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How can we encourage children to build a reading habit? By giving them choice! Empowering children to pick the books they read increases their motivation to read, especially when they feel their preferences are respected. 📺 Watch our recent webinar about book choice: https://bit.ly/4bmJJjk

We are seeing an increased ICE presence in NYC - making it imperative that NYers KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. I wrote a comic with @mayor.nyc.gov @nycimmigrants.bsky.social @davidhahn.bsky.social @elllewrightart.bsky.social @tayloresposito.bsky.social to do that! DOWNLOAD: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/co...

Your regular reminder that if you visit us at bookshop.org you’ll find fab booklists like Young Carers, New Beginnings & books from the latest Beyond the Secret Garden column @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & @darrenchetty.bsky.social in @booksforkeeps.bsky.social Visit: uk.bookshop.org/lists/beyond...

The longlists for the seventh Diverse Book Awards have been announced, with organisers hoping that these ‘outstanding books’ will be seen as essential reading. Explore the lists in full and cast your vote in the Readers' Choice Award ⬇️#KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/60808-2/

NEW #BfK article: @darrenchetty.bsky.social discusses the controversy around ‘The Queen’s Christmas Present’, an announcement has not been met with universal approval. #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/on-r...

1/2 “It may be churlish to look a gift horse in the mouth. It is downright irresponsible to fail to investigate potential Trojan horses.” A highly considered piece from @darrenchetty.bsky.social in @booksforkeeps.bsky.social which brings together- #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/on-r...

'We often talk about the power of reading. But as educators we should be equally attuned to the reading of power.... It may be churlish to look a gift horse in the mouth. It is downright irresponsible to fail to investigate potential Trojan horses.' booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/on-r...

“A lovely, well-meaning endeavour that, for me and many others working in children’s literature and education, completely missed the mark.” 💯 Thoughtful comment piece from @clairelinney.bsky.social #KidLitUK www.thebookseller.com/comment/a-pr...

A problematic giftQueen Camilla’s book initiative is well-intentioned but completely misses the markwww.thebookseller.com

I have written a piece on nurturing lifelong readers inspired by the wonderful Aidan Chambers (pages 4-5) booksforkeeps.co.uk/wp-content/u... @booksforkeeps.bsky.social

A new #IBBY Honour List! 🎉 "Selected for the 2026 list are 76 entries in the category of Writing; 58 in the category of Illustration; and 57 in the category of Translation, making it the largest list ever compiled since the creation of the programme seventy years ago." www.ibby.org/awards-activ...

And a lot of the kids who it’s perfect for will already have read it and/or own it… Half a dozen titles like World Book Day would have been far more sensible.

I know from my work in schools and from my own kids how difficult it is for kids to choose books at all, never mind the right book at the right time. Can you imagine the difference if we had a librarian in every school who knows the kids and provides opportunities for them to discover new books?

Reviewed Mac Barnett’s MAKE BELIEVE on @booksforkeeps.bsky.social booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/make-...

Banned Books Week UK is back! Join us in celebrating the freedom to read from 4-10 October. Get involved: 📚Read a banned book 📖Visit your local library or bookshop 🎙️Host an event 📱Share on social media Find out more ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/bannedbooksw...

Wow, amazing opportunity to take a writing workshop with @nkjemisin.bsky.social on world building at NYPL, in person (if you're in NYC) and virtually—for free! Register here: events.leapevents.com/event/writey...

CHOICE! Such an important thing & yet it’s gone missing as a concept & a practice in many English classrooms. It doesn’t have to be entirely open. It can be within limits but it can increase range & quantity of reading& writing, builds critical & personal response, judgement & most of all buy-in!

🥳Then we were at the @nationaltheatre.org.uk to see the winner of the @theclpe.bsky.social #CLiPPA Award: ⚡️John Agard for The Poetry World of John Agard (Ill. @shirleyhottier.bsky.social) @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social #KidLitUK #BookSky (📸 @darrenchetty.bsky.social @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social)

We have a selection of John's poems on the Poetry By Heart website, including Checking Out Me History (2004) with videos of some superb finalists performances #poetry poetrybyheart.org.uk/search/john%...

"I feel hopeful every time I walk into a school and meet the young people. How thoughtful, empathetic, considerate and knowledgeable they are. That's what gives me hope" The wonderful @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social, our new Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate, on what keeps her optimistic.

-she has used her talent to give voice to the minoritised and disenfranchised; to the young people who have been misunderstood, marginalised and who have fallen through the cracks of social care. She truly is a Social Justice Champion (& she writes darn good literature!) CONGRATULATIONS PATRICE!