Thanks @stanfordstravel.bsky.social for your help today. Come September our new year 7 pupils will be reading around the world, continent by continent. Here's a very small selection of books we will be sharing with them. @apschool.bsky.social #ReadingForPleasure

@apschool.bsky.social Friday lunchtime creatively busy in the Hudson Library! Reading fiction, Pokemon club, creating new D&D characters and indulging in a graphic novel. Always busy and always fun. #ReadingForPleasure #NationalYearOfReading

Thanks @sue_klauber @troikabooks.bsky.social for giving @apschool.bsky.social pupils an amazing opportunity to read and contribute their thoughts and ideas to your third book. We look forward to reading the final version when published in the autumn. #ReadingForPleasure #NationalYearofReading

Getting ready for our first #NationalYearOfReading event #GoAllIn @apschool.bsky.social with a 10p book sale! Build a home library #ReadingForPleasure

@redbreastedbird.bsky.social Naomi and Lucas are reading your books as part of our Reading Challenge. They'd like to know - Do you decide who the murderer is before or whilst you write a book? How do you come up with the clues and how daisy an hazel find them? @apschool.bsky.social #ReadForPleasure

@hapfairy.bsky.social Martha is loving The Dance in the Dark and would like to know, if you had any goals when writing the book? If so, what were they and did you achieve them? She is taking part in our Reading Olympics challenge #readingforpleasure @apschool.bsky.social

@amateuradam.bsky.social Ray, Erin & Maxwell are taking part in our Reading Olympics challenge and ask, what is your favourite fact about the body? Why did you decide to write such funny and informative books for children? @apschool.bsky.social #readingforpleasure

@rickriordan.bsky.social Gregory is taking part in our Reading Olympics challenge and asks, why and how you create Festus the dragon. Oliver & Dominic ask, of all the series you have written, do you have a favourite. Also why do you focus on Greek Myths? @apschool.bsky.social #readingforpleasure

@rickriordan.bsky.social Fabrizio is taking part in our Reading Olympics challenge and would like to know if you have considered writing a series based on Jason Grace before life at Camp Jupiter, possibly in the style of Percy Jackson? @apschool.bsky.social #readingforpleasure

We were thrilled to have author Ben Tomlinson join us for Year 9 creative writing workshops exploring themes of relationships and breakups. Ben brought energy and creativity to the sessions and worked brilliantly with our pupils. #readingforpleasure @apschool.bsky.social

Time to freshen up our collections, thanks @HouseLaburnum for a great service and thanks also to @redbreastedbird.bsky.social Holly Jackson and @writerkmc.bsky.social for making #readingforpleasure so easy @apschool.bsky.social

Celebrating #NationalPoetryDay with @RichLambert71 @apschool.bsky.social Such inspiring creativity in the Hudson Library today. Thank you Richard #readingforpleasure

Thank you Tola Okogwu, RhodesAveSchool, Muswell Hill Children's Bookshop and Librarian Amanda for a great start to the new academic year. A fun and inspiring talk about reading and writing for our new year 7 book club group. @apschool.bsky.social #readingforpleasure

@apschool.bsky.social students were invited to meet author extraordinaire Kwame Alexander @cityoflondonschool.bsky.social They are all reading signed copies of The Door of No Return! His passion for poetry and enthusiasm for reading has rubbed off. Thank you for the invitation. #readingforpleasure

Great fun this week working with @britishlibrary.bsky.social on their sustainability workshops for the future and coming up with ideas for the Kings Cross site! #readingforpleasure #sustainabilityforfuture @apschool.bsky.social Thanks Elsa & Emily

@apschool.bsky.social Great day @britishlibrary.bsky.social listening to @jasonreynolds83.bsky.social discuss his latest book, 24seconds from now. Being open and honest about the subject matter allowed for an open and honest discussion with the teenagers we took to the event.

So good to meet author and illustrator #LauraArnold today. Pupils listened to her latest story about Mr & Mrs Skips and the Picklesticks and created their own illustrations. So engaging, thank you. @apschool.bsky.social #illustrationforpleasure #readingforpleasure

Looks like a great #giveaway not to be missed. @gcalibrary.bsky.social @lauradlibrary.bsky.social

Book signing session with @lewisdartnell.bsky.social @apschool.bsky.social and more questions from students. Always more to learn! #readingforpleasure

Alex Wheatle, novelist and ‘Brixton Bard’, dies aged 62

Alex Wheatle, novelist and ‘Brixton Bard’, dies aged 62

The writer, who found success with young adult novels, inspired one of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films which was based on the author’s childhood British writer Alex Wheatle, the author of books including East of Acre Lane and the Crongton series, has…

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@macmillankidsuk.bsky.social Thank you for a great evening, always good to hear from authors and can't wait for read Wish you were her @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social @apschool.bsky.social #readingforpleasure

@catherinewestmp.bsky.social joined us in the library, speaking to pupils about the work she does, how things have changed since Labour came to government and answering so many questions about AI, Education etc. Inspiring and informative, thank you. @apspolitics.bsky.social @apschool.bsky.social

A great day for our year 10 students with a presentation from @lewisdartnell.bsky.social followed by a workshop, book signing and an interview in the library. I'm putting my apocalypse survival kit together this weekend! @apschool.bsky.social #readingforpleasure #scienceforsurvival

It was a packed house at Alexandra Palace for #Bibliobuzz book award. Thank you to everyone who organised the event, fantastic shortlist, @apschool.bsky.social Book Club loved them all and congratulations to winner, Lucy Strange. #readingforpleasure

Food for thought today in Balham from @rapcl.bsky.social at @ylglondon.bsky.social Unconference. Always good to review our library stock and think about what we purchase, promote and of course weed! @apschool.bsky.social

@goraina.bsky.social If you are ever looking for some help with illustration maybe Leyla could step in, here's her Claudia and mean Janine storyboard. Perfect use of colour. #readingforpleasure @apschool.bsky.social

@lindsaylittleson.bsky.social looking forward to meeting you at the BiblioBuzz awards. Sharing a storyboard created by Mimi. #readingforpleasure @apschool.bsky.social

@rickriordan.bsky.social Natalie has turned Magnus Chase and the sword of summer into a storyboard. Loving "Magnus sees Valhalla and is kinda grossed out" 😅 @apschool.bsky.social

@ukparliament.parliament.uk Thank you Emma and Scott (Education Centre) for an inspiring day. Hopefully some of our students will be seen on the green benches in years to come. @apspolitics.bsky.social @apschool.bsky.social

Rounding off #worldbookday celebrating all things Jane Austen with a library session writing like #JaneAusten250 Quills and ink, very relaxing and therapeutic #readingforpleasure @apschool.bsky.social