Rethinking Reading

Hot off the presses - a must read about #comprehension and #backgroundknowledge from Hugh Catts at @thefcrr.bsky.social #scienceofreading
www.aft.org/ae/winter202...

Kneel at her feet horror people. KNEEL!!!

Attack of the Best Lists 2024: Make a Local List-- Featuring Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best This post is part of my year end "Attack of the Best Lists" coverage. To see every post in my "Attack of the Best Lists 2024" coverage [and ...

Local best lists featuring the awesome work of CHicago Public Library and @stephensposato.bsky.social's team:

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The 10 best classic Christmas books for children From Raymond Briggs’s depiction of Santa Claus to Tove Jansson’s Moomin adventures, there’s a rich range of classic festive stories for younger readers

My choice of classic children’s books for Christmas in the Sunday Times today. Have I included your favourite? @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

For the fun of it, in December #NewIllustrationoftheDay will be an advent calendar featuring recommended children’s books, old or new, whose titles contain, in order, numbers 1-24. Cover & inside illustration for each. Today Emily Sutton and Katherine Rundell (Bloomsbury Children’s paperback 2023).

Librarians, parents, teachers! You’ll be swamped with Wicked book requests. BUT the 📖 is very different from the📽️ & contains mature content unsuitable for kids ⚠️So here are some kid-friendly, witchy recs to go with their fave songs. Why not put on a wickedly cool shelf? 👀✨👇🏽

Pretty.

This sounds good.

a few years ago, I attended my first publishing conference, and the advice was so good I spent the whole time frantically writing it all down. wanted to circulate them again, and so:

✨here are 11 advice from editors✨

A lot of folks are giving up in advance. Capitulating before a single skirmish.

Well, not this old warrior. I’ve seen much worse from the U.S. government in my day. I’m concerned for our country, but not a bit scared of these miscreants. I’m ready to do my part.

Who’s with me?

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

I’m Canadian, but I think that brand is the US too? It’s really good. Somehow it tastes sweetened. I wouldn’t mind if it were, but it isn’t.

It’s been a while since I had Dr. Pepper, but this is close.

Charlotte the spider

'Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth... they know a fake when they see one.'
E.B. White

Yes! Feel better soon.

This makes me want to tell you that I bought artificially-colored butter-flavoured salt a while ago. I recommend it if it sounds appealing.

Glad the long day is over. Google image search with the colour helps sometimes.

Can’t wait for this!

Sound on

Don't forget I made an MG starter pack! Do reply if you want to be added

Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

Best fiction book you’ve read this year.

Go

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To celebrate 2,000 BlueSky followers, I'm going to do a little giveaway.

Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100.

You have until noon on Sunday 17th November

First iteration of a Book Blogger / Reviewer Starter Pack

Just got some of my own blogging work to do before I go to bed so will work on this some more tomorrow

go.bsky.app/DLLPgS7

At the suggestion of @jessicavitalis.bsky.social (thanks Jessica!) I turned my fairly popular old Twitter list, Kidlit Creators, into a Blue Sky starter pack! There you'll find #kidlit writers and artists you know and love--and others you really should get to know.

go.bsky.app/JMsbRr4

All - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.

So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.

Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

I've recommended it before but I'll do so again:

If you have stains (particularly oil based) on a garment and you've washed & dried it and tried stain removers and it's still there:

Put Dawn blue dish detergent on it and throw it in the wash

That stuff has taken out so many laundry stains!

Me: middle aged Asian male with black hair and black sunglasses wearing a grey fleece with yellow trim. I am holding a brown lop eared bunny aloft in my hands as an offering. He looks displeased.

Anyone who adds me to their starter pack this week gets a bunny.