Don't miss @BookTrust's 2026 #GreatBooksGuide, which is out now! The Guide features 100 book recommendations from the past year to help educators find great reads for the children they work with. Explore it here: www.booktrust.org.uk/great-books-...

Great Books Guide

Here are 100 books from 2026-27 that we think are great – and so will children

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Mariachiara Di Giorgio illustrating Chris Priestly (an esteemed illustrator himself) in Who Knows the Way to Mr Grimly’s Classroom, published earlier this month by Walker.

Shortlists for the Diverse Book Awards have been announced incl a new children’s category: non-fiction. #TheDBAwards highlight ‘outstanding diverse and inclusive books’ published by authors based in the UK & Ireland 2026. Congrats to all on the lists! #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/seventh-dive...

incredible to say oh it’s harder to “disagree well” in the UK and to note that one topic where this especially applies is gender identity. because a) the new statesman has been very much part of the media trying to make that a contentious issue, actively and doggedly, for several years…

Jack Saundrs@jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 3w ago

I mean, what researchers at UCL and More in Common have actually discovered here is not in fact that Britons do find it increasingly difficult to "disagree well" but actually that people are constantly being told how that censoriousness and intolerance are on the rise and are a major social problem

Spectropia: or, Surprising Spectral Illusions, Showing Ghosts Everywhere, and of any Colour, by J. H. Brown (1865) #SpookySunday See comments for instructions on seeing ghosts everywhere.

Hello folks! I have started a new FB page. I’ll be putting up bits and shits about me and my writing onto it. I’d appreciate follows and shares and all the shizzle www.facebook.com/share/1ehfVW...

Here's a reminder that I wrote and illustrated a chapter book about a ten year old girl moving house and having odd adventures and finding friends, some of them possibly ghosts. Support your friendly neighbourhood AuDhd author and learn how to draw beautiful horses uk.bookshop.org/p/books/maud...

Maud Is Moving: Moving house and making friends takes courage … and a sprinkle of magic!

Moving somewhere new can come with bumps on the road - until you find a friend who makes you feel right at home."We are really leaving," said Maud."Yes we are," said Dad, and that made it true. "It'll...

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Angela Barrett illustrating Jenny Nimmo’s The Witches and the Singing Mice, published by HarperCollins in 1993. Two huge talents combined in one superbly eerie long-form picture book.

The first big exhibition of comics in the UK began at London’s ICA in Dec 1970. It was discussed not just in comics fanzines & the undergrounds, but in the “quality” press like The Guardian & The Times. I’ve seen few pics of it, so I was chuffed to find these Henry Grant photos at the London Museum.

It's one of those autumn days when the grass is jewelled, which reminds me of this legendary school hymn and its remarkable author, former nun Estelle White

Jet Planes Meeting in the Air to Be Refuelled

The popular poetry of a school hymn

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Teachers & poet-educators! Getting ready for National Poetry Day on 1 Oct? Join Dom Conlon & our Cloud Chamber network tomorrow for FREE online CPD. We'll explore this year's NPD theme 'wonder', do some practical creative activities & show you some further resources. bit.ly/CloudChamberPoetry

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It’s September 1st which means … it’s World Kid Lit Month! 🌍📚We’d love to see your diverse, global or translated picks! Find out more about how you can join in below ⬇️ #WorldKidLitMonth #namethetranslator #childrensliterature worldkidlit.org/2026/09/01/w...

Welcome to World Kid Lit Month 2026!

It’s September 1st which means … it’s World Kid Lit Month! Read on to find out what it’s all about, how you can get involved and what to look out for here on the blog. What …

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As there's talk of the loneliness of young people, I've been thinking more recently about how the new horrendous transphobic policy packages will affect trans people's overall wellbeing, and especially young people. They are about to get much, much lonelier and more isolated.

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · last mo.

New guidance - set to come into force this month - says teachers must not use materials that “encourage” pupils to question their gender.

Dear BETTY WAS AT THE KENN DODD SHOW AND NEARLY DIED LAUGHING ALSO JOHNY CASH WAS GOOD ON THE PIONO HOPE YOUR WELL FLY TO VIENNA TO-MORROW

The first BBC repeat since NINETEEN SEVENTY-FIVE. Which is just mad.

Vinegar Tom Pullin@tom-pullin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Cherish the flame that is Penda's Fen, repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 9 September

Look, it's only that the main child subject of the documentary advocating for removing medication went back on his medication and that the experts involved have withdrawn their testimony, everything else holds up

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Am I shocked that the programme seemingly specifically designed to attack neurodivergent individuals and diminish our support needs twisted evidence to attack us and diminish support needs? Uhm...no. Not even remotely. It fits a pattern in coverage seen right now. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.

Dr Arday’s tragic death was the direct, foreseeable result of press harrassment, with racism playing a key role We're asking the prime minister to commission an immediate public inquiry ito ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again goodlaw.social/n1ck

The pilot episode of my podcast Blooming Buzzing Confusion is here at my new Patreon - I talk about things I love and curiosity #podcast #curiosity #art #horrorfilms #lgbtq www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po....

Blooming Buzzing Confusion pilot | Robin Ince

I talk about my favourite art exhibition of the year so far, Peter Cushing, synchronicity or coincidence, Dungeness and atoms, Caroline Aher

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He genuinely could not have messed this stunt up more than he has. Absolutely no upsides for Farage from calling a by election

If you can’ watch the eclipse today, you can always make a pinhole camera which will work really well on any bright sunny day and will delight your children almost as much as seeing an eclipse alomshaha.com/crisp-tin-ca...

Crisp-Tin Camera

I write about using pinhole cameras with my students in my book Why Don’t Things Fall Up? and include instructions for making one in the book. I also included instructions in Mr Shaha’s…

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Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children! If you want to view the solar eclipse later today but haven’t got proper, safe viewing glasses, you could make one of these:

Today, at the 40th International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) World Congress, we launched the world’s largest collection of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books spanning 50+ years with over 350 unique titles. Read our new monograph compendium at: cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/08...

I got this message from a mum of a boy who loves comics, on the same day I got a message from a dad who’s very ill son had his life transformed by reading comics. This stigma about comics really has to stop. It’s detrimental to children just as they’re learning how to express themselves.

An excellent piece. (Obviously it ALSO turns the minds of adults to soup)

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

For international cat day, some cats from The Adamson Collection, composed of work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital in Surrey by individuals who were compelled to live there during the midC20th

Rose Ruane@regretteruane.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Worship of Cats, created by Janet Parker, c.1966 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. This is the only surviving work by her & no biographical information is currently known to us

One week today! TELLING STORIES: S F SAID A talk for young readers (7+) by the author of VARJAK PAW & TYGER Fri 14 Aug, 2-3.30pm @ibraaz.bsky.social 93 Mortimer St, W1W 7SS, London FREE! Booking required All children to be accompanied by an adult #BookSky #KidLit 👉 ibraaz.org/whats-on/tel...

Telling Stories | Ibraaz

A talk for young readers

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Imagine holding up a copy of of Steve Antony's "Rainbowsaurus" saying "of course this book is far beyond the level of cognitive development of a preschooler", also somehow being in charge of anything more than one copy of Rainbowsaurus

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Our Governor just signed legislation that protects children from accessing adult material online. This event mocks the very protections so many have fought for by exposing preschoolers to adult material that is not only inappropriate, but far beyond their level of cognitive development." The book: