Refresh your bookshelves with these 2024 #ReadForEmpathy picks that delve into identity.

We’ve all got unique and wonderful qualities that make up who we are – and these books can help children and teens explore them more deeply.

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Congrats to Rachel Ip & Natelle Quek (Na-TELL Kwek) | s/h 🩷💜💙 for receiving an Inclusive Books for Children top pick!

This reassuring story about dealing with divorce & separation lets little ones know that even the biggest changes in life get easier, and happiness can grow again, if you take it one day at a time.

It's World Book Day & this year's UNESCO theme is Indigenous Languages. 40% of the world’s population can’t access education in a language they speak or understand. Here's something I wrote for work about the importance of stories in indigenous languages:
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SHE KEPT DANCING spotted in the wild! 👀

Co-author Catherine Laudone holding a copy of SHE KEPT DANCING at the Macmillan display at the Texas Library Association Conference!

Monday blues gave way to Sunday sunshine in this Sunday Review of Dancing Dumplings For My One & Only, releasing December 17 in 🇺🇸 by Candlewick Press 🐻 🕯️
Taking preorders
🖼️ Natelle Quek (Na-TELL Kwek) | s/h 🩷💜💙
#BookReview Walker Books

One Day At A Time is officially out in the world! Beautifully written by Rachel Ip, illustrated by me, published by the lovely folks at Hachette Children's Group 🌻 Huge thanks to everyone involved Katie Messenger Katie Sass and my lovely agent Alice Williams

🌻🌻It's publication day for One Day at a Time, beautifully illustrated by Natelle Quek (Na-TELL Kwek) | s/h 🩷💜💙 & published by Hachette Children's Group. It's a reassuring story about separation and divorce, filled with an abundance of love.

Huge thanks to Clare Wallace & Katie Sass & Katie Messenger 🌻🌻

So chuffed to share with you that I am the featured illustrator for this year's #SummerReadingChallenge with The Reading Agency and their creative partner for 2024 Create ! 🥳💃💜

Huge congrats to M Ikemoto Ghosh on the publication of Hyo the Hellmaker. This breathtaking, fully illustrated fantasy is out today!

Get ready to meet the Hakai Family Hellmakers: Purveyors of artisan hells to inflict upon your enemies.

They'll make it personal... But for a price!

A #WomensHistoryMonth celebration! 🎉

She Kept Dancing: The True Story of a Professional Dancer with a Limb Difference
✍️ Syd Mesh Catherine Laudone 🎨 Natelle Quek (Na-TELL Kwek) | s/h 🩷💜💙

'born with ten toes and five fingers...the first Rockette with a visible disability'

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An enchanting bedtime tale showing the empowering potential of stories #OnceUponAStorytime Gareth Peter Natelle Quek (Na-TELL Kwek) | s/h 🩷💜💙 Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK is # #RedReadingHub ’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-bWV

Settle down at bedtime with Gareth Peter & Natelle Quek (Na-TELL Kwek) | s/h 🩷💜💙’s Once Upon a Storytime & transport little ones to dazzling, dreamy adventures! Emily Marples Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK
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What a great day celebrating the release of Once Upon A Storytime with the very lovely folks at Sevenoaks Bookshop ! Thank you for letting me paint your windows and I had a blast doing my first ever storytime read! Gareth Peter Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK Pari Thomson Alice Williams

Tomorrow Fri 16th I will be window painting at Sevenoaks Bookshop from 11am onwards and doing a storytime at 2pm to celebrate the release of Once Upon A Storytime (which publishes TODAY!!)! 🥳

Settle down at bedtime with Gareth Peter & Natelle Quek (Na-TELL Kwek) | s/h 🩷💜💙’s Once Upon a Storytime & transport little ones to dazzling, dreamy adventures! Emily Marples Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK pamnorfolkblog.blogspot.com Review also Lancashire Post later this week!

Wishing all who celebrate, a very happy and prosperous #YearOfTheDragon #LunarNewYear ! 🥰

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Comic readers aren’t reluctant readers. They’re not struggling with prose & so going for an easier option. Images don’t make texts less complex. Comics aren’t transitional stages to prose.

Comics aren’t lesser. They’re just a different way of communicating meaning.

Kirkus Reviews chose KEEP DANCING, LIZZIE CHU published by ABRAMS Kids as one of the BEST MIDDLE GRADE BOOKS OF 2023!
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North American readers, this is the cover for that version by Natelle Quek (Na-TELL Kwek) | s/h 🩷💜💙

I love wood pigeons and I love making patterns of wood pigeons 🥰 #SurfaceDesign #Pattern #SurfacePattern #FabricPattern #WoodPigeon