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Jonathan Emmett

@jonathanemmett.com

📚 Children’s author and paper engineer. 🕸️ Website & Blog: jonathanemmett.com 🌱 Green. Humanist. Tabletop gamer. 🇬🇧 Living in Nottingham, UK. 🌍 Dismayed by our generation’s indifference to climate breakdown.

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Campaign against Climate Change@campaigncc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Dear Andy Burnham, a gentle reminder that the climate crisis may be one of "a number of different issues". It's also the only one with the ability to devastate global food supply, drown cities, collapse the Atlantic current that keeps our winters mild, etc. And on which there is no turning back

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2d ago

One Q at lobby said the PM hadn't done "a single social media post" about draughts or heatwaves: "I don't think he's mentioned us at all in any interviews. How?" PM's spokesman: "The Prime Minister has been in post for two weeks. I think he has spoken and addressed a number of different issues"

Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · 2d ago

If you are a SPORTS FAN concerned about #ClimateBreakdown, please consider signing this declaration calling for the end to sport sponsorship by fossil fuel companies, airlines, airports & makers of internal combustion engine vehicles. I'd love to see a similar campaign addressing arts sponsorship.

Badvertising@badvertising.bsky.social · 2d ago

Join the call to end high carbon sponsorship across sports and demand FIFA drop their highly polluting partnerships with oil giants, airlines and car companies.👇 ✍️ Sign the fossil free declaration at www.cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-f...

Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · 4d ago

🏹 East Midlands KidLit people. 🧺 A final reminder that this year’s Notts KidLit Picnic is TOMORROW! 📚 It's for anyone working with children's books in East Mids or beyond, partners and children are welcome too. #NottsKidLitPicnic #KidLitUK

Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · last mo.

🏹📗🧺 Just one month until this year’s Notts KidLit Picnic! If you work with children’s books in Notts or beyond, do come along. #NottsKidLitPicnic #KidLitUK Illustration by @annaterreros.bsky.social 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Notts KidLit Picnic 2026 Highfields Park
University Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 2RD Sunday 2nd August 12:00 Midday Bring your own food and drink (You can also bring something to share with others if you wish to) Partners and children welcome! For authors, illustrators, publishers, designers, booksellers, librarians and anyone else working with children’s literature Illustration by Anna Terreros-Martin
Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · last wk.

🆓 A reminder that I'm doing two FREE events at Nottingham Central Library on Wed 19 August, including the debut event for GREAT DINOSAUR MISTAKES, my latest picture book co-written with palaeontologist Adam Smith, illustrated by @stievenvdp.bsky.social and published by @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social.

Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · last mo.

🏹 NOTTS FAMILIES! 🏹 🆓 I’m doing two FREE events at Nottingham Central Library on Wednesday 19 August. 📚 10:30-11:20 am, THE BOOK FAMILY ROBINSON for 4-7 years, click here to book 🦕 1:30-2:30 pm, GREAT DINOSAUR MISTAKES, for 7-11 years, click here to book 🎟️ Places are limited so booking advised.

THE BOOK FAMILY ROBINSON The Robinsons were a family of book lovers. Wherever they were, they ALWAYS had a book with them. But, when they’re shipwrecked on a tropical island and captured by a crew of angry pirates, will they find the right book to save them from walking the plank? Join author Jonathan Emmett for a castaway adventure brimming with brilliant books. Then take part in ‘Emily’s Heads or Tails Quiz’, a knockout quiz game that tests your memory of the story, and see if you can bag yourself a signed copy of the book! 10:30-11:20 am Wednesday 19th August NOTTINGHAM CENTRAL LIBRARY Admission FREE but places limited so booking advised. For children 4-7 years • Tickets available from bit.ly/3STYNyg
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 6d ago

The Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."

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Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · last wk.

… Modern SLSs are dependent on individual school subscriptions for funding. The problem with this is that many of the benefits of getting children reading for pleasure are long term and difficult to quantify and schools on tight budgets tend to focus on short term quantifiable academic benefits.

Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · last wk.

There is one line in the report that mentions that some submissions to the inquiry asked for School Library Services to be made statutory (as they were when I was at school). The loss of SLSs in many areas has been a HUGE handicap to schools trying to get children reading for pleasure. …

A quote from the report: Some submissions also called for School Library Services, which exist in some local authorities to provide library services and support to schools, to be made statutory.
Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · last wk.

Parliament's Education Committee is calling for: 📕 library cards to be issued at birth 📙 reverse cuts in library funding 📗 libraries in every school 📘 a National Reading Guarantee. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Read the Report here: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5902/cm... #KidLitUK #EduSkyUK Video by Alex Paterson.

Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · last wk.

🆓 A reminder that I'm doing two FREE events at Nottingham Central Library on Wed 19 August, including the debut event for GREAT DINOSAUR MISTAKES, my latest picture book co-written with palaeontologist Adam Smith, illustrated by @stievenvdp.bsky.social and published by @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social.

Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · last mo.

🏹 NOTTS FAMILIES! 🏹 🆓 I’m doing two FREE events at Nottingham Central Library on Wednesday 19 August. 📚 10:30-11:20 am, THE BOOK FAMILY ROBINSON for 4-7 years, click here to book 🦕 1:30-2:30 pm, GREAT DINOSAUR MISTAKES, for 7-11 years, click here to book 🎟️ Places are limited so booking advised.

THE BOOK FAMILY ROBINSON The Robinsons were a family of book lovers. Wherever they were, they ALWAYS had a book with them. But, when they’re shipwrecked on a tropical island and captured by a crew of angry pirates, will they find the right book to save them from walking the plank? Join author Jonathan Emmett for a castaway adventure brimming with brilliant books. Then take part in ‘Emily’s Heads or Tails Quiz’, a knockout quiz game that tests your memory of the story, and see if you can bag yourself a signed copy of the book! 10:30-11:20 am Wednesday 19th August NOTTINGHAM CENTRAL LIBRARY Admission FREE but places limited so booking advised. For children 4-7 years • Tickets available from bit.ly/3STYNyg
Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · last wk.

There is one line in the report that mentions that some submissions to the inquiry asked for School Library Services to be made statutory (as they were when I was at school). The loss of SLSs in many areas has been a HUGE handicap to schools trying to get children reading for pleasure. …

A quote from the report: Some submissions also called for School Library Services, which exist in some local authorities to provide library services and support to schools, to be made statutory.
Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · last wk.

Parliament's Education Committee is calling for: 📕 library cards to be issued at birth 📙 reverse cuts in library funding 📗 libraries in every school 📘 a National Reading Guarantee. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Read the Report here: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5902/cm... #KidLitUK #EduSkyUK Video by Alex Paterson.

Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · last wk.

📣 FAMILIES 📣 If you're looking for some book-themed #SummerHoliday fun, you can find lots of FREE downloads in the RESOURCES section of my website, including activity sheets, board/card games and pop-ups to cut out and make. 🆓🖍️🎲✂️ #HolidayReading jonathanemmett.com/resources

Resources • jonathanemmett.com

Read-along videos and FREE downloads of activity sheets, posters, teaching notes, board/card games and pop-up craft activities

jonathanemmett.com

Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · 2w ago

This photo from the BBC news website sums up what's wrong with humanity's response to #ClimateBreakdown. We can now see it clearly on the horizon and know it's threatening other people, but we're not going to change the way we behave until we're on fire ourselves.

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Jonathan Emmett@jonathanemmett.com · 2w ago

This photo from the BBC news website sums up what's wrong with humanity's response to #ClimateBreakdown. We can now see it clearly on the horizon and know it's threatening other people, but we're not going to change the way we behave until we're on fire ourselves.

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