What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired I don't mean I want to sleep. I mean I want to disappear for a while. To be rain on a stranger's roof. To be smoke rising from someone else's fire. I don't want to die. But I do want to rest in a way the world has never allowed me. I don't want comfort. I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved.

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté

"I want quiet.
I want the mercy of being unseen
without being unloved."

My crazy doggo is six today!

New favourite children’s verse novel - Pip Harry’s ‘The Little Wave’! Beautiful and sensitive, gently weaving complex themes into a sweet and accessible story centreing friendship and family. Prefect for Y4&5

#books #kidlit #versenovels #schoollibrarian

Verse novel fans, updated list is now available! 📚🇨🇦 MG and YA novels in verse by Canadian authors. New this year: includes French-language verse novels. #versenovels

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long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

a monster with horns and feathers is standing on a sandy beach ALT: a monster with horns and feathers is standing on a sandy beach

I’ll be your nerdy druid!

I feel this on so many levels 😂

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The plum you're going to eat next summer doesn't exist yet; its potential lives inside a tree you'll never see in an orchard you'll never see, will be touched by a certain number of water droplets before it reaches you, by certain angles of light, by a finite amount of bugs and dust motes and hands you'll never know. The plum you are going to eat next summer will gather sugar, gather mass, will harden at its center so it can soften toward your mouth. The plum you're going to eat next summer doesn't know you exist. The plum you are going to eat next summer is growing just for you.

I think I must be very lucky so far to never have had a parent take issue with my library’s manga/GN/comics collection or their kids reading them, but I have definitely had teachers do the ‘oh choose a proper book’ thing to students they’ve brought to the library on a few occasions 🙃

A two panel comic of Loki from A Bad God's Guide to Being Good. In the first panel he's looking breezy and innocent and holding up a book. He's saying, "I think it's great that children read prose novels." In the second panel, he's looking more mischievous and saying, "It's a perfectly GATEWAY to comics."

Let's kill "comics are a gateway to reading" dead please?

Discovered padlet can make interactive maps today, so spent way too long adding my read around the world (kidlit) books to a map 😅

#librarian #schoollibrarian #books #kidlit #readingforpleasure

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

I’m one of the thousands of authors who have published this empty book, in protest at AI companies stealing our copyrighted work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

These predictions were made either through my own reading and judgement, knowledge of books/authors/themes, or the popularity of specific books in my school library (Wolf Siren and Shrapnel Boys being so popular I’ve yet to nab them for a weekend 😅)

My #Carnegies2026 predictions lists! I do this every year but this is the most I’ve been successful with ever, both at longlist & shortlist. Definitely need to read Popcorn & Lizard Nobody as those seem to have slipped under my radar! Fantastic to see more funny & genre books making shortlist too!

11 months ago I predicted that the brilliant 24 Seconds from Now would be in the Carnegie shortlist, but this year I’m also happy to have five of my other predictions make it too! #Carnegies #Carnegieshortlist #books

My school doesn’t allow dressing up anymore so I compromised with a book-themed staff hat competition! Here’s mine! #worldbookday #aliensloveunderpants

Hi teachers – join my live (and importantly free) @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social Virtual Visit on March 13 where I will be chatting about The Street Art Mystery. I'll tell you all about the book and your class can ask me ANYTHING at the end
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This is beautiful and heartbreaking ❤️

It’s by Cuiwos! Very good instructions and very well made compared to another I have so I really recommend it!

For a detective, Amanda is soooo far off every ball and gunning for Jade for no reason at all big yikes 😳#TheTraitorsUK #Traitors

First finished band? I attempted to follow a 5th century Finnish pattern by Shelagh Lewins. Nonsense to begin with but finally did get the pattern in the second half 😅 #tabletweaving #weaving #fibrearts #crafts

#newyear project: teaching myself tablet weaving with a tiny children’s loom and pokemon cards.

#fibrearts #weaving #bandweaving #whenwillirunoutofhobbies #neveeerrrr

Uh tip for booklovers: don’t put your salt lamp on top of a book, even if you have it on a plate/dish. 😳😩😭 #books #whoopsy

Whoops I forgot Bluesky existed for a while. Anyway, allow me to return with pics of the #booknook my mum got me for christmas which I spent the four days after joyfully building 🥰

Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

The cover of Loki A Bad God's Guide To Being Good by Louie Stowell, with an orange cover, a black circle surrounded by runes with horns, and lots of pictures such as a devil, a snake, a hammer, a sword, a chicken, a house, a pencil, a book

For anyone who may be hastily returning certain books they bought as Christmas presents, here's a thread of excellent children's books I highly recommend you buy instead:

Loki A Bad God's Guide To Being Good by Louie Stowell

Funny, chaotic and a little bit naughty
okay, a lot naughty

Never felt like a meaner dog owner than when the clocks changed and now my dog is forced to wait an extra hour for dinner, every single day, for reasons he cannot ever comprehend.

Important piece from @booktrust.org.uk and @openuni-rfp.bsky.social about the value of book choice for pupils and how to help promote it in the classroom. Do have a read! files.booktrust.org.uk/docs/documen... @teresacremin.bsky.social @richardruddick.bsky.social

Katherine Rundell on, "understanding the pedagogical value of fart jokes;" and so much more. Well worth a read.