Hilary Robinson FRSA

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#BoardBookReview: Tatty Mouse Christmas by Hilary Robinson, illustrated by Mandy Stanley Cover art by Mandy Stanley, published by Catch a Star, 14 November 2024, ISBN: 978-1915167576 Tatty Mouse Christmas is a gorgeous festive addition to this wonderful lift-the-flap, board book series…

Share the joy of Christmas making & craft with this festive lift-the-flap book for little bookworms: #TattyMouseChristmas is written by @hilsrobinson.bsky.social illustrated by #MandyStanley & published by #catchastar
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photo of woman in police uniform, UK, 1918

November 1918, Lilian Wyles, a former nurse, applies to join the newly formed #MetropolitanPolice Women Patrols. ‘One of the last strongholds held exclusively by men,’ she wrote, ‘had been stormed.' lnk.to/privateinqui... (pic Wiki)
#crimehistory #policinghistory #womenshistory #privateinquiries

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians

The cover of the third book I did with Jason Byrne, the comedian. It's in a rough-lined cartoon style, the figures rendered in black and white. The title is 'The Accidental Adventures of Onion O'Brien: The Secret Scientist'. It's a sky-blue cover framed with white flashes, where Onion, a ten-year-old white boy with a black patch over his left eye in square-framed glasses, sits in a threatening, high-tech chair. In front of him, an old man in a suit with a scarred face is pointing at his own head.

The artwork for the cover of an anthology of climate change-themed short stories and cartoons that is also a writing resource. The style is realistic, digitally painted. Two teenagers are the main focus of montage; a dark-haired, brown-skinned girl with a notebook and a white boy with blond hair with a camera. Below them is a BMW SUV. In the bottom corners, a young fox on the left and a black girl with spiked hair and yellow and red water pistol on the right. In the background, looming over them, are the ruined stones walls of an old building. Right at the back, a boy is jumping off some collapsing wooden boards.

The cover artwork for the SFF anthology, Fight Like a Girl Volume 2. It's a simple, cartoon-style, brown-skinned, fantasy warrior woman holding a wicked-looking sword against a blue background. Around her, in the style of a game menu, are various tools and weapons.

The cover artwork for my book, The First Fire of Halloween, digitally painted. An athletic human figure with the head of a goat stands over a wide bonfire in a field. Behind him, on either side, are the weird golden eyes of a goat, with their slot-shaped pupils. The background is grassy ground and a dark, cloudy sky.

I've had a lot of new followers joining this weeks, so short introduction: I'm an Irish writer and illustrator who's been working since the 90's and has published 47 books for different reading levels in a range of genres, including 14 novels. I also work in a range of different illustration styles.

How to Speak Truth to Power ...when that power is your own news organisation? I don't know. And I wish it was a question I didn't have to ask.

Why have the Guardian & Observer's journalists voted overwhelming to go on strike? I've attempted to summarise our concerns, the reports so far & why a Scott Trust board meeting tomorrow is a pivotal moment for press freedom & the future of journalism.
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A Bronte Snapshot: 24th November 1834 I know I’m not the only one who is endlessly fascinated by those brilliant Brontë sisters – not only by their magnificent poems and novels but by their all too brief lives as well. There are …

In today's Bronte blog post we look at a snapshot of life in Haworth Parsonage exactly 190 years ago today: www.annebronte.org/2024/11/24/a...

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I’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways… | John Naughton The flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social media As I write, there’s a window on my laptop screen that is providing a live view of a stampede. It’s logging the numbers of people…

I’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways… | John Naughton

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Axel Scheffler. Bees on skis, rabbits playing ice hockey, and lots of side-eye. Busy wintry scene from The Christmas Bear board book with push/pull/slide tabs, in which the bear tries to catch up with Santa’s sleigh. Text by Ian Whybrow. @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social

Listening to this podcast talking about Bluesky being a kinder and more collaborative place, like early Twitter which is what a number of people I've talked to have been saying.

This is really getting quite remarkable

• BlueSky user numbers have doubled in the past week and now total 3.5 million across US & UK 🚀

• Number of people deleting their X/Twitter account remains way up

And the next chart is particularly notable...

Or mimicking a style of others.

Leslie Jamison & Emmeline Clein "I feel like I’m bringing questions I’ve been wrestling with my whole life to the things we talk about."

Late to announcing this on here, but I created a podcast with @literaryhub.bsky.social about mentorship in the literary arts, and the first episode—featuring the indomitable Leslie Jamison and her former student Emmeline Clein—is out on all platforms today! www.awakenerspodcast.com/post/leslie-...

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

I do like skeeting.

I wish I'd written... my short piece from the wonderful @booksforkeeps.bsky.social

People of the Bluesky, things are a bit quiet on the work front. If you need a writer I’m available. I’ve worked for TV, radio, print, advertising - all the medias. If you need help with a corporate Christmas speech, I can add the Lolz mathew-owen.co.uk RT or whatever it is over here, please, cheers

Wonderful time celebrating the 40th anniversary of TVam’s Wide Awake Club! #tvam #wideawakeclub

My new children's book BLITZ One Family's War is OUT NOW.
Here is the HB first edition.
SIGNED copies available from my website shop-
www.martinimpey.com

World War 1 books for children and teens World War 1 books for children including titles by Michaela Morgan, Dominic Sandbrook, Tom Palmer, Michael Morpurgo and more.

World War 1 books for children and teens 📚👍🏼
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/books-for-topics/world-war-1-books-for-children-and-teens/
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Children’s and teen books about World War 1 with titles by Terry Deary, Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey, Michaela Morgan, Berlie Doherty, Dominic Sandbroo…

New to Blue! Hello! I produce radio programmes mainly for the mighty Radio 2 and I write children’s books. Started writing to help my daughter’s fear of spiders - 30 years on, and over 70 books later, I’m still writing. But not about spiders.

Tatty Mouse is back! The ‘mend it make mouse’ is recycling for Christmas in all kinds of imaginative ways. #boardbook

Now that I’m on a platform where people actually see and engage with my posts again, I cannot wait to do my annual holiday book recommendations thread. Y’all are going to get bookskyed so hard.

Talking about Remembrance at a whole school assembly yesterday, I explained that Paddington was a “refugee from Peru”.

Little (very little) hand shot up to correct me - “from darkest Peru”.

Here's an image from my new children's book - BLITZ One Family's War
Available from my new website: www.martinimpey.com Special offer - every copy ordered direct will be signed + free postage (UK only).