Our new What To Read Now blog features:
📙The Queen in the Cave #JúliaSardà, @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
📘 Evie and Maryam’s Family Tree #JaneenHayatt, Guppy Books
📗 A Crongton Christmas Party #AlexWheatle,
@hachettechildrens.bsky.social
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#ReadingForPleasure #UKKidLit
Alex Wheatle Tribute Day
⌚Sunday 12 October, 5pm
📍Brixton House Theatre
Screening of Small Axe: Alex Wheatle
DJs, games and free books to take away
Free tickets: bit.ly/4q7sh7Z
#UPRISINGFestival #AlexWheatle
An arrest in Brixton during 1981 (Pic: Socialist Worker archive)
📚 Today in history #OTD
🔥 On 10 and 11 April 1981, Brixton in south London rose up in opposition to the violence meted out towards black people by cops.
📣 Award winning novelist #AlexWheatle, who died last month, spoke to #SocialistWorker in 2008 about the #Brixton uprising.
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An #Otwituary for writer and activist #AlexWheatle
A hand picks up a pen,
draws a line of sufferation
from Brixton to Crongton,
So many barricades on
the road from brutality
to beauty; we’ll get there.
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of #AlexWheatle. He was a patron of #Writeideafest
and joined us two years ago. May he rest in peace. 💜 🕊️ 🕯️
Much loved and much read by pupils, #AlexWheatle will be very much missed 😢 💔
Goodness.
#AlexWheatle was at the notorious #ShirleyOaks children's home.
This was very near where I lived as a child and also my secondary school.
I knew several kids from there from guides and catechism classes.
Totally oblivious to what they may have been experiencing. 😥
#c4news
Very sad news.. 🙏🏾🖤🕊️💔
Children’s writer and author of the award-winning Crongton series, Alex Wheatle MBE, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 62.
Rest in Peace Alex. Thank you for the stories. #rip #alexwheatle 🖤🕊️🙏🏾 Sending love and prayers to his family and friends ❤️🖤
