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Following the sad news that #AidanChambers has died, @celiarees.bsky.social and I share our admiration and respect for this influential writer's writer: "a quiet trailblazer". reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/05/spec... #youthfiction @booksforkeeps.bsky.social #CarnegieMedal #writerswriter

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The NEW #BooksforKeeps Book of the Week is Once I Was a Tree by Eoin McLaughlin and Guilherme Karsten @nosycrow.bsky.social 5 stars from our reviewer, 'Clever, informative, funny and inspiring – a good use of a tree.' 🌲 #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/once-...

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The Armourer’s House by Rosemary Sutcliff - a Tale of Tudor London. I loved this book so much as a child that it inspired me to read history at university and then to set up Manderley Press - precisely so that I could bring it back to life for a whole new generation of readers #booksky

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ICYMI, the NEW issue of #BooksforKeeps is out now. Packed with interviews, features, comment & children's book reviews. Huge thanks to @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social for this issue's cover, to our contributors & the publishers who support us. #kidlit #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...

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Just over a month until the @uklitassociation.bsky.social International Conference in Liverpool! The programme is fit to bursting with content for teachers, researchers, educationalists etc.. I shall be running a poetry workshop on the Saturday & I'd love you to join me. #edusky ukla.org/ic25/

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Oh yes. Finally. The wait is always too long 😉 The latest Books for Keeps is out. We’ll be sharing our fave articles over the coming days, of course #BfK272

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Great to see #GLF25 author @nadinewildpalm.bsky.social featured along with Literary Foundation champion @octoberjonesco.bsky.social talking about the fantastic launch of the #GLLLiteraryfoundation and lovely perspectives on this exciting programme for authors run by libraries!

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@NewIllustrationoftheDay from one of the three books on the shortlist announced this morning for the #KlausFlugge Prize for a debut picturebook. By Mikey Please from The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods, a striking debut delighting in the grotesque. @harpercollins.bsky.social @mikeyplease.bsky.social

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My Picture This piece about illustrating bears is in this issue of @booksforkeeps.bsky.social. I found three categories of bear illustrations ...

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Sitting down to read the piece on the decline of reading for pleasure with my coffee... #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/read...

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'Exceptionally talented new illustrators' The shortlist for the #KlausFluggePrize, awarded to the most promising and exciting newcomer to children’s picture book #illustration, has been announced. Congratulations to the shortlisted illustrators 💐 booksforkeeps.co.uk/exceptionall...

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Always a highlight!

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Out now! #BfK272 May issue.Authorgraph interview Matt Goodfellow, Windows into Illustration Rébecca Dautremer, Beyond the Secret Garden @darrenchetty.bsky.social,Picture This @nicolettejones.bsky.social,Peter Hunt on Alice's Oxford + comment,reviews & more #KidLit booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...

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We are very sad to hear of the death of Aidan Chambers. A full obituary will be published shortly, in the meantime, here's a link to our 2001 Authorgraph in which he discusses his writing with Geoff Fox #KidLit #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/auth...

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'The starting point being always to treat a poem as a poem and not as a school exercise.' Excellent article on teaching #poetry by Julie Blake of @poetrybyheart.bsky.social www.teachingtimes.com/tackling-the...

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Hear from @darrenchetty.bsky.social about the groundbreaking Beyond the Secret Garden this Wednesday www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Eunyoung Seo from Cat Family: Four Seasons, a lift-the-flap book with 140 flaps, written by Lucy Brownridge. Cosy, detailed spreads of anthropomorphised animals having fun all year round. Cute summer camping scene here. Frances Lincoln 8 May. @quartokids.bsky.social

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Why not join me and the kidlitnest crew for a FREE mermaid drawing party at 4pm BST. RVSP needed x

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NEW #BfK Book of the Week TRAUMALAND by Josh Silver, a 'mind melting psychological thriller' full of cinematic references @rocktheboatnews.bsky.social #kidlit #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/traum...

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Thank you to every single person who took part in Poetry By Heart 2025. The results are in and you can view them on our website here! Where will you go next on your poetry journey? poetrybyheart.org.uk/the-competit...

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Teresa Cremin: Celebrating Poetry on the Playground childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/05/08/t...

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The members' area of our website is now open again. Thanks for bearing with us!

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From over 3,500 entries, @poetrybyheart.bsky.social, the national #poetry speaking competition, has revealed the names of the young people chosen to compete in its 2025 Grand Finale, taking place at Shakespeare’s Globe, London on Monday 7 July. 👏👏Find out more: booksforkeeps.co.uk/next-stop-sh...

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Come along! Join in ! Great opportunity to meet up, share ideas - join us! Sign up via our website ! 😊https://englishassociation.ac.uk/ea-conference-2025/

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News from the School Library Association - the longlist for the #InformationBookAward is announced AND an exciting new Book Club initiative with free books and more up for grabs 🔽 booksforkeeps.co.uk/school-libra...

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Not long to go and Maisie's books are great! We can't wait to read.

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Beyond the Secret Garden is my favourite bit of @booksforkeeps.bsky.social & the new book by @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & @darrenchetty.bsky.social should be read by all involved in children's books in any capacity. Karen wrote a piece for TeenLibrarian #KidLitUK teenlibrarian.co.uk/2025/05/05/b...

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Cressida Cowell from How to Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing. Characteristically uninhibited pencil work with a sense of humour and a delight in the grotesque. Gobber the Belch complete with hairy legs and forearms. Hodder 8 May. @cressidacowell.bsky.social

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Guilherme Karsten from Once I Was a Tree, a witty picturebook by Eoin McLaughlin about the history of a book and the part played by a squirrel’s bottom. This sideways spread makes use of a collage effect and a playful sense of fun. Nosy Crow 8 May. @nosycrow.bsky.social

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Wonderful interview with CLiPPA shortlisted poet Brian Bilston - don't miss! #poetry @theclpe.bsky.social @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social

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A glowing 5* review for the NEW #BfK Book of the Week GOOD GOLDEN SUN by Brendan Wenzel @scallywagpress.bsky.social Brighten up your Bank Holiday Weekend with this beautiful picture book ☀️#KidLit #KidlitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/good-...

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by artist Kengo Kurimoto from his debut graphic novel Wildful, about a girl who finds consolation for sadness in nature, and helps her mother find its healing power. Skilled draughtsmanship takes us into each monochrome scene. Pushkin Press 8 May @kengokurimoto.bsky.social

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'2013, and Daedalus never moved away for work' by #FoyleYoungPoet Lewis Corry featured in the spring 2025 Poems on the Underground

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If you love theatre, art, Shakespeare or are interested in children's rights, you will want to attend this event with the impressive Christina Balit. An opportunity not to be missed vimeo.com/event/492989... @uklitassociation.bsky.social @booksforkeeps.bsky.social @booktrust.org.uk

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See you tonight, folks! The completely Iconic Verna Wilkins in convo.

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Maya Shleifer from Rainbow Breath, with text by Helen Cooper, a mindful picturebook about conquering wakefulness by thinking of colours. Walker Books 1 May. Detail from a spread of the intense red of a poppy field. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @helencooperbooks.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Martin Impey on winning the English Association Picturebook Prize for this remarkable book, Blitz: One Family’s War. @martinimpey.bsky.social

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1/2 📣Delighted to announce that we’ve partnered up with @overunderpod.bsky.social on their latest episode. We love OTTUTR’s weekly plunge into current affairs- they’re in the vital business of bringing you the news which is absent from so much mainstream media… @carysafoko.bsky.social #garyyounge

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Philip Pullman has announced the conclusion to his The Book of Dust sequence:The Rose Field will publish 23 Oct. Time to revisit our 2017 interview: 'Books that are popular & read & talked about usually have endings that actually satisfy in a moral sense.' #KidLit booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/an-i...

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And it’s out and about! New Peace & Conflict Book Pack for key stages 1 & 2 All the deets you could possibly need right here: www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...

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🤓Prepping some new book reviews in readiness for the launch of our new Peace & Conflict Book Pack (KS1/2)

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'I think our guiding light has to be engaging the young reader to enjoy the experience of reading the book, so they finish the book and then want another one.’ Jeff Norton discusses #readingforpleasure with @booksforkeeps.bsky.social : booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/ridi...

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My first round up of news for the summer term includes awards, free online events for both adults & children, articles &initiatives that may be of interest plus lots of great new books to tempt you. #UKKidLit alibrarylady.blog/2025/04/26/r...

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"His clear, punchy prose sets stories alight from the first page and the issues he has taken on over the years seem virtually limitless." NEW #BfK interview: Nicholas Tucker chats to Anthony McGowan about his new book THE BECK @barringtonstoke.bsky.social #kidlit booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/wild...

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NEW #BfK Book of the Week! Build up some excitement and anticipation with A Little Birdie Told Me by Tarsila Krüse, published by @theobrienpress.bsky.social ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/a-lit...

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For the wonderful Eva Ibbotson's 100 birthday, I talked to her children about her. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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I shall be talking about Raymond Briggs's When the Wind Blows on a panel at the Barbican on 28 May, after a screening of the film adaptation. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

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