A tough week mental health wise. But proud of having done some lovely school visits, and some writing too. Here is a very, very important poem on my website - 'YOU'RE NEVER TOO BIG FOR A HUG' joshuaseigal.co.uk/you-re-never-t… #edutwitter #MentalHealth

Sue Hardy-Dawson: Writing from the Abyss childrenspoetrysummit.com/2024/04/18/sue… via 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭

Congratulations, all! Wonderful to see Foyle Young Poet Cal O'Reilly on this list! 🥳

A little on writing my recent blog post on the 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭
childrenspoetrysummit.com/2024/04/18/sue…

What Shauna said.

🥰🪶❤️Tomorrow is National Poem in Your Pocket Day! You can learn more at the link below... My informational poetry book illustrated by Emma Virjan is full of poems in the voices of all kinds of animals from all kinds of habitats. Astra Books for Young Readers
poets.org/national-poetr… ❤️🪶🥰

So glad you like this poem! Don’t forget that it’s freely available on my website joshuaseigal.co.uk

😁Audio book, anyone? Platform information coming soon.

(You might remember this trailer - animation by the lovely Dom Conlon, music by my son - who is also lovely.) ⁦Troika Books⁩

It happened 💚
A poetry rite of passage 🥹

Happy Poem in Your Pocket Day, friends! I am carrying this poem by Nikki Giovanni. Which poem are you carrying? ❤ #PoemInYourPocketDay

Bit hungry now ...

Lovely work, Kai! 🤩👏

The lovely 'By Jingo Bingo' by Belinda Richards now has audio 😊🐕Thanks The Dirigible Balloon 🎈
dirigibleballoon.org/poem/By-Jingo-…

Phew! Manuscripts now ready for my next 3 #poetry #books . You got the last 4?😎❤️📚

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Honoured to have one of my first published poems in here!

People are saying all kinds of lovely things about Zooming the Zoo - it would be lovely if some of you wanted to post a review, too! amazon.co.uk/Zooming-Zoo-Jo…

Masterly stuff.

Children's poet Sarah Ziman Sarah Ziman aka BardyMum says 'Poetry fans young and old are in for a treat with this latest bumper collection from the funny, punny, king of comedic verse, Kenn Nesbitt.' 👉Listen to Sarah!👈😉 poetry4kids.com/news/leap-into… #childrenspoetry #poetry4kids

I had such a good time answering your great questions. ( and just noticed my new favourite bird in the background here!)

Lucky enough to spend some time at Castel Primary this morning - a fabulous school I have visited 4 times! Then this afternoon I drove over to La Mare de Carteret Primary to work with them where it was super fun and it was here that I met this enormous puffin!
#PrimaryRocks