Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

Carole in the studio, 1959.

Photos courtesy Sony Music Entertainment

A mock newspaper headline reads "BREAKING NEWS" from "ReallyGreatSite.com," dated Sunday, December 20, 2055. The main headline states "PRESIDENT TRUMP EXPECTED TO RENAME SAN ANDREAS FAULT TO JOE BIDENS FAULT." Below the headline is an image of a visible fault line in a landscape, showing a rugged, cracked terrain.

What’s Trump on the Reich-ter scale?

#KidLitUK #UKKidLit
It’s the one and only @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social peeps! Absolutely can’t wait for this one.
Free and open to schools and individuals all across the UK. #AuthorsLive

Don't Trust Fish seriously ...

I can do nothing but stan after listening to this

Horsedrawn carriage with comment: "zero chance a horse drew this."

Seen on FB.

Really enjoying the Riyadh Comedy Festival, guys. Don’t know why it’s getting so much bad press. The audiences are loving it. Absolutely laughing their heads on.

BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics - Next on Upcoming episodes of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics

🦉 Attention, night owls! Radio 4 are repeating series 10 on Tuesday evenings! Tomorrow at 11pm you can spend the night with Aphrodite… 👀❤️‍🔥

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Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England Exclusive: Chancellor also set to unveil plans to get young people back into work in party conference speech Rachel Reeves will deliver a library in every primary school in England as part of Labour’s plans to give all children the best start in life regardless of their background. The scheme, which will create libraries in the 1,700 primaries currently without them, will be funded from £132.5m of dormant assets that will be unlocked to give young people access to cultural opportunities. Continue reading...

Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England

A poster of a manifesto about reading, by Loki, with 6 points on reading "bad" books, short books, comics, audioooks, webcomics and fanfic, plus not finishing bad books cos life is too short.

This is my Lokifesto #KidsConf #UKkidlit #edusky lokibooks.com/lokifesto/

Helen Hayes MP holding a copy of the Solving the SEND crisis report

Helen Hayes MP being interviewed by a journalist and camera operator

Helen Hayes MP on a TV screen with a backdrop of Parliament

Helen Hayes MP being interviewed by a journalist and filmed

I’m delighted to launch the Education Select Committee’s report ‘Solving the SEND Crisis’ today

My thanks to everyone who submitted evidence to our inquiry, committee members & our team

Our recommendations set out a blueprint for SEND reform & we hope will inform the Government’s white paper

"Being read to when you’re very young is such a great boost."

Great to see our Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social @ #LabourConference2025 talking the importance of shared reading & our #ReadingRights report on @news.sky.com.

📺 From 52 mins:

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A photo of Frank Cottrell-Boyce and a quote from him: "Why can't we roll this out wider? Why can't we share this best practice? Why can't everyone have a piece of this joy?" Plus the URL booktrust.org.uk/readingrights and logos for Waterstones Children's Laureate, Arts Council England, and BookTrust

The #ReadingRights campaign is about making sure every child has access to the lifelong benefits of reading.

Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social visited a family hub to find out how they're using reading to support speech and language:

https://bit.ly/482ou5u

These guys - they played Cowboys and Indians when they were kids. Now they're playing Maga v Libs.

This is a good line though: "One does not teach ‘Macbeth’ and then give “equal prominence” to a text arguing that regicide is a good idea to provide “balance.” The balance comes from the critical skills taught to analyse the text, not from teaching an “opposing” novel."

There’s so much wrong here, it’s hard to know where to begin. But you can start by reading Angie’s brilliant book and giving it to every teen you know. Nothing like a fragile middle aged white man to point you inadvertently to quality literature.

Patrick Cottrell Boyce with Patricia Forde at Children's Books Ireland conference 2025

"Pessimism is a luxury for good times" @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social at #CBIconf25 in conversation with Laureate na nÓg.

Fantastic conversation between @laureatenanog.bsky.social Patricia Forde and UK Children’s Laureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social at the #cbiconf25 @childrensbooksireland.ie
A brilliant look at why reading to babies matters, some of Frank’s work in the UK, and their shared passion for reading.

The Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize 2025: the Winners! | London Review Bookshop In this third year of the prize, we were again overwhelmed with the number of entries. And the overall standard remained very high, which made the judging terribly…

Our special guest judge @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social said ‘When you judge a competition you nearly always say it was hard to choose but in the end one or two jumped out. In this case, so many jumped out: it was story whack-a-mole inside my head.’ lrb.me/kg3

Here for all your unexpectedly happy ending requirements

I loved this event.

We are literally the monkees

And this is me making thing of my beloved Mum who was forever claiming to be literally knackered.

You're making Atarah so proud here!

Some campaign posters by various woodland animals from the book series Grimwood.

Some years ago I decided to leave the real world and move permanently to Grimwood. I’m much happier here. We are currently voting for a new mayor.

Emma Carroll Podcast Episode · The Island of Brilliant! · 07/09/2025 · 57m

The wonderful @emcarrollauthor.bsky.social joins us on the Island of Brilliant to chat about her fantastic new book, Dracula and Daughters! And she and @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social gang up on me about Marmite.

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YouTube video by Natalie Haynes THE FLIGHT OF MEDEA | No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes

🐏❤️‍🔥 TODAY IS THE DAY. No Friend to This House is out now. ❤️‍🔥🐏
For publication day, I wanted to share with you the most amazing ancient pot I've ever seen, with Medea, Jason, Furies, dragons, and much more besides...

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This should be a half day school holiday

Studio photo of Lupino sitting in a director’s chair, folded papers in hand.

Portrait of Ida Lupino, ca. 1951.

This was captioned in one article: “A Producer-Director-Writer-Actress-Business Executive’s Lot is Not a Happy One”

you know ... P G Wodehouse is very enjoyable