Age 7 💚 Goshawk studies and notes 🪶 ‘A goshawk’s broad wings help it to hunt at high speed! Birds of prey might look fierce but they’re under threat from humans and we must protect them!’ BBC Springwatch Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @JackieMorrisArt Gabriel N. U. BTO @artmember209 🪶

⚡️Cover Reveal ⚡️ A First Book of Dinosaurs has been an absolute labour of love, a collection of non-fiction inspired poems, which I started pre-covid(!!) & is now finally, gloriously ready to be shared with the world! It will be published by Walker Books Books on Sept 7th!

"[Empathy is] important to children because it improves their life chances." Nicolette Jones on why she supports EmpathyLab. There are only SIX days left to donate to our Crowdfunder. You can help to benefit 100,000 more children by donating NOW: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/empathy2024

A selection of the summeriest classic children's books in The Sunday Times. What have I missed that encapsulates summer for you? @TheTimesBooks thetimes.com/culture/books/…

🎙️ NEW EPISODE! 🎙️ Poet and author @afharrold talks to Michael Leader about the experience of having his novel, The Imaginary, adapted into a film by Studio Ponoc, as well as his love of libraries and the importance of children's fiction. 🎧 - podfollow.com/ghibliotheque

Wildsmith: Into the Dark Forest, written by Liz Flanagan and illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton is the WINNER of the 7-10+ UKLA Book Award 2024 #winner #ukla24 #uklabrighton24

Definitely one for the library bookshelves! Winner of the Spark! School Book Awards, chosen by children, AND the UKLA Book Awards, chosen by teachers. Huge congratulations to Liz FK @Joetoddstanton and @publishinguclan

#NewIllustrationoftheDay. Hornbills by William Spring from Beautiful: A Celebration of Evolution, with information and scrupulously observed nature drawings including of creatures we don't often consider beautiful. Out on 1 August from Big Picture Press.

Listening to ⁦BBC Radio 4 Today⁩

A couple of tiny videos in which I talk about the wonderful John Burningham exhibition and activity trail at Mottisfont House in Hampshire, which runs until 29 Sept. Mottisfont

Missed out on Oasis tickets? You’re in luck. A few left for ‘Alive & Gigging’, my show at Birmingham Rep on the 14th September. (Cheaper too.)

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Petr Horacek. Layered texture, expressive characters, glowing colour in a spread from Blue Monster, a funny, original, handmade picturebook about a monster who swallows friends when he’s unsettled by them. Just out (5 Sept). Otter-Barry Books Pavel Horáček

Loved the book, The Haunted Wood, and discussing children’s authors processing their own trauma, what Winnie the Pooh owed to Alice in Wonderland, how it takes a generation to process a war, the darkness of Robert Cormier, and whether Mary Poppins was a grumpy piece of work …

"It's peculiar to say that we grow out of pictures. If that were true, art galleries, the cinema and all other visual media would have had it long ago." From my piece about 3 sophisticated picturebooks in the new issue of @BooksforKeeps @greystonekids Neal Porter Matt Ottley

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Anja Susanj. A rare image of a contented pipe-smoker (with family) in the stomach of a leaping, growling bear. From 'Little Red Squirrel', Nature Tales, a collection by Dawn Casey out since 12 Sept from Templar Books. @anjasusanjdraws

Strictly speaking yesterday's #NewIllustrationoftheDay is not an illustration. George Butler’s drawings are observations from life, not responses to text. But I wanted to highlight his skill and importance and our upcoming event 30 Oct. George Butler Royal Drawing School Walker Books

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Chloe Savage again from her 2nd picturebook In Search of Carmella, following her Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize winner. Again a marine hunt for a mythical creature, in which the journey is the joy. Walker Books⁩ 7 Nov ⁦Chloe Savage⁩

‘Poetry by Numbers’ Come and be part of the show at the cornerHouse Arts Centre in Surbiton. Friday at 7.30.

Daily poem Roger Mcgough

Every adult should read more children’s novels. Here are the five best inews.co.uk/culture/books/…