📣Calling all #teachers & #librarians who took part in #PoetryByHeart ! Book your place at the announcement of our 2024 finalists! Coming LIVE from Shakespeare’s Globe, 4pm Wednesday 1 May, a celebration of everyone who entered the competition! Find out more: ow.ly/rmN250RiLPY

Thanks WRDaboutbooks for featuring the #BranfordBoaseAward 25th Anniversary longlist! One week until the shortlist announcement 🗓️Thursday 25 April. Meanwhile, check out the brilliant books on the longlist branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2024-longlist/

NEW #BookOfTheWeek GARGOYLES by Tamsin Mori. This new fantasy adventure is well-plotted, full of action & adventure and while the young protagonists are put in situations which require courage, readers have no doubt about where their real strength lies.
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TOMORROW! If you are in READING please do pop in and say hello! 5pm. THERE WILL BE CUPCAKES....

#BookIllustrationOfTheDay #60for60 today it’s “Mouse and Mole: Clink, Clank, Clunk”. Mouse is trying to read in the hammock. What is that terrible noise? Another great tale in the on going series by Joyce Dunbar (2023).

Ink line, watercolour wash, coloured pencil.

Just a reminder ! We're seeking new schools to join the highly successful OU/UKLA RfP Quality Mark program please find out more below. loom.ly/uLLMTMc

#NewIllustrationoftheDay . An inventor makes a wooden robot in The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess by US cartoonist Tom Gauld. Bringing together scrupulous exactitude and intiguing profusion. The fairy tale adventure is now in paperback. Templar Books

Just announced! Indigenous Literacy Foundation of Australia receives the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (alma.se) Indigenous Literacy Foundation emphasizes the importance of First Nations children seeing themselves, their culture & language reflected in the books they read.

#NewIllustrationoftheDay . One more nostalgia trip from just published 50th anniv edition of Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. Loving detail with a fine pen and flat colour, displaying wit, imagination and feminism from father of Search-and-Find Richard Scarry. HarperCollins Children's Books

Need help getting started on your picture book? Whether you're bursting with ideas or stuck on where to begin, we've got you covered! Check out our Top 5 Tips for guidance. Plus, don't forget: submissions for our Picture Book Foundation Course are open! lnkfi.re/JerichoPrizeTW

Great news! Listen to This Story! An exhibition about Children’s Books and Black Britain is opening next week at the Norwegian Study Centre in York! See listentothisstory.co.uk for details Listen to this story!

Tom Mitchell There is the excellent Books for Keeps.

On your marks, get set … and prepare to take your time over GIRL ON THE FLY by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl, an uplifting coming-of-age story and our NEW #BookOfTheWeek ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/beyond… Black and Welsh - so good to see these 5 recent books that we’ll be adding when we update our chapter on Welsh children’s books. Patience Agbabi Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 E.L. Norry - author/screenwriter Nia Morais

How would YOU (or a small person in your family/class/library!) colour the latest Adventuremice book cover?

Free activity sheets to download and print on the Adventuremice website:
Adventuremice.com/draw-make 🐭🖍️

Philip Reeve David Fickling Books

Don't miss out! Submissions for our free Picture Book Foundation Course are OPEN to new Black-British writers and all Jericho Prize alumni. Receive expert guidance from editor Natascha Biebow from Blue Elephant Storyshaping. Apply by midnight on 22 April: lnkfi.re/JerichoPrizeTW

We're sorry to hear of the death of Lynne Reid Banks, age 94. Obituary to follow but here is the 1991 #BfK Authorgraph interview, 'a compulsive storyteller'.
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Calling all #ukla teachers and HE tutors. Would you like to shadow one of the categories for the #ukla BookAwards? Here’s your chance to meet up with fellow enthusiasts in WhatsApp groups and to vote for the Shadow awards on June 10th forms.office.com/e/6juzzjL1cH