Finally, “Read, Scream Repeat” is Jennifer Killick’s brilliantly curated set of spooky stories, featuring fantastic authors: Kirsty Applebaum, Joseph Coelho and Elle McNicoll (to name a few). You do not want to miss these.

Favourites include:

The Pond
Wolf Moon

Terrifying

Next up, Ross Montgomery’s Christmas Dinner of Souls. A deliciously scary collection of short stories centred around a kitchen boy at Soul’s College, serving food to the guests as they tell terrifying tales on Christmas Eve.

Favourites include:

The Beast

Horrifying.

Starting with the crème de la crème of short story writers: Paul Jennings. “Unpredictable Tales” is a collection of 13 of his best that can be read in any order.

Favourites include:

Only Gilt
The Strap Box Flyer
There’s No Such Thing

Incredible.

Music makes such a difference to my day. Myself and my Y6 colleague will often select a playlist and mark books in the same classroom at the end of a day. We call this a “marking party” although a party it is not 😂

Today is Tina Tuesday.

Our book corner, now complete with WW2 recommendations. I’ve snuck in a basket of Christmas books too for those children already feeling a little festive.

A recent favourite of mine

I used mine for a drive to London the other day. It suggested a route that I initially ignored and then it rerouted to the way that I had chosen and it shaved 20 minutes off the arrival time.

Long story short, I use one of these now…

Today, Buzzard Class voted for their new class read and it is none other than…@kieranlarwood.bsky.social’s “The Legend of Podkin One Ear”

A terrific book. Two chapters in already and lots of chat about the world and characters created by Kieran.

A perfect read in the lead up to Bramblemas!