Only 5 weeks to go 'til Hanan Issa, Alex Wharton, Casi Wyn, Nia Morais and Eric Heyman will be taking to the Spring Stage at Hay Festival for a lively poetry performance with live illustration celebrating And I Hear Dragons.🐉

Book now: hayfestival.com/p-21611-hanan-…

“Our love is stronger than their hate.

You can cut down the flowers but you cannot stop the spring

We are here for the people of Palestine.”

Gary Younge

If judging schools ‘from the outside’ is to be avoided, presumably that holds for judging schools favourably as well?

#NewIllustrationoftheDay . ‘One Day WE are going to clean up the ocean for good.’ Heightened colour and relaxed brushwork in a beach scene from Ken Wilson-Max’s just-published picture book Aqua Boy, a follow-up to Astro Girl and Eco Girl. Ken Wilson-Max Otter-Barry Books

Questioning Punsihment interview with Anastasia Chamberlen and Henrique Carvalho is now online @thephilosopher1923

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I’ve just listened to this. Three Jewish students at Columbia describing their experience as part of the Gaza solidarity protests. It’s a great insight into how young Jews are thinking and why. Recommended.

Year 1 today.
'We've got one of your books in our class.'

Me: Which one?

Child: 'Polonius-you can be small but still do something big. '

And there's the best summary of the book ever.

TODAY! We launch #TheReview , an editorially independent bi-annual insert in The Bookseller, entirely produced by and featuring writers of the global majority. Brought to you by Jhalak Prize and writersmosaic.
A short🧵

I don’t think behaviour has changed in the slightest (27 years in front of inner city kids). What has changed is funding. There is virtually no support for complex needs and SEMH. This is where the difference is visible. Our SEND provision is in crisis.

Lots is said about this imp topic in schools mostly based on personal exp. To date we have no robust & reliable evidence base. Wherever you are & whatever your subject there's still time to take part in our landmark survey redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=L33…

“Can you call the philosophy department and tell them I’ve been arrested?” is an all-time quote.

Meet two more of our
💚Letterbox Library reviewers💚

Jayne & Darren have been reviewing for us for 19 and 9 years respectively. I’ll say it again: How lucky we are.
#LetterboxLibraryBackbone

To see all our current reviewers, head to our new website: letterboxlibrary.com/how-we-select-…

Chanté Timothy new Book Series SUPA NOVA Acquired by Nosy Crow Inc

The first book in the series – as yet untitled – will publish in June 2025, with the second to follow in spring 2026.

#TBBLiterature #LiteratureNews #ChantéTimothy #TheBritishBlacklist

Meet our Patrons! CatherineJohnson has written several books for children and young adults, including Sawbones, winner of the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction. Catherine also writes for film, television and radio.

Find out more about Catherine: ow.ly/Mp6750Rmhz8

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages between the Conservative peer Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Khalid Mahmood MP reveal distrust of the Policy Exchange think-tank which has links to a ‘white genocide’ believer 🧵/1 bylinetimes.com/2024/04/24/pol…

Exciting opportunity to share your expertise with EMC. We're looking to recruit a small team of Associate Teachers to offer us advice and keep us in touch with what's happening in schools englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-assoc…

A playlist of cover versions that are better than the original. open.spotify.com/playlist/6aIEo…

It's publication day for 'Queer Thriving in Religious Schools'! It sees teachers' & students' encounters with religious texts, values, and rituals in religious schools as potential opportunities for queer thriving.

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Step into a world of different voices...

Announcing our Hay Festival 2024 Writers at Work: 10 emerging Welsh writers taking part in our Literature Wales development programme.

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We're live y'all!
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Breaking and the Olympics - issue 1
The Olympic Games
NBC Olympics & Paralympics
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