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Very sad news. An amazing writer. Glad I got to hear him speak both at the Black Cultural archives in Brixton and at Hay Festival.

Might you be interested in leading an OU/UKLA Teacher Reading Group? Reading for Pleasure 🧶 UKLA If so join our Intro session 27 March 4-5pm ourfp.org/schools-teache… No obligation... but a fabulous community of dedicated folk! #readingforpleasure Simon Pollard ReadingRocks

Happy Mother’s Day! (My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books)

🎉 The 2025 #KlausFluggePrize longlist has landed! Take a look at these covers 📚 My interactive teacher & librarian pack is coming soon, plus the return of the #KlausCup where pupils can vote to win the shortlist! Which cover interests you? #KFP25

The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier and scott⚡️mccloud arrived today and, without saying too much before my graphic novel club (#LetsTalkGraphicNovels), I blooming loved it. What a way to explain the medium and the richness GNs bring. A must-buy! Scholastic UK

Look what's happening on the 29th of April. And you are all invited. Register here vimeo.com/event/4929889/… Otter-Barry Books

One million percent this Emma Turner FCCT! I’ve been talking myself hoarse saying this everywhere recently, wish I’d written it down as thoughtfully and eloquently as this though. On a learning walk in a school recently kids across year groups were also saying they wanted less PPT.

#Teachers #Librarians 📚 Get your class involved in the Klaus Flugge Prize Explore the Longlist + enter the #KlausCup to win the full shortlist. 🏆 PowerPoint & video guide here 👉docs.google.com/presentation/d… Deadline: 20 June! Promise it's quick & fun. Please do share!

Super new CatherineJohnson about Josephine Baker Barrington Stoke - a hard life at times glamorous - stunning title : 👍 Dance of Resistance ! 👍Another unsung heroine Reading for Pleasure 🧶 ReadingRocks Simon Pollard

Do join us for this FREE Seminar! Book chatter matters … We’re sharing insights from Reading for Pleasure 🧶 studies with children aged 4-16. bit.ly/4384c6B How might your practice shift to support such informal book talk ? ReadingRocks Rachel Saunders Rich Charlesworth

We are very sad to hear of the death of Aidan Chambers. A full obituary will be published shortly, in the meantime, here's a link to our 2001 Authorgraph in which he discusses his writing with Geoff Fox #KidLit #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/author…

An island of strangers? Just imagine what British children's books would be like without the work of migrants & their children – all of these & more! sfsaid.com/2017/02/one-da…

It is time to announce the shortlist for the 2025 #AlligatorsAward, in partnership with the The Bright Agency and Gardners. Heartiest of congratulations to all involved! More info: thealligatorsmouth.co.uk/award

Delighted to announce our 2025 winners: 1. Jhalak Children's & Young Adult Prize: Nathanael Lessore for #KingofNothing (Hot Key Books ✨📚) 2. Jhalak Poetry Prize: Mimi Khalvati for #CollectedPoems (Carcanet Press) 3. Jhalak Prose Prize: N.S. Nuseibeh for #Namesake (Canongate (has left))

Happy Empathy Day! The children may have gone home but there’s still time for you to widen your repertoire of empathy boosting 📚 or check out the festival resources! empathylab.uk/empathy-day-fe… Reading for Pleasure 🧶 Amy Greatrex Aimee Durning MBE Hannah Baker Gaurav Dubay

This is a stunningly beautiful book. That's two in two for me as I also loved A Cat's Story. One to get on those bookshelves in as many schools and classrooms as possible.

Just announced: the winners of the 2025 UKLA Book Awards. Congratulations to all the winning authors and illustrators and to the UKLA teacher judges 📚📚#UKLA25 #teachersbookawards #KidLitUK 💐 booksforkeeps.co.uk/winners-of-the…