David Long

Welcome to the age of non-fiction: getting kids reading Author Christopher Lloyd argues that facts are best

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I bought some spider-silk boxers but had to return them because they kept getting stuck.

Someone did this yesterday afternoon in a bookshop with one of my own books. I was too cross to intervene.

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Only Leos truly and fully appreciate the contributions made by Leos.

A bookstore display of figure skating books: Nathan Chen's One Jump At A Time, Lolly on the Ice, Trinity's Big Olympic Skating Dream, The Comeback.

It's small business Saturday! It's a great day to visit a local independent bookstore. Every day is a great day to buy books, and independent bookstores work so hard to support authors. :)

Comics are clearly an important way in for many young readers, ditto nonfiction (I’m biased obviously) for those who don’t find what they want in novels.

Best children's books - Book Friday Book Recommendations Discover our recommended booklist - Book Friday Book Recommendations - with the best books and quality texts for primary ages and topics, reviewed and selected by experts.

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING to my US readers and their families.

Delighted to be celebrating Book Friday instead of Black Friday and recommending THE FAR-DISTANT OXUS by Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock. A great adventure, one I've always enjoyed, plus there's a free resource kit for schools via this link: www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/to....

“Buy children books for Christmas.” Sounds like excellent advice.

Painting inspired by a poem by Tennyson which tells the story of a jackdaw that steals a cardinal's ring. It shows a jackdaw perched on top of a stack of red books. The scene is set within a church or monastery, it has stone walls and the ornate stained-glass window.

Morning.
🖼️ A Saint, from the 'Jackdaw of Rheims', Briton Rivière.

20% of parents and carers say they don’t read with their child due to lack of time
In low-income families only around 50% of children aged 1 to 2 are read to every day

1 in 5 children aged 0-4 have a book read to them less than once a month
28% of parents and carers don’t find reading with their child easy
21% of parents and carers don’t feel confident choosing books that their child will enjoy

Depressing numbers from BookTrust research:

95 % of carers see reading as important for their child
Fewer than half of all children regularly get a bedtime story
6 in 10 parents and carers of young children wish they'd known earlier how important it is to read together

The 13th Dalai Lama is similarly said to have had two Austin Sevens, registered TIBET No.1 and TIBET No.2, at a time when he was the country's only motorist.

Can this be true? Elmore was already building cars in Ohio in 1910.

Anthony Beevor Second World War

Musk will be only a dollar trillionaire not an actual trillionaire.

It's #NonFictionNovember! @writerdavidlong.bsky.social and #StefanoTambellini bring our ancient civilisations to life in the 'What It Was Like to be' collection: "A top class series from a dynamic writing and illustration duo" - Lancashire Post. Check out the whole series at: bit.ly/4nAli56 #NFN

#OTD in 1890 the City and South London Railway opens for business between the City and Stockwell, London's first deep-level tube railway.

Those paws….

Any shares of this much appreciated! When my ex-publishers collapsed, taking over £20,000 of my earnings with them into the void, all my books suffered but none more than 1983. This is me trying to repair that. It’s about:
Childhood
Education
Aliens
Alpacas
The East Midlands
The old future we lost

Children's Writing Competitions A list of creative & non-fiction writing competitions for children in the UK, including contests for poetry, stories, handwriting & essays.

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The source of that pleasure leaps out of a million different books. As I’ve said before I have many, many readers whose parents tell me are passionate about nonfiction having failed to click with any number of novels, short stories &tc