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isabelthomas.co.uk

Science & nature writer • Author of 300 books, with Bloomsbury, Phaidon, OUP, Hachette & many others • AAAS Book Prize 2020 & 2023 • Tortoise wrangler 🐢 🐢 • Creators' Rights Alliance Committee • School SEND governor • Cambridge, UK • www.isabelthomas.co.uk

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I'm looking forward to Brighton Festival next weekend! Tickets at brightonfestival.org/whats-on/Xka...

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#PGDEp @morayhouse.bsky.social looks like a great book to support learning and teaching in science!

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FROG: A Story of Life on Earth hops into the world today! To celebrate, I have a copy to give away, along with two perfect chocolate frogs! To enter, share this post and leave a comment below with your best froggy fact 🐸💚 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

A first look at Frog! 💚🐸 ahead of publication tomorrow! Thank you so much @smithsmm.bsky.social I'm so pleased Frog has found its way to you!

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Aaaaand we just hit 2,000 followers on Bluesky! 🫶 Help spread the word to fellow writers!

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

Happy #WorldFrogDay 🐸💚 the perfect day to preorder Frog and get the entire story of life, the universe and everything delivered to your door in May! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #danielegneus

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Join us on 24 March for a fun evening of comedy and science in Cambridge! @cambridgejunction.bsky.social @cambridgefestival.bsky.social

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Thank you for such a lovely review @justimaginecentre.bsky.social 🐦‍⬛

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity. Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright. Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

submitted 109 days ago • 3 comments

My new cover feature for The Week Junior Science + Nature! Innovative ideas for tackling climate change, great discussion points for KS2 and KS3, on newstands now! 🐄

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Turns out their own medicine tastes disgusting

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Incredible essay by Mary Immordino-Yang on transcendent thinking in adolescents and how we support it as teachers and parents, an antidote to limited ideas of the brain/learning currently circulating . . . gets to math! #EduSky #ITeachMath www.scientificamerican.com/article/tran...

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V838. Each color shows the passage of time. As the bright flash of light left the star, it illuminated the dust surrounding it, but because space is so big, we actually see the light travelling and illuminating the dust as it goes along. By Judy Schmidt. www.flickr.com/photos/geckz... 🔭 🧪

submitted 140 days ago • 38 comments

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs is a fantastic read, popular science at its absolute best (and great for upper middle grade and young adult dino fans too) 🦖☄️

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It's #PLR day and brilliant news that my books were borrowed from public libraries more than 50,000 times last year 🦊🧡 these are four of the most-borrowed 🧪👩‍🔬 Thank you librarians, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & readers for using your library to discover the world #lovelibraries

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

Brings to mind the person who emailed me on Christmas day to point out a typo in a US edition 😱

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'The perfect book for talking to children about death’ – The Guardian Fox: A Circle of Life Story out in paperback today! Fox shows that the scientific understanding of death and renewal is no less beautiful and comforting than traditional stories 🏅Winner AAAS Book Prize 2023 #naturewriting 🧪

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My most gifted science and nature books this year! Snuggle up with a good book at Christmas 🦊🧡🧪 #naturewriting

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I had a sign! So I felt obliged to greet everyone in the same pose!

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It was lovely to be the bookseller today and chat with customers! I'll be back with a galaxy of science books @ Stapleford Granary Christmas market #Cambridge on Monday 16th!

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Day 8, Non-Fiction: 'Sky Dancers' by @isabelthomas.co.uk & illustr. by Chiara Fedele @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social The fascinating story of how starlings were introduced to the USA is a starting point for learning about invasive species - a poetic and beautifully illustrated text. #SparkLonglist

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One of my books Sky Dancers has been longlistd for the Spark! School book Award! If you've been a student of my course in writing non-fiction for young audiences you will recognise this book! #naturewriting Thank you so much @sparkbookaward.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

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I didn't know know there was a Phoenix Comic Shop until just now and it is all my gift problems solved, it's amazing! #ukkidlit #kidlituk #ukkidslit #ukkidslitnews

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Does anyone know of a picture book or early reader with a girl ninja? For a five year old girl #kidlituk #ukkidlit #ukkidslit

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Do you have kids in your life who are interested in science? They might love this collection of papers in Frontiers for Young Minds authored by IF/THEN Women in Science (including one led by yours truly)! 🧵 of all the papers in the collection 👇 kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...

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