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Leeds's last surviving Caribbean WW2 veteran & Windrush passenger, Alford Gardner has passed at 98. A proud Jamaican, and part of a generation who helped to rebuild postwar Leeds and Britain we owe him more than a tweet can say. Thank you Mr Gardner. For everything. 🖤💛💚💔

FLOW WITH THE SNOW, illustrated by the amazing Oliver Averill and written by me, is published by Oxford Children's Books and OUT NOW! ❄️💧☁️ I’m thrilled to see this joyful journey through the water cycle landing on bookshelves 🌨️ Available now in lots of lovely bookshops and online!

📢 Did you catch the The Week Junior Book Awards news earlier this week? The 2024 winners have been announced! 🥳🎉Congratulations to the winning authors and illustrators! Find out about the winning books here: booksfortopics.com/news-2024-week…

Get to know cabbi charles, our Illustrator in Residence!🎨✨Watch her share her journey & creative inspiration. Want to see more of her? Join our Dynamic Characters Workshop on 10 Oct where Cabbi will teach how to create captivating characters! 👉🏿 lnkfi.re/CabbiEvent

It's been another busy month in the world of children's books. Have you struggled to keep up? Here's my round up of what's been happening to help you. Happy reading. 📚 #readingforpleasure Reading Matters - Children's Book News alibrarylady.blog/2024/10/05/rea…

🌧The weather might be grey but these books about self-discovery and never letting up on your dreams sure aren't 🌞 #BlackHistoryMonthUK Child Friendly Leeds Leeds Libraries Leeds for Learning Natelle Quek (Na-TELL Kwek) | s/h 🩷💜💙 Annemarie Anang ‘DANCE JUST LIKE SO!’ out now! ☀️ G M Linton 📚

So excited for the gorgeous #CoverReveal of my debut novel #TheSecretCollector - Sometimes letting go means making room for life's greatest treasures... 🛋️🗝️🕰️Pan Macmillan pre-order now: bit.ly/SecretCollector #BookTwitter

I had a great time talking about The Week Junior Book Awards and how the Windrush community inspired me to write the Sunshine Simpson series ☀️

Join me on Tuesday 29 October at The Week Junior Book Festival, featuring lots of great authors, Iive on stage. The event promises to be a wonderful half-term treat. Get your tickets here: The Week Junior Book Festival: theweekiuniorbookawards.co.uk/theweekiuniorb… #twjbookfestival

The brilliant ☀️ G M Linton 📚, whose debut book My Name is Sunshine Simpson won our Breakthrough award, is hosting a workshop at our Book Festival on 29 October. Find out more about this brilliant family event and book tickets at theweekjuniorbookawards.co.uk/theweekjuniorb…

Book Tour Highlights: DANCE JUST LIKE SO! A boogielicious time at the largest kidlit fest in Europe! Bath Children's Literature Festival 💃🏿🎶🥳 Kids loved sharing the joy of dancing together with Kwesi, Gran and her neighbours! #booktour #childrensbooks #bathkidslitfest #dance

Getting books together for the next Beyond the Secret Garden column for Books for Keeps. To coincide with Rashmi Sirdeshpande (Updates)’s Amazing Asia, Karen Sands-O'Connor and I are exploring books set in Asia. What’s missing here?

In honour of #BlackHistoryMonth, this is the interview I did with BookTrust talking about navigating the industry as a black author, my publishing journey and my experiences with the #BookTrustRepresents programme

📢 So the project is now closed for this year, but don’t miss the final reflections from our brilliant 2024 Illustrator in Residence, cabbi charles, now live on our blog: jerichoprize.com/blog 🖌️✨ We hope to be back with the competition next year— so please keep supporting us,

Ready to refine your story? In Stage 5: Editing Your Children’s Book, Ben Horslen, Fiction Publisher at Penguin Random House Children's, shares top tips to get your book submission-ready. What do editors look out for in a manuscript? Let’s find out! 👉🏿 lnkfi.re/Stage5

We’re excited to share a testimonial from debut picture book author, @Steph_Twrites! Listen as she reflects on how the Jericho Prize helped to kickstart her professional writing career and the valuable insights she gained from participating in Jericho Prize courses and events🌟

👀📚Check out my NOVEMBER 2024 Children’s Books I’m Most Excited About video on my YouTube channel. Please subscribe! 📖🌟Each month, I put together #ComingSoon videos previewing my most anticipated children’s books releases to bump up your TBRs! ➡️ youtu.be/ygKpTjmAjV0?fe…

There's lots happening in the world of children's books & most of it doesn't feature in the main stream media. My newsletter may help you keep up with what you've missed. Happy reading. Reading Matters - Monthly Roundup of Children's Books and Events alibrarylady.blog/2024/11/02/rea…

A civil rights campaigner who led the Bristol Bus Boycott in 1963 has died at the age of 87. Dr Paul Stephenson organised the boycott which overturned a ban on people from ethnic minorities working on buses in the city. A significant figure in history. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…