Clare aka GingerKnits

Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan

CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction

If you have any capacity to help out with this whatsoever, please, please do. What’s happening in Sudan is one of the worst atrocities of modern times.

Yes. If people remember one thing from my book I hope it's the name of Louise Webster, the co-discoverer of black holes.

She has been written out of the history of science.

She had one of the first successful liver transplants in Australia but sadly died in Sydney at 49.

(She was an astronomer)

Black Madonna and child on railway platform

Woman in African dress with child on railway platform

Crite, who spent most of his life & career in Boston, was a devout Episcopalian whose art consistently celebrated his religious faith. I absolutely adore his so-called "transit madonnas," which find holiness in the everyday ("Our Lady of the Elevated Station"; "Madonna of Dudley Station")

The Dictionary of Difficult Words by Jane Solomon and Louise Lockhart

Book cover for Wonderfully Wired Brain’s by Louise Gooding and Ruth Burrows

Book cover for The Hidden Heroes of Science by Peter Gallivan and Robbie Cathro

Book cover for Britannica’s All New Children’s Encyclopaedia edited by Christopher Lloyd

I genuinely think we live in a golden age of kids non-fiction, so I’m very excited for us to celebrate #NonFictionNovember with this week’s #KidsBooksFriday.

What brilliant non-fiction would you recommend? This is another week where I can’t possibly stop at four.

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

It has an air of Stilton about it.

Paper bag with a scary mouth hole. Big pointy teeth surrounding the hole.

Whipped up a creepy bag for the local kids to collect their sweets, if they dare...

The perfect game for Halloween – a portal to hell: the Stephen Collins cartoon Mr Shimmer, the new marketing director, has come up with a new board game

Parker board games actually used to do this and everybody thought it was normal

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Ack, I can relate. They knock me out for a couple of months as well. Good luck.

Quick, the ghosts are coming - everyone act supernatural!

Beautifully illustrated portraits of four different types of bat, pictured in flight head on

The day to show some love to these beautiful bats
#Halloween
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
Sea and Air Mammals, 1972

Also health care professionals can't get the vaccine either. I saw a respiratory doctor last week at my long Covid appointment who was very concerned about lack of COVID vaccine availability. She didn't know why the government has massively cut back on this. Goes against evidence based medicine.

Please sign this. I've had the COVID vaccine every year since it's been available. But this year I can't get it, which is nuts as I have long Covid plus severe asthma. Covid breaks me every time I get it. Severe worsening of symptoms etc. I dread to think what it would be like without the vaccine.

I loved it. Such good writing and clever plot. I'd love to know what kids and young people think of it.

Cover of The Worlds We Leave Behind. Pale green forest with a small river running through it. Some young people are balancing their way along the river bank, their backs to us.

The Worlds We Leave Behind by @afharrold.com is brilliantly unsettling. Highly recommend. Plus Levi Pinfold's illustrations are spectacular.

Cover of Seven Ghosts by Chris Priestley showing a child illuminated under their chin by mobile phone light against a dark background with a faintly visible creepy house.

I remember finding Seven Ghosts by Chris Priestley suitably creepy. Plus it's a Barrington Stoke book so the accessibility is an extra win. #KidLit #KidLitUK

OK, NOW you can officially do your "The Andrew formerly known as Prince" jokes

The royal formally known as Prince.

America can be pernicious. Most kids don't want turnip and mangelwurzel lanterns anymore. No, they want pumpkins and exotic squashes. You try and tell them to stick to mangels, but they just think grandad is a fool. At least they are still guising. – Ed Nazey, 1982 #VOH #FolkloreThursday

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Ah, that's a tricky thing to balance.

Oh no. How much does she have left to read?

oh my god I've just remembered

last night I dreamt that the Tories said they would ban garlic as it was "unbritish"

hahahahahaha

Rusty orange ink blobs with cut out yellow eyes and dip pen legs, tails, ears, whiskers to make cat drawings. The cats are in various poses and actions.

Playing around with inky shapes as part of #blobtober. #Inktober #cats #KidsIllustration

Quick update on Covid in England - hospital data showing that the latest significant Covid wave is - thankfully - on its way down.

This chart by @bob-hawkins.bsky.social and his substack
bhawkins3.substack.com/p/covid-situ...

I went to a book launch last night and met lots of lovely #kidlit people.

Good choice, I hope she enjoys it as much as I did. I finished the second book last night and loved every page of it.

Ooh, yes, I love this series as well. Take me to Eerie on Sea!

Impossible Creatures, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Amari and the Night Brothers, heck, there's loads. Also way more books with female protagonists than when I was a kid, especially in the types of books I wanted to read.

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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