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I still like looking through old issues of The Caterpillar 🐛 and coming across brilliant work by poetry pals. 💕 Sarah Ziman/BardyMum - 'Brain' out now! Carole Bromley Linda Middleton 💜📚🌿 🥰 (You can find back issues here 👇) thecaterpillarmagazine.com/a1-gallery3.as…

Creativity starts with curiosity! Inspire kids to explore nature and create art by observing the textures around them, like the detailed patterns found on turtle shells. 🐢 Watch now: youtube.com/shorts/oU_7Xjl…

READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So whatever else you do - please never stop reading books with kids & encouraging them to read. Never stop helping them find books to read & love. Never stop changing lives. #literacy

Owl doorway - great image for shortburst writing.

Children often ask authors, how did you become a writer. Here's how it happened for me....brian-moses.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-i-…

My favourite ways of saying “I’m in a spot of bother” from ten different languages…

Poetry submission window opens this Sunday June 1st for two weeks ... no theme. #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon (please don't send work before this date ... cheers JH)

Brain-freezingly good stories! Hundreds (and thousands) of brilliant kidlit poets! Ice-cool art and illustration! A summer afternoon's reading – all for the price of a couple of ice creams. Back issues from €5... 🍦bit.ly/caterpillarbac…

This is delicious! Playing with our names and nicknames! A short blog and fun activity offered by 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/05/29/jos… thanks! Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! 👏👏 Reading for Pleasure 🧶

There are umpteen reasons to visit Scotland, but one of them is to visit the castles. The entire country is covered with them. They are absolutely glorious. Many of them have been featured in Outlander.

A new series on my blog - The Stories Behind the Poems- part one. Top children’s poets reveal what prompted particular poems. brian-moses.blogspot.com James Carter Carole Bromley Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation Coral Rumble

Today’s Saturday poem chosen by our poetry editor Ralph Dartford comes from Amy Schmidt.

My next two books (Aug 2025 and Jan 2026) #poem #poems #librarytwitter #edutwitter #poetry #teachertwitter #poetrylovers #poetrytwitter #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity #teachers #literacy School Reading List #kidlit Troika Books Otter-Barry Books

Hello teachers: I've done 7 poetry workshops here for you to use. You can use them as ideas that you then adapt for yourself, or, play them straight into your room as teaching units in themselves. youtube.com/c/MichaelRosen…

Daily poetry prompt. Things that are known... A sunbeam knows how to light up a room. A vampire knows how to rise from a tomb. A broken heart knows how to ache. Brittle bones know how to break. More here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/01/things… Pie Corbett

❝It’s just so important that time that parents spend with their children just reading a book. Magic.❞ —Helen Oxenbury, born on this day, June 2, in 1938

Another day, another Year group, and another environmental project. Today, Year 4 have created this large seahorse display. The first kids to tackle this spent the entire time just exploring the structure. darrellwakelam.com

Publication day for the paperback edition of ‘On Poetry Street’. 52 poems that are springboards to children’s own writing. Thanks to everyone Scallywag Press Delighted with it. Looking forward to seeing the layouts for the new book later today.

'Three black cats' by Maud Lewis (1903-1970), Canadian folk artist #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Daily poetry prompt: New blog post - Empathise with a soldier about to land on the D-Day beaches - Sword, Omaha, Juno, Utah and Gold. All I feel is the cold feeling that is anxiety all I taste is bitterness at my choice to go to war brian-moses.blogspot.com #DDay Pie Corbett