Thank you @uklitassociation.bsky.social and @amdassu.bsky.social for this beautiful book! Wonderful stories, beautifully illustrated, which I am looking forward to reading by the Christmas tree! Always worth entering the UKLA's Lucky 13th! 🎄🎁😍
Imogen
@imogenm16.bsky.social
Year 6 Teacher, English Lead, OU/UKLA Teachers' Reading Group Leader based in Oxfordshire. CLiPPA judge 2024. Passionate about reading for pleasure! 📚
THANK YOU to @justimaginecentre.bsky.social who have donated these wonderful books to our primary school library! We are so grateful. More photos to come of them in their new booky habitat! @jobowers.bsky.social
#UKLALucky13 Discover #WildJourney by A.M. Dassu, a gorgeous, linked collection of contemporary adventure stories, set across the world and inspired by the migratory flight of starlings. Stunningly illustrated in 🟧 & ⬛️ by Joe Lillington. RT to win a signed copy!
Oxfordshire-based school staff! Chris is running a Teachers Reading Group again this year (without me as I am on maternity leave!). It's a wonderful group and Chris is so knowledgeable. Details below - please share! @openuni-rfp.bsky.social @debbiethomas.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social
From Kenneth Oppel, Best of All Worlds is a story of survival, teenage passions and an invisible enemy. What should be a relaxing weekend away from the city turns nightmarish when Xavier and his family wake up to find themselves trapped inside a dome. UKLA members RP for a chance to win #lucky13th
This will be amazing! Gina Kaminski is my hero!
Hannah Baker@mrsbaker6.bsky.social · last yr.An update about the upcoming @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Blether session next Thursday: Craig Barr Green, winner of the 3-6+ category and author of ‘Gina Kaminski Saves the Wolf’ will be joining too! Sign up at: bit.ly/45QRg7Z
@mattobin.bsky.social Hi Mat, We have loved shadowing the Klaus Flugge prize this year! I have emailed you our photos from across the six classes but our winners were: Slug Life (2 classes), The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods (2 classes), The Cat Who Couldn't Be Bothered and The Christmas Mouse.
NEW in the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling ‘Unknown Adventurer’ series! 3 signed copies of THE LOST BOOK OF UNDERSEA ADVENTURE! By Teddy Keen are the UKLA Lucky 13th prizes for June. UKLA Members just RP to be in with a chance to win. @quartokids.bsky.social
Tonight I am off to an amazing local restaurant who have started a book club where they cook a three course meal from a recipe book and then you can buy the book from the local bookshop. Food and books! The dream! 🤩 @vikkivarley.bsky.social @anitaranih.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social
Finished The Wrong Shoes ahead of our Staff Book Club next week. Gritty, emotive and relatable for young people today, I can understand why it has been nominated for so many awards. I will read it to my Year 6 class next term. Thank you to Tom Percival for this important read!
Thank you @uklitassociation.bsky.social for my copy of Michael Rosen's Pocket Shakespeare! Perfect for my Year 6s. This year we have already studied Macbeth, Henry V and Romeo and Juliet! 🎭 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social - I'm looking forward to reading an extract tomorrow to my class!
Explore Shakespeare’s best bits: love & heartbreak, magic & superstition, jealousy, beauty, insults & one-liners in this celebration of the Bard. With @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social as your guide, and illustrations from Chris Riddell. UKLA members RP to win 5 books + signed prints from Walker Books
Thank you Anthony McGowan and @uklitassociation.bsky.social for my treat! This was waiting for me when I got back last night after a few days away. I can't wait to read it!
The Easter holidays are here, so I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Just **repost** this post to have a chance to win. The winner will be selected 19th April.
Walking into my local bookshop and, to my complete surprise, seeing an advanced copy of The First Year was a very good start to my Easter holidays! What's everyone else reading at the moment? @anitaranih.bsky.social @vikkivarley.bsky.social @lyndajgraham.bsky.social @mattobin.bsky.social
Today's the day! UKLA members: come along and blether about poetry with us this evening! The sign up link is below. Please spread the word 📣 @vikkivarley.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @mrsbaker6.bsky.social @rcharlesworth.bsky.social @gluestickgal.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social
UKLA@uklitassociation.bsky.social · last yr.Our next UKLA Book Blether is coming up on March 20th! Join in to share and discover fantastic children's texts - this month's theme is poetry. Sign up here: buff.ly/IDCVdvZ
What a brilliant shortlist!
UKLA@uklitassociation.bsky.social · last yr.It's here... The UKLA Book Awards 2025 Shortlist is now live! With so many powerful titles, this year's selection truly highlights the best of contemporary children's writing! Find out more here: buff.ly/KJtPJH0 #childrensbookawards #bookawards
Published today, five lucky UKLA members can retweet to be in with a chance of winning a signed copy of #TheBeck by Carnegie Medal winner Anthony McGowan, a hilarious and heartwarming tale of one boy's quest to save the beck that runs through his granddad's garden.@barringtonstoke.bsky.social
We would love to see you there! We will be chatting all things poetry ranging from resources, awards, verse novels and anthologies.
UKLA@uklitassociation.bsky.social · last yr.Our next UKLA Book Blether is coming up on March 20th! Join in to share and discover fantastic children's texts - this month's theme is poetry. Sign up here: buff.ly/IDCVdvZ
Happy World Book Day! As children around the world celebrate their love of reading, it is vitally important to make sure that they're all able to read books in which they see themselves represented. We've put together a list of books that do just that:
World Book Day Reading Suggestions - UK Literacy Association
To mark World Book Day this year, at UKLA we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to share a reading list that has
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Another Kate DiCamillo book read in one sitting! She has such a way with storytelling that you can't put her books down. 🦜 @anitaranih.bsky.social @vikkivarley.bsky.social @mrsbaker6.bsky.social Have you read The Hotel Balzaar?
Have you heard about the UKLA Literacy School of the Year Award? Sponsored by Hays Education, it celebrates the best of literacy teaching and learning in the UK. Join us for an informational webinar on March 4th and find out how you can get involved: https://buff.ly/4hQqbF1
✨📢HALF-TERM GIVEAWAY!!!📢✨ We're gifting a bundle of THREE Bloomsbury Education books to one lucky winner!📚 To enter, simply: 💙Like, repost & follow! UK only, participants must be 18+. Giveaway ends 23/02/25 at 11PM, & winner will be contacted via DM✉️ Terms and conditions apply: bit.ly/3BXvNxL
It's half term, which means I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Simply *repost* this post for your chance to win. I will choose a winner at random this Saturday (22nd February).
I've enjoyed exploring the history of Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam (the house that would go on to hide Anne Frank and her family). This beautiful information book makes us reflect on changing landscapes and how key events in history impacted every day people.
25 of our Year 6s signed up to shadow the Oxfordshire Book Awards this year so by the end of the day, all these books had gone! I'm excited to see which ones the children enjoy the most. @jonnybid.bsky.social @vikkivarley.bsky.social @anitaranih.bsky.social @zoanne.bsky.social
Set during the turbulent segregation era, Kwame Alexander weaves a spellbinding story of struggle, determination and the unflappable faith of an American family in BLACK STAR, sequel to the acclaimed The Door of No Return. UKLA members RT to win 5 signed copies. #uklalucky13th
Thank you @whatsfsaid.bsky.social for my copy of Safiyyah's War! We have it as one of our Staff Book Club choices for next half term so I know it will be widely read and shared.
🍭It's #SundaySweetener time! #BookGiveaway Are you taking the children in your life to a library this weekend? We're giving away 'The Library Mouse' by Frances Tosdevin + Sophia O'Connor. For a chance to win: 🐭 Follow 🐭 Like 🐭 Tag friend 🐭 Repost (extra entry) Winner announced Monday
