To celebrate the U.S release of #PeggytheAlwaysSorryPigeon by Prof. Wendy O’Shea-Meddour and illustrated by #CarmenSaldaña we're having a #WeekofPeggy . Week-long we'll continue sharing reviews of this new title which you can enter to win a copy of through the link in our bio.🐦

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Get voting for your favourite Our Best Picture Book 2024! Deadline 20th March 2024. Lydia Monks Lily Murray Jenny Løvlie Caryl Hart, Children’s Author Bethan Woollvin Prof. Wendy O’Shea-Meddour Nabila Adani Peter Bently John Bond Smriti Halls Erika Meza #OBPBLeicester CLS Leicester Libraries and Community Centres

Watch Our Best Picture Book 2024 shortlisted author, Wendy Meddour, tell us a little more about herself and her wonderful book, Sunny and the Birds. youtu.be/F8b0jmSVykI
Prof. Wendy O’Shea-Meddour, Oxford Children's Books, CLS, Leicester Libraries and Community Centres, #OBPBLeicester

Thank you librarians, readers, Louis Theroux, CBeebies Grown-Ups 🎉 and PLR! After 8 years at the top spot, we have a new winner!

1) Peggy the Always Sorry Pigeon: 5.500 loans
2) How the Library (Not the Princess: 4,200 loans
3) The Friendship Bench: 3,400 loans

Well done, Peggy ❤️

Sunny and the Birds, by Wendy Meddour and Nabila Adani – a beautiful and tender story - part of the shortlist for Our Best Picture Book 2024. Prof. Wendy O’Shea-Meddour, Nabila Adani, Oxford Children's Books
#OBPBLeicester

You can’t complain when your publisher’s HQ looks like this!

What a wonderful day, introducing #PatrickandFlippa to all the booksellers & bear enthusiasts. 🐻‍❄️

Also, fab to meet authors: Catherine Emmett - Flamingo is coming soon! & Lou John. (And thanks Dr Nazneen Ahmed Pathak for swapping lectures so I cd attend). ❤️

BIG moment for us EmpathyLabUK, after months of work with a superb judging panel, the 2024 #ReadForEmpathy collection is launched! Please use them to help raise an empathy-educated generation. If the world ever needed more #empathy , it's surely now Jon Biddle Teresa Cremin

If you need a soothing track this morning, my eldest has just released this with Argentinian composer, Bruno Sanfilippo. 🌹
open.spotify.com/track/14o29lug…

✨Our #SundaySweetener this week is for a copy of Lubna and Pebble by Prof. Wendy O’Shea-Meddour, a powerful message about friendship. 🥰Repost and tag a friend in for an extra entry. Must be following. Will announce winner after 9pm.

Love this video! Thank you. And what a great reading initiative to be part of!

To any of my former (and current) students in ‘Writing for Children and Young Adults’. This looks right up your street! linkedin.com/posts/lizjcros…

She's particularly enjoyed sharing Sunny and the Birds by Prof. Wendy O’Shea-Meddour & Nabila Adani ahead of this weekend's RSPB #BigGardenBirdwatch . You can sign up for free to take part here: bit.ly/48gj2IT RSPB

This lectureship post may be of interest to those with a love of narrative - digital or otherwise. jobs.ac.uk/job/DFF305/lec…

It’s Our Best Picture Book 2024 launch week! Y2s in Leicester - enjoy taking part! Good luck shortlisted authors and illustrators Lydia Monks Lily Murray Jenny Løvlie Caryl Hart, Children’s Author Bethan Woollvin Prof. Wendy O’Shea-Meddour Nabila Adani Peter Bently John Bond Smriti Halls Erika Meza

'With its sensitive exploration of moving to a new country and the meaning of home, this evocative, illustrated story is perfectly pitched for the youngest readers.' - Pam Norfolk, Lancashire Post

🖋 Prof. Wendy O’Shea-Meddour
🎨 Nabila Adani

#InternationalMigrantsDay

Privileged to have been a small part of this. Please read the children’s poetry and hear their calls to action here: news.exeter.ac.uk/top-stories/sc… #climatecrisis #COP28UAE

University of Exeter Sally Flint ISOBEL ABULHOUL EmiratesLitFest

'We Are the Ocean' anthology - co created between over 400 children in UK & UAE as part of the University of Exeter's 'WE ARE THE POSSIBLE' programme linking science, health, education, & the arts - all outputs showcased at COP 28 to great acclaim!👉 bit.ly/3tf2EcV

Great to see Edward Hobart British Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates at We Are The Oceans children’s poetry launch. Huge thanks to whole UKinUAE 🇬🇧🇦🇪 team for their support for #WeAreThePossible project and indeed whole Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office team who do an incredible job at #COP28UAE

#Giveaway Day 2:- a #giftbox of 12 #childrensbooks to #win for your #school . Just:-
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