Beautiful words from Malorie Blackman on how reading fosters empathy and connection ✨ Our book, We've Got This!, is written by Rashmi Sirdeshpande (Updates) & illustrated by Juliana Eigner. It aims to help children build empathy skills that can fight division. Buy: geni.us/WeveGotThisBook

And the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing goes to The Blue Book of Nebo! Congratulations Manon Steffan Ros Firefly Press! #YotoCarnegies23

Still reeling from the incredible surprise that I MUST BETRAY YOU won a Carnegie Medal! Thank you The Carnegies, librarians & educators, and most of all—the readers and shadowing groups for honoring millions of Romanians who endured oppression. #YotoCarnegies23

Our Art Department is very excited to welcome Jeremy Gardiner to Bryanston this afternoon, to give a talk to our A3 Art pupils and Art Scholars. #TeamBryanston bryanstonart

45 schools, 2000+ likes/shares, & dozens of pictures later, we hope you’ve loved seeing what we #ReadWithPride! Check out our sway of photos & recs to get suggestions for great #lgbtq YA fiction to read year-round, &sign up for next year's relay: tinyurl.com/2fwnwyju 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚

I'm doing a blog for BookTrust about LIFE-CHANGING CHILDREN'S BOOKS. Which books have you seen turn kids into readers? I want all sorts of books (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics etc) especially books that engaged kids who struggled before & kids from minority backgrounds.

Access FREE empathy-filled stories for children and teens! Each year, we share Empathy Shorts from amazing authors – bali rai Nizrana Farook 🍉 - Inactive account Sam Copeland @elnorry_writer Jenny Pearson Rashmi Sirdeshpande (Updates Only) @katyabalen Caryl Hart, Children’s Author & more 📚 Explore: empathylab.uk/empathy-shorts

🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓Get your A level results & heading off to university this autumn? Check out OpenLearn for free resources designed to help you prepare for the next stage of your education #results2023 open.edu/openlearn/jump…

Here are my 5 TOP TIPS for helping every child become a reader, distilled from my BookTrust blogs with teachers & librarians like Pie Corbett Teresa Cremin Sonia Jon Biddle Farrah Serroukh Jake Hope 💙 Librarimum 📕🍉 @MissNCleveland Lucas Maxwell Janet Noble booktrust.org.uk/news-and-featu…

What does Refuge mean to you? Check out the new films by artists and poets for #NationalPoetryDay2023 nationalpoetryday.co.uk/blog/new-films…

Ahh, it's up! 🎄🎉 This GORGEOUS book tree is currently decorating St Pancras station. Stop by for a break with an audiobook while waiting for your train or in between shopping - and tag us in any photos if you can! 🧡

Do you know anyone who has read, is reading, or might want to read one of these books? I'll be talking about all of them from VARJAK PAW to TYGER in a massive free virtual school visit with BookTrust on Nov 10! Everyone welcome - more info here: booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/pro…

We are enjoying reading the WABA 2024 shortlisted books. Local Dorset school book groups are taking part and looking forward to the event in February. Bryanston Prep Talbot Heath School Thomas Hardye School @SG_Library_ Shaftesbury School Library Parkstone Grammar School

Today was a good chat about #reading for #empathy. Not everyone has access to books, so it’s up to folk like us EmpathyLabUK authors and schools to get them into as many hands as possible to seed those skills. Thank you all today Talbot Heath School @andersenpress

The winning school was Shaftesbury School Library who chose your book so we will be visiting them next year for the 2025 Wessex Amazing Book Award or WABA for short! @SG_Library_ Parkstone Grammar School Librarian Dorchester Middle School Talbot Heath School The Purbeck School

Excellent presentation on the shortlisted book, "The Lighthouse", by pupils Bryanston Prep Y 7/8 pupils at WABA event. We had a fantastic time at WABA 2024! Over 90 pupils attended. Winner is "This Book Kills" Ravena Guron We enjoyed a great author talk Sue Pickford Cheung - updates

Excellent detective work! Y8 at BryMystery English in the Library, Bs assisting with clues! Bryanston Prep

Happy Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 Day! This #EmpathyActionMonth, we’re delighted to be celebrating 50 years since Michael Rosen’s first book. A day of poetry, stories and creativity for this incredible empathy superhero and advocate for reading for empathy #MichaelRosenDay CONT IN THREAD

Looking forwards to reading the WABA 2025 shortlist with our BryPrep Year 8 book group. Bryanston Prep Librarian @SG_Library_ Shaftesbury School Library Parkstone Grammar School The Purbeck School Talbot Heath School

Excellent WABA 2025 event Shaftesbury School Library Winner is Getting Away With Murder by Kathryn Foxfield Updates 🎠 Librarian will be hosting WABA 2026. Congrats!