Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 02/07/2025This year for end of term treats we’ve watched Labyrinth, The Neverending Story and we’re half-way through The Princess Bride (I’m prepped for Montoya’s little linguistic moment). The class keep asking to watch more of “the 80s” - it cracks me up. 010
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Also, when did cat appear? And what is name? Very happy to see him. 010
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I find myself vastly cheered by the odd BANG! or BOOM! tbf I teach Year 4… 110
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Gothic 9yo is copying out the text to Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch because he loves it so much he wants the words with him all the time 🤷♀️ 000
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I love your Shaun Tan collection! Here’s mine alongside a print by @edfinch.bsky.social 120
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Mother is hitting a walnut with her stick and shouting "SQUIRREL!" No, Mother, that is a walnut. "This year I am going to FOIL THE SQUIRREL!" The plan is to strip the walnut tree before the squirrel can, and bury the nuts herself. The soil will 'condition' them and she can dig them up as needed. 000
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Throw it away Toby. He’s just chilling. How do you keep getting away Toby? He teleports! Jump! Is there still gravity? Jump! Jump! JUMP! Yeahhhh…. It’s Jareth. He is so sussy. Push him off! Punch him in the face! How did that happen? Was it all a dream? It wasn’t a dream. It wasn’t. It wasn’t. 010
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Accidental poem written aloud by a softly-burbling fugue-state class of 8-9 year olds while watching the last few scenes of Labyrinth: 110
Reposted by Zoe AnneWil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 26/03/2025Hi friends. It's official podcast launch day! It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton's first episode, a wonderful story called Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death, by Caroline M. Yoachim, is now available wherever you get your podcasts. I'm so excited and pretty anxious! It's a big day!wilwheaton.netIt’s Storytime with Wil WheatonYou may recognize Wil Wheaton’s name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985’s timeless classic, Stand B… 41874139
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 15/03/2025What’s the conference btw? I miss Oxford Reading & Writing Sprees SO much! 110
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 15/03/2025We’ve been doing weekly sessions on mini-drama this term - giving children a short script, 20 mins to prep and then a performance. Tangential, but it’s been fascinating as social development & awareness of each other’s physicality + audience awareness. Star Wars Shakespeare totally rocked recently. 110
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 15/03/2025@edfinch.bsky.social - did you mean sharing personal anecdotes, reading class books or story-telling off-script, as it were? Or all/any of the above? 210
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 15/03/20254) It’s a warm & relational experience and we’re all trying to help children develop that sort of connection with books and other people. 130
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 15/03/20251) Children can hear stories read with expression, which models a responsive relationship to text & audience. 2) It gives them confidence to read aloud themselves ^ modelling… 3) Their comments & observations encourage them to listen to each other & be alert to developing their own responses. 4) eep 121
Reposted by Zoe AnneKatrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025It exists! My new book is out later this year with Reaktion Books. If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM. #ProtestHistory #Commons reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...reaktionbooks.co.ukContested Commons | Reaktion BooksA radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over... 2318972
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Mother is being querulous about her glasses. She has sent me on a cascade of tiny side quests to collect them all. Then she rejected them 🤷♀️. “I’m sorry, darling. I feel like a collie - I have to …. HERD my glasses…” 😂 110
Reposted by Zoe AnneNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Oh this is so true. “Realist” fiction is a comforting fantasy. Fiction in which people create strange computer programmes that pretend to be God and billionaires build survival bunkers is truthfully reflecting reality. So is fiction where weird hallucinatory shit happens. 15713
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 30/12/2024She is drinking Baileys, wearing an eyepatch and snarling at the cryptic crossword - “Yarrrrrgh! Too EASY!” I love these weird in-betweeny days 😂 120
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 30/12/2024My mother just randomly mentioned “Robbie Williams - you know, Wham?” After I had recovered from my weeping snorting fit she said “Oh well, I knew he was in some sort of band like What What What…” She was not trolling me. 130
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Ahhh Thursday Creative Writing Club, let me count the ways… 😂 000
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Some grieve for Chocolate Pac-Man. Some relish his doom. Some find his defEAT inevitable. Some wail for him to step into the bright shroud of Lazarus. Some say that resurrections are cheating (except for that 1 story where everyone comes back twice so they die again gruesomely rapidly lots). 110
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Can’t wait til the paperback comes out so I can get some for my class - there are worlds of glorious writing / mapping / creepy flora & fauna lessons (and more) aching to be planned. It’s heavenly beautiful too… 020
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 24/11/2024My mum is grumbling about how things have changed - “Now we’ve all got mobile phones and I don’t know what’s happened to citizens band radio…”. She has a new trapper hat - “like putting your head into a rabbit - it’s quite delightful” - which will end up slathered in wax if it dares let in rain. 020
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Haha I just read the ending - best bit of dialogue I’ve read in any context for AGES 😂😂😂 010
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I had a child write an epic rainbow friends story which he insisted was non-fiction because it had really happened to him & his friends. Simulation autobiographies?!? So cool… 100
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I’m not sure how to find it - when I search I see unique names with a pin emoji after them… 300
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The one below it is Ed Finch’s linocut copy of an image that Jan Pieńkowski had hanging in his studio (iirc…) 220
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I love every spread from Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree - celebrated a big life event a few years ago by getting this print: 141