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Kate Rafiq
@katerafiq.bsky.social
Children’s Writer and Illustrator
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📣UK Primary Schools! There’s a 6-book giveaway over on the #LittleRebelsAward Insta account.

**CLOSES 10am TOMORROW!**

A glorious mini library of KS1/2 Social Justice titles. a.k.a.: #LittleRebelsAward2025Shortlist

Share the book love folk!😃

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September 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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@katerafiq.bsky.social manages to achieve the near-impossible:an honest account of injustice which never traumatises a young reader and which leaves them with something which feels very much like hope”

A tale of forced migration-

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THE STREET | Letterbox Library
by Kate Rafiq Boo lives at the end of The Street with parents, Pax and Zig. Their love is vast; their “smoots [hearts]… floop [dance-walk/walk-dance] with joy”. The Street’s houses are made of “skybl...
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July 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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World Book Day - A teacher’s dilemma
A decade on, how much has changed?

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World Book Day - A teacher’s dilemma
London teacher Darren Chetty says that World Book Day highlights a lack of racial diversity in children’s fiction
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February 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I am delighted to share that We Are Here has been chosen by @EmpathyLabUK for the #ReadForEmpathy collection 2025.

Please share the collection with schools, libraries and all the children in your lives.

Download the collection guides here:
www.empathylab.uk/RFE

#picturebooks #kidsbooks #empathy
February 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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🔊 Our 7th annual #ReflectingRealities report is out now! This year’s report shows a significant drop in the presence of racially minoritised characters in books published for children in 2023 in the UK.
November 29, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Brand new, bright and shiny… Birmingham Boy is back!🥳 💙

Now in stock at Central Books. I’m guessing the book will make its way on to Amazon through third party sellers but in the mean time it can be ordered directly from Central Books. (www.centralbooks.com)

#picturebooks #kidsbooks
November 27, 2024 at 3:03 PM
I’ve written nearly seven thousand words of my MG novel. I wonder if a single one of them is in the right place! 🫣
November 26, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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Its beginning to look a lot like winter…

#winter #snow #wales #countryside
November 19, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Fog and @bsky.app
November 18, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books
November 18, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Every time
November 18, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Throwback to 16th October. My book was shortlisted for the brilliant Little Rebels Award! 😁 A huge honour!💛
#childrensbooks #picturebooks #littlerebelsaward
November 18, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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One of the best and worst things about tentatively plotting out a crime/murder mystery/police procedural novel is finding myself saying aloud on the bus things like ‘I wonder if rats can chew through bone’ and ‘oh burn the body on the BOAT, that’s a GREAT idea’
November 16, 2024 at 11:21 PM
I’ve outlined my first MG novel and written the first draft of chapter 1. I almost don’t care if it’s any good because this process is so exciting! #writing #middlegrade #fiction
November 17, 2024 at 8:59 PM
What would be great - would be to have just one social media account to do away with IG, threads, masterdon and X - the last three of which I never really understood. Could that be Bluesky? Or is this just another time drain that will show me tweens fighting and people with ginormous boobs!?
a black and white drawing of a girl with glasses laying down
ALT: a black and white drawing of a girl with glasses laying down
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November 17, 2024 at 7:18 PM