Catherine Cawthorne
@catcawthorne.bsky.social
Children's author and secondary school librarian.
🐺Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales
🦣We Went To Find A Woolly Mammoth
🦖We Went To Find A T Rex
🐺Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales
🦣We Went To Find A Woolly Mammoth
🦖We Went To Find A T Rex
I'm thrilled to see that Wolfy has been shortlisted for @petersbooks.bsky.social Children's Book of the Year in the non-fiction category! Thank you! Wolfy will celebrate tonight with a strictly Granny-free casserole.
If you are a librarian or teacher you can vote here:
peters.co.uk/pboty2025-vote
If you are a librarian or teacher you can vote here:
peters.co.uk/pboty2025-vote
December 5, 2024 at 6:26 PM
I'm thrilled to see that Wolfy has been shortlisted for @petersbooks.bsky.social Children's Book of the Year in the non-fiction category! Thank you! Wolfy will celebrate tonight with a strictly Granny-free casserole.
If you are a librarian or teacher you can vote here:
peters.co.uk/pboty2025-vote
If you are a librarian or teacher you can vote here:
peters.co.uk/pboty2025-vote
Reposted by Catherine Cawthorne
Congratulations to Catherine Bruton, Patrick Ness & Tim Miller, Scarlett Dunmore, and Liz Hyder & Tom De Freston, shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards and three cheers for awards that consider #childrenbooks alongside books for adults 👏 #KidLit
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booksforkeeps.co.uk/shortlists-a...
December 3, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Congratulations to Catherine Bruton, Patrick Ness & Tim Miller, Scarlett Dunmore, and Liz Hyder & Tom De Freston, shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards and three cheers for awards that consider #childrenbooks alongside books for adults 👏 #KidLit
booksforkeeps.co.uk/shortlists-a...
booksforkeeps.co.uk/shortlists-a...
Reposted by Catherine Cawthorne
Schools! We have a fantastic guide to running a comics club for you, with top tips from @eggyhelen.bsky.social and super illustrations by Emily Kimbell.
PLUS get a free comic from The Phoenix and the chance to win a year's subscription for your school! 💥👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
PLUS get a free comic from The Phoenix and the chance to win a year's subscription for your school! 💥👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
How comics clubs can develop reading - and writing - for pleasure
Get top tips for starting a comics club in your school, with great ideas from PGCE lecturer Helen Jones - plus, find out how you could win a school subscription to The Phoenix.
www.booktrust.org.uk
November 28, 2024 at 7:35 AM
Schools! We have a fantastic guide to running a comics club for you, with top tips from @eggyhelen.bsky.social and super illustrations by Emily Kimbell.
PLUS get a free comic from The Phoenix and the chance to win a year's subscription for your school! 💥👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
PLUS get a free comic from The Phoenix and the chance to win a year's subscription for your school! 💥👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
Reposted by Catherine Cawthorne
Research shows shared reading can help to support children from vulnerable family backgrounds.
Our #StoryExplorers programme has been created to bring these benefits to children in foster care, kinship care and adoption.
Explore the research here:
www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/i...
Our #StoryExplorers programme has been created to bring these benefits to children in foster care, kinship care and adoption.
Explore the research here:
www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/i...
November 28, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Research shows shared reading can help to support children from vulnerable family backgrounds.
Our #StoryExplorers programme has been created to bring these benefits to children in foster care, kinship care and adoption.
Explore the research here:
www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/i...
Our #StoryExplorers programme has been created to bring these benefits to children in foster care, kinship care and adoption.
Explore the research here:
www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/i...
Reposted by Catherine Cawthorne
Fixed the headline. Patrick Ness is absolutely right. Until books for children and YA are included in notable lists, we think they should be referred to as lists for adults/grown-ups. Children's books are notable too and deserve to stand alongside others on round ups.
#KidLitUk
#KidLitUk
November 27, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Fixed the headline. Patrick Ness is absolutely right. Until books for children and YA are included in notable lists, we think they should be referred to as lists for adults/grown-ups. Children's books are notable too and deserve to stand alongside others on round ups.
#KidLitUk
#KidLitUk
This sounds great!
It's TONIGHT ! Still time to sign up and treat yourself to some fun and friendly CPD all about using wordless books in your settings 🤗📚 @readingrocks.bsky.social
Hello! I'm doing FREE virtual event for teachers, educators, librarians ...about the magic of wordless picture books! Please share while I work out how to use Blue Sky 😅📚
🗓️ DATE: 26th November 2024
⏰ TIME: 7:00 PM
@readingrocks.bsky.social
wherereadingrocks.com/event/beyond...
🗓️ DATE: 26th November 2024
⏰ TIME: 7:00 PM
@readingrocks.bsky.social
wherereadingrocks.com/event/beyond...
November 26, 2024 at 1:46 PM
This sounds great!
Reposted by Catherine Cawthorne
We love the adverts we're finding in these architectural books. We can't decide whether this is a brilliant or terrible idea!
November 26, 2024 at 10:02 AM
We love the adverts we're finding in these architectural books. We can't decide whether this is a brilliant or terrible idea!
Reposted by Catherine Cawthorne
Another big takeaway from my experience at #NCTE24 this past week was this poem by Maggie Smith shared by @samiraahmed.bsky.social at her Build Your Stack session:
Good Bones
Good Bones
November 25, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Another big takeaway from my experience at #NCTE24 this past week was this poem by Maggie Smith shared by @samiraahmed.bsky.social at her Build Your Stack session:
Good Bones
Good Bones
But I've run out of milk and I don't want to go out in the cold, waaaah
If you're trying to motivate yourself to start writing, repeatedly say the word "Right" until you get up and make a cup of tea. #writingtip
November 25, 2024 at 2:35 PM
But I've run out of milk and I don't want to go out in the cold, waaaah
Sensible Me (about 3%): You need to do your edits and also buy some milk
Real Me (about 97%): But you could sit with a tea and carry on reading this:
Real Me (about 97%): But you could sit with a tea and carry on reading this:
November 25, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Sensible Me (about 3%): You need to do your edits and also buy some milk
Real Me (about 97%): But you could sit with a tea and carry on reading this:
Real Me (about 97%): But you could sit with a tea and carry on reading this:
Reposted by Catherine Cawthorne
A BLAST FROM THE PAST: Sometimes it takes a professional librarian to match a reader to a book. #SaveLibraries
November 21, 2024 at 2:35 PM
A BLAST FROM THE PAST: Sometimes it takes a professional librarian to match a reader to a book. #SaveLibraries
Reposted by Catherine Cawthorne
It is so important that we do all we can to encourage children to read in their free time.
Reading non-fiction has many benefits for children and can often inspire reluctant readers!
Share your ideas for promoting reading for pleasure in your classroom! 💙📖
#EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #PrimaryEnglish
Reading non-fiction has many benefits for children and can often inspire reluctant readers!
Share your ideas for promoting reading for pleasure in your classroom! 💙📖
#EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #PrimaryEnglish
November 21, 2024 at 4:16 PM
It is so important that we do all we can to encourage children to read in their free time.
Reading non-fiction has many benefits for children and can often inspire reluctant readers!
Share your ideas for promoting reading for pleasure in your classroom! 💙📖
#EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #PrimaryEnglish
Reading non-fiction has many benefits for children and can often inspire reluctant readers!
Share your ideas for promoting reading for pleasure in your classroom! 💙📖
#EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #PrimaryEnglish
Introduce yourself using four of your favourite childhood books:
The Queen's Nose by Dick King-Smith
The Naughtiest Girl in the School by Enid Blyton
A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley
A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken & Jan Pienkowski
(With what I consider to be the "correct" front covers)
The Queen's Nose by Dick King-Smith
The Naughtiest Girl in the School by Enid Blyton
A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley
A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken & Jan Pienkowski
(With what I consider to be the "correct" front covers)
November 21, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Introduce yourself using four of your favourite childhood books:
The Queen's Nose by Dick King-Smith
The Naughtiest Girl in the School by Enid Blyton
A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley
A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken & Jan Pienkowski
(With what I consider to be the "correct" front covers)
The Queen's Nose by Dick King-Smith
The Naughtiest Girl in the School by Enid Blyton
A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley
A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken & Jan Pienkowski
(With what I consider to be the "correct" front covers)
My son just told me that he can do a poo without also doing a wee at the same time. This strikes me as some sort of high level sorcery. May have spawned a monster.
November 21, 2024 at 10:37 AM
My son just told me that he can do a poo without also doing a wee at the same time. This strikes me as some sort of high level sorcery. May have spawned a monster.
Hello to new followers! I am a children's author, most of my books are silly blends of fiction and non-fiction, bravely defying pigeon-holing! I also work as a secondary school librarian.
I've just finished Stitch by Padraig Kenny. I think it's one of the kindest books I've ever read. RECOMMEND 🥰
I've just finished Stitch by Padraig Kenny. I think it's one of the kindest books I've ever read. RECOMMEND 🥰
November 20, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Hello to new followers! I am a children's author, most of my books are silly blends of fiction and non-fiction, bravely defying pigeon-holing! I also work as a secondary school librarian.
I've just finished Stitch by Padraig Kenny. I think it's one of the kindest books I've ever read. RECOMMEND 🥰
I've just finished Stitch by Padraig Kenny. I think it's one of the kindest books I've ever read. RECOMMEND 🥰