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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A really lovely and touching review of my book. 💚🌳

Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Today is Endangered Species Day. An ideal day to pause and share a thoughtful poem -perhaps: The Pangolin or The Flight of The Last Bee or Plunder the Ocean or To the Hedgehog in my Garden or The Annual General Meeting of Wildlife Representatives (& dozens more) 💚

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I.G.Y. Azalea @steelydad.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

this painted stork looks like a trenchcoat flasher

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Laura Baxter @lteacher123.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Lovely book post today. A new anthology of poems from Julie Hare. Published by Literacy Shed. #WhereTheForestOnceStood reflects on the climate crisis. Thanks for my copy. Looking forward to sharing it with our Eco-council. @literacyshed @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Enclosed the veggie patch today to give us somewhere to contain the tortoise when we don't fancy having our toes bitten. He escaped within 5 minutes by climbing the rhubarb. 🙄🐢

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Unbelievably excited that my first book is charting at 6 in the humorous kids poetry category (amazon). If anyone would like to buy a copy to help propel me to number 1, I would be so grateful. 🥰

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

From my new book!! 💚🌳

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I'm officially a poet! This environmental anthology, beautifully illustrated by Darwin Setiawan (find him on Artstation) is intended to inspire action&laughter! Available from LitShed, Amazon & Waterstones. Please share. 🙏🌳 #poems #LibrarySky #EduSky #BookSky #poetry #TeacherSky #teachers #literacy

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

@nexpro.bsky.social does anyone else on here ask you for as much help as me?? 😆.... I need a suggested small gift for a MASSIVE D&D fan who has a great deal of D&D stuff. Any thoughts? X

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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This is a hard one to explain… “Sylvester’s Letter” by #MatthewBurgess and #JoshCorcoran is what I can only describe as an utterly joyful book about loss, remembering and love. It’s vibrant, it pops, the felt tip Art is wonderful, it celebrates the memory and the person. Stunning. #picturebookPage

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

My heart just breaks for those who knew and loved this magnificent Oak. If such an ancient tree has no protection in law, what hope have we for the rest of Nature? I can't understand how anyone involved in arboriculture would agree to be involved in such a crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Toby Carvery owner admits cutting down ancient Enfield oak tree

The felling of a much-loved and centuries-old north London oak tree was initially reported to police.

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Love seeing what the kids get up to on the days we aren't out and about during hols. Look at this setup! I can't think of a narrative to tie it all together. They clearly have one. Play is bloody marvellous!

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

@nexpro.bsky.social hello my inspiring game friend! Do you know of any maths focused games - card or other- which are really addictive and reasonably fast plays? Looking particularly for something suitable for ks2 kids. Thank you. 😊

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Rob Biddulph @robbiddulph.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Fancy some half term arty fun? Well, THIS FRIDAY at 10am I'll be posting a brand new episode of #DrawWithRob in which I'll show you how to draw a very cute... OTTER 🦦! See you by the riverbank...

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Bookaholic Bex @bexbookaholic.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

A friend of mine suggested I should donate to charity any book that had been on my TBR pile longer than 12 months, and I laughed and laughed and now we are no longer friends

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My latest article for @neunion.bsky.social Educate magazine is about non-fiction. It's often overlooked when talking about reading in the classroom and it shouldn't be. An exciting non-fiction text can engage readers just as well as any other. @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I think everyone who works in a primary school accepts that the curriculum is overloaded. We simply can't squeeze in everything that we're supposed to. However, there are two things that we must ensure take place each day: class storytime and independent reading. They're far too important to drop.

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

For anyone who's read VARJAK PAW and wants to know how it was written - or anyone interested in the #writing process - here's a free resource I made for the British Library, sharing pages from 7 different drafts. You can have a lot of fun showing this to a class! www.sfsaid.com/2024/06/the-...

Pages from 7 different drafts of Varjak Paw by SF Said, illustrated by Dave McKean, showing the development of the opening through the writing process

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Teresa Cremin @teresacremin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Tonight! 7.30 Do join us for FREE Poetry CPD! A rapid magazine style event packed with texts and practice @rcharlesworth.bsky.social with 👍Laura Mucha! 👏 Fun festive and practical! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ou-rfp-new... @debrakidd.bsky.social @edfinch.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social

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Jess Hernandez (she/her) @jessjhernandez.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Happy Disability Day! My next book, I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS (out Mar. 15 from Sleeping Bear), was inspired by a facet of my own disability: sensory processing disorder and my life-long battle with clothes attacking me. I hope you preorder a copy from your local indie bookstore.

Inside a pink picture frame, a little girl dances in a suit and red bow tie while other people watch in the background. The title of the book reads "I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS by Jess and Ruymán Hernandez, Illustrated by Teresa Martinez." Surrounding the picture frame are drawings of different dresses. Below the frame, the text reads "Coming Mar. 15, 2025!"

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social the guinea pigs are very much invested in how your nightmare poem resolves!

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Christian Lauersen @clauersen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Libraries are an investment. Not an expense

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"At what distance do you stop caring?" #vegan

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Looking for some quality EYFS and KS1 picture books featuring same sex parents / parent figures where this is obvious to the reader but not the focus of the text- bonus points for texts which link to mental health too. @jonnybid.bsky.social @teacherglitter.bsky.social @deputygrocott.bsky.social 🙏 😊

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Anyone else find log stacking really satisfying? Nice brain break from work too 👌

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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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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I loved this as a kid. Seeing it transports me straight back to early 90s. I can feel the way it slotted into its case and hear the buttons clicking. I wonder how many of these are hiding in boxes in people's attics. I'm pretty sure I have this to thank for a half decent level of mental maths!

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Ed Finch @edfinch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Homeschooling because your child could not access mainstream education? You have days left to have your say on how our education system needs to change. More details below. Reposts welcome - thank you. sendmatters.co.uk/2024/11/12/f...

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Families of children with SEND – it’s time to be heard

Too many families have to fight when their children have Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND). They have to battle a system that seems not to have been built with their children in mind.…

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What could be better for the soul than leaf throwing with a 3 year old? 🥰

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Who wants some FANTASTIC FREE RESOURCES for classroom & library displays? My wonderful publishers @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social have made these beautiful posters, full of advice & encouragement for kids about reading & writing for pleasure. Sign up here to claim yours! ow.ly/FB1250U5v0E

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Beautiful Sunday morning at southwold - finding 3 starfish on our walk!!

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Absolutely, completely and utterly fantastic!! Saw this on tour and I was 100% engaged within seconds. Quickest and most enthusiastic standing ovation I've known too. Go see it!!

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Just worked out that our 3 year old thinks eating meat is just something that happens at Halloween!! He's looking at everyone's plates when we are out and about asking in a truly disgusted voice "urgh, is that meat?". I love that his innocence highlights just how gross meat eating is. #vegan

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

We loved this today. 2 tired and grumpy 41 year olds with a 7 and a 3 year old. We all laughed a great deal and welled up lots too. Best family film in a long time.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2024

This is so charming and lovely. Perfect Friday content and a good thing to share with those who may have been led, by cynical demagogues, to believe that multiculturalism has made London some sort of dystopian hell. ~AA

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

The queues will be extremely well organised and patient on Saturday 😁. And all the information signs will be read really thoroughly 😄

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Daughter has brought home a book from school library that I would never have in the house myself. Characters are ridiculed for having nits, verrucas and for dribbling. This is not what I want to teach her. She is an open minded, loving and caring kid. However don't want to dictate what she reads. 😩

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Ian Eagleton @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

99p?!? 👻🎃💓 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0CT... #PrimaryEduSky #BookSky #KidLit #EduSky

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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Shocking news from Butterfly Conservation that the number of common butterflies was down by 50% this summer after a long term decline. Please sign up to their petition to help reverse this worrying decline. butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...

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UK Butterfly Emergency Declared

Big Butterfly Count 2024 results reveal lowest numbers on recordWildlife charity Butterfly Conservation has today declared a national ‘Butterfly Emergency’, with results of this summer’s Big Butterfly...

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Stephen Lockyer @mrlockyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Just launched my latest project on #Kickstarter - The Heist - which teaches you coding and circuits in an action-filled adventure! #STEM Follow along (and back!) here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

@jonnybid.bsky.social I have a very specific request that I feel like only you may be able to help with! I'm looking for a series of great graphic novels featuring moles for ks2! (I'm so sorry 😆) Help would be much appreciated!

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Jules @tortoise1hare2.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

@sophiadesign.bsky.social Necklaces, earrings and bracelets (complete with fungi!) Xxx

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