Jenny Holder
@jenhreads.bsky.social
Eclectic reader. Ageing nerd. Reading for Pleasure specialist in education charity. She/her.
I bought a velvet gathered turban and it's the most comfortable thing ever. I will be living my Norma Desmond fantasies from now on!
March 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I bought a velvet gathered turban and it's the most comfortable thing ever. I will be living my Norma Desmond fantasies from now on!
I had such a great day yesterday!
Yesterday we had a wonderful day in libraries with pupils from Wellesbourne and Windsor Primary Schools. The children were joined by James Lyons who led them in a beatboxing and rap workshop. What a brilliant way to inspire young people to experiment and use language!
March 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I had such a great day yesterday!
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📢 Calling all secondary schools: registration for #MyBookbuzz is now OPEN!
Sign up today and join over 1,200 secondary schools who use Bookbuzz each year to develop a reading for pleasure culture, right from transition.
Find out more 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
Sign up today and join over 1,200 secondary schools who use Bookbuzz each year to develop a reading for pleasure culture, right from transition.
Find out more 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
March 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
📢 Calling all secondary schools: registration for #MyBookbuzz is now OPEN!
Sign up today and join over 1,200 secondary schools who use Bookbuzz each year to develop a reading for pleasure culture, right from transition.
Find out more 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
Sign up today and join over 1,200 secondary schools who use Bookbuzz each year to develop a reading for pleasure culture, right from transition.
Find out more 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
Is anyone else still locked out of their office accounts after the ms issue yesterday? I can't get into mine at all
March 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Is anyone else still locked out of their office accounts after the ms issue yesterday? I can't get into mine at all
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Since lockdown I've been doing 'virtual visits', zooming into schools across the UK and around the world to share my skills. Today, I'm working with a school up in Leeds. 👍
I'll make anything you want, with any age group. 🤩
If your school would be interested, get in touch. 😁
#edusky #art
I'll make anything you want, with any age group. 🤩
If your school would be interested, get in touch. 😁
#edusky #art
February 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
My 8o is fascinated by Ancient Egyptian mythology and has been reading @louiestowell.bsky.social's Loki books. This has all combined together and now Evie wants to write a Loki-style book about Seth. Last night Evie designed the characters in the style of the Loki books.
February 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My 8o is fascinated by Ancient Egyptian mythology and has been reading @louiestowell.bsky.social's Loki books. This has all combined together and now Evie wants to write a Loki-style book about Seth. Last night Evie designed the characters in the style of the Loki books.
Just finished Scuttler's Cove and loved it as much as I loved Withered Hill! Can't wait for the next folk horror by David Barnett.
Release the crabs! My Cornish folk horror SCUTTLER’S COVE is published today! How’d you like THEM apples?
Details and buying links below. Please support your local independent bookshop if you can!
www.canelo.co/books/scuttl...
Details and buying links below. Please support your local independent bookshop if you can!
www.canelo.co/books/scuttl...
Scuttler's Cove by David Barnett | Canelo
Paperback and Ebook
www.canelo.co
February 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Just finished Scuttler's Cove and loved it as much as I loved Withered Hill! Can't wait for the next folk horror by David Barnett.
Blasting music in the office to get me pumped up for live streaming author sessions to thousands of children across Liverpool. Paddling like a duck under the water. Let's hope I glide like a swan above!
February 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Blasting music in the office to get me pumped up for live streaming author sessions to thousands of children across Liverpool. Paddling like a duck under the water. Let's hope I glide like a swan above!
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Have you heard about the UKLA Our Class Loves This Book Award? Working with the books that were shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards the previous year, this award is a great way to get your students engaged in creative responses to texts.
Apply now!
Apply now!
January 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Have you heard about the UKLA Our Class Loves This Book Award? Working with the books that were shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards the previous year, this award is a great way to get your students engaged in creative responses to texts.
Apply now!
Apply now!
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I'm feeling inspired by all the amazing posts about the #ReadingRights summit. Thank you @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social & @booktrust.bsky.social for championing children's reading - EVERY SINGLE CHILD CAN BE A READER, and should have access to all the lifelong, life-changing benefits of literacy!
We were delighted to host the #ReadingRights summit with
@frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social today.
It was a pleasure to have such expert, passionate voices in the room and we're excited to take these conversations forward with the publication of our Reading Rights report in the spring.
@frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social today.
It was a pleasure to have such expert, passionate voices in the room and we're excited to take these conversations forward with the publication of our Reading Rights report in the spring.
January 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'm feeling inspired by all the amazing posts about the #ReadingRights summit. Thank you @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social & @booktrust.bsky.social for championing children's reading - EVERY SINGLE CHILD CAN BE A READER, and should have access to all the lifelong, life-changing benefits of literacy!
Fantastic to hear! @llpartnership.bsky.social delivered Read To Bump training about reading in utero to health and social care professionals across
all Merseyside authorities as part of a project funded by Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership.
all Merseyside authorities as part of a project funded by Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership.
January 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Fantastic to hear! @llpartnership.bsky.social delivered Read To Bump training about reading in utero to health and social care professionals across
all Merseyside authorities as part of a project funded by Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership.
all Merseyside authorities as part of a project funded by Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership.
I'm probably going to say this every week as a new episode goes live but seriously Chef and My Fridge is bonkers but brilliant! Definitely worth watching on Netflix
January 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm probably going to say this every week as a new episode goes live but seriously Chef and My Fridge is bonkers but brilliant! Definitely worth watching on Netflix
Absolute bargain found in a charity shop for £1 at the weekend. Brand new. None of the activities have been done. Gave it to my 8yo who is absolutely loving it- has already designed a character and is now making a map.
January 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Absolute bargain found in a charity shop for £1 at the weekend. Brand new. None of the activities have been done. Gave it to my 8yo who is absolutely loving it- has already designed a character and is now making a map.
Convinced that Dressed Crab is Gregory Porter #MaskedSingerUK
January 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Convinced that Dressed Crab is Gregory Porter #MaskedSingerUK
Snail- maybe Andrea Corr? #Maskedsinger
January 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Snail- maybe Andrea Corr? #Maskedsinger
No clue on Teeth but I'm absolutely convinced Kingfisher is Simon Farnaby #maskedSinger #MaskedSingerUK
January 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
No clue on Teeth but I'm absolutely convinced Kingfisher is Simon Farnaby #maskedSinger #MaskedSingerUK
I think Dressed Crab is Gregory Porter #MaskedSinger
January 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I think Dressed Crab is Gregory Porter #MaskedSinger
Absolutely loved Withered Hill by David Barnett. It's a folk horror that I'm going to be thinking about for some time.
January 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Absolutely loved Withered Hill by David Barnett. It's a folk horror that I'm going to be thinking about for some time.
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Happy new year! RP to win a copy of 'Beyond the Secret Garden' by Darren Chetty & Karen Sands O’Connor. Trace how Black & racially minoritised characters have been represented in ‘the secret garden’ of British children’s literature from its earliest stages.
January 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Happy new year! RP to win a copy of 'Beyond the Secret Garden' by Darren Chetty & Karen Sands O’Connor. Trace how Black & racially minoritised characters have been represented in ‘the secret garden’ of British children’s literature from its earliest stages.
After loving Culinary Class Wars, I am so happy to have an episode of Chef and My Fridge to watch every week until April. It's totally bonkers but I love it. I really want to try all of the food!
January 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
After loving Culinary Class Wars, I am so happy to have an episode of Chef and My Fridge to watch every week until April. It's totally bonkers but I love it. I really want to try all of the food!
CW for sexual abuse, assault and coercion. This is an upsetting and difficult read so be careful. Important to know though. Especially for teachers as The Graveyard Book, Coraline etc are often read in schools.
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
CW for sexual abuse, assault and coercion. This is an upsetting and difficult read so be careful. Important to know though. Especially for teachers as The Graveyard Book, Coraline etc are often read in schools.
Husband isn't feeling too well so has gone to bed. I was going to put a film on but I'm now watching Rod Stewart Night on BBC2 and remembering my dad
January 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Husband isn't feeling too well so has gone to bed. I was going to put a film on but I'm now watching Rod Stewart Night on BBC2 and remembering my dad
Bear- Doc Brown
Toad- Macy Gray
Toad- Macy Gray
January 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Bear- Doc Brown
Toad- Macy Gray
Toad- Macy Gray
Loving the folk horror vibes on #TheTraitors
January 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Loving the folk horror vibes on #TheTraitors