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booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/on-r... A really thoughtful piece by Darren Chetty bringing together many of the concerns around the Queen’s upcoming Christmas gift to year 6s

This is a nice gesture but it won’t be a shared experience for Year 6s who are not at the necessary reading level, who don’t like fantasy, or who can’t see themselves reflected in this book. Why not have a choice and celebrate all readers and multiple quality authors?

My neighbour was asking if I had any books by the new children’s laureate, @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social. I sent her this picture of some of the books from my collection.

Great to be at the book launch for Blood of Gods and Girls by @katjakaine.bsky.social. My goal in life is to have a book cover made into a cake as nice as this one!

Congratulations to the winners of the Carnegie medals and their Shadower Awards: Shadower’s Choice Aimee de Jongh’s Lord of the Flies graphic novel adaptation & Beth O’Brien’s Wolf Siren; Illustration Medal, Kate Rolfe’s Wiggling Words; Writing Medal Beth O’Brien’s Wolf Siren!

We toured Green Knowe when my daughter was teething (and crying constantly); a lovely and patient Diana Boston put Teddy Bears’ Picnic on the gramophone and my daughter started dancing and forgot her teeth!