@llykaios.bsky.social
School librarian 📚 | textiles teacher | children’s writer | poet | artist & crafter | avid reader | nature enthusiast | dnd nerd AllStories Mentee 2021 Autistic | hEDS | Non-Binary they/them 🏳🌈
The @theclpe.bsky.social Reflecting Realities report is an essential read each year. Please share it with colleagues in schools and look at the books currently available to pupils. They deserve authentic representation in the books they find on the classroom shelves. clpe.org.uk/research/clp...
05.08.2025 08:37 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
My latest article for Educate magazine is all about how children choose books. It was inspired by this wonderful blog from David Reedy and Alice Reedy: collins.co.uk/blogs/the-bo...
The article can be found here: neu.org.uk/latest/libra...
This is so true. 99% of book bans have the intended effect: you never hear about those books again. The 1% of banned books that become infamous bestsellers elsewhere are not the norm.
27.06.2025 16:05 — 👍 2860 🔁 1055 💬 17 📌 7I’ve applied to 12 different schools in the last 3 months and not even got a single interview. I feel so hopeless atm that nobody will even give me a chance, I just want to teaaach 😩😭 #teaching #primaryteacher #covidmessedupmyPGCEsighhh
24.06.2025 13:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hosted my first in-person author visit and book fair this week. Great to see so many kids get excited about books! Ele Fountain is awesome, folks! ☺️ #schoollibrary #authors #kidlit
21.06.2025 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
It is good and proper in a well-kept library to dispose of books.
Commenting just to share the dog snoot yep 😅
11.06.2025 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0😂 such a mood tho
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I’ve been weaving on circle looms for several months now so just had a go at doing a tiny dorset button ☺️
26.05.2025 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I dunno why I’m so upset but the F1 minifigure car I bought on a whim in Lidl is missing a wheel centre and 😩
25.05.2025 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sky over water 🥰
13.05.2025 20:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do seagulls ever SLEEP
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Preordered Silverborn 4 years ago, I’m so happy and excited alshdks 🥹
08.05.2025 07:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😂😂😂
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eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
06.05.2025 13:20 — 👍 33313 🔁 5223 💬 651 📌 321
Long thread alert🧵
I’ve been sitting on thoughts about this, but feel a need to post after the all too predictable parent bashing comments in the underbelly of social media.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
The Rianrhiod episode was especially specccctacular this season
08.04.2025 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Applications for the 2025 Summer Mentoring Programme are now open:
write-mentor.com/2025/03/23/w...
My first post is also an ✨announcement✨ MY DEBUT is coming out with @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social / Macmillan in fall 2026!
I still can't believe I get to say that!? My dream imprint is going to publish my coming-of-age YA romcom about a perfectionist overachiever, an anxious introvert, ace/aro MCs…
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Sooo excited about this chonkier than expected bookpost! 👀🥰📚 #thefirstyear
26.03.2025 17:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Saturdays are always a wild spin game of ‘how exhausted are you ACTUALLY’ and sleeping until 5pm today (17hrs) was um… eye-opening (or the opposite i guess) 🫠🥱
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Aww this is lovelyyy
20.03.2025 08:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oooh great pic! Do you have the Merlin Bird ID app? It’s like pokemon for birds/birdsong 😂
17.03.2025 23:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Got my #kickstarter Ludos Africa game today and I am still in awe of the design work gone into this series - absolutely gorgeous (and fun!) ancient games given a new look! 🥰
15.03.2025 15:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Making Poetry Matter is a great book on this too!
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