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The longlist for #KlausFluggePrize 2025 is here! This is the 10th year of the prize which recognises promising & exciting newcomers to picturebook illustration. Congratulations to the 15 talented illustrators on the list 🎨 💐 #illustration #picturebooks buff.ly/4h3zdgZ

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Respect (and thanks) can only be freely given, and they both have to be earned. If you demand respect, what you get is not respect but fear and flattery, which is worthless. Which is why worshipping anyone or anything is a bad idea.

The best poem for girls every year on #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2025

📚 Calling all Hillingdon primary schools! We’re hosting The London Primary Schools Programme, featuring Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Joseph Coelho & Fiona Lumbers 🎉 A free event to inspire young readers - sign up now! 👉 barneskidslitfest.org/schools-2025-h…

Looking to gather a small network of primaries to work with me in researching techniques for maximising the links between reading and writing. Ideally year 4/5 and some year 6 and ideally Chesterfield/Sheffield area or close proximity. Shares greatly appreciated.

Great to see my piece on UK Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act in Guardian Weekly ( link next). A historic decision upholding women's legal rights which are, and have always been, sex-based

OK there's ONE signed pre-pub copy going to someone who RTs this. To be decided tomorrow evening. Ready, steady ... go.

Out now! #BfK272 May issue. Authorgraph interview Matt Goodfellow, Windows into Illustration Rébecca Dautremer, new Beyond the Secret Garden, new Picture This, plus Owning It, Peter Hunt on Alice's Oxford, comment, extra interviews, reviews & more #KidLit booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-272-…

Children will always need BOOKS to help them make sense of the world. I love the idea that children's books can be bridges connecting all children, crossing all barriers, helping them to imagine a better world – and to build it, one day. #books

Listen back to Frank Cottrell-Boyce's report on what reading can do to a child's brain on BBC Sounds 🧠🔊 bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k…

We interviewed Frank Cottrell-Boyce when he took on the role of Waterstones Children's Laureate; today he reveals the next steps in his plans for building a brighter future (with books of course) BookTrust booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/frank-…

Have you been too busy to keep up with what's been happening in the world of children's books? Here's my latest round up to help you. Reading Matters - Children's Book News alibrarylady.blog/2025/05/31/rea…

Teachers & librarians! I'm talking about READING FOR PLEASURE in a special event for school staff on June 12, then doing a solo event & a panel for kids in St Austell Festival of Children's Literature Schools Day June 13. If you're in Cornwall, come & join us! ticketsource.co.uk/cornwall-educa… …tellfestivalofchildrensliterature.com/2025-festival/…

Children's books are seldom taken seriously by adults, yet they're the books that make us readers in the first place. They shape us at the deepest levels, and they stay with us forever. So I think children's books are really THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF ALL!

A great book! A work of art & v moving. ‘Jacominus Gainsborough’ by #RebeccaDautremer Have you seen it ⁦Mathew Tobin⁩? ⁦Anne Thompson⁩ ⁦Nikki Gamble⁩ @Jo_bowers Jon Biddle #picturebooks #childrensliterature #philosophy #illustration ⁦⁦Post Wave Publishing⁩

Everyday Cancellation is a revelatory & much needed report on the current state of publishing. I hope it blows the lid off the corruption in an industry I once loved being part of. Well done to all involved.

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I'm very pleased to share this report. Many thanks to all the academics who shared their stories.

This is a brilliant resource for families and a great way of encouraging children to enjoy books over the summer. Happy anniversary lovemybooks ! 🎉