I'm thrilled to see that Wolfy has been shortlisted for @petersbooks.bsky.social Children's Book of the Year in the non-fiction category! Thank you! Wolfy will celebrate tonight with a strictly Granny-free casserole.
If you are a librarian or teacher you can vote here:
peters.co.uk/pboty2025-vote
Thanks Lesley!
Decorative graphic showing the spines of the four books that make up the 2024 Children's Fiction Shortlist, Nero Book Awards Bird Boy by Catherine Bruton, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness, How to Survive a Horror Movie by Scarlett Dunmore and The Twelve by Liz Hyder.
Congratulations to Catherine Bruton, Patrick Ness & Tim Miller, Scarlett Dunmore, and Liz Hyder & Tom De Freston, shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards and three cheers for awards that consider #childrenbooks alongside books for adults 👏 #KidLit
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Yes please, could you add me? I'm a secondary school librarian and a children's author 👋
I've just been reading this article, and I am absolutely up for a new comic called Guinea Pig vs Tiger by @jamiesmart.bsky.social
Schools! We have a fantastic guide to running a comics club for you, with top tips from @eggyhelen.bsky.social and super illustrations by Emily Kimbell.
PLUS get a free comic from The Phoenix and the chance to win a year's subscription for your school! 💥👇
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Research shows shared reading can help to support children from vulnerable family backgrounds.
Our #StoryExplorers programme has been created to bring these benefits to children in foster care, kinship care and adoption.
Explore the research here:
www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/i...
We have Outlook at work and you can. It's incredible! But I think I might be annoying everyone with my overuse of the Christmas tree emoji 🎄
It's the ones along the bottom that look like they're standing on the floor, ready to walk off 🤢
Fixed the headline. Patrick Ness is absolutely right. Until books for children and YA are included in notable lists, we think they should be referred to as lists for adults/grown-ups. Children's books are notable too and deserve to stand alongside others on round ups.
#KidLitUk
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This sounds great!
I feel like think should be called a Bink
We love the adverts we're finding in these architectural books. We can't decide whether this is a brilliant or terrible idea!
Another big takeaway from my experience at #NCTE24 this past week was this poem by Maggie Smith shared by @samiraahmed.bsky.social at her Build Your Stack session:
Good Bones
This is my most recent word game obsession
But I've run out of milk and I don't want to go out in the cold, waaaah
Sensible Me (about 3%): You need to do your edits and also buy some milk
Real Me (about 97%): But you could sit with a tea and carry on reading this:
A detail from an illumination in an illuminated manuscript at the British Museum showing a robed scholar with an open book speaking to a rather bashful-looking dragon-like creature. Two soeech bubbles have been added: LIBRARIAN: 'Tis flame resistant and has damsels in it! DRAGON: But no big words, I hope.
A BLAST FROM THE PAST: Sometimes it takes a professional librarian to match a reader to a book. #SaveLibraries
I'd forgotten this! Sorry Sausage haunts my dreams
I've just realised I was checking their hands and arms , there's something about that photo that looks AI generated too. Life imitating art?!
And it would have been so cold in those houses everyone would have definitely shut the curtains more
It is so important that we do all we can to encourage children to read in their free time.
Reading non-fiction has many benefits for children and can often inspire reluctant readers!
Share your ideas for promoting reading for pleasure in your classroom! 💙📖
#EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #PrimaryEnglish
Introduce yourself using four of your favourite childhood books:
The Queen's Nose by Dick King-Smith
The Naughtiest Girl in the School by Enid Blyton
A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley
A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken & Jan Pienkowski
(With what I consider to be the "correct" front covers)
The Queen's Nose by Dick King-Smith
The Naughtiest Girl in the School by Enid Blyton
A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley
A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken and Jan Pienkowski
(With what I consider to be the "correct" front covers)
My son just told me that he can do a poo without also doing a wee at the same time. This strikes me as some sort of high level sorcery. May have spawned a monster.
That's so lovely to hear, thank you for letting me know! Wolfy is currently working very hard on a scientific sequel... 🐺
HUGE congratulations! Enjoy this moment!
Hello to new followers! I am a children's author, most of my books are silly blends of fiction and non-fiction, bravely defying pigeon-holing! I also work as a secondary school librarian.
I've just finished Stitch by Padraig Kenny. I think it's one of the kindest books I've ever read. RECOMMEND 🥰
I need to know what Stupid Philosophy Penguin makes of all this!
