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Primary school teachers, celebrate the art of guidebooks and the magic of unusual and wonderful places with your Key Stage 2 students in this creative, interactive session supporting reading and writing for pleasure. Book your place > link.bl.uk/63m

Daniel Trilling

British Library

Smash the Back Lash, an historic march against racism and bigotry in 1987, saw 3,500 people protest Section 28, a law prohibiting the 'promotion' of homosexuality by local authorities. This was the first demonstration to highlight the intersection of race and sexuality and centre black gay people.

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… incl Beyond the Secret Garden (coauthored @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social) To appreciate our appreciation 😀of this picture book visit www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page... It’s also the inspiration behind our new Friendship Book Pack! www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page... #KidLitUK #BookSky

What a read! @booksforkeeps.bsky.social #Bfk278 ⭐What Baby Books do Babies Really Look at? ft Look Touch Learn p12 ⭐Multilingual Children’s Literature @darrenchetty.bsky.social @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social Kende! Kende! Kende! p19 ⭐Tower Blocks Rise Up @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social Errol's Garden p21

Happy paperback publication day to @darrenchetty.bsky.social I’m Going to Make a Friend follows a child settling somewhere new and exploring how to make a friend (and how to be a friend too). Will start lots of conversations and I think it will be one kids will want to read multiple times #KidLitUK

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George Padmore Institute

The latest @booksforkeeps.bsky.social is out - free online! Beyond the Secret Garden looks at multilingualism in children's books. @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social and I discuss 'I'm Going to Make a Friend'. And an excellent column on tower blocks (and gardens!) from @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social!

"The council insisted its decision was not just about Pride, but that the timing coinciding with Pride month meant those communications were among the first to be paused." Be a REAL shame if whoever does the socials made it wall to wall drag queen story time promo... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ian McKellen Reads a Passionate Speech by William Shakespeare, Written in Defense of Immigrants

“While many children in the UK live their lives using more than one language, this has rarely been acknowledged in the novels that are published.” Latest BtSG column @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & @darrenchetty.bsky.social in @booksforkeeps.bsky.social #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/beyo...

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Mostly Book Talk

Letterbox Library

Child's Play (International)

The identity of William Shakespeare has been a literary mystery for four hundred years, inspiring theory after theory, book after book.

Ian McKellen Reads a Passionate Speech by William Shakespeare, Written in Defense of Immigrants

www.openculture.com

Letterbox Library

Darren Chetty

Louie Stowell

Open Culture

by Darren Chettyillustrated by Sandhya Prabhat A child and their mum arrive in a new home. They’re sure they will make a new friend but they wonder quite how long that’s going to take. Luckily they’v...

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I'M GOING TO MAKE A FRIEND | Letterbox Library

booksforkeeps.co.uk

Beyond the Secret Garden: Multilingual Children’s Literature – Books For Keeps

www.bbc.co.uk

Workers will not be able to promote events, including Pride, on the council's social media channels.

Reform tells Essex library staff to scale back support for events like Pride

Our NEW issue is here, #BfK278 📢 packed with interviews, features and children's book reviews. Includes Brian Moses, Natalia Shaloshvili, Alexis Deacon, Everything with Words, Letterbox Library recommends, new Beyond the Secret Garden AND @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social #BookSky #KidLit bit.ly/4tIl0fz

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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal