thanks @faberchildrens.bsky.social for sending me the latest instalment of this series by @SwapnaHaddow ❤️📖 illustrated by @SheenaDempsey

Started this last night and am totally hooked....strange, unsettling but utterly gripping YA from @madelineclairefranklin published by #chickenhousebooks Thanks to @laurasmythepr.bsky.social for my copy ❤️📖📚🙏

This looks great, but I'm worried I may not sleep! @larryhayesauthor #TheNightmaresOfFinneganQuick from @bloomsburychildrens was sightly scary seasonal #bookpost this morning!! Thanks ( I think! 😬😱) ❤️📚👏 whatiread.co.uk

This looks like a great new series from @littletigerbooks #GuardiansOfTheNewMoon out January 2025 by @erichuangbooks and @phung.nguyenquang Thanks for sending this #bookpost ❤️📚 Whatiread.co.uk

Blogtour stop with author content now up at: www.whatiread.co.uk for @Jclaessen_ #TheDecemberWitches from @publishinguclan ❤️📚

Amazingly beautiful #bookpost from #dkbooks ... #TheGreenKingdom by @cornelia.funke.official is out March 2025 and guaranteed to be a wonderful read ( I'll let you know once I've finished at www.whatiread.co.uk!) ❤️📚🙏

Deadline tomorrow! Fed up with having an over-packed curriculum and high-stakes assessments? Let the government know in the Curriculum and Assessment Review. You can access it here: consult.education.gov.uk/curriculum-a... If enough people tell the reality, it might be changed #PrimaryRocks

One of the best bits about being a #bookblogger is sharing the fab books I'm lucky to be sent, not just through recommendations but in real life! This box of brilliant reads now donated to a local primary school....thanks to all publishers/authors ❤️📚 Whatiread.co.uk

An early Christmas present for you all 😁👍 www.darrellwakelam.com The YouTube making clip is here . . . youtu.be/ZAwtWGz5DdY?...

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

#NNFN2024 Thrilled to share this amazing series from @NoodleJuiceBks as part of the celebration of non-fiction this month! Brilliantly illustrated and full of facts and info, these are fab! #littlebookBIGideas #Whatis.....? Check out other stops this month for more recommendations ✨️ 📚

Anyone else up watching the #miketyson fight?

This series of five audio essays about the power of children’s stories, written and narrated by the brilliant Katherine Rundell, is gorgeously clever and wise www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

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Hi all! New here, moving and starting out after years elsewhere. Primary deputy head, English specialist with passion for children's literacy. Here and elsewhere as @richreadalot and less frequently nowadays on my blog/website whatiread.co.uk