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Catherine Cawthorne @catcawthorne.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I'm thrilled to see that Wolfy has been shortlisted for @petersbooks.bsky.social Children's Book of the Year in the non-fiction category! Thank you! Wolfy will celebrate tonight with a strictly Granny-free casserole. If you are a librarian or teacher you can vote here: peters.co.uk/pboty2025-vote

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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Congratulations to Catherine Bruton, Patrick Ness & Tim Miller, Scarlett Dunmore, and Liz Hyder & Tom De Freston, shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards and three cheers for awards that consider #childrenbooks alongside books for adults 👏 #KidLit booksforkeeps.co.uk/shortlists-a...

Decorative graphic showing the spines of the four books that make up the 2024 Children's Fiction Shortlist, Nero Book Awards Bird Boy by Catherine Bruton, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness, How to Survive a Horror Movie by Scarlett Dunmore and The Twelve by Liz Hyder.

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 28/11/2024

Schools! We have a fantastic guide to running a comics club for you, with top tips from @eggyhelen.bsky.social and super illustrations by Emily Kimbell. PLUS get a free comic from The Phoenix and the chance to win a year's subscription for your school! 💥👇 www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...

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How comics clubs can develop reading - and writing - for pleasure

Get top tips for starting a comics club in your school, with great ideas from PGCE lecturer Helen Jones - plus, find out how you could win a school subscription to The Phoenix.

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 28/11/2024

Research shows shared reading can help to support children from vulnerable family backgrounds. Our #StoryExplorers programme has been created to bring these benefits to children in foster care, kinship care and adoption. Explore the research here: www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/i...

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Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Fixed the headline. Patrick Ness is absolutely right. Until books for children and YA are included in notable lists, we think they should be referred to as lists for adults/grown-ups. Children's books are notable too and deserve to stand alongside others on round ups. #KidLitUk

Screenshot of New York Times headline. It says "100 Notable Books of 2024. Here are the year's notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

A red arrow has been added to the end of" 2024" which is pointing to text that has been edited on saying "written for adults."

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Hull Libraries @hulllibraries.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We love the adverts we're finding in these architectural books. We can't decide whether this is a brilliant or terrible idea!

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Another big takeaway from my experience at #NCTE24 this past week was this poem by Maggie Smith shared by @samiraahmed.bsky.social at her Build Your Stack session: Good Bones

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Catherine Cawthorne @catcawthorne.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

But I've run out of milk and I don't want to go out in the cold, waaaah

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Catherine Cawthorne @catcawthorne.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Sensible Me (about 3%): You need to do your edits and also buy some milk Real Me (about 97%): But you could sit with a tea and carry on reading this:

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Philip Ardagh @philipardagh.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A BLAST FROM THE PAST: Sometimes it takes a professional librarian to match a reader to a book. #SaveLibraries

A detail from an illumination in an illuminated manuscript at the British Museum showing a robed scholar with an open book speaking to a rather bashful-looking dragon-like creature. Two soeech bubbles have been added: LIBRARIAN: 'Tis flame resistant and has damsels in it! DRAGON: But no big words, I hope.

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The Literacy Company @theliteracycompany.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It is so important that we do all we can to encourage children to read in their free time. Reading non-fiction has many benefits for children and can often inspire reluctant readers! Share your ideas for promoting reading for pleasure in your classroom! 💙📖 #EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #PrimaryEnglish

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Catherine Cawthorne @catcawthorne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Introduce yourself using four of your favourite childhood books: The Queen's Nose by Dick King-Smith The Naughtiest Girl in the School by Enid Blyton A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken & Jan Pienkowski (With what I consider to be the "correct" front covers)

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Catherine Cawthorne @catcawthorne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

My son just told me that he can do a poo without also doing a wee at the same time. This strikes me as some sort of high level sorcery. May have spawned a monster.

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Catherine Cawthorne @catcawthorne.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hello to new followers! I am a children's author, most of my books are silly blends of fiction and non-fiction, bravely defying pigeon-holing! I also work as a secondary school librarian. I've just finished Stitch by Padraig Kenny. I think it's one of the kindest books I've ever read. RECOMMEND 🥰

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