#EmpathyDay is in TWO DAYS! Boost your empathy by reading a BRAND NEW SHORT. Life's Too Short by Carolyn Ward👻BELLA BRIGHT👻 tells an empathy-enriching story, perfect for #EmpathyDay ! Check out our FREE Empathy Shorts library loom.ly/TaM5KJU

'Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.' Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Today we're thrilled to announce our #IBA24 shortlist! 🏆 Prominent in this year’s shortlist are books which help children find their place in the world. We hope these titles will nurture curiosity, extend knowledge and encourage a love of reading. 👉🏼 sla.org.uk/Public/News/Ar…

The Dormouse lay happy, his eyes were so tight He could see no chrysanthemums, yellow or white. And all that he felt at the back of his head Were delphiniums (blue) and geraniums (red). ~A.A.Milne #tuesdaymood #flowers

'Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read!' William Faulkner

'I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.' Kurt Vonnegut

The latest SHS Lit Soc is now on the Surbiton High School YouTube page - this week we're talking about guilty pleasures from across the literary world: youtube.com/watch?v=su_r6C…

'And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.' John Steinbeck, East of Eden

'Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.' Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

"Our stories and voices are so varied. And they matter." On #AutisticPrideDay, our brilliant Writer in Residence Rashmi Sirdeshpande (Updates Only) celebrates autistic voices in children's books... booktrust.org.uk/news-and-featu…

'I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.' Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

1 DAY TO GO! Here's another look at our incredible Writing shortlist. Join us live tomorrow at 12pm as we reveal the #YotoCarnegies24 winners of the Yoto Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration, and the Shadowers' Choice Awards. Find out more: yotocarnegies.co.uk/take-part/stre…

Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent. ~A.A.Milne #SummerSolstice2024 #SummerSolstice #longestday #sun #stonehenge

‘Extraordinary’ Joseph Coelho novel wins Carnegie medal for children’s writing theguardian.com/books/article/…

'I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.' – Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.' James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

We are delighted that Frank Cottrell-Boyce is the new #childrenslaureate. His passion and determination to address inequality builds on the brilliant work of @JosephACoelho. Our campaign to ensure that ALL children have access to a school library staffed by a librarian continues…!

Nobody knew why he was going; nobody knew where he was going. But somehow or other everybody in the Forest felt that it was happening at last. Even Smallest-of-all, a friend-and-relation of Rabbit’s, told himself that Things were going to be Different. ~A.A.Milne #change

'Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.' Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird