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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 28/09/2026

🙏🏼 Thanks for the smashing review. 😊

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Scoobiesue2 @scoobiesue2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's review...'Spooky Street' @jonathanemmett.com illustrated by Ingela P Arrhenius @nosycrow.bsky.social Completely engaging and lots of fun!! #KidLitUK www.throughthebookshelf.com/reviews/spooky-street

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Spooky Street — Through the Bookshelf

‘Spooky Street’ is an ingeniously entertaining book, offering an extravaganza of Hallowe’en fun!

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oops, just realized what I did there. It should read, "Authors! if you follow me..." That rather opens it up a little more. If you're an author, illustrator, etc, drop me a message. Thanks!

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 28/09/2026

When Andy Burnham was Mayor of Manchester he said that ethical concerns about UAE investment were an issue for the UK government to address rather than a city mayor. Now that he's in charge of the UK government, I'd love to see him address them. www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheu...

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Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham skirts question on Abu Dhabi human rights. From a previous episode of Pod Save the UK, available wherever you get podcasts. #Podcast #Podcasts #Football

TikTok video by Pod Save the UK

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Manchester City case has to be the moment we revisit the issue of state ownership of football clubs, and demand they be banned and phased out. In 2023 @fairsqprojects.bsky.social wrote to the then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport making this argument. fairsq.org/fairsquare-c...

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 28/09/2026

It's funny how particular books do well in particular countries. Although recently republished in Germany, this book has been out of print in the UK for many years and has NEVER been in the top 10 for my UK library loans.

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 28/09/2026

🇩🇪 I've just received my latest statement from @alcs.co.uk, which tells me that – once again – DAS SCHÖNSTE GESCHENK DER WELT, the German edition of THE BEST GIFT OF ALL, by me & Vanessa Cabban, was my most borrowed book from German libraries in the first half of 2026. 🙏🏼 "THANK YOU!" ALCS.

A copy of DAS SCHÖNSTE GESCHENK DER WELT beside a cuddly toy of the Mole featured in the story.

Caption: My most borrowed book from German libraries

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 28/09/2026

"Super fun to read aloud. … There is so much to visually explore throughout. … a clever and delightful rhyming alphabet book, perfect for the season!" YA AND KIDS BOOKS CENTRAL's 5★ review for HALLOWEEN STREET by me, Ingela P Arrhenius & @nosycrowus.bsky.social. yabookscentral.com/halloween-st...

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Halloween Street by Jonathan Emmett Book Reviews

Stroll down Halloween Street in this accordion-style A-Z book, complete with a rhyming text, flaps to lift, and adorable art from Ingela P. Arrhenius. Halloween Street is full of Trick-or-Treaters out...

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 26/09/2026

Some good news: "the number of independent book shops in the UK and Ireland is now at its highest level since 2012". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #KidLitUK #BookSky

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Why bookshops are booming in the TikTok age

Proprietors explain why more independent bookshops are springing up in our towns and cities.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great response on the doorsteps in Holborn & St Pancras this evening - more & more people recognising that @zackpolanski.bsky.social will make a brilliant local MP. One more Labour backbencher changes nothing - the best way to make this Labour government braver, bolder & better is to #VoteGreen

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're involved in sustainability in schools, this event is for you: "Flight Free Schools: what, where, why and how?" Join us Wednesday 30th at 3.45pm to find out. Can't make it on Wednesday? Register anyway and you'll be sent the link to the recording: www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 25/09/2026

We've given the board book edition of this to several new parents. #KidsBooksFriday

The cover of Books Always Everywhere by Jane Blatt & Sarah Massini, showing to small children sharing a book,

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The climate crisis isn't just making heat worse, it's shifting the rhythm of our seasons. Heatwaves are starting earlier, lingering longer, striking faster - and these changes are driven by emissions, including from flying. We need to make more sensible choices, to keep the world liveable.

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Possible @wearepossible.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We cannot expand aviation and pretend it has no consequences for the climate. 📩 Email your MP and tell them to say NO to Heathrow’s third runway: bit.ly/4AkoFVq

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 22/09/2026

… have it for the flat they'd just moved into. The granite finish didn’t suit the flat's decor, so I gave it a new paint job. It’s a great fit with the bay window of the flat’s living room and my daughter is about the same age as I was when I first made it, so it feels like it has come full circle!

A photo of an unusually designed glass topped coffee table.

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 22/09/2026

… but there was no appropriate place for it in our current house when we moved in 2004. So my brother had it in his living room for several years before returning it a few years ago. Since then it has sat in our loft until a couple of months ago when my daughter and her partner asked if they could …

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 22/09/2026

… using wood filler, then gave the whole piece a granite-like texture by laboriously spraying dark and light colour paint speckles onto it with a scrubbing brush while the base coat was still wet. It’s over 1m in diameter and was made to fit in the bay window of the living room of our first house, …

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 22/09/2026

One of my hobbies is furniture making and this coffee table was the very first piece I made when my wife-to-be and I moved into our first house in 1990. It’s made out of 9 pieces of MDF that were slotted and glued together like one of those wooden dinosaur skeleton models. I chamfered the joints …

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 22/09/2026

Sporting events are already being cancelled due to excessive heat, extreme weather, wildfires and air pollution. If you think it's time we stopped airlines and other climate-wrecking companies whitewashing their reputations by sponsoring sporting events, please sign this petition. #FlyingLess 👇🏼 👇🏼

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We, @thegreenrunners.bsky.social, @badvertising.bsky.social and Flight Free UK, call on event organisers whose races are sponsored by Wizz Air to ditch the airline at the next opportunity and to sign the Cool Down Network’s Fossil Free Declaration. Sign the petition! www.change.org/p/drop-pollu...

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Sign the Petition

Drop Polluting Sponsors - Stop taking the Whizz

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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We really do need to stop calling people 'consumers', no-one wants to consume the planet, well almost no-one

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 17/09/2026

Just treated myself to a copy of GREAT DAY FOR UP by Dr. Seuss and Quentin Blake. Published in 1974, it is the first book credited to Seuss not illustrated by the author himself. It's a brilliant fusion of the talents of two great picture book creators. There's a nice twist at the end too! #KidLit

The cover of GREAT DAY FOR UP by Dr. Seuss and Quentin Blake, featuring a goat, bird and fish high in the sky.

A spread from GREAT DAY FOR UP showing a long line of birds on a telephone wire.
Text: Great day to sing up on a wire. Up! Up, voices! Louder! Higher!

A spread from GREAT DAY FOR UP showing a line of cyclists and unicyclists balancing high up on their bikes and animals and insects on trees and flowers.
Text: Everybody's doing UPs!
On bikes
and trees
and buttercups.

A spread from GREAT DAY FOR UP showing a crowd of people and animals jumping or elevating themselves.
Text: UP! UP! UP! Great day for UP!
Wake every person, pig and pup, till EVERYONE on Earth is up!

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Understanding Humanism @humanismedu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Are you an English teacher? We've got free resources on applying a humanist lens to better develop students’ understanding of GCSE English Literature texts. A great way to dig deeper and reveal more about characters, events, and themes. understandinghumanism.org.uk/english-lite...

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Humanism in English Literature

Support students' understanding of GCSE texts through applying a humanist lens to the characters, events, and themes.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The CCC @thecccuk.bsky.social offers Heathrow a thumbs up, conditional on the massive deployment of “snake oil” technologies (SAF & GGR). Report by Tyndall researchers, building on UK Govt commitments, science & maths, reaches a very different conclusion. See: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...

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Heathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate Uncensored

Below is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No amount of fudge can make airport expansion compatible with our climate commitments. It is disgraceful to see this government twist its own promises into knots simply to try to make bigger profits for the bosses of one private company in spite of the ever-growing costs of climate breakdown.

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Libraries Connected @librariesconnected.org.uk · 15/09/2026

Reading for pleasure can support brain health, cognition and wellbeing. New research commissioned by The Queen’s Reading Room brings together evidence and strengthens the case for free, welcoming public libraries that help everyone find something they love to read: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 14/09/2026

‼️PROUD PARENT ALERT‼️ My son Max is part of the UCL team on tonight's #UniversityChallenge.

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 14/09/2026

I received printers proofs of my 5th book with the brilliant Ingela P Arrhenius this morning and they look WHEELY good! It's not out until next summer so the cover is still under wraps, but @nosycrow.bsky.social have said I can give you this sneak peek of a corner. @nosycrowus.bsky.social

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 14/09/2026

‼️PROUD PARENT ALERT‼️ My son Max is part of the UCL team on tonight's #UniversityChallenge.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm not a religious person, but if there were such a thing as the Antichrist, he would do what Trump does every day. Destroying our beautiful planet and the lives of its people for the sake of A. profit and B. a vengeful urge to destroy what other people love. So yes, demonic is the right word.

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You can't put out a fire by watering the flowers around it. Nature heals, shields, cools, protects - but it cannot keep up with endless emissions. Choosing not to fly is more than a lifestyle choice. It's how we stop feeding the disasters we are asking nature to save us from.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 13/09/2026

We spent a sunny afternoon helping out on the @flightfreeuk.bsky.social stand at #NottmGreenFest with Anna Hughes. Lots of interesting conversations with an admittedly sympathetic crowd.

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 10/09/2026

👂🏻 SPOOKY STREET comes with a FREE audiobook version, just scan the QR code on the back cover to hear the story. ⬇️ And you can download these activity sheets using the links below. 🖍️ Colouring sheet: jonathanemmett.com/wp-content/u... 🔎 Can You Find? sheet: jonathanemmett.com/wp-content/u...

A colouring sheet, featuring an illustration of the book of a wizard’s shop.

A ‘Can you find?’ sheet, featuring 10 characters for readers to find inside the book.

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 10/09/2026

🎃 SPOOKY STREET, the latest book in the ALPHABET STREET series by me and Ingela P Arrhenius is published by @nosycrow.bsky.social today! 🧙🏻‍♀️ Here’s a spooky video I made to introduce it. 🧛🏻‍♂️ Find out more on my blog: jonathanemmett.com/2026/09/spoo... 👻 #KidLitUK #KidLit #BookSky #SpookyStreet

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 11/09/2026

You're very welcome. Stieven mentioned he'd been working on the book. It looks great!

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The climate crisis is very much on the ballot in this election.” Irrespective of the way you usually vote, if you care about the climate, the most powerful way to oppose more North Sea drilling is to vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social at the coming by-election 👇

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People ‘incensed’ by North Sea plans can vote Green in byelection, says Zack Polanski

Party leader, who will contest Starmer’s former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, says gas drilling has come up on doorstep

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 11/09/2026

If you've enjoyed @stievenvdp.bsky.social's illustrations for THE TYRANNOSAUR'S FEATHERS and GREAT DINOSAUR MISTAKES, check out this new book with @asherelbein.bsky.social. Out next May in the UK and available for preorder now. link.amazon/B0bSdr96N 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bishops and Archbishops have voted against: abolition of slavery, abolition of death penalty, decriminalising abortion, decriminalising gay sex, same-sex marriage. So this is just the latest in long tradition of opposition to choice and freedom. It's scandalous that they get to vote on laws at all!

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 11/09/2026

The overwhelming majority of the AI-generated scam emails I receive as an author are from Gmail addresses. If an email feels even slightly suspect and it's from a Gmail address it goes straight in the bin. If you are a real person using Gmail who hasn't heard back from an author, this may be why.

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 11/09/2026

“The argument that we need more domestic production because otherwise we will import more oil and gas is essentially an argument for maintaining fossil-fuel demand. It takes the failure to reduce demand and uses it as the justification for producing more.”

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 10/09/2026

🇺🇸 US followers! 🎃 The US edition is called HALLOWEEN STREET and was published by @nosycrowus.bsky.social in July. 🧛🏻‍♀️ Here’s a 'look inside' video: youtu.be/0_R2JOCexHI

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Look Inside Halloween Street!

YouTube video by Nosy Crow Inc.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 10/09/2026

We think the Supreme Court has it right: forced Christian worship in schools is wrong. Instead, school assemblies should be religiously neutral and inclusive, instead of forcing religion on children. Agree? Add your name. humanists.uk/action/keep-...

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Keep Christian Nationalism out of our schools

Reform UK wants to force every school to sing Christian hymns – and says there will be ‘consequences’ for schools that refuse. Add your name and help us defend inclusive education. Reform UK has…

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 10/09/2026

If you think our government should defend inclusive education that respects the freedom of religion or belief of every child – and reject any attempt to push our schools further towards compulsory Christianity, you can add your name to this call from @humanists.uk: humanists.uk/action/keep-...

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Keep Christian Nationalism out of our schools

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 10/09/2026

Schools should be for education, not indoctrination. England and Wales are almost alone in the democratic world in having a (widely disregarded) law that requires state schools to hold a daily act of ‘broadly Christian’ collective worship. And Reform want to double down on this religious fascism.

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