Daisy May Johnson

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Hello! Just to say I'm delighted to have a little something in the new @mslexia.bsky.social magazine - they were a pleasure to write for and honestly, one of my bucket list publications 😍 I hope you enjoy it!

Captain Davis Dalton. How to Swim. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1899. Beige cover, decoration of man swimming.

Book Cover of the Day:

Good morning! Today's read is Elizabeth Taylor by Donald Spoto.

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I do!

We are overdue A Chalet School In Exile adaptation (but a meta one about ebd writing it, pls hire me.....) and also I would love love a spin on Pennington.

Sword fighting class!!!! 🤺

me, to myself: O perhaps I shall redesign my website
myself: do you remember how long it took last time?
myself: and also how much it broke?
myself: and also how you lost the will approximately 992030303 times?

me:
myself:
me:
myself:
me: LET'S DO IT

Black and white illustration featuring a forest setting with central hippo like creature, hedgehog in the foreground and birds flying overhead

Illustration from Tove Jansson's book 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' (1945) #Womensart

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🙏 I will argue for ketchup bottle as emergent literacy text forever 🙏

We really do no longer have the 'mess' of reading stuff available - comics, magazines, newspapers etc (particularly in libraries where budgets budgetted...) - and the 'easyness' of everyday casual visible reading is something I note as well.

(Related: the ketchup bottle! the earliest common text!)

Good morning #booksky! after a run of very satisfying vintage Girls Annuals from the fifties, I am about to start reading Elizabeth Taylor by Donald Spoto. #amreading

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Oh you ARE!! (Please tell her I quite empathise!).
(Also - Phoebe and her Unicorn by Dana Simpson? It's a treat!)

The Secret Garden on 81st Street: A Modern Retelling of… The Secret Garden with a twist: in this follow-up to Me…

But related, I'd say maybe the Lauren Child illustrated Pippi Longstocking; the Madeline / Eloise pic books might be funnnnn; also the epic Babysitters club comics; ditto the lovely graphic novel of Secret Garden - www.goodreads.com/book/show/54...

Maybe *just* if her reading age is high - but I'd suggest probably as a bedtime / together read to start. There's some big emotions / complex themes (bereavement, grief, loss etc). If she's independent reading Malory Towers kind of vibes & is ready for a step up, then she'd be in the right area.

6yo "almost all the books are about BOYS saving something. I want books about GIRLS".
Recommendations please for strong girl characters (her reading age is far higher than 6) - Rainbow Grey was a big win

Coffee bags, one is Tom of Finland with a Tom of Finland image on it. The other is Moomin with a Moomin leaning on a blueberry. More details: in the photograph of two "Art Roast" coffee bags on the shelf of a store with prices in euros. One of the bags is large and black and says HEAVY DUTY dark roast coffee beans, exclusive blend by Robert [I can't read it, it's in script]. The other is blue and says Blueberry coffee.

ah yes, the two genders

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The book, the cover of which shows the back of a female figure gazing over an Ancient Greek temple and other buildings, and its press release.

Very, very excited to have been sent a copy of graphic novel The Lost Daughter of Sparta by @felicia.day, illustrated by Rowan MacColl, which imagines the story of Helen of Troy’s forgotten sister.

Out 26/03 for 14+ readers from @simonkidsuk.bsky.social

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OH THE TICKING OF BOXES THIS DOES!!

A copy of Palio, The Wildest Horse Race In The World by Marguerite Henry sits on a brown surface.

Good morning! Today's read is Palio, the Wildest Horse Race In The World by Marguerite Henry.

5 panel comic P1: Title. "HOW TO DRAW A HORSE" P2: "SKETCH A SHAPE LIKE THIS" Beneath, we see a pencil sketch of a kinda squooshed rectangtangtangtangtangle P3: "TURN IT INTO A HEAD" The shape is now a horse head. This shape, it gives head. P4: "NOW, COMPLETE THAT HORSE!" We dolly back to see the glorious complete abomination. The head simply has four legs jutting out of it. P5: A wide panel, showing the crime against creation frolicking through a field. A blue sky filled with fluffy pink clouds fills the background. On the top left, a single word "congratulation"

Horses. Up there with bicycles as the bane of many an artist.

However, I figured out a foolproof way of drawing them, and I want to share that with you! 😊

I am learning how to make a telephone notepad today
(honestly I really hope somebody's done a book / thesis / fifteen hour deep dive audio about all the 'craft pages from back in the day publications that teach you how to do stuff that nobody would do today' because this stuff is outstanding).

Thanks for sharing!

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(not remotely connected to this but it seems like a fun opportunity!)

"We are seeking a Creative Practitioner or collective of Creative Practitioners (hereafter referred to as CPs) to create a children’s book about local famous people past and present, and local unsung hero/es of Lutterworth."

I'm gathering my resources together and plotting for this this morning and I'd love to see you there next week! It will be a short, friendly, creative workshop and there's space still available - do come and join us! @yiww.bsky.social