Go Tiny Dogs! #2 in children’s books about gardening 🪴

Have you got a copy? Can we make it #1..?

She got found fit for work, my mum.
Dragged herself there 2 days a week.
Slept the rest.
Dead within the year.
She became one of the statistics.
Her name was Mary Davies.
And my god did we try.
#sicknote #dwp #benefits #sickpay

The year is 1938. We are in Hucknall, north of Nottingham, where Byron's corpse lies in a crypt beneath Mary Magdalen Church, with ancient family members (and his daughter, the computer genius Ada Lovelace)

The highly-regarded paediatrician who conducted the most thorough review ever undertaken on the medical evidence for transitioning gender-confused children has been advised not to travel on public transport for her own safety. 1/3
thetimes.co.uk/article/hilary…

Yay!! My brand new series for early readers, ‘The Woodland Explorers Club’ is very nearly here ❤️☘️

The first book, ‘Benji’s Emerald King’ is out on 9th May! Watch this space! Zephyr Books

If you tell little kids stuff they believe you. Once, sat on my grandads lap, stroking his head I asked him where his hair had gone.The wind blew it off & away down the river,he said.I remember staring at the electric heater in the fire place thinking it could happen to any of us

A family of owls in a clock tower in France

[📹 Nicolas Dubois / _nicolasdubois]

Day 5 mum and 3 year old Still not safe!
Haringey Council David Lammy please, please help this tiny child shunted between hotels each night to be homeless again each morning.

So v v chuffed #Treasures has been selected as a TV series of the year 🎉- this time featuring #Georgia #Estonia #Bulgaria #Albania #Caucasus #SilkRoad #Greece #Turkiye Thank you Wanderlust magazine ! Details here 👇👇SandStone Global Productions …next Ep Saturday Channel 4 X

Children as 'lab rats': 75 out of 122 children attending one school between 1974 and 1987 have died of AIDS or hepatitis C after they were enrolled in clinical trials without consent. The infected blood scandal is part of our recent history.

bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

Pinching myself because I get to go to Romania next month! And visit schools to talk about The Wolf's Curse! (How cute is this flier my Romanian publisher made to advertise the visits?)

What symbolism is in a daytime visit from a pair of barn owls? 😳

In Old English, the ampersand, '&', was considered the 27th letter of the alphabet. Children reciting the alphabet in school would chant 'per se', Latin for 'by itself', after letters that were words in themselves: 'A per se A, I per se I', etc, and also '& per se &'. This 'and

We are out and about in south London with Amy Twigg today for a proof drop of her incredible debut novel #SpoiltCreatures !

First stop: Jonathan Main (we forgot to take a photo but thanks for having us!)

Next up: Dulwich Books and the lovely Kitty & Rachelle 📚

I hope you like this little graphic I made as it's taken me hours 🤣 A bird's eye view of what my book is about..

Looking for some new YA British Dystopia with a touch of magic realism? 👀

✨MURMURATION✨

✨COMING MAY 2024✨
#ya #ya dystopia #dystopianfiction #youngadult

Hilarious & heartwarming, Jenny Pearson has done it again with #Shipwrecked ! Join Sebastian Sunrise as he fights for survival in the middle of the Pacific Ocean along with his friends and a unusual goat called Giuseppe Garibaldi. Funny from page1!
Usborne Publishing
scopeforimagination.co.uk/2024/04/11/shi…

It happened 💚
A poetry rite of passage 🥹

Many women murdered in Australia yet PM Anthony Albanese organised a meeting with men in response to a teenager killing a church leader. In Sydney they shut down the city because two men were killed. There was pity & ACTION. The silence is deafening about male violence to women

I'm thrilled to reveal the cover of Carolyn Ward👻BELLA BRIGHT👻's new MG Horror - BELLA BRIGHT AND THE WITCH TREE 👻🌳

Illustrations by #BeatrizCastro

Publishing 31st August with Hachette Children's Group

#BellaBright AndTheWitchTree #CarolynWard #BellaBright #ukteenchat #kidlit #WriteMentor

MAURICE SENDAK AND WILLIAM BLAKE

May 8th, online 7.30pm (free).

I've teamed up with Prof. Jason Whittaker for The Blake Society to do an online event about the influence of William Blake on the life and work of Maurice Sendak.

Find our more and register: blakesociety.org/product/blake-…