@verityisreading.bsky.social
📚 Primary School Librarian 📖 English Hub 🖍️ Illustrator 🌿 Leaf Literature Festival Coordinator
After the craziness of last week (SATs and Ofsted!), I almost missed being featured in this month’s @openuni-rfp.bsky.social newsletter!
Lovely to be featured next to @amygreatrex.bsky.social too 🧺📚
Link to read my report of last year’s #LeafLitFest here: ourfp.org/eop/the-leaf...
✨ Another fantasy I have loved getting lost in this Easter! I know I’m late to the party but if you haven’t read The Land of Roar series by @jennymclachlan.bsky.social illustrated by @benmantle.bsky.social, climb aboard a dragon now..!✨
Full review here: www.instagram.com/p/DIoQalqKDG...
Glad to see you here!
15.04.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Finally had time to reflect on the busiest term ever! Check out my insta to see a round-up of the Leaf Literature Festival - a festival between 17 primary schools in Bristol celebrating reading! 📚🌿
#LiteratureFestival #authorvisits #readingforpleasure
www.instagram.com/p/DIePPIrqyQ...
I hope they’re listening from the pearly gates of their London offices!
11.04.2025 08:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Letter. Please follow the link if this isn't legible
My letter to the @theguardian.com on the META theft of our work. Will be in the physical paper tomorrow.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This is so exciting to see! Congratulations Hannah!
10.04.2025 16:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Really enjoyed escaping into this fantasy epic ✨ I love how Katherine Rundell always ‘writes up’ for children, this doesn’t disappoint!
Thanks @claireridsdale.bsky.social for lending it to me!
Review here: www.instagram.com/p/DIMR5xjq5y...
@kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Currently reading this! I’m also feeling very late to this party - really enjoying it!
10.04.2025 11:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Would love publishers to put more money into marketing lesser-known fabulous authors so there’s less pressure on librarians/booksellers promoting books children won’t have seen in supermarkets.
Also please make all books standard size so we can cover the books easily! 🙏
Last term was so full on so I’m enjoying taking things a little more slowly now it’s the Easter Holidays. Had myself a little ‘booknic’ to make the most of the sun! ☀️
What are you all reading this Easter?
A very belated but absolute humongous thank you to @peters-books.bsky.social for this award-winning collection of nonfiction for our school library 😍
26.03.2025 06:43 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thank you Ian! It was such a wonderful afternoon for all of our schools and such a fantastic way to end the first week of the #LeafLitFest. So many children inspired by you now - you’re a star! 👏
08.03.2025 06:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2000 kids?! WOW!! What a wonderful event organised by brilliant book-loving people!
#KidLit #BookSky #PrimaryEduSky
Absolute honour to host @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social for our Leaf Literature Festival virtual author visit today!
All of our EY and KS1 classes from our 17 schools joined to hear #NenandtheLonelyFisherman and learn some sea-themed BSL too! Thank you Ian!! 📚🧜♂️📔
#LeafLitFest
This is amazing! And those cupcakes are 😍😍
Looking forward to celebrating your books with our #LeafLitFest event later!
Chance and choice is absolutely it!
And hopefully some great reading role models too!
To all the librarians, teachers, TAs, authors and illustrators up and down the country who are putting their all into making this #WorldBookDay special - even if you only encourage one child to pick up a book today, you’ve made the world a better place ❤️
(illustration by me 🖍️)
Thank you to all the Reading Leads, librarians and student helpers creating who are helping make all these events brilliant in their schools!
And to Storysmith Books for being the most wonderful bookshop people on the planet 📚📚📚
We launched our Leaf Literature Festival on Monday morning and what a line up we have this year!
Big thank you to the Leaf Trust for my beautiful flowers and the Year 4 girl who handmade these gorgeous book earrings - it’s so appreciated! 📚🍃
#readingforpleasure #LeafLitFest
Here is a poem for #WorldBookDay. It’s one of my most popular, and is available for FREE on my website www.joshuaseigal.co.uk, along with many other poems! #BookSky #EduSky #KidLit
04.03.2025 15:39 — 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"
A cartoon for #worldbookday (coming on Thursday 6th) for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
01.03.2025 10:28 — 👍 1148 🔁 300 💬 8 📌 19There will be a time where the #LeafLitFest won’t take over my life (or my living room) but I am VERY excited to be launching our trust of school’s festival on Monday and can’t wait to talk about all the amazing authors and illustrators we have joining us too!
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@louiestowell.bsky.social is there a way of making Loki tshirts a thing?!
And very pleased he was lovely (as expected!)
Where’s the tshirt from?! I’m jealous! And jealous of meeting Ben Willbond too 😂
28.02.2025 17:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Totally agree with this!
I think most schools aren’t aware of how much authors earn - some people definitely think you’re all millionaires 😂
Author/illustrator visits are so valuable and really do have an impact. As an example - your books are still some of our most borrowed after your visit last year!
But I also see the amount of work that goes into them and know that’s not all schools are able to afford + promote as much as we’d like!
I’m so glad, thank you for joining us! 🖍️✏️📚
25.02.2025 21:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you Fleur! ❤️ So pleased you can join us again!
24.02.2025 21:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@claireridsdale.bsky.social the book tokens arrived today! 🙌🥳
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