Help grow and empathty-educated generation 🌲 Take part in the #EmpathyDayFestival and inspire children and young people to grown their empathy skills. Go to our website and register for your FREE resources NOW! empathylab.uk/empathy-day/

We can't control what happens, but we can choose our response. Join us for Meaningful May and focus on the things that matter actionforhappiness.org/meaningful-may #MeaningfulMay

The 2025 #CrimeFest shortlist for the Best Crime Fiction Award for Children (8-12) is: sufiya ahmed; Natasha Farrant; A M Howell; M. G. Leonard beth lincoln (updates only); Nicki Thornton

The Wilbur&NisoSmithFdn booklist has been announced! There are some brilliant books on the longlist. They are brilliant for book group discussion. #readingforpleasure

Meaningful May - Day 5: Let someone know how much they mean to you and why actionforhappiness.org/meaningful-may #MeaningfulMay

The richest gift you can give anyone is your #kindness !

There are some great non-fiction recommendations from BookTrust . Borrow them from the library today! booktrust.org.uk/book-recommend…

We hope you had a wonderful bank holiday weekend - what did you read?

To every reader who found your wings in books, this one's for you! 🐉

It’s #WearItGreenDay! 💚🙌 A day to bring people together, wear green, and raise funds and awareness for good mental health. 💚 Tell us what you’re doing today! 💬 bit.ly/3UtZE79 #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

'Exceptionally talented new illustrators' The shortlist for the #KlausFluggePrize for most promising and exciting newcomer to children’s picture book #illustration has been announced. Congratulations to the shortlisted illustrators 💐Klaus Flugge Prize booksforkeeps.co.uk/exceptionally-…

Spending time in your community and getting close to nature can support your mental health. 💚 Tell us about how your community embraces nature. 💬 #WearItGreenDay #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #ThisIsMyCommunity

The International The Booker Prizes shortlist has been announced! This year’s six books are a wonderful variety and provides a ‘miraculous lens through which to view human experience’. #bookerprize

Jump into someone else’s story this June! Join the Empathy Day Festival happening in schools, libraries, bookshops or at home, and be part of a nationwide movement to foster empathy through stories, creating a world in which we all understand each other better. Running from

And so it happens. Heart Lamp makes history by winning the International The Booker Prizes 2025, the first short story collection to ever do so. What a radical moment for literature, women and protest. The revolution, it seems, will be published after all.

Happy World Meditation Day 🙏 Take a moment now to pause, breathe and just be here #WorldMeditationDay

So brilliant to see the #ReadingRights reports from Frank Cottrell-Boyce & BookTrust is out today! Reading with children changes their lives forever - and EVERY SINGLE CHILD is entitled to this right!

'I wanted to explore what life is, the beginning of life, the end of life, meeting people, knowing things, sharing good and bad moments.' Don't miss Rébecca Dautremer's feature in our new issue #illustration Post Wave Publishing booksforkeeps.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

You can now read International-Booker-Prize-Winner Banu Mushtaq’s acceptance speech, in full, over on our Ampersand blog: andotherstories.org/2025/05/21/ban…

Reading looks different for everyone—and that’s something to celebrate. We asked our team to share their honest reading confessions to redefine what being a reader means. Read the blog and share your #ReadingConfession with us: readingagency.org.uk/reading-confes…