🎉 Join us live for the #Carnegies2026 awards ceremony!
Group leaders have shared why the ceremony is such a highlight. Now you can be part of it! Join us on 23 June at 12pm to celebrate this year’s winners!
👉 Find out how to watch: https://carnegies.co.uk/take-part/live-stream-instructions/
The Carnegies
NEW BfK Book of the Week: YOUNGEST FAIRCREST AND THE SEARCH FOR A SORCERER by Ollie George Clark, illus by Tom Knightis a fast-moving, funny, super-readable fantasy adventure, Don't miss the author Q&A too #booksky #KidLitUK @dkbooks.bsky.social
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by printmaker Robin McKenzie from the limited edition of Michael Morpurgo’s Down Burrow Lane: Life and Love on the Farm, his memoir launched yesterday about founding Farms for City Children with his wife Clare. Woodcut of Nethercott House in Devon. Royalties to the charity.
New report from @literacy-trust.bsky.social reveals that children’s enjoyment of reading & daily reading habits have risen for the first time in 5 years. However the gender gap for younger children & the disadvantage gap for older children is widening. #BookSky
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1/3 We were so lucky to get seats at the final London @unicorntheatre.bsky.social showing of Planet Omar!
Check out this #LittleRebelsAward trajectory:
🚀Zanib Mian won the #LittleRebelsAward in 2018 with ‘The Muslims’ published by…her!
🚀Zanib went on to secure a contract with…
#KidLitUK
#BookSky
"Refugee is what any of us could become, and every person in this world is entitled to safety."
Congratulations to Fidan Meikle, winner of the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize with MY NAME IS SAMIM @florisbooks.bsky.social
#booksky #KidLitUK
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Shakespeare’s Globe seeks a Librarian to catalogue and develop the library collections with proactive outreach to position the Library & Archive as a community resource to reflect & serve the full spectrum of voices engaging with Shakespeare's work. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/librari...
🧵📸 Last week, we were delighted to co-host with @theclpe.bsky.social the latest community conversation, Children's Literature: Speculative Fiction and Colonialism, organised so brilliantly by @darrenchetty.bsky.social.
Through a series of activities and group, room and author-led conversations...
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal
Shakespeare’s Globe is currently seeking a Librarian on a full-time basis. We are committed to improving diversity and inclusion across our organisation. Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies h...
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal
Nicolette Jones
Little Rebels Award
I am going to add the Pennington books by KM Peyton. #kidsbookfriday. They are a rather brilliant exploration of masculinity, first and world-changing love, and what it means to have a wild talent and not know what to do with it. Peyton finds the absolute elasticity of a page and revels in it.
CILIP
English and Media Centre
Poems for Father's Day by top children's poets. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2022/06/fath... @carolebromley.bsky.social @colinwest.bsky.social
Father's Day (All poems are featured here with the kind permission of the poets who created them. Thanks everyone.) Dad couldn't Dad could...
I’ve been sorting book data for work this week and it’s sad to see some great books are now out of print or hard to come by.
For this week’s #KidsBooksFriday, what brilliant forgotten gems should we be looking out for in libraries and second hand bookshops?
#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
