Kate Rafiq

A screenshot from the little rebels award Instagram account showing a poster of the 6 shortlisted books and the header “Primary School Giveaway!”

📣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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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...

“ @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-

To pre-order/full review: www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...

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

World Book Day - A teacher’s dilemma
A decade on, how much has changed?

www.tes.com/magazine/arc...

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

I’m surprised, but also not! Very disappointing😞

🔊 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.

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

I’ve written nearly seven thousand words of my MG novel. I wonder if a single one of them is in the right place! 🫣

Hate to further compound the lunacy of this but they appear to be zios too!

And Cruella Braverman and that hideous Bradbury cow!

Here’s my November kids/YA round-up!

Or - stay at home and write a book day!🌨️✍🏼

Its beginning to look a lot like winter…

#winter #snow #wales #countryside

Fog and @bsky.app

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

Every time

I never really understood X - I have higher hopes for this. So far i haven’t been shown any teenage girls fights, so that’s a bonus! I must have watched a few seconds once and now it thinks I’m a street-fighting fiend! Fingers crossed for the 🦋

Throwback to 16th October. My book was shortlisted for the brilliant Little Rebels Award! 😁 A huge honour!💛
#childrensbooks #picturebooks #littlerebelsaward

Just finished Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi (winner of the Neustadt Award, and now reading The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries - Portraits and Poison by JT Williams - winner of the Little Rebels Award. Two very different books!😁

Wish he was the Prime Minister!😄

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’

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

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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!?