A human can only survive 2-7 days without clean water, whereas we can survive in perpetuity without datacenters. Choose wisely.
Simone Greenwood
@simonegreenwood.bsky.social
📚Children’s fiction writer 🎬Award-winning screenwriter 🐧Penguin WriteNow 2026 🏴Literature Wales’s Representing Wales 2022 (she/her) 📍South Wales, via Cumbria
If you can’t resist picking up a pebble or a perfect shell at the beach this photo is for you. There are 7 scallops (the shell Botticelli’s Venus was standing in) to find among the treasure:
Anyone else receive a letter from HMRC today, saying they’ve finalised your child tax credits from 2005-2006 and owe you zero money? Yes … twenty years ago. Wow.
This is what a complete inability to think about anyone but yourself looks like:
Moth the Veggie Vampire by Dotty Sutton. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/childrens-bo... #kidlit Moth the Veggie Vampire (Book 01) is a funny, thoughtful gothic adventure in which a new friendship transforms an isolated half-vampire's life and giv...
Moth the Veggie Vampire by Dotty Sutton
Moth the Veggie Vampire (Book 01) is a funny gothic adventure about a lonely half-vampire whose new friend helps him face bullies.
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The Bookbuzz Primary programme from BookTrust is definitely worth looking into, with Key Stage 2 children being given the opportunity to select and keep a book from 16 handpicked titles. Registration is open until 18 September. More information here: www.booktrust.org.uk/resources/fi...
Do your children or you fancy writing some poems? There are 11 poetry workshops on our channel here, where I give you ideas for writing poems. All 11 are called 'Michael Rosen Poetry Workshop'. (Wearing a fawn jumper in these vids!) www.youtube.com/c/MichaelRos...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Official Michael Rosen Channel Every video and playlist here is approved by Michael himself. If it’s on this channel, it’s the real deal and safe for children. You may see “YTP” or “poop” remixes on...
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I LOVE that Year 6 pupils in the UK are to be given a book for Christmas as part of the National Year of Reading, but it’s also important to acknowledge that a national cohort of 10/11 year olds are not going to want to read the same book. Reading for pleasure also requires the ability to choose.
We’re never going to live on Mars. We’re never going to live on the Moon. There is no Planet B. We need to take care of our magical mystical miraculous planet like it’s the only home we will ever have. Because it is.
The Education Committee's reading for pleasure report is out! After contributing to the inquiry alongside #ReadingRights ambassador @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social we welcome the early years focus & the National Reading Guarantee idea to make reading a right for every child. @helenhayes.bsky.social
"I feel hopeful every time I walk into a school and meet the young people. How thoughtful, empathetic, considerate and knowledgeable they are. That's what gives me hope" The wonderful @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social, our new Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate, on what keeps her optimistic.
The news is out. I’ve been selected for Penguin’s WriteNow 2026! As well as support and training on establishing an author career, I get to work with Puffin editor, Emma Wood, on my ‘deliciously dark and funny’ lower middle-grade novel, Danny in the Dragon’s Den. Beyond exciting!!!! 🐧📚🎉
What if Count Binface turns out to be our Zelenskyy? He started his career as a comedian. Just saying!
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 4mo agoOn my way, Clacton.
In this wild news cycle, it feels like one of Farage’s claims has got lost. If a mob of 50 people attacked him in a pub then wrote off his car, surely there’s photo or video evidence, or a police report or something? Why did this not make the news? Investigative journalists please do your thing!
"I want to champion the power of books to connect us and make us feel like we belong" @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social, our new Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate 2026-28, speaking powerfully about the role of stories to build connection and community - and how this will be the focus of her Laureateship.
A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually
UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.
Tax the rich. The world would be a better place if no human was a billionaire.
Sir David Attenborough… on your 100th birthday, we thank you. For a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with such grace and wonder. Generations have fallen in love with nature because of you. Happy birthday, Sir. 🎉
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky
Can we get some regime change in the US asap? Preferably before he destroys the beautiful planet Artemis II has just taken such incredible photos of. #25thamendment
Every month, we review dozens of books for children and teenagers. Here are the ones we like best in February 💙 https://bit.ly/487zIVT
