🚨 #GIVEAWAY ALERT! BarnesKidsLitFest celebrates its 10th birthday on 22 & 23 June with an amazing programme - and they're giving you the chance to #WIN a #FREE bundle of books from some of the talent appearing! Follow us, BarnesKidsLitFest, and share this post before 7th May to enter 🎁

Dazzling eve The London Library for Jhalak Prize shortlist readings. So lucky to see @forwardprizes '23 winner Jason Allen-Paisant plus benjamin dean Candy is on Instagram & Substack Hiba Noor Khan & Noreen Masud. And meet Jacqui Rose - JP Rose - a writer of sorts too. Librarianship doesn't get better than this! School Library Association (SLA) The Carnegies😀

Final call to sign up for #ReadWithPride 2024. Great to show the photos from previous years to pupils seeking LGBTQ+ reads @IbstockSenior & to create a #Pride2024 wish-list for the library. This campaign = joyful & useful!🏉❤️🏳️‍🌈📚😀@LawrencePatrice Simon James Green benjamin dean👍

Here's to all the pupils who volunteer in their school libraries👏🎉You are brilliant and essential! Huge congrats to Kotryna and Reuben and thanks to @JosephACoelho Pearson Authors Aloud UK School Library Association (SLA) CILIP SLG Here's to PLAA_UK 2025!🌱📚😀 youtube.com/watch?v=Kyp9HU…

What a brilliant photo and great #readwithpride inspo 👏Our copy of She Gets the Girl is rarely seen in the library it's so popular. Happy Reading St Hilda's CE ! 😀

If you're seeking non-fiction inspiration for your school library I recommend this shortlist 👍😀

Can't wait! A great opportunity for @IbstockSenior pupils who live nearby. Highly recommend👍🦈

We #readforrefugees @IbstockSenior for UNHCR United Kingdom at Easter; this week we'll be The Carnegies hosted by #ManjeetMann who wrote The Crossing and we'll find out if @nicolakidsbooks Choose Love has won. Next week MALCOLM DUFFY who wrote #SevenMillionSunflowers is visiting⛺️🏊🌻🫖

There will be something for all @IbstockSenior on the new TSBA shortlists coming soon. Stand by for the Big Reveal...😀

We didn't think we could get a better book day out @IbstockSenior than last week's visit to British Library The Cartoon Museum Gosh! Comics but we've managed to get onto the guest list for The Carnegies tomorrow! We can't wait😃🏅📚

It was a murderous walk for @IbstockSenior with @AgathaChristie to The Carnegies LW Theatres - a fab celebration of brilliant books complete with Mrs Phelps! Thank you #ManjeetMann for librarian appreciation. Congrats to winners @JosephACoelho Tia Fisher (only here for a bit) @storybreathing 👏🥇😃

'Reading is breathing in, writing is breathing out: you can't breathe out without breathing in' Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙 advises young writers in convo with Bex Lindsay BarnesKidsLitFest. Plus TV show goss, diversity in #neurodiversity representation & sneak previews. Fab!👍🦈😀🏳️‍🌈Knights Of

'Libraries are a dream-making factory, and librarians have the key' #ManjeetMann advocates powerfully for librarians in her keynote The Carnegies💪Matilda got lucky with Mrs Phelps🦎😀Did you have a #greatlibrarian when you were growing up?🤔School Library Association (SLA) TSBA Regency Bookshop

Congratulations to two of the top readers @IbstockSenior. Elizabeth won the Big House Read for Refugees '24 racing through almost 1,500 chapters; Lili finished third🏃We were delighted to raise £2,600 for UNHCR United Kingdom⛺️Next: who will win Summer Book Bingo? #ReadingForGood School Library Association (SLA)😎

We're growing the library team @IbstockSenior. Great opp in south-west London for a grad seeking school lib career. This crew is waiting to welcome the right person! Apply here: tinyurl.com/5bxu8ca3 School Library Association (SLA) Information Professional Jobs TSBA Parrot Street Book Club Regency Bookshop😀

Looking for a reading challenge this half term? Why not get stuck into the new TSBA shortlist? Available now in the library - get them before they're gone! 📚 TSBA Regency Bookshop

Thank you to our Writer in Residence M. G. Leonard for a fab detective day @IbstockSenior. We're excited to see pupils' own whodunnits and find out if we have the next Agatha Christie in our midst! 🪲🚂🕵️😃Regency Bookshop

Want to see what we've been reading @IbstockSenior? The term has ended and the stats are in... Here it is: our Autumn Term Reading Wrapped 2024! 🎄 M. G. Leonard Tom Palmer TSBA

It's our most joyful campaign of the year! Can't wait to see all the pics and of course, which titles will feature. Our rainbow shoelaces and earrings are working overtime this month. And we have fab origami made by Ana to help our book displays to 'pop'! Bring it on😀