If you ever wanna know why capitalism sucks, think about how many people you've known who wanna open a 24 hour coffeeshop and bookstore (with a cat) if they ever get rich vs how many rich people ever actually open a 24 hour coffeeshop and bookstore (with a cat).

Hola #Scbwi friends!

Voting is open for the first round of the Crystal Kite Award, until May 14 at midnight (pacific time).

This year, you can vote in ALL the regional categories, so be sure to check out the amazing books by kidlit creators based all around the world.

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Zagreb as crossroads for culture...

Although I am here for a fellowship and a festival, by chance my friend Antoine Cassar from Malta was also here in Zagreb for other events, staying just 6 minutes away, so we met for a coffee along with his friend Mika Buljević from Booksa.

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A real thrill to see the full shortlist today. Huge congratulations to all other publishers Otter-Barry Books, Little Tiger Books & Troika Books - and our author Kate Wakeling for her shortlisting with her Otter Barry book! Thanks to Liz Berry & all other judges 😊

Congratulations @julioserranoand and Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social for your CLiPPA shortlisting!

In a live event this afternoon watched by thousands of children across the UK, the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education CLPE announced the shortlist for the #CLiPPA24 .

Click to find out more about this year's rich and varied shortlist here:
lovereading4kids.co.uk/blog/an-invita…

Congratulations to all of the shortlisted poets! We loved reading all of the nominated titles and found it so difficult to choose the top five.
We had 240 children watching the announcement in assembly this afternoon and we are now excited to shadow! 😊💫

Yet another glorious shortlist! The “best contemporary poetry for children” is very VERY good indeed. The kids who get to hear and read this magic stuff are lucky - and CLPE are so brilliant at flying the poetry flag!

The 2024 CLiPPA Poetry Award Shortlist was announced earlier today in a live online event
achuka.co.uk/blog/31169-2/

If you ever want some quality booktalk around picturebooks & a chance to win the Klaus Flugge Prize shortlist for your school/library then do consider taking part in the competition I have put together here. It's free.

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Did you know we also welcome translations of song lyrics??

Be inspired by this week's Eurovision Song Contest Song Contest to translate a song into English for #SSTPoetryPrize 2024 !

First Prize £1000

#SSTPoetryPrize #PortugueseSpotlight #Eurovision2024
stephen-spender.org/stephen-spende…

Liz Berry It's time for the #CLiPPA24 shortlisting event which includes poetry performances from all the shortlisted poets! Here’s what award-winning poet, author, and host of today’s event Liz Berry had to say about the shortlisted collections 👇👇

Independent publishers dominate the shortlist for this year’s Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award (CLiPPA), which highlights the best contemporary poetry for children 👇 thebookseller.com/news/indies-do…

The shortlist for the 2024 CLiPPA has been unveiled by CLPE, with 'five brilliant and very different books to enchant and transport young readers, listeners and dreamers'

bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

Good explanation of what you saw last night...for us this far South, we see a lot of the reddish pink because at our latitude, we see the upper altitude mostly. We in the South experienced something very unique and possibly once in a lifetime for those that were curious...