*GIVEAWAY TIME* to celebrate the publication of Onyeka and the Heroes of the Dawn, I'm giving away a CLASS SET of 15 books to one lucky school.

Enter using your SCHOOL email address: buff.ly/3VQMjaf
Open to teachers ONLY
Closes 21st April
#edutwitter #Giveaway #teachers

Ooooh. Exciting! I might be announcing something tomorrow…

(Just got a heads up from
the powers that be!)

It’s turtley special & I think you’ll love it. 😘🐢😘

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Would you like a list of over 100 powerful, diverse picture books ideal for whole (Primary) school and in-class assemblies? Also included are themes & authors + illustrators. This would do a weekly story for over 3 years

It's competition time again. Like and retweet this to be in with a chance to win a copy, and I'll pick a winner at random at the end of April. Published by Welbeck Publishing Group a couple of weeks ago.

Just finished writing an article about the importance of reading aloud to children and how essential it is to find the right book. Took the chance to update the list below with more of my current favourites to share with Key Stage Two. uk.bookshop.org/lists/key-stag…

Woohoo!!

My SIGNED copies of Our Fight by the phenomenal Ronda Rousey Ronda Rousey have just arrived.

Order a copy HERE.

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Maria Burns Ortiz

WIN a book of your choice, up to £20!

I will send one person, who retweets my pinned tweet between now and 8pm (UK time), any book of their choice, up to £20.

Winner chosen at random.

Retweeting this won't add to your chances of winning, but I would still appreciate it!

Ta.

The Easter Benny is here with a #giveaway ! To be in with a chance of winning ALL THREE Lenny Lemmon books by me and James Lancett, simply follow and RT.

Ideal for ages 6+ and packed full of genius illustrations, they’re *marvellous* fun!

Winner will be chosen on 7/4.

Paul O’Grady is definitely missed on our tv’s but most of all by the animals he so loved and helped. If you are travelling visit the people and organisations helping these elephants not the ones profiting from their misery! #pogelephants

What a joyous programme - love and respect for these majestic creatures ... and for the much missed Paul O'Grady.
#pogelephants

The #PortofWells lifeboat horse is back out on the sands, & keeping watch over the harbour. #WellsNexttheSea #NorthNorfolkCoast

Easter giveaway -three copies of Emperor of the ice for a school - if you’d like them for your school rt and tag another school #icefortheempress Walker Picture Books Eco-Schools Wales DHA Children's Books I’ll pick a winner on Monday

#RaceAcrossTheWorld is returning! 🌏🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

It all kicks off on 10th April as five teams battle it out in a breathtaking 15,000km race across Eastern Asia.

Read more 👉 bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

TEACHERS & SCHOOL LIBRARIANS! I’ve sorted my international editions & have 5 book bundles of over 15 of my books & audiobooks that I’d like to donate to STATE SCHOOL libraries. To enter, comment a lovely thing about libraries before April 3rd & you could win 1 of these. RETWEET!

Keep fighting Leicester, the cuts are discriminatory and in breach of legal duties. SEND Action Contact Zuffar Haq
Ruth Northey SEND Crisis
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Now, the shortlist for the UCLA book awards has been shared, here is a thread of the books we chose for 7-10+. It was incredibly tough but each book was chosen for what it might bring to a KS2 classroom.

Here’s the link for those who are interested, it is viewer only but permissions are set to allow you to download the document:

docs.google.com/document/d/1JT…

I hope it’s helpful.

Delighted to be running a book giveaway for today's stop on the Developing Reading Comprehension Skills tour. A fantastic series! To have a chance of winning a copy of the Y5/6 non-fiction book, share this post and follow the author, Kate Heap: Scope for Imagination. Closes at 7pm on Wed 27th March.

✨Our #SundaySweetener this week is for the brilliant book - 'What Rosa Brought', by Jacob Sager Weinstein. 🥰

👉Repost and tag a friend in for an extra entry. Must be following. Will announce winner after 9pm.

A key thought about teacher workload…

I doubt a musician would do a 5/6 hr gig every day for 7-8 weeks, having to plan new material every night (from scratch) for the next day to an audience that may not even want listen/disrupt. That’s not sustainable. But for teachers…..