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Anna Harrison
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University Lecturer: Education. I advocate for Children’s Reading for Pleasure 📚🍀for providing knowledge, enjoyment & to break social justice barriers.
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pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social
Readers can find plenty of options out this month to enjoy, rain or shine, including a picture book following a sibling duo through a storm, a middle grade novel about a girl discovering a family secret, a YA tale about sisterly love and loyalty, and more
New and Noteworthy Children’s and YA Books: June 2025
Readers can find plenty of options out this month to enjoy, rain or shine, including a picture book following a sibling duo through a storm, a middle grade novel about a girl discovering a family…
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June 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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justimaginecentre.bsky.social
Digital reading records designed with children and teachers in mind. Purposeful and fun to use...and cheaper than reading record books too. Want to know more? Join our free webinar this Thursday vimeo.com/event/501356...
May 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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openuni-rfp.bsky.social
Our May ✨#AuthorintheSpotlight✨ is Neal Zetter @nealzetterpoet.bsky.social! 📚💙
Neal is an award-winning comedy performance poet, children’s author (of 14 poetry books), educator and entertainer.
Find out more here 👉
ourfp.org/author_spotl...
May 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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justimaginecentre.bsky.social
'One of the beautiful things about poetry for me is capturing speech patterns.' Matt Goodfellow. See the full interview here: justimagine.co.uk/2025/05/11/t...
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May 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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openuni-rfp.bsky.social
Limited tickets left for this FREE upcoming OU seminar - Informal Book Talk! 💙📚
Tue 20 May 2-3pm, Online.
Prof @teresacremin.bsky.social & #OURfP team discuss informal book talk & readers' identities.
Tickets here! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/informal-b...
May 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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libbyapp.com
May is #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth. Just a reminder that your library is there for you every day. ❤️
May 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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justimaginecentre.bsky.social
Join our Reading Gladiators reboot webinar and discover our exciting book club plans for this year. vimeo.com/event/4960018 #primarybookclub #readingforpleasure #rfp #primaryschool @mrsbaker6.bsky.social @jobowers.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social
More than 1,600 independent bookstores across the country celebrated Independent Bookstore Day last weekend, and children’s books were a hot item buff.ly/er1OciH
May 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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openuni-rfp.bsky.social
@teresacremin.bsky.social and @kashleyenglish.bsky.social are working with children and families this afternoon for an interactive, online workshop – Inspiring Reading – as part of the #OUReadingSchools Strengthening and Sustaining Programme 💙📚
Download the poster here 👉 ourfp.org/supporting-r...
April 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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justimaginecentre.bsky.social
This Tuesday evening at 7.30 pm. Matt Goodfellow and Joe Todd-Stanton talk about The First Year. Come and join the conversation online. Register here justimagine.co.uk/an-evening-i...
April 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
A Jane Austen cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Microdosing Jane Austen at the Office Panel 1: A woman sits at a desk which has a computer and a coffee on it. She says "I read a line or two of her writing every hour to keep a mild Regency buzz throughout the day." Panel 2: In a conference room with colleagues, she says "Meetings take on the thrill and romance of a glamorous ball." Panel 3: Typing at her computer she says "My emails are elegant, formal and heaving with restrained passions." Panel 4: "I glance demurely at eligible suitors as I daintily nibble a pret sandwich." she says as she looks across at three men at a different table. Panel 5: She leaves the office and says "It's not all been positive: on Tuesday I read a whole page, and before I knew it, I'd declined three proposals, danced several quadrilles and scandalously revealed an ankle!"
April 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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justimaginecentre.bsky.social
The first of our CLiPPA interviews has been posted. Jane Newberry talks about her shortlisted collection The Big Red Dragon Such a pleasure talking with Jane, and she taught me a couple of rhymes too. justimagine.co.uk/2025/04/26/c... @edfinch.bsky.social @debbiethomas.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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justimaginecentre.bsky.social
Look what's happening on the 29th of April. And you are all invited. Register here: vimeo.com/event/492988...
April 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
robin2reader.bsky.social
Illuminating insight into a 20th century woman writer. Brilliant writing from Lucy Worsley. Fascinating that even working in a pharmacy during WW1 she was moved to write poetry. Anything can inspire!
Front cover of Lucy Worsley’s biography of Agatha Christie.
April 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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openuni-rfp.bsky.social
📣Primary School Leaders! The OU's Reading Schools Programme - now in its 8th year! - helps embed Reading for Pleasure (#RfP) across your school, boosting engagement & attainment 🚀📚
FREE briefings: May 1st & 21st, 4-5pm
Register 👉 ourfp.org/schools-teac...
#UKEdChat #SchoolImprovement #OURfP
April 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
The Nightingale stars in today's #SpringArrivalSpotlight.

Though elusive, its melodious song betrays its presence.

Listen out for the fast succession of high, low and rich notes that few other species can match. 🎶
April 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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openuni-rfp.bsky.social
📣 Check your inboxes - our April newsletter is out! ✨📚
Get your monthly fix of all things #RfP: Author in the Spotlight Jennifer Bell, Top Texts, RfP research, news, events & more! 💙
Sign up here 👉 ourfp.org/newsletter-s...
April 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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openuni-rfp.bsky.social
New FREE OU seminar - Informal Book Talk! 💙📚
Tue 20th May 2-3pm, Online.
Prof @teresacremin.bsky.social & #OURfP team members will discuss informal book talk, oracy, reading engagement & reader identities.
Tickets here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/informal-b...
#ReadingforPleasure #RfP #Literacy #Oracy
April 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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booksforkeeps.bsky.social
Go Adventuremice! Find out more about the series and how authors @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social & @philipreeve.bsky.social created the books in this #BfK interview booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/adve...
A photograph of gorgeous, stylish authors Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve. Sarah wears an extravagant dress with red hat to match the red details and re lining, visible on her sleeve, while Philip is in a navy suit and patterned shirt. They are both holding little Adventuremice characters.
March 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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sarahmcintyre.bsky.social
To celebrate our Adventuremice book launch, we’ve added activities and videos to the website!
Adventuremice.com/books/mice-camera-action

Follow the link and learn how to draw Millie, the daring #Adventuremice helicopter pilot! 🐭✍️
March 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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artsofexistence.bsky.social
"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own.
#BookSky
March 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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scifri.bsky.social
90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
www.sciencefriday.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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lrb.co.uk
‘In Austen’s writing, humiliation can be shielded by comedy, and bruised feelings to some extent mollified, such that anger and grief can be transformed into a kind of sympathetic, knowing, female amusement.’

Freya Johnston on Austen and marriage:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Freya Johnston · Itch to Shine: Austen’s Suitors
The main business​ of almost all Jane Austen’s fiction is to portray that brief period in a young woman’s life...
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March 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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timeshighered.bsky.social
UK: MPs to probe university finances ahead of spending review

#highered #AcademicSky
MPs to probe university finances ahead of spending review
Education committee announces investigation into state of funding in the sector and its impact on staff and students
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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timeshighered.bsky.social
Funding issues in the UK higher education sector are set to be examined by MPs amid widespread concern about redundancies and course closures

#AcademicSky #EduSky
MPs to probe university finances ahead of spending review
Education committee announces investigation into state of funding in the sector and its impact on staff and students
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM