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FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES, my latest collaboration with the brilliant Emily Gravett, was yesterday released into the wild! In fact, Forest _is_ the wild, and is coming after you with strangling vines, giant eagles, venomous deer and malign intent! Er... in a good way?

On 21 September 1937: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Hobbit was published. The book tells of a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, and his journey with thirteen dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon, Smaug. It's sold over 100 million copies as one of the best-selling books of all time

Heartstopper Season 3 is "tomorrow" 🍂

Our first jigsaw of the year completed today. 😀 #readingforpleasure #puzzle #brainpower ⁦Sydenham High School GDST #fearnothing⁩

The Diverse Book Awards 2024 Winners! What a foursome! #TheDBAwards #thediversebookawards

Hotting up the publicity before the #mrloverman series, adapted by Nathaniel Price drops on BBC 1 tomorrow at 9pm, but you can watch all eps back to back on BBC iPlayer from then. I've written an essay in the Guardian about writing the novel Penguin Books UK, published 2013; AND

A lovely surprise this morning. FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES (my collaboration with award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett) is in the The Guardian's roundup of the best new chapter books! theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

Delighted our paper on the need to widen professionals' repertoires of children's texts has reached nearly 4k readers! shorturl.at/aQHkv Moving beyond our childhood canons matters! 📕📗 Jon Biddle World Book Day UK 📚 BookTrust 📕📗 Read on +find ways forward! Reading for Pleasure 🧶

Well done Y7 and Y8 for passing 308 Accelerated Reader UK & Ireland book quizzes this half term - that's nearly 22 million words! And congratulations to our 3 Word Millionaires Helene, Ella and Anna R! 👏 'ReadingforPleasure Sydenham High School GDST #fearnothing

Today, CILIP co-hosts a Parliamentary reception celebrating the positive impact of how #LibrariesChangeLives by Creating Opportunities. Thanks to Laurence Turner MP & 11 library sector organisations, the event connects policymakers & the library sector. cilip.org.uk/page/libraries…

Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

A difficult read, but this section below is what makes me want to redouble my efforts to encourage reading for pleasure. Reading does all this for me. And more.

Books help children make sense of the world, provide an escape from it and maybe even inspire them to build a better world, so I hope we act to help this young generation, who have borne so much, connect to the joy of reading - an "invisible privilege" that lasts for a lifetime.

Congratulations to our new Accelerated Reader UK & Ireland Word Millionaires - Charlotte, Aiko and Anna I in Y8, and Safia in Y7! Over 32 million words read so far this year by Y7/8! 👏 #readingforpleasure Sydenham High School GDST #fearnothing Antonia Geldeard

Two more Accelerated Reader UK & Ireland Word Millionaires in Y7 today - well done to Willow and Zoe! #readingforpleasure Sydenham High School GDST #fearnothing

My reading manifesto launched today for #MichaelRosenDay

Just announced! Samantha Harvey wins the #BookerPrize2024 for Orbital, her deeply human saga of six astronauts in space, which combines an urgent message about the state of our planet with luminous hope and a refusal to sink into despair: waterstones.com/category/cultu…

We're very excited to be participating in the GDST Book Award 2025 again this year - what a great list of titles for our students to read! #readingforpleasure Sydenham High School GDST #fearnothing Antonia Geldeard

We're SOOO excited to be welcoming Kiran Millwood Hargrave to Sydenham High School GDST #fearnothing as part of her @GDST book tour. 😃Remember to pre-order books to guarantee a copy. Hachette Children's Group Kirkdale Bookshop

Our ⁦Big Potato | INACTIVE ACCOUNT⁩ Mayhem in the Library jigsaw puzzle is finished! ⁦Sydenham High School GDST #fearnothing⁩ 😀