There’s still time to register for the shortlisting event for this year’s #CLiPPA award.
CLPE The Poetry Society National Theatre

April has been another busy month of book reviews. We’d like to think there is a book here for everyone. Link to full reviews here:
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Here are our latest books reviews for you. Thank you Stephen Connor Eve Bearne, Stephen Dilley Rebecca Kennedy Roy James Moss Ed Finch Prue Goodwin Suzanne Horton Helen Dearing and Anne Bradley. Here’s the link to read them all:
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First day in Marrakech, full on with some deep thinking about storytelling for a podcast recording, and then teaching storytelling as communication at The American Language Center [sic]. #storytelling

We're looking forward to our Take One book introduction webinar for teachers and schools interested in learning more about our approach to teaching reading. With teachers Helen Morgan and Rebecca Dallas. Free book and learning sequence for the first 50 registrations…

I am so excited to be reviewing this one for Just Imagine translated from Dutch by the amazing Laura Watkinson
Jo Bowers Nikki Gamble Anne Thompson @ErinLynHamilton Mathew Tobin

I love The Tindims series turning everyday rubbish into treasure, by Sally Gardner and Lydia Corry, so it’s great to see the latest one out this week. Sharing a few days early on #EarthDay2024 🌎 Thank you Zephyr Books

The world needs more unexpected illustrations :))

Here are all our latest reviews of picturebooks and nonfiction. Thank you Roy James Moss Rebecca Kennedy Branwen Bingle, Imogen M16 Ann Cowling Jo Tregenza President Elect UKLA SFHEA FCCT Heather Hann, Alastair K Daniel Rosemary Burke on a new adventure for your reviews:
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Ezra Pound - And The Days Are Not Full Enough

If you are interested in Arthurian myth and legend, Anglo-Saxons, riddles and riddling, The Lady of Shalott, rewilding the planet, subverting dominant narratives or you just like a good book, then this event is for you! Register here vimeo.com/event/4126084 ' Clare Pollard…

Does anyone know if there’s a word for the top of a tree which looks like a mini tree coming out of the top? I really like them :) Susie Dent Robert Macfarlane

Thank you #KateDiCamillo for showing us the magic in what’s normal and the normality in what’s magic.

Next up: drinking prosecco from a rooftop bar with Hartland International School Libraries overlooking the Bologna skyline. Hopefully, we'll livestream a video diary with book news from the Book Fair unless we get distracted by food.

It’s been a busy week of book reviews.
First up, here are all our nonfiction books. Thank you Kate Hitchings MoonOnAStick Rebecca Kennedy Gethin Wallace and Mr W for your reviews:
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Next up here are this week’s picture book reviews. Thank you Karan Hulse Tracey Evans, Ann Cowling, Liz Broad and Helen Dearing
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And finally for this week, here are all our fiction books. Thank you Ben Harris AEB Gethin Wallace Karan Hulse Jayne Gould Kate Hitchings and MoonOnAStick

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Got to love a car boot sale. Like new and 50p each! ⁦Hightown Primary School⁩ library here they come.

This poem, written by the late children’s poet Peter Dixon, resonates even more now than it did when he wrote it many years ago.

I'd love to send Steven Spielberg BLACK HOLE CINEMA CLUB to say thank you for the inspiration I've found in his work. So to test the theory of six degrees of separation, I'll send a copy of the book to the person with the best plan to get it to him in six steps or less. Please RT