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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fantastic day at Trans Pride Exeter today! ☺️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pleased to see my article about the Verse Novel Awards published in the local press today, especially as it's National Poetry Day. www.edp24.co.uk/news/2658240...

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fantastic verse novel arrivals at the library! All available from Browns Books :)

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really enjoy compiling my book packs for @badgerlearning.bsky.social, and have written a short article about some of the new additions for this year. As always, I’ve tried to include a wide range of fiction, poetry, graphic novels and non-fiction. www.pandorabooks.co.uk/jon-biddles-...

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Jon Biddle’s Latest Recommended Books | Pandora Books

These reading for pleasure packs are constantly evolving, as so many exciting new books are published each year. Deciding which books to add and which to remove is always difficult!

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Took me three weeks but I think I finally converted all my MS Publisher files. -sadflop-

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The end of one dream becomes the start of another! Watch this space; bookishly exciting things are in motion ☺️📚 #businessplan #maybeI’mmad #butmaybemaybe #magicwillhappen

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

16 teaching job applications this term, and once again zero interviews and 15 schools/Trusts sending form rejections saying they don’t give feedback. Six years since my PGCE now. How is anyone getting a job in teaching these days? 😭 #teaching #ect #pgce #didcovidruinmycareer #justwantachance

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I always forget how much it hurts coming back down to earth when a really good dream ends before it even starts.

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Applied for the teaching job of my dreams and now I’m wired and telling myself not to hope too hard has 100% failed, my heart has already packed its bags and 🤞🫣😭

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté "I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved."

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired

I don't mean I want to sleep.
I mean I want to disappear for a while.
To be rain on a stranger's roof.
To be smoke rising from someone else's fire.
I don't want to die.
But I do want to rest in a way
the world has never allowed me.
I don't want comfort.
I want quiet.
I want the mercy of being unseen
without being unloved.

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My crazy doggo is six today!

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

New favourite children’s verse novel - Pip Harry’s ‘The Little Wave’! Beautiful and sensitive, gently weaving complex themes into a sweet and accessible story centreing friendship and family. Prefect for Y4&5 #books #kidlit #versenovels #schoollibrarian

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Shari Green @sharigreen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Verse novel fans, updated list is now available! 📚🇨🇦 MG and YA novels in verse by Canadian authors. New this year: includes French-language verse novels. #versenovels sharigreen.com/wp-content/u...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Let's kill "comics are a gateway to reading" dead please?

A two panel comic of Loki from A Bad God's Guide to Being Good. In the first panel he's looking breezy and innocent and holding up a book. He's saying, "I think it's great that children read prose novels." In the second panel, he's looking more mischievous and saying, "It's a perfectly GATEWAY to comics."

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Discovered padlet can make interactive maps today, so spent way too long adding my read around the world (kidlit) books to a map 😅 #librarian #schoollibrarian #books #kidlit #readingforpleasure

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I’m one of the thousands of authors who have published this empty book, in protest at AI companies stealing our copyrighted work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My #Carnegies2026 predictions lists! I do this every year but this is the most I’ve been successful with ever, both at longlist & shortlist. Definitely need to read Popcorn & Lizard Nobody as those seem to have slipped under my radar! Fantastic to see more funny & genre books making shortlist too!

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

11 months ago I predicted that the brilliant 24 Seconds from Now would be in the Carnegie shortlist, but this year I’m also happy to have five of my other predictions make it too! #Carnegies #Carnegieshortlist #books

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My school doesn’t allow dressing up anymore so I compromised with a book-themed staff hat competition! Here’s mine! #worldbookday #aliensloveunderpants

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 16/02/2026

Hi teachers – join my live (and importantly free) @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social Virtual Visit on March 13 where I will be chatting about The Street Art Mystery. I'll tell you all about the book and your class can ask me ANYTHING at the end puffinschools.co.uk/virtualvisits << sign up here

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

For a detective, Amanda is soooo far off every ball and gunning for Jade for no reason at all big yikes 😳#TheTraitorsUK #Traitors

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

First finished band? I attempted to follow a 5th century Finnish pattern by Shelagh Lewins. Nonsense to begin with but finally did get the pattern in the second half 😅 #tabletweaving #weaving #fibrearts #crafts

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

#newyear project: teaching myself tablet weaving with a tiny children’s loom and pokemon cards. #fibrearts #weaving #bandweaving #whenwillirunoutofhobbies #neveeerrrr

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Uh tip for booklovers: don’t put your salt lamp on top of a book, even if you have it on a plate/dish. 😳😩😭 #books #whoopsy

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Whoops I forgot Bluesky existed for a while. Anyway, allow me to return with pics of the #booknook my mum got me for christmas which I spent the four days after joyfully building 🥰

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

For anyone who may be hastily returning certain books they bought as Christmas presents, here's a thread of excellent children's books I highly recommend you buy instead: Loki A Bad God's Guide To Being Good by Louie Stowell Funny, chaotic and a little bit naughty okay, a lot naughty

The cover of Loki A Bad God's Guide To Being Good by Louie Stowell, with an orange cover, a black circle surrounded by runes with horns, and lots of pictures such as a devil, a snake, a hammer, a sword, a chicken, a house, a pencil, a book

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Never felt like a meaner dog owner than when the clocks changed and now my dog is forced to wait an extra hour for dinner, every single day, for reasons he cannot ever comprehend.

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Important piece from @booktrust.org.uk and @openuni-rfp.bsky.social about the value of book choice for pupils and how to help promote it in the classroom. Do have a read! files.booktrust.org.uk/docs/documen... @teresacremin.bsky.social @richardruddick.bsky.social

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Katherine Rundell on, "understanding the pedagogical value of fart jokes;" and so much more. Well worth a read.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The @theclpe.bsky.social Reflecting Realities report is an essential read each year. Please share it with colleagues in schools and look at the books currently available to pupils. They deserve authentic representation in the books they find on the classroom shelves. clpe.org.uk/research/clp...

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

My latest article for Educate magazine is all about how children choose books. It was inspired by this wonderful blog from David Reedy and Alice Reedy: collins.co.uk/blogs/the-bo... The article can be found here: neu.org.uk/latest/libra...

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 27/06/2025

This is so true. 99% of book bans have the intended effect: you never hear about those books again. The 1% of banned books that become infamous bestsellers elsewhere are not the norm.

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I’ve applied to 12 different schools in the last 3 months and not even got a single interview. I feel so hopeless atm that nobody will even give me a chance, I just want to teaaach 😩😭 #teaching #primaryteacher #covidmessedupmyPGCEsighhh

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Hosted my first in-person author visit and book fair this week. Great to see so many kids get excited about books! Ele Fountain is awesome, folks! ☺️ #schoollibrary #authors #kidlit

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? It is good and proper in a well-kept library to dispose of books.

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I’ve been weaving on circle looms for several months now so just had a go at doing a tiny dorset button ☺️

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I dunno why I’m so upset but the F1 minifigure car I bought on a whim in Lidl is missing a wheel centre and 😩

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Lio Luxton @llykaios.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Preordered Silverborn 4 years ago, I’m so happy and excited alshdks 🥹

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

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Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Long thread alert🧵 I’ve been sitting on thoughts about this, but feel a need to post after the all too predictable parent bashing comments in the underbelly of social media. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests

Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love

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