Competition closes on the 7th June. Get your entries in soon!

To save my place, perhaps not. But for those special pages - the ones with a stirring or delectable line, or a poem too good to lose - absolutely. In fact, years later, those folded edges are like Xs that mark forgotten treasure 💛📚✨ You?

Our gorgeous The Boy At The Back Of The Class cast are performing their 101st SHOW The Marlowe Theatre #Canterbury tonight!

Am so so excited to see them perform their 102nd tomorrow🙃

Been told the final leg of the tour is all but sold out. THANK YOU for making it so...🎒

#RefugeesWelcome

Postcards on their way to schools across the lands! Any other #teachers looking for a summertime message for their class? Drop me a line!

#teachers #ReadingForPleasure #schools #lovebooks #nonfiction #fiction #childrensbooks #kidslit

Wow! #TigerSkinRug 🐯by Dr Joan Haig🐯 is going to be part of a collaborative art installation🖼, about love of reading led by artist Andy Fear! And you can attend an event with Joan too: 'Great Minds & Tiger Rugs'! 📚Manchester - 15th June - all the info: manchestercityofliterature.com/event/z-arts-f…

Just a reminder that I am doing a fun Foxlight workshop Hay Festival on Monday - tickets here hayfestival.com/p-21520-katya-…

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Here's a mystery we're still trying to solve. What are these? They're roughly ½' across, hard plastic, always yellow and are washing up on beaches in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, along the south coast of the UK, in Ireland, France and probably elsewhere too.

An exciting event not to be missed! 🎉📚

Cover reveal: my book celebrating campaigners in the global disability rights movement, out in June, with portraits of icons ranging from Baroness J Campbell, Vic Finkelstein, Robert Martin, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Tom Shakespeare and others. More info: amazon.co.uk/Books-Katharin…

Every so often, my dad sends two small envelopes - with a letter, puzzle, and cartoon clippings inside each - for my two boys. It fills the whole house with joy for days 🥰🧡💚
#littleletters #handwrittenletters #bestgrandad #SmallIsBeautiful #smallthings

I’ve never wanted to get a whole comic strip tattooed on me before today.

Good morning, we're open from 9.30am today and would love to see you 🤗 We have books from birth to adult, soft toys, games and Tonies.
If you can't make it out to us please consider ordering online gingercatbookshop.co.uk ❤️

#choosebooks #choosebooks hops Books Are My Bag

#Teachers ! The good people at Templar Books have designed bright, booky postcards to celebrate non-fiction.

📮If you’d like me to send one to your class, please get in touch!

Please share!
#nonfictionforkids #illustratednonfiction #GreatMinds #TalkingHistory #Postcards

Announcing the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize!

Inspired by the curiosity and imagination of Martha Mills, the prize seeks to give young people a chance to explore new themes in their writing and to get their work published

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Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books