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fgask.bsky.social

Former Primary School headteacher and English Adviser. Avid reader. Keen hillwalker. Passionate promoter of children and young adults reading for pleasure. MBE for services to education.

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Don't miss this FREE OU seminar - Informal Book Talk! 💙📚 Tue 20th May 2-3pm, Online. Prof @teresacremin.bsky.social & #OURfP team discuss informal book talk, oracy, reading engagement & reader identities. Tickets here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/informal-b... #ReadingforPleasure #RfP #Literacy #Oracy

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Discover Little Wandle's poetry picks for all primary ages in the Everybody read! section of our website, dedicated to Reading for Pleasure and open to everyone, not just members! https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/everybody-read/poetry-picks-for-all-primary-ages/

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Although rather more conventional than his first two brilliantly imaginative novels, this cleverly told courtroom murder mystery from @guusvalk.bsky.social is compelling and hugely entertaining.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

This seemed to start rather slowly, but by a third of the way it picked up and from halfway was compulsive. (By which time the early investment paid off enormously.) Strongly recommend. Keep going. Thanks @philipgraybooks.bsky.social

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Whatever happens, never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So always make time to share books with kids, and help them find books to love. Make reading central to everything you do. It will change their lives forever! #literacy

submitted 121 days ago • 106 comments

The stories in Missing Pages, now available in print, are far more that gap-fillers for ML completists. Multi-layered and thought-provoking; a wonderful adjunct to his Library. They explore the metaphysics of books, travelling deep within and far beyond their words. @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social

submitted 153 days ago • 2 comments

Sharing books with children can be such an effective way to build bonds and develop your own 'love language'.

submitted 160 days ago • 2 comments

Children's books are never "just" for children. They are books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes absolutely no-one at all. They are really books for EVERYONE, and you can never, ever, EVER be too old to read them, and to love them!

submitted 161 days ago • 10 comments

@faberbooks.bsky.social PLEASE can we have a hardback edition of Podkin Book 1 (The Legend of Podkin One-Ear) @kieranlarwood.bsky.social that matches the rest of the wonderful series.

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

Not really cosy crime but not noir either. This from @denzilmeyrick.bsky.social was a hugely enjoyable quick read with an entertainingly human lead character. Funny but engaging too. I hope my wife took the hint and is getting me his new one for Christmas.

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

Not generally a fan of short stories. But I bought a second one today. The writing of @adammacqueen.bsky.social is wonderful at any length.

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

Just arrived. As I have a full hardback collection of all @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social brilliant books to date, there was no way I wanted to be without this one, although a special edition from one of our fine independent publishers would be hugely desirable.

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

If anywhere, I’m here now. (Apart from walking the fells or at home reading, of course. )

submitted 161 days ago • 1 comment