Sarah Ziman - aka BardyMum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Here is a new blog post about some fantastic summer reading. Dive in!
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It was amazing to go to the Wales Book of the Year ceremony in Cardiff on Thursday - no win for ‘Why did my Brain make me say it?’ but I’m still delighted to have been on the shortlist of 3 in the children’s and young people category. Congratulations to all the winners 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Donate to Help Stuart Minty get Treatment in Germany, organized by Aileen Minty In January of this year our world was turned completely upside down when devas… Aileen Minty needs your support for Help Stuart Minty get Treatment in Germany

Hello all -my lovely #kidlit friends please please can you help by sharing? 🙏🙏🙏
Minty has been in our friendship group since uni (over 20 years. In Jan he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
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Please please please share (and/or donate but only if you are able to)

Happy birthday Sam. I’m sure I will always be excited on my children’s birthdays, no matter how old they get. You were so loved and that doesn’t change but it must be hard

Poetry Review: Why Did my Brain Make Me Say It? By Sarah Ziman This is a Key Stage 2 book I waited what seems an eternity for. Sarah is an excellent wordsmith with a fantastically playful and wicked sense of humour paired with a perceptive mind, and I was anti…

Back from holidays to this lovely review of ‘Why did my brain make me say it?’ from @lizpoet.bsky.social at Poetry Roundabout. Thank you so much! poetryroundabout.com/2025/04/18/p... #kidlituk #ukkidlit #childrenspoetry

Just picked up a copy of this as I really enjoyed Sue’s debut

Best four words in the English language:

‘Out of office on’

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✨️NEW BOOK!!✨️

Book 6 of THE MATHS ADVENTURERS series is out on 5th June 2025!

When Beep and Boots notice that their library needs more books, they arrange a school fair to buy some more. Can they raise enough money to fill the library?

Illustrated by @susannarumiz.bsky.social

Children’s poetry has been a great ride, but I have less time for it these days, as my new venture is really taking off! If you’d like to join my course teaching the secrets of AI publishing and how to write, edit and publish your book in a week, sign up! bit.ly/4ji7Cdn

From my book ‘Why did my brain make me say it?’ published by @troikabooks.bsky.social. #kidlituk

From my book ‘Why did my brain make me say it?’ published by @troikabooks.bsky.social. #kidlituk

Thanks so much Coral

Yellow cover of ‘Please don’t read the footnotes please’ with blue cartoon illustrations inc mammoth, sweets etc

Happy book birthday to the brilliant @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social whose wonderfully eccentric collection of flash/short-short stories (with footnotes!) ‘Please don’t read the footnotes please’ is out today with @theemmapress.bsky.social. It’s so much fun! #kidlituk

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The 2025 Jericho Prize for Children's Writing is now open 🖊️

The prize is dedicated to showcasing the next generation of Black-British children’s writers & is open to unpublished and self-published Black-British writers. #Writing #Writingforchildren

Find out more
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Amazon: Ever wonder if your reviews (of writer friends’ wonderful books) are being noticed? They are!

Me: Great! It takes me a while and I know they’re helpful.

Amazon: Now, why not write a review of the Morrisons’ own-brand baking powder you bought last week as part of a weekly shop?

Me:

Howdy Roger!

Yellow cover of ‘blue jelly and strawberries’ by Attie Lime with a large blue jelly on a pink plate ringed with strawberries and children gleefully bouncing on it

Happiest of book birthdays to @attielime.bsky.social, whose l baby bounces into bookshops for #worldbookday today. Do pick up your copy of these fantastic #poemsforchildrens - perfect for KS1 and sweet as strawberries 🍓 💙📚 #kidlituk

That’s a devoted fan 🥰

Y Ddraig Goch - meaning the Red dragon Sarah Ziman Flame-breathing Cave-dwelling Smoke-wreathing Hero-felling Wing-spreading Valley-soaring Mountain-treading Thunder-roaring Scale-shining Thief-detecting Gold-reclining Hoard-protecting Castle-smiting Knight-frustrating Bonfire-lighting Myth-creating Gem-acquiring Battle-scarring Awe-inspiring Our-flag-starring... DRAGON!

Y Ddraig Goch (same poem but fully in Welsh) Sarah Ziman Tân-anadlu Ogof-drigo Mwg-ymblethu Arwr-drechu Adain-ledu Aur-orweddian Carnedd-droedio Taran-ruo Cen-ddisgleirio Cnaf-synhwyro Dyffryn-esgyn Celc-amddiffyn Castell-ddychryn Marchog-oresgyn Coelcerth-danio Chwedl-lunio Deimwnt-gipio Brwydr-greithio Ysbrydoledig Gwyrdd-fanerog... DDRAIG!

Happy St David’s Day/Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus! 🌼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

My poem and a translated version from @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social’s English and Welsh/English anthologies from @fireflypress.bsky.social ‘And I hear Dragons’, poems about dragons by a diverse range of modern Welsh poets.

#kidlituk #wales

Ooh, lovely

Good point! At least there are no embarrassing sex references in children’s poetry 😂

Summer always comes early at EMC. We'll be posting our summer course programme on our website in the next couple of weeks. Keep a look out, and in the meantime here's what's on offer this half-term! englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/

Do you actually live in the Stitchwort mansion??

Mama’s gotta sell some mighty expensive poems 😆

Last day for #Readitforward! Buy childrens’s and YA books without billionaires being involved!

The water bill has just arrived and is over a grand, so from now on we’ll be bathing in and drinking my tears 😭

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From my latest/12th book 'The Shape of Rainbows':

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I don’t think it would have been so noticeable if not for the unexpected support which can’t help but make you compare and contrast!

I think it’s a case of ‘do I care what’s important to you even if I don’t have an interest in it myself?’ Clearly your dad did x