"A lively, absorbing picture-book" ♻️ Delighted to see Recycling Day, written by @pollyfab.bsky.social and illustrated by #KlasFahlen, in @theguardian.com's roundup of the best new Children's and Teens books! @nosycrow.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A gosling grows up; a campaign to save trees; the impact of partition; thorny dilemmas; wearing a hijab in Essex and more

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Any tadpole behaviourologists on Blue Sky @chrisgpackham.bsky.social ?! Why do the tadpoles in my pond come to burrow en masse in pebbles at edge of pond in the daytime? Temperature? Food source? (although not obviously different from other sections)

Dear #NYTConnections setters - could you possibly limit yourself to one rather US-centric term category per puzzle? Ta v much

@candygourlay.bsky.social Just had a lovely lunch date with my 3 yr old great nephew who told me ALL about the funny author he met yesterday and her adventures in her grandmother's cupboard (hopefully I'm not conflating two of his stories). He'd clearly had a brilliant time listening to you.

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

Happy Publication Day to Recycling Day: What Happens to the Things We Throw Away, written by @pollyfab.bsky.social! With illustrations from #KlasFahlen, discover all the people, processes and vehicles involved in recycling paper, glass, plastic, food and more. ♻️ Published by @nosycrow.bsky.social

Publication Day for Recycling Day! Written by me and illustrated by #KlasFahlen. Thanks to all the team @nosycrow.bsky.social for making such a delightful book full of rubbish.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Beautiful picture of a dump by Klas Fahlen from Recycling Day: What Happens to the Things We Throw Away. An account by Polly Faber, with fascinating maps so the reader can follow a journey. Out 13 March from Nosy Crow. @pollyfab.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social #booksky

Anyone got any info on when @netflix.com will be adding more episodes of #TheFirstFrost ? I can see episodes 11 is already out but their listing stops at 10. Frustrating.

It anyone needs a warm, funny and truthful about relationships binge watch, Taiwanese drama #IAmMarriedBut on Netflix is just 10/10 delightful.

Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

What's the stupidest animal in the jungle? The polar bear.

My newbie WORLD OF WANDA is officially out tomorrow, but had an ace book launch lunch today with local author chums @helenpeters.bsky.social, @pollyfab.bsky.social & @nicolapenfold.bsky.social! #WhoopWhoopForWanda #AnyExcuseToGetTogether @uclanpublishing.bsky.social @theagencybooks.bsky.social

Fucksake why is everything good in danger. Spend my life signing petitions. Please join in and sign, this place is fantastic and beloved

Prince Charles Cinema@princecharlescinema.com · 2y ago

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Middlemarch for the third time. Me, first quarter: "Why did I think this was the best book? So many characters and impenetrable politics and Dorothea is a prig" Me, final quarter: "This is the best book - so funny, so sad, so WISE." But Dorothea and Will are a bit silly - I'm all Team Garth now.

Seriously: this is absolutely extraordinary, do take a look. A truly DEEP dive

Helen Day@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 2y ago

“At 4 o’clock we have our tea”, 1962 Artist: Harry Wingfield (For the strange story of why this image is so significant in Indonesia, see here: ladybirdflyawayhome.com/the-strange-...

I took my dog out of an expensive, brilliant daycare because I was bitter he never appeared on their Instagram.

"We must keep on running" Having read manhwa I am hyped for this dialed to 11 nonsense. Predicting they *will* keep on running.

kdrama news@kdramanews.bsky.social · 2y ago

Upcoming Netflix kdrama #TheTraumaCodeHeroesonCall releases new poster.

UM, I had NO idea facebook was tracking everything I did on the internet. EVERYTHING. I have diligently blocked and followed all ways to try to stop this messed up social media from taking from me, but this is the final straw… THESE JERKS! AGH! [screenshots on how to do it in the comments]

Part of the enduring appeal of the works of Jane Austen is that it reflects simpler times, when things like the truth could be universally acknowledged.

Dreamt that Frank Skinner very carefully licked the exterior of my right nostril following a breakdancing display at the Children's Bookshop.

for the potato fears not death

In Star Wars they should have made all the spaceships black with white dots to camouflage them from other space ships. Missed a trick there.

Could not be enjoying the utter utter nonsense of #WhenThePhoneRings more. Highly recommend if anyone needs a Betwixtmas melodrama binge dialled to 11.

Instead of wrapping all those gifts you can just wrap the person about to receive the gifts. Same experience for them thank me later

I haven't watched Eastenders for 30 years and I won't be at Christmas but that doesn't stop this being the best read of the year.

Sooz Kempner@soozuk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here it is, my big #EastEnders catch-up thread for people who only see it when they go home for Christmas with the family. Allow me to get you all caught up on the goings-on in Albert Square in its most explosive week of the year! KEEP THIS BY YOUR SIDE AT ALL TIMES.

Sometimes I get sad that that I wasted my best looking years with a goatee

Also wonderful to spot so many client titles in @the-bookseller.bsky.social's March previews including: Recycling Day written by @pollyfab.bsky.social, Six Queens by @lydiamonks.bsky.social, Little Rhino Lost written by #CandyGourlay and Kata and Tor by #KevinCrossleyHolland!📚

The honking that geese do when they fly over - is that them chatting to the other geese or is that their sheer effort of flapping wings groan noise, like when I run?

Absolute brilliance. And thank god we can now fix the world by restoring adequate hemlines.

Paul Fairie@paulisci.bsky.social · 2y ago

A List of Things People Blamed on Short Skirts 🧵