A joy to kick off my ‘Finding Their Story’ book clubs in both Stanley Grove and Jerry Clay Primaries today, both part of @accomplishmat.bsky.social A 4-week book club to help children find the books that make them tick the most #lovewhatIdo 🥰📚

#UKLALucky13th Discover the must-read narrative verse YA novel, Not Going to Plan by previous UKLA winner, Tia Fisher. An often hilarious, yet profoundly moving and beautiful novel that captures teenagehood, its pressures and its complexities. Members, RP for a chance to win 1/3 copies

📚📦 It's #BookSortingDay at #OURfP! We’re preparing wonderful book boxes to share with our OU & #UKLA Teachers’ Reading Groups. Huge THANK YOU to our donors, sponsors & supporters! ❤️✨ #BadgerLearning ‪@kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social‬ @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social‬ #ChickenHouseBooks

Tomorrow is publication day! 🤩🥳🥰 Tell me what you think of it! #ontheedge 🏄🌊🔥@oldbarnbooks

Written by UKLA Award winner, Nicola Garrard, On the Edge follows Rhys and his brothers, struggling to get by in an off-season tourist resort. When their home is threatened, Rhys resorts to drastic measures to protect his family. Members, repost to be in with a chance to win #lucky13th

📣 Grab a cuppa and check your inbox – our August newsletter is here! ☀️📚 Author in the Spotlight @nicolapenfold.bsky.social‬, Top Texts for summer, RfP research, ideas for reading-themed days out & more! 💙 Sign up here 👉 ourfp.org/newsletter-s... #RfP #ReadingForPleasure #OURfP

📬 Our Reading for Pleasure newsletter is your monthly dose of #RfP inspo! 💙 Each issue includes: 📚 Top Texts ✨ Author Spotlights 🧠 Research insights 📅 #Literacy events & CPD Join 44k+ educators today 👉 ourfp.org/newsletter-s... #ReadingforPleasure #OURfP #Teaching 💙📚✨

📚💙 Do join us for our Autumn #OURfPConf in Milton Keynes - Saturday 18 October! Explore how #ReadingForPleasure supports empathy, identity & motivation in young readers. Workshops, research & RfP community energy all day! ❤️ 🎟️ ourfp.org/2025/06/12/a... #OUReadingSchools #Literacy #Teaching

Booking now LiVE for our Oct. 18th Conference! tinyurl.com/bn6d2x3m Milton Keynes 🎈Do Join us! 🎈@openuni-rfp.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @readingrocks.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @debbiethomas.bsky.social An engaging reading community focused day 🎈@uklitassociation.bsky.social

From Kenneth Oppel, Best of All Worlds is a story of survival, teenage passions and an invisible enemy. What should be a relaxing weekend away from the city turns nightmarish when Xavier and his family wake up to find themselves trapped inside a dome. UKLA members RP for a chance to win #lucky13th

It's a privilege to be part of the editorial team for English 4-11 magazine. The latest edition is packed full of wonderful articles about all aspects of teaching English in primary schools. If you work in education and have an idea for a potential piece, do please get in touch.

📉 The Decline in Volitional Reading 📚 Why are fewer young people #ReadingforPleasure? What can we do about it? This new Position Paper, co-authored by @teresacremin.bsky.social and international experts, explores evidence, busts myths & outlines ways forward 👇 🔗 cdn.ourfp.org/wp-content/u...

A National Year of Reading 2026 👏👏 to ‘change the nation’s culture’ is Good News! 👏👏 A DfE initiative with NLT as delivery partner @jonnybid.bsky.social @jonny-walker.bsky.social @rootedinreading.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social Do share and get involved! 👏 www.nationalyearofreading.org.uk

UKLA are looking for teachers, school librarians and other support staff who are passionate about Reading for Pleasure!

Apply now for the #RFPAwards2025 – celebrating schools, teachers & communities who champion #ReadingForPleasure ⭐📚 📢 NEW Deadline - July 21! 👀 Most under-applied? New teachers. Know one? Are one? We want to hear from you! 💙 👉 ourfp.org/2025/02/04/t... #OURfP #UKEdChat

The final UKLA Book Blether of the year is next week! This time we'll be sharing thoughts and recommendations of texts from the UKLA Book Awards. Joining us will be special guest, and WINNER of this year's 3-6+ Award... Craig Barr-Green! This is not one to miss! Sign up here: buff.ly/xqKONwk

Do read and share! Free and worth debating the individual- social and reflective ways forward rb.gy/4ih4ez @profsarahmcg.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @openuni-rfp.bsky.social @debbiethomas.bsky.social @debrakidd.bsky.social as well as the evidence on the associated benefits of reading!

NEW in the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling ‘Unknown Adventurer’ series! 3 signed copies of THE LOST BOOK OF UNDERSEA ADVENTURE! By Teddy Keen are the UKLA Lucky 13th prizes for June. UKLA Members just RP to be in with a chance to win. ‪@quartokids.bsky.social‬

There's still a handful of tickets left for the UKLA International Conference 2025 and you have 'til June 6th to buy them! Grab yours now and join us as we welcome our Keynotes, and experts from all fields of literacy teaching and learning, for a weekend of empowerment in education. buff.ly/yYpdw4f

@jotregenza.bsky.social @rshargreaves.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social @justimaginecentre.bsky.social @charliehacking.bsky.social @joyisreading.bsky.social @lockwoodcm.bsky.social

You can book tickets for my comic workshop at the fantastical @grimmandco.bsky.social on 31st May through the link in @cbnnetwork.bsky.social’s bio!

Exciting opportunity for UK schools! Friends at @worldkidlit.bsky.social are launching a new award celebrating Reading For Pleasure with an international dimension. They would LOVE to hear from teachers and schools who are interested in being involved. Let them know if you'd like to hear more.

@justimaginecentre.bsky.social @joyisreading.bsky.social @jotregenza.bsky.social @childrensbooks.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

Excited for a few new book & magazine additions to the ‘Mrs Baker’s Bookclub’ bookshelf today 🤗! If any Yorkshire school is interested in hearing more about my ‘Finding Their Story’ RfP book clubs for reluctant readers (rooted in research, with teacher CPD included), drop me a DM ☺️📚

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Aidan Chambers. His reflections on reading, the environments that nurture it, and the centrality of talk have profoundly shaped the way I understand and teach literature. His influence will remain with me always.

We are very sad to hear of the death of Aidan Chambers. A full obituary will be published shortly, in the meantime, here's a link to our 2001 Authorgraph in which he discusses his writing with Geoff Fox #KidLit #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/auth...

Publishing in the 80th anniversary year of the end of WWII, Shrapnel Boys is an explosive new novel about the friendship and courage of a group of young boys living through the war, from award-winning author Jenny Pearson UKLA members – RP to win a signed copy!

Limited tickets left for this FREE upcoming OU seminar - Informal Book Talk! 💙📚 Tue 20 May 2-3pm, Online. Prof @teresacremin.bsky.social & #OURfP team discuss informal book talk & readers' identities. Tickets here! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/informal-b...

Registration for Reading Gladiators 2025 -26 is now open. We are excited about the new features, especially our new online interschool celebration. readinggladiators.org.uk

New FREE OU seminar - Informal Book Talk! 💙📚 Tue 20th May 2-3pm, Online. Prof @teresacremin.bsky.social & #OURfP team members will discuss informal book talk, oracy, reading engagement & reader identities. Tickets here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/informal-b... #ReadingforPleasure #RfP #Literacy #Oracy

Explore Shakespeare’s best bits: love & heartbreak, magic & superstition, jealousy, beauty, insults & one-liners in this celebration of the Bard. With @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social as your guide, and illustrations from Chris Riddell. UKLA members RP to win 5 books + signed prints from Walker Books

Running a Book Club in School? We've been running our multi-award-winning Reading Gladiators book club since 2013, and we're having a total reboot this year. Join our free webinar about running book clubs in the primary school. 4th June, 4.00pm vimeo.com/event/4960018

The Easter holidays are here, so I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Just **repost** this post to have a chance to win. The winner will be selected 19th April.

Guess what., everyone? @openuni-rfp.bsky.social is finally here!!!! 📚📚📚📚 Woo hoo!

Here are all our book reviews from the month of March. Thank you to all our wonderful reviewers! justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

The WINNERS of the UKLA Student Research Prize 2025 are... Dr Samantha Hulston and Adrian Fernandes. You can find out more about their exceptional work here: buff.ly/z6ERMLj

Excited for @englishassociation.bsky.social book award meeting today. So good to be sharing the thoughts and feedback of the longlist group. If you want to attend the conference in June where the awards will be given out, see the link here englishassociation.ac.uk/ea-conferenc...

Wonderful OU / UKLA conference today with nearly 100 teachers in Doncaster : Thanks! 1st day of hols for some!! @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @debbiethomas.bsky.social @newarktrg.bsky.social @readforgood.bsky.social @whatonearth.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social

What a fantastic event with an incredible lineup of speakers. As you can see, we’ll also be celebrating the picture book awards as well. It’s been a joy being part of the long listing group as the children have been insightful with their observations as well as inspired by what they have read.

Do join us in Doncaster! Choice and voice matter! This practical day will offer ideas to support wise choices and rich conversation. @jonnybid.bsky.social @readingrocks.bsky.social Just 11 places left! @kashleyenglish.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-fo...

Today's the day! UKLA members: come along and blether about poetry with us this evening! The sign up link is below. Please spread the word 📣 @vikkivarley.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @mrsbaker6.bsky.social @rcharlesworth.bsky.social @gluestickgal.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social

Thank you @stephenjdilley.bsky.social & @teresacremin.bsky.social for recommending the epic Covenant of Water. Just finished the audiobook - so sad that it’s over! What a beautiful book.

Here are our first book reviews for March. Thank you to publishers and all our reviewers for your reviews this week. As always a fantastic variety of books for all ages: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

My offering for World Book Day is another book for the world! Six Queens is all you need to know about the iconic Tudor Queens. With a foreword by @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social. Enjoy your day whatever you are doing. I’m busy working on a new book 👑 @theagencybooks.bsky.social

Another Kate DiCamillo book read in one sitting! She has such a way with storytelling that you can't put her books down. 🦜 @anitaranih.bsky.social @vikkivarley.bsky.social @mrsbaker6.bsky.social Have you read The Hotel Balzaar?

EXCITING NEWS! Coming soon: a reboot of our multi-award winning book club, Reading Gladiators. Newly curated book selection and interschool challenges. We can't wait for the games to begin.

Tomorrow! AND today a schedule for my next novel has been agreed, so I might read a short extract from that. 😁 (Hope to see some of your friendly faces in the morning.)

A school RfP policy in one post: * Time to read and be read to every day * Time to talk about books together * Freedom to read graphic novels, picturebooks, poetry, non-fiction, magazines, anything * New books are an investment, not an expense * Work with librarians, bookshops, authors, poets, etc

The 10th Klaus Flugge Prize Longlist is here! ✨ Celebrating the most exciting newcomers in children's picture book illustration! Huge congratulations to all the longlisted artists! 📚💛 Which book are you most excited to read? 👀👇 #KlausFluggePrize