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 🥰📚

Your 2026 UKLA Book Awards Longlists are here - the only national children’s book awards judged by teachers! This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes. Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...

The stories we connect with when we're little can shape us into lifelong readers. 👴 📖 Let’s take a look at Team Literacy Tree’s current favourites… and the books that got us here. Next up, @literacyhannah.bsky.social What books shaped you into the reader you are today? 💭 👇

Delighted to be the first stop on this week's giveaway tour for the hilarious new book in @nadiashireen.bsky.social's Grimwood series, Rock the Vote! There are three copies as prizes so to enter, just like, share and tag two friends you'd also like to win. Closes at 8:00pm on Tuesday 15th July.

New blog post for the weekend 📢! My reflections on the book 'After' by Pádraig Kenny, the role we are collectively giving to AI and the human traits that will always shout the loudest in the end: mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/a...

New blog post for the weekend 📢! My reflections on the book 'After' by Pádraig Kenny, the role we are collectively giving to AI and the human traits that will always shout the loudest in the end: mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/a...

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

Sending well-wishes and positive thoughts to all Y6 teachers and school leaders today 💪🫶 #SATsresultsday

Teaching in West Yorkshire? Come and join us next year 🥰! 🫶📚

An update about the upcoming @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Blether session next Thursday: Craig Barr Green, winner of the 3-6+ category and author of ‘Gina Kaminski Saves the Wolf’ will be joining too! Sign up at: bit.ly/45QRg7Z

UKLA members – don’t miss our final Book Blether of the year! 📚 Join @uklitassociation.bsky.social Reps on 10th July, 7–8pm, on Zoom to chat about the UKLA Book Awards books. Share your 2025 favourites or just listen in for some brilliant summer reading recommendations: bit.ly/45QRg7Z

Wonderful to see the team together today. Welcome to a few new members too 🧡 Preparing for a strong September start is key 🙌🏻 All our English Hub programmes are now full for 2025-26. We will be confirming your places very soon!🙌🏻 Look out for our TRG by @MrsBaker6 this week

Well this weekend at the @uklitassociation.bsky.social International Conference in Liverpool has been brilliant. Travelling home with a full heart (and brain!) and with hope for what is possible. Glasgow next year 🥰!

En route to Liverpool for the @uklitassociation.bsky.social International Conference! Excited to learn lots, be inspired, see friends, make new friends and find out who has won the UKLA Book Awards ☺️

So excited to have won this month’s @uklitassociation.bsky.social ‘Lucky 13th’ competition! Thank you so much UKLA & @quartokids.bsky.social for this gorgeous, signed copy of The Lost Book of Undersea Adventure by Teddy Keen. It arrived today and is 🤩🥰

Happy weekend! A new blog post from me today on two more shortlisted books for the 7-10+ @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Awards: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow & The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival ⬇️. 2 weeks to go until the winners are announced 🤗📚! What a shortlist 👏! bit.ly/402TT2J

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

My heart is so full after our @jcenglishhub.bsky.social OU/UKLA TRG celebration event today! So inspiring to hear attendees present their work. Fab, committed educators having real impact on RfP in their schools, rooted in research ❤️📚 it works! @openuni-rfp.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social

I'm continuing to explore shortlisted books in @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Awards 7-10+ category in my blog this week. Next up: Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan & And I Climbed And I Climbed by Stephen Lightbown. Two more excellent books for UKS2/LKS3 classrooms! 👇 bit.ly/43x4iGl

What a great day at the Happy Writers conference at @grimmandco.bsky.social! Coming away feeling inspired and calm in the knowledge that imagination & playfulness are central to enabling children (and us adults!) to write and thrive. Thanks so much Grimm & Co, Chol & Darts #HappyWriters

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 ☺️📚

All the best this week to all children, teachers, leaders, school staff and parents involved in Y6 assessments this week. You’ve all got this and the children will shine 🌟🫶💪

📣 New blog post! My reflections on two of the brilliant shortlisted books for the UKLA Book Awards 7-10+ category: Code Name Kingfisher by Liz Kessler & Stitch by Pádraig Kenny. Stay tuned for reflections about the other 4 shortlisted books over the next few weeks too ☺️🫶📚: bit.ly/44tGNii

Join our Reading Gladiators reboot webinar and discover our exciting book club plans for this year. vimeo.com/event/4960018 #primarybookclub #readingforpleasure #rfp #primaryschool @mrsbaker6.bsky.social @jobowers.bsky.social

Loving listening to @justimaginecentre.bsky.social Nikki Gamble interviewing Matt Goodfellow launching ‘The First Year’ this evening. Hearing Matt read aloud from the book, talk about the characters & their journeys, poetry, language and school is such a joy 🙏

Happy Friday 🎉! Today’s book blog post celebrates the quirky and kind ‘We Are Definitely Human’ by X. Fang & the wonderfully magical ‘School for Fireflies’ by Erica Gomez 👽🚀🪄✨ mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/we-are-definitely-human-by-x-fang-school-for-fireflies-by-erica-gomez/

The 'Inspiring Happy Writers' event coming up on 23rd May at @grimmandco.bsky.social's Emporium of Stories in Rotherham looks brilliant! Just booked my ticket and already looking forward to what will, without doubt, be a really energising day 🙂.

📣 New children’s book blog post: Jon Klassen’s new ‘Your Places’ boardbook series is minimalist magic. Perfect for little ones building sense of self, place & position. I’m imagining a lovely place-focused EY/Y1 writing opportunity too 🌴🚜🏕️ Read here: bit.ly/3YovpjC

I'm loving rereading @uklitassociation.bsky.social's 7-10+ category shortlisted books. I was SO thrilled to see these six make the list! Rereading them ready to lead the 7-10+ shadowing group from the end of April and having a whale of a time coming up with questions for us to discuss! 💜📚

I’ve finally taken ‘Mrs Baker’s Bookclub’ on over to Instagram too. Would appreciate a follow if you are interested in children’s books & what we can learn from them in the classroom and in life. You’ll find me there as @mrsbakersbooks ☺️🫶📚

📣 This week's book blog post: @chrishaughton.bsky.social's Books– Bright Colours, Big Lessons and Calm for the Soul 👀⬇️ www.mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/chris-haughtons-books-bright-colours-big-lessons-and-calm-for-the-soul/

Yesterday I was off to Kemble to workshop with committed leaders about the legacy of their vocabulary action research projects and share ways to cultivate & develop vocabulary with 40 teachers from their schools. Curiosity about & playfulness towards vocabulary acquisition at the heart of the day!

@ejillbaker.bsky.social hello 🙂👋

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

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 @imogenm16.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social

Come & join us this Thursday 🙂 This week’s theme is Poetry Click below to sign up ⬇️

📣 This week's blog post explores @nosycrow.bsky.social's gorgeous new picture book 'Eid for Nylah' written by Nizrana Farook & illustrated by Zelma Firdauzia. A perfect book to share with younger readers! mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com/2025/03/15/e...

It was the final session of my Y3 book club at Larks Hill Primary yesterday. It’s been such a privilege over the past 5 weeks to see the children grow in confidence, share & recommend books so enthusiastically & try new reading materials! I will really miss talking about books with them all 🫶📚

Published today, five lucky UKLA members can retweet to be in with a chance of winning a signed copy of #TheBeck by Carnegie Medal winner Anthony McGowan, a hilarious and heartwarming tale of one boy's quest to save the beck that runs through his granddad's [email protected]

Our next UKLA Book Blether is coming up on March 20th! Join in to share and discover fantastic children's texts - this month's theme is poetry. Sign up here: buff.ly/IDCVdvZ

We would love to see you there! We will be chatting all things poetry ranging from resources, awards, verse novels and anthologies.

Do join us at this next week - it would be wonderful to have you there 🙂!

Our young creatives did an amazing job on Issue 5: Water! Please give their work a read! Also, Lit Kids opens to submissions again in April for the theme EARTH! We accept writing, art, and photos from kids ages 5-13. Spread the word and keep shining! ✨ litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-mag...

Then an inspiring time with the @jcenglishhub.bsky.social OU/UKLA Teachers’ Reading Group this afternoon. We explored poetry, informal book talk & thought about the progress of our own projects. Such a thoughtful & motivated group! Fab recommendations shared by just some of the group:

Such a wonderfully bookish World Book Day here! Donned my Book Worm jumper & continued to explore reader identity and share book recommendations with the wonderful y3 Larks Hill Primary book club. Great to see how they are passing books amongst the group & are excited for their turn!

Happy World Book Day from our house to yours 🥰📚! Our 7yo & I had so much fun revisiting and chatting about the Bumble & Snug series by @markbradley.bsky.social when she was putting together this ‘Book in a Box’ for school today. They are such gorgeous books.

📣This week's book blog post: Jakub's Otter by @coralrumble.bsky.social 🦦🧡 mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/j...

Have you read Issue 5: Water yet? We're so honored to work alongside such talented kids! All the writing, art, and photos featured in this issue belong to kids between the ages of 5 and 13! Please share their awesome work far and wide. Keep shining! ✨ litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-mag...

Time to dive in! Issue 5: Water is officially LIVE! Congratulations to all the kids published through this Issue! We're proud of what you accomplished with your edits. Your work is shore to make a splash! Please share and keep shining! ✨ litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-mag... #kidlit #emag

This week's blog post shares the joy of 'Eli and the Uncles' by Jehan Madhani & illustrated by Rashin Kheiriyeh from @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social. A book perfect for EYFS & Lower KS1. Playfulness in abundance & a lovely celebration of extended family! mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/e...