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Screenshot of blog post - Exams & Mental Health: Don't stress, the library's got you covered!

New blog post - how the library can help during exam season. Link in bio. #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #exams

Not to pile on, but every 'c' in 'Pacific Ocean' is pronounced differently.

Your brain is such a wondrous thing! 😄

Bede's Loves... Read Miss Evan's latest review of The Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald...

New blog post - review of the brilliant Glasgow Boys! #bedesreads #booksandbeyond #booksky

Waterstones expands Books of the Month with YA and additional non-fiction offerings Waterstones is expanding its Book of the Month campaign in May with a new YA slot and another non-fiction offering. The retailer said it is “building on the significant growth potential of the current...

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We'll be reading three of these titles in next term's Brilliant Books and Biscuits. But not The Things We Leave Behind or Glasgow Boys because we already read those - look at us, fingers all over the literary pulse! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries

Lots of students and teachers in a library listening to stories

Brilliant Books and Biscuits Nostalgia Special: Dash of Wind in the Willows, a dollop of James and the Giant Peach, a drizzle of Frog and Toad, and a sprinkling of Pippi Longstocking - a really lovely World Book Day event! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #librarylife

Chairs in a big circle, blankets and cushions all over the floor and cushions and throws on the chairs, ready for storytime!

Almost ready for our World Book Day Brilliant Books and Biscuits Nostalgia Special! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #librarylife

4 school librarians recording a podcast

These amazing #schoollibrarians are building a #library in Kenya this summer! Learn how you can help this Fri March 7 #episode 311. #tlsky @captainlibrary.bsky.social @librarianjones.com @andrea-trudeau.bsky.social

Love in the Library Hey bookworms! Get ready to fall head over heels, because there’s a fresh batch of swoon-worthy YA romance novels in the library.

New library blog! 🥳 #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #blog

#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #ParableOfTheSower by Octavia E. Butler. #BookSky

What did you think of Butler's use of diary entries to tell the story? Did it add to the impact? How?

George Eliot and George Sand were both authors, and women.

Happy Women's History Month.

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“Five Bridges,” by Colm Tóibín Being undocumented at a time when no one bothered much about illegal Irish people had almost suited him.

There's a new Colm Tóibín story in this week's New Yorker, some gentle, mournful fiction about what America was and is for an ordinary man today www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

What a bookworm needs: books, money for more books and time to read more books.

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Whatever career you want to pursue, reading books will get you there. #bedesreads #booksky

Can't pick a favourite this time! 😄

A brightly coloured noticeboard on a breeze-block wall, headed with the words Read Every Day, and covered in posters and slogans to do with reading, as well as pictures/illustrations/cartoons of, e.g., brains reading and lifting weights, piles of books, people reading.

A productive afternoon spent with our Reading Ambassadors, putting together a jolly new noticeboard outside the Sports Hall! #bedesreads #libraries #booksky

There are times when only Wodehouse will do…

‘I write all my poems with a quill by candlelight’: John Cooper Clarke on the joy of life without tech The punk poet has no smartphone, no email, not even a computer. Everyone should try it, he says

They go on a lot today about responsible drinking, but neighbourhood pubs used to enforce that. There’d be a pal of your dad’s in there saying, “You’ve had a few too many, kid, steady on – it’s still three hours till closing time.” ~ John Cooper Clarke
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Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t let anyone ever disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

Loved 'Isaac and the Egg' (available in your friendly school library), and looking forward to this one! #bedesreads #booksky

Kazuo Ishiguro urges government to 'reconsider' AI 'opt-out' plan: 'No-one believes it will work'

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro has joined calls for the UK government to “reconsider and change course” when it comes to AI, warning that “no one believes the proposed ‘opt-out’ system will work”. 👇 #BookSky

Congratulations to our Library of the Year Finalists: South-East England✨
⭐Portsmouth Libraries and Archives
⭐West Sussex County Council Library
⭐Broadstairs Library
⭐Winchester Library
Find out more about the full list of finalists 👉 buff.ly/3EJZmns

Most of these excellent titles available from your friendly school library... 😊 #bedesreads #booksky #libraries

Also available from your friendly school library... #bedesreads #booksky #libraries

Early years practitioners are doing incredible work to bring the benefits of reading to children - and it can have a lifelong impact.

Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social visited a school nursery in Liverpool to see this in action:

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A photo of a parent and child sharing a book together with a quote from Bookstart Coordinator Paul Swift: "Reading together and sharing stories opens up a unique line of communication between parent and child; it creates that bond".

Happy #FamilyDay!

We believe every family should be supported to make sharing books a regular part of daily life, helping children to enjoy the benefits of reading.

Here's why shared reading has a vital role to play in early education and childcare 👇

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I love the US, I'm a quarter American, I have American family, my great uncle was an ambassador and a senator, I have visited many times and seen much of the country. I feel a strong sense of solidarity with all the Americans who DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS!! #booksky #libraries #America

Outstanding book! Your customer has great taste!