CILIP & 6 partners wrote @ Chancellor welcoming £10m investment in school libraries & offering support from our expert members to max long-term impact, & outlined how support for school/public librarians, & School Library Services could do even more for kids e.g. www.greatschoollibraries.org.uk
A primary school in Co Cavan is to launch a new initiative to promote positive mental health and celebrate individuality.
Book cover for Spirit Warriors by Ashley Thorpe
Book cover for Nush and the Stolen Emerald by Jasbinder Bilan
Book cover for Nate Yu’s Blast from the Past by Maisie Chan
Book cover for Birdie by J. P. Rose
With the IBC Excluded Voices report making for sober reading this week, let’s use #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate brilliant books from global majority writers.
#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
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Ideal reading books for ten-year-olds, featuring E Nesbit, Onjali Rauf, Philip Ardagh, Jean Ure and Michael Morpurgo #childrensbooks #kidlit schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-list...
Front cover of Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School, written by Sinéad O'Hart and illustrated by Úna Woods. There's a graphic on the left which looks like a sticker announcing it as 'Recommended by Children's Books Ireland'.
Covers of all the books in the Eason/CBI quarterly book promotion. From left to right, top row: The Waters and the Wild by Eilish Fisher; The Museum of Lost Umbrellas by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick; The Moon Seeker by Dee Barragry; The Grand Central Comedy Club by Alan Nolan. Second row from top, left to right: Strange Nature, by Mary Watson; Dino Mode Activated, by Jen Wallace and illustrated by Alan O'Rourke; Any Way You Slice It by Méabh O'Donnell; Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School, by Sinéad O'Hart, illustrated by Úna Woods. Third row, left to right: Puisín na mBróg by Fergus MacLochlainn, illustrated by Paddy Donnelly; The Cloud Kingdom by Máire Zepf, illustrated by Andrew Whitson; Milo and the Mountain, by Jamie Carroll; Nature at Night by Dara McAnulty. Fourth row, left to right: Oíche Mhaith, a Ghrá! by Sadhbh Devlin, illustrated by Brian Fitzgerald; Lantern Smoke by Dagogo Hart and Anita Schmidt, and This That What by Katy Ashworth and Colleen Larmour.
Delighted and honoured to announce that Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School is one of several BRILLIANT books chosen by @childrensbooksireland.ie and Eason as their quarterly Recommended Irish Reads. Check them out in your local branch of Eason! And keep an eye out for signed copies...
Time Tub Travellers and the Silk Thief by Claire Linney
My Black book for today is (and excuse the blowing of one’s own trumpet) my own. Because it won the Readers Choice Award at the Diverse Book Awards last night and I’m still feeling v emotional about it! This explores Black Tudor history through time travel and I’m so bloody proud of it!
Enjoy a peaceful moment for #WorldMentalHealthDay today with a listen to Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again's Mindful Heaney podcast series: www.nli.ie/learn/podcas...
Congratulations Sita.👏👏👏👏
Sharing some classic graphic novels here: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed, New Kid by Jerry Craft, Timid by Jonathan Todd. #KidsBooksFriday
2025 winners: Until You Find the Sun for picturebook, Birdie for kids, Wild East for YA, Allow Me to Introduce Myself for adult.
How about the winners of The Diverse Book Awards, announced last night! #TheDBAwards
We love to see excellent Irish books featured in The White Raven catalogue. For 2025 two brilliant ☘️ titles have made the selection:
☘️Na Trí Mhuicín by Áine Ní Ghlinn and Paddy Donnelly
☘️Trigger by C.G Moore
A massive congratulations to all 🎉
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An illustration by Sandhya Prabhat of a group of children reading with a teacher on the floor of a school library. Plus the words: "Webinar: Developing a culture of reading for pleasure. Why book choice matters for children. 4pm, Thursday 20 November." And the logos for BookTrust, and The Open University Reading for Pleasure
📢 Don't miss our upcoming webinar for primary schools!
We'll be joined by our Writer in Residence Matt Goodfellow and #OURfP expert Debbie Thomas to explore the importance of book choice for children.
Find out more and book your free spot here:
https://bit.ly/48fqgQO
Please vote so the book published by a 3-person Irish indie can take take the prize instead of the books from very massive publishers!
An Isle of Wight Literary Festival lanyard, labelled P G Bell School Author
P.G. Bell, as good looking as ever, but this time with the added bonus of a blue newsboy cap (he bought it on impulse, is still in two minds about it, and is trying it out), standing in a school hall in front of a projector screen with his own grinning mug on it.
A view across the Isle of Wight coast, with a sweeping bay leading to undulating white cliffs in the distance. Waves crash on the sandy shore and the sky is a dazzling blue.
A view from the window of the Villa Rothsay, looking across the Solent to England. A ferry is cutting through the steel-grey waters.
I've met some truly lovely children's authors, organisers and - most importantly - young readers at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival. @iowlf.bsky.social
💖If you’re coming to the BVM Union Chapel gig tomorrow we have lots of paper/pencils for everyone to draw along, but you might wanna bring a sketchpad or folder or something to lean on while drawing (the seating is pews!)
🚀If you wanna watch online, tickets HERE: www.waterstones.com/events/onlin...
Current mood… also great news as Newry gets a new family run, independent bookshop. Introducing The Bookshelf. Please share far and wide.
Literacy Week has ended today and we looked back at the person who inspired us to read. Our theme was Reading is my Superpower… 📚📚🦹🏻
Design a new teacher for Matilda! Year 8 got creative for Roald Dahl Day!
Something Spooky is happening in the library. 👻👻
What Would Wednesday Read?
Today is World Mental Health Day.💛
Choose a book with a yellow cover to highlight the wonderful work done by the charity PIPS.
Next up on goodnighttoread.wordpress.com book blog- Q & A with the amazing @charlienutbrown.bsky.social about his fantastically imaginative fantasy mystery #MG debut. Join Monty 🦊& Nettle 🐇as they go on the trail of #TheFeatheredBook @everywithwords.bsky.social
A Childrens Book cover reaturing a little fox running through the woods happily
Delighted to share the most recent book to take over my desk and brain, "Run Home Little Fox", written by Tom McCaughren and @erikamcgann.bsky.social who, along with all the folks at @theobrienpress.bsky.social did a wonderful job on the story, I hope I can do it justice with the illustration!
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Listening to BBC Radio4 on crows? Check out 'Clever Crows' by
Chris Butterworth; brilliantly illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill, winner of the 2025 Carnegie Medal for illustration. Proud to say the Carnegies are managed by @cilip.bsky.social
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Giveaway! Who fancies winning these 2 brilliant children's books? With beautiful prose and stunning illustrations, they would make a perfect gift for any child over 5! To enter: follow me, repost and tag a friend. Extra chance to win if you also enter on X and BS. UK only. Closes 7/7/25. #booksky
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We review the 2025 Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration shortlists.
It’s a selection full of escapism, tough choices, changing worlds, truth, diversity & resilience.
#kidlit #ukedchat
Students need school libraries - in an age if mis and disinformation, AI summaries and declining literacy - why would you get rid of your specialised staff in these areas? www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
