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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

www.instagram.com/p/DNF3VHjIoe... UofG Team recommends post on Instagram now. Give us a follow:

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Our fabulous Ch & YA Lit master’s courses are closing soon. Would you love to come and join us? @uofgsocsci.bsky.social #masters #uofg #glasgow #childrenslit #kidlit #yalit #teaching

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The CLL course changed my life! Various routes into publishing, writing, illustrating, teaching leadership in Literacy/Ch Lit: our alumni are in incredible roles across the 🌍 #scottishteachers #childrensliterature #yaliterature #uofg #teachingideas #primaryteachers www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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Darren Chetty @darrenchetty.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Delighted to join Dr Melanie Ramdarshan Bold and @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social for a panel that explored Englishness, Britishness and children’s literature at @irscl2025_usal. A great conference - thank you to all who worked to make it happen!

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CenTCS @centcs.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

We’re delighted to see #CenTCS Fellow, @alisonmitchelluofg.bsky.social nominated for this award in recognition of her anti-racist education work. So well-deserved👏

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The UofG staff and alumni gathered in Salamanca for the #IRSCL25 conference. What a wonderful community to be part of. #kidlit #chldrensliterature #clmc #cll #uofg #ya #books

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Important reading for the #KidlitUK gang today: the reflecting realities survey: booksforkeeps.co.uk/2024-clpe-re...

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2024 CLPE Reflecting Realities survey – Books For Keeps

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop transformed how we see children's books and the world. Explore her powerful story in this oral history, created by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table for the 55th anniversary of the award. 📚 #MirrorsWindowsAndSlidingGlassDoors youtu.be/Zm6zmaERJ3c?...

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Oral History of Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop

YouTube video by American Library Association

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 18/11/2024

International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature ed Maureen A Farrell & Robert A Davis Examining Scottish writing for children – from Stevenson & Barrie to contemporary writers, & from picturebooks to YA 🌟On sale now – also online via @projectmuse.bsky.social asls.org.uk/publications...

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The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature
Edited by Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis

Image: standing against a blue sky, with the sea behind, is a paper sculpture made from printed book pages. The sculpture combines models of a sailing ship, a one-legged pirate with a parrot, a palm tree, and a treasure chest

Contents

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction (Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis)
1. The Origins of Scottish Children’s Literature (Maureen A. Farrell)
2. ‘Through the Midnight Sea’: Some Dimensions of Scottish Children’s Poetry (Robert A. Davis)
3. Children’s Scottish Historical Fiction (Beth Dickson)
4. A ‘Spell of Stories’: Scottish Children’s Fantasy (Sarah Dunnigan)
5. Gaelic Plays for Children 1900–1950 (Sìm Innes)
6. Stevenson’s Junior Fiction (David Robb)
7. Mollie Hunter’s Teen Fiction: Transitioning through Enchanted Humanness to Adulthood (Ralph Jessop)
8. Adolescent Citizenship in Cathy MacPhail’s Mosi’s War and Claire McFall’s Bombmaker (Fiona McCulloch)
9. From Fairy Cauldrons to An Gruffalo: The Development and Challenges of Scottish Gaelic Children’s Literature (Mairi Kidd)
10. Scottish Children’s Picturebooks Within a European and Global Context (Penni Cotton)
11. Ambition and Identity: Scottish Children’s Literary Prizewinners (Morna Fleming)

Contents (continued)

12. Scottish Poetry in the Scottish Secondary Classroom: Seeing Beyond the Set Texts (Jennifer Farrar)
13. Scottish Children’s Literature: Where Are We Now? (Maureen A. Farrell)

Endnotes
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It was brilliant to hear poet (and former librarian) Mike Garry perform his poem ‘Signify’ last night. Beautiful words on the impact of a teacher:

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello *checks notes* to our 1 follower... We're an online bookstore that keeps real bricks and mortar independent bookshops thriving with every sale. Follow us to talk about books, authors and reading culture and support the indie bookshops we all LOVE 📚 Bookshop.org 📷 @lighthousebks.bsky.social

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There was an incident last night! Spot the wee mousie (camouflaged in the stones) escaping at the other side of the gate. I cannot guarantee it got away but I did try to help 🤷🏼‍♀️ Naughty Marty cat!

A cat at one side of a gate looking for a mouse, which is escaping out the other side of fence

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

@tie.scot thanks for sharing this report- very interesting and lots to consider in education www.zerotolerance.org.uk/resources/Ma...

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My map of children's independent bookshops is updated regularly. Most provide an online service and they're all run by people who can make well-informed book recommendations. Make sure you support your local one if you want to keep it. Any missing, please let me know. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"Professor Arshad says, the gap between those “pushing for the best in critical anti-racist work” and those “not doing it, or engaging in a piecemeal manner, remains unacceptably wide”. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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Use CfE review to 'embed anti-racist education into every stage'

Anti-racist education should not be ‘a bolt-on’ – it should be ‘presented repeatedly with deepening complexity’ as pupils progress through school

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Choose a book that has stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

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TIE @tie.scot · 18/11/2024

We are delighted to share that Education Scotland has officially endorsed Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the ‘Delivering LGBT Inclusive Education’ Professional Learning for teachers which we deliver on behalf of the Scottish Government. 📖 Access the course: tie.scot/professional...

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Education Scotland endorse ‘Delivering LGBT Inclusive Education’ professional learning programme - Time for Inclusive Education

Time For Inclusive Education

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

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Neil Drysdale @neildrysdale.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Why don’t councillors realise why libraries are so important? I’m in one in Aberdeen at the moment. It’s warm - while it’s freezing outside - it’s busy, has lots of interesting new books available, a selection of newspapers, and it’s a community. Which really matters! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Aberdeenshire library campaigners say closures 'not consulted on'

Reasons given for closing the sites included low usage and buildings no longer being suitable.

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A frosty Monday working from home with this fine chap, Fleetwood. He’s decided it’s too frosty to go outside today in his old age ❄️ I don’t blame him! #cat #scotland #fluffyboi

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Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Just spotted this starter pack too from @dapsdraws.bsky.social go.bsky.app/U3UQX2A

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

New #StarterPack! 📢 Calling all Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 educators. Here's a wee space for us all. If you're an early years practitioner, school teacher, lecturer or are all about Scottish education, let me know and I'll add you to the list 📃 Pls share x go.bsky.app/U92yyzH

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Currently working on something on the game Terra Nil: a beautiful game where you transform barren wasteland into thriving wild spaces. My favourite feature? Once you finish restoring an area, you can choose to stay and ‘appreciate’.Thriving natural worlds and hopeful futures ☮️ ✌🏻

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know. Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

“Get up and feed me, instead of lying in bed reading blue sky posts” [Marty, the persistent cat]

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A good read for your Sunday morning.

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has bought #KeepTellingOfGaza so far. We are so grateful for your support, for the responses, the endorsements. sidhe-press.eu/books/keep-t... And if you have read it, do let us know! @alisonphipps.bsky.social #PoetryCommunity #RefusingSilence

The cover shows a painting by artist Imad Abu Shtayyah,
‘we will return’, also known as ‘we will rise again’- It depicts a women wearing a traditional long-sleeved dress decorated with traditional Palestinian tatreez (cross-stitching)and a white hijab, She is looking away into the distance. She is standing on the ruins of houses which are also visible on her dress and is rising from the ruins.

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TIE @tie.scot · 17/11/2024

6 years ago, Scotland became the first country in the world to introduce LGBT Inclusive Education in schools to address homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. This was a result of our successful 3 year grassroots campaign. Learn more about our campaign and our work today: tie.scot/about/tie-ca...

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

And here we are! PGDE pals - 15 years later. 🖤🖤

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 15/11/2024

Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome! We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Meeting two dear friends today from my own PGDE days (2009). Thinking about how much has changed in our lives/careers and how exciting (and overwhelming!) everything felt out on that first placement 15 years ago. I even put on some heels for the occasion, so wish me luck(I’m usually a flats lassie).

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Excellent new service launched in Scotland, for support and advocacy for #racism and racist incidents in schools. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you haven’t watched this yet, I highly recommend it. Online gaming spaces are so important and the connections are very real.

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Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

🕯️🇵🇸🕯️ ‘Keep Telling of Gaza’ by @khawlabadwan.bsky.social & @alisonphipps.bsky.social edited by @missyerem.bsky.social @sidhepress.bsky.social is a flame in the dark. Buy it, share it. Keep the fire burning. sidhe-press.eu/books/keep-t... #KeepTellingOfGaza 🕯️🇵🇸🕯️

Keep Telling of Gaza
by
Khawla Badwan &
Alison Phipps
Sídhe Press

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Rachel Lees @rachellees.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It seems nice here! Exploring lots of interesting posts about books and video games, instead of crawling through amuddy field of pure hatred & culture wars. What a delight! #education #videogames #chlit #kidlit #books #libraries #teaching #scotland #scots #highereducation

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