The Door of No Return has been shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024, congratulations Kwame Alexander Andersen Press! #YotoCarnegies24

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Yesterday, we kicked off an unforgettable Karagöz Hacivat puppet making workshop, at Mountview’s Peckham Sessions Open House! 🎭 ✨ Ready to bring this shadow play or workshop to your school or institution? Reach out to us – we’re eager to make it happen!

Thank you Big Manny!! 🧪🔥 Your science show was incredible and our students and parents and carers loved it! Perfect way to end the our Science Week. 🌟

Here's a look at a few ages from our current BOTW! [Ad-PR] To win a copy of this fabulous book, follow, like, share and comment by Friday 6pm. Tag teacher friends for extra entries! A winner will be chosen at random. UK entries only. #RR_BookOfTheWeek #timwalker Andersen Press

Next month is National Poetry Month! Here’s a poetry activity that you can download/print for free at the Activities page of my website. jarrettlerner.com/activities/

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SO excited to announce our 2024 shortlists for 1. Jhalak Prize and 2. Jhalak C&YA Prize Congratulations to all our shortlistees! #jhalakprize24 #jhalakprize

Thus much and more; and yet thou lov’st me not, And never wilt! Love dwells not in our will. Nor can I blame thee, though it be my lot To strongly, wrongly, vainly love thee still. On Byron's bicentenary, take a closer look at the '19th-century bad boy's' last poem Love & Death.

A month or so till the release of my YA, Wild East. Early words from writers I admire truly touching: A powerful story... if I had this when I was younger it would have changed my life - Jeffrey Boakye A cocktail of prose, poetry and creative writing...superb - Dd Armstrong

Author Katherine Mengardon @KMengardon visited Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form to celebrate #WorldBookDay2024 . Our Hackney Reading Ambassadors interviewed Katherine in assembly about her newly published book 'Follow Your Dreams:100 Inspiring & Extraordinary Jobs'.So inspiring.Thank you Katherine.

Author of Mia and the Lightcasters Janelle McCurdy visited Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form to celebrate #WorldBookDay2024 . Janelle gave a presentation in assembly and then ran some creative writing workshops with our Year 9 students. Great fun! Thank you so much Janelle!⚡️

On BBC Radio 4 Today at 10:45pm this week: The Blue Book of Nebo - 2023 winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing by Manon Steffan Ros - as this week's Book at Bedtime. 🎧✨

🚨🚨🚨This Thursday, 25th April, is the launch of The Review, an editorially independent bi-annual insert in The Bookseller, produced by and featuring writers of the global majority. Brought to you by Jhalak Prize and writersmosaic

Children's book events happening in May! booktrust.org.uk/books-and-read…

To a man who has dedicated his life to conserving and understanding our natural world: Happy 98th Birthday! 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for your decades of devotion to our planet's wonders and wildlife.

Join us this Friday for the James Baldwin blue plaque unveiling at The Adiaha Antigha Centre, 24-30 Dalston Lane, E8 3AZ - formerly the CLR James Library. Hackney Gazette Hackney Citizen

WILD EAST is a LoveReading4Kids ‘Book of the Month’. Out next week! 🟠 Available to pre-order: penguin.co.uk/books/457151/w…