What a fantastic day we had with the National Literacy Trust. Meeting our favourite authors Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 Rob Biddulph, talking to MPs including our own MP Emily Thornberry about #LibrariesForPrimaries and exploring the Houses of Parliament.

Invitations have gone out for the launch of Beyond the Secret Garden. This week Karen Sands-O'Connor and I are recording a podacast with @SitaBrahmachari & writersmosaic & heading to Glasgow to speak at a session with Farrah Serroukh organised by Prof Melanie Ramdarshan Bold. Looking forward to it!

📢"Every child has the right to read". Louder for the people at the back! 📢 Moreland Primary School was the 1000th school to have a #LibrariesForPrimaries transformation. Last week their pupil librarians spoke in Parliament to tell Emily Thornberry why every school needs a library.

These brilliant children are a real inspiration.

Beyond the Secret Garden: Racially Minoritised People in British Children’s Literature. Written with Karen Sands-O'Connor. Cover by Lucy Farfort is still here. Foreword by Patrice Lawrence. Published by English & Media Ctr. Pre-order: englishandmedia.co.uk/publications-m…

Great to see Valerie Vaz championing #LibrariesForPrimaries after attending our drop-in event. She has reached out to schools in her constituency to check they have a library!📚👏 We need more MPs to support the campaign. Schools, write to your MP today: librariesforprimaries.org.uk/write-to-your-…

Eeeek! IYKYK- but how BIG is this?! To see the National Literacy Trust centre visual narratives & sequential art as a dedicated FOCUS, instead of an afterthought?! Chefs Kiss! Yeah, they absolutely see #TheBigPicture & are going to inspire so many to #GrowAGenerationOfReaders🥹📚🙌🏻

Autism and ADHD Book Guide - for children and young people! 📚 Many of these books have been a source of comfort for me, and I hope they may be just as valuable for someone else too. Note: I have done my best to check the suitability of these books for different ages, but if

Excited about this!

What do you take to read when you love comics and are heading on a fundraising challenge in the arctic circle? On Friday I'm taking on 4 days filled with challenges designed to test endurance in one of the most extreme landscapes in the world, in aid of National Literacy Trust

Still looking for my last few sponsors! Link below if you want to support our work improving children's literacy and access to books across the UK. justgiving.com/page/lucy-star…

Students have been making their own comics in the #library!

Very excited to be shortlisting the Graphic Novel nominations for The Week Junior book awards this year! theweekjuniorbookawards.co.uk

Kicking off the latest season of comicboom.co.uk with Edward Ross talking films, games, comics and his latest book with Collins Primary Graphic Novel Builder - a comic about making comics 💥 #podcast #education #comics Sponsored by ALCS

Great to be back, thanks so much to everyone who has tuned in so far. Teresa Cremin Richard Ruddick Lucas Maxwell CILIP YLG South East School Reading List School Library Association (SLA) Sonia Alligator's Mouth Maddy Barnes galway

Tackling tricky conversation topics with young children through comics. #YitingLee & Swapna Haddow (book updates) on Little Dinosaurs, Big Questions. We talk about their collaboration and their hopes for how the book can be used to scaffold conversations. #comics #pedagogy #podcast ALCS

Celebrating 50 episodes of Comic Boom #podcast with a very special guest Jamie Smart joins me to talk all things comics. Sponsored by ALCS with thanks to David Fickling Books #JamieSmart #BunnyvsMonkey #Comics #education #readingforpleasure comicboom.co.uk 💥Listen NOW!💥

Loved talking to the creative duo behind Detective Stanley for this episode of comicboom.co.uk #podcast The first of a two part special with Flying Eye B👀ks follow the journey of the book from initial idea to shelf. #education #readingforpleasure #comics #graphicnovels

No school library? Apply now for #LibrariesForPrimaries from National Literacy Trust R 500 FREE books R FREE library furniture R FREE teacher training R Worth £6,500+ Apply for 2025/26: librariesforprimaries.org.uk/schools #LibrariesForPrimaries #PrimaryTeachers #Literacy #Edutwitter