We loved hearing from mums Allana and Lilly about what stories mean to them as they picked up our festive book parcels for their children ❤️
Read more from Allana and Lilly and share the #MagicOfBooks with more families by donating today:
https://bit.ly/4q4C4Lb
22.12.2025 16:07 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
THANK YOU to @justimaginecentre.bsky.social who have donated these wonderful books to our primary school library! We are so grateful.
More photos to come of them in their new booky habitat!
@jobowers.bsky.social
13.11.2025 10:30 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
It’s our pleasure. Wishing you all a great summer of reading 😊
13.07.2025 05:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you @justimaginecentre.bsky.social Another fabulous selection of books for the children of St Fagans CW Primary School to enjoy!
25.06.2025 05:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Here’s our weekend round-up of book reviews for you. Thank you @hfj0108.bsky.social @edfinch.bsky.social
@gethinwallace.bsky.social
@librarylady.bsky.social
Ann Cowling, Theresa Gooda and Rebecca Kennedy for your reviews this week:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
01.06.2025 09:00 — 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow evening, we will be talking National-Share-a-Story-Month with @smartfoxlouisa, Emily Gravett, and Pari Thomson. Can we change the world one story at a time? Find out how you can get involved. vimeo.com/event/492991...
21.04.2025 08:36 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Registration for Reading Gladiators 2025 -26 is now open. We are excited about the new features, especially our new online interschool celebration. readinggladiators.org.uk
21.04.2025 13:59 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
As we head towards the summer term, we're taking a pause from resource and training writing to bring you a sneak peek of the virtual events coming up for teachers, librarians, and book group leaders. These events are free. Everyone is welcome, but you need to register in advance lnkd.in/ehk5i__s
15.04.2025 17:04 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The Easter holidays are here, so I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away.
Just **repost** this post to have a chance to win.
The winner will be selected 19th April.
06.04.2025 14:38 — 👍 51 🔁 91 💬 2 📌 2
Here are our first book reviews for April. Thank you Lisa Hagan, Jayne Truran, Nicola Garrard, @stephenconnor.bsky.social
@edfinch.bsky.social Helen Dearing, Theresa Gooda and @jobowers.bsky.social
for your reviews this week:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
05.04.2025 12:34 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Here are all our book reviews from the month of March. Thank you to all our wonderful reviewers!
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
02.04.2025 20:57 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Have you signed up for our FREE webinar? Running your Book Club in School plus an introduction to the Reading Gladiators challenge (25/26) and all-new Reading Gladiators Power-Up. vimeo.com/event/4960018
One teacher will win a set of books to enable them to run Reading Gladiators for a year.
23.03.2025 14:21 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s our weekend round-up of book reviews for you. Thank you to all our reviewers for your reviews this week:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
23.03.2025 15:31 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A school RfP policy in one post:
* Time to read and be read to every day
* Time to talk about books together
* Freedom to read graphic novels, picturebooks, poetry, non-fiction, magazines, anything
* New books are an investment, not an expense
* Work with librarians, bookshops, authors, poets, etc
23.02.2025 20:38 — 👍 88 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 1
We have some fantastic fiction and nonfiction books in our weekend round-up of reviews:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
23.02.2025 19:18 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
World Book Day has the most sustained impact when it's used as a springboard for developing a school culture of reading. This year, we're exploring Daniel Pennac's Rights of the Reader (beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake). Each class will develop their own set of reading rights and share them.
20.02.2025 13:21 — 👍 50 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1
Here are our weekend round-up of book reviews for you. Thank you to all our book reviewers. Link here to read them in full:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
15.02.2025 12:40 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
When a class have got independent reading time, try to sit with the children and read alongside them. Share the book you're reading, talk about why you're enjoying it and ask them about their choices. The impact on attitudes to reading will be massive. Organising the glue tray can wait.
15.02.2025 08:32 — 👍 501 🔁 55 💬 9 📌 3
Here are our first round-up of book reviews for February. Thank you @edfinch.bsky.social Helen Dearing, Heather Hann, @sconnor7.bsky.social and Jayne Truran for your reviews this week:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
07.02.2025 20:05 — 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
Even better, 10% of children's book sales in February go to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social.
02.02.2025 19:15 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
Here are all our book reviews from the month of January. Thank you to all our wonderful reviewers! Link here to read them:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
01.02.2025 19:14 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Whatever happens, never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So always make time to share books with kids, and help them find books to love. Make reading central to everything you do. It will change their lives forever!
#literacy
19.01.2025 21:42 — 👍 5757 🔁 844 💬 104 📌 41
Reading Matters – Children’s Book News
Welcome to the first Reading Matters newsletter of 2025 and I hope that everyone had a happy and healthy Christmas holiday. Happy New Year to you and I hope that 2025 is a good year for you and you…
Hello children's book lovers. Here's my first Reading Matters Children's Book News round up of 2025.
A look back at the best of 2024, a preview of books in the coming months. There are free events & resources too so why not settle down and explore. #UKKidLit
alibrarylady.blog/2025/01/04/r...
05.01.2025 11:58 — 👍 56 🔁 26 💬 4 📌 0
Thank you @justimaginecentre.bsky.social for this wonderful selection of books: picture books, graphic novels, non-fiction, illustrated fiction, MG fiction. The young readers of St Fagans CW Primary School will be delighted!
05.01.2025 14:14 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you're looking for helpful reviews of children's books, the @justimaginecentre.bsky.social team do an amazing job. Over 600 reviews posted during 2024. Well-written and can be found by theme, genre, subject or age. Highly recommended. justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
01.01.2025 12:53 — 👍 74 🔁 34 💬 0 📌 0
If you got any book tokens for Christmas, make sure you spend them at an independent bookshop. Here's a map with links to over 250 that are either children's bookshops or have very good children's sections.
26.12.2024 10:32 — 👍 89 🔁 57 💬 7 📌 0
Chocolate Books
Chocolate Books in Wiveliscombe, Somerset is a new independent bookshop which has a great children’s section.
chocolatebooks.co.uk
26.12.2024 21:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
If you’re wondering which books to select for your school or classroom @justimaginecentre.bsky.social have over 2000 book reviews that you can search by theme, subject, genre & age, reviewed by a panel of teachers, librarians & literacy specialists:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
19.11.2024 07:58 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Teaches primary. Reads books. Loves children’s books.
Award winning author and illustrator of children’s books including Grandad’s Camper, TIMID, Little Glow and many more. They/them.
Agent: @ashliterary.bsky.social
Enquiries: info@ashliterary.com
Website: www.harrywoodgate.com
Welcome to Eco-Schools Wales! Croeso i Eco-Sgolion Cymru!
Operated by @keepwalestidy.cymru and developed by FEE
Wales' leading environmental charity💚
Gofalu am ein hamgylchedd gyda'n gilydd, nawr ac ar gyfer y dyfodol🏴
Caring for our environment together, now and for the future #carucymru
Providing memorable learning experiences outdoors linked to your curriculum. We deliver outdoor learning & food growing for preschool, early years and primary schools in the UK.
The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Social psychologist at NYU-Stern, working to roll back the phone-based childhood. Please visit anxiousgeneration.com & afterbabel.com
Professor & Director, Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), University of British Columbia.
Studying how to bring #riskyplay back to children’s lives.
Lab: @outsideplayubc.bsky.social
https://OutsidePlay.org
HELP: https://earlylearning.ubc.ca
The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) is an independent, UK based charity that creates and delivers award-winning literacy training and resources for the teachers of early years and primary school children.
Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴
Helping schools to strategically and sustainably improve their play opportunities. www.outdoorplayandlearning.org.uk #OPALSchools #PlanForPlay
Forest School trainer, outdoor learning, behaviour change, pro environmental behaviours. PT researcher. Generally interested in human - nature relationships.
💥Sparking STEM Confidence
💥Empowering Educators 💥Inspiring Children
PlayGroundology advocates for a wider variety of play opportunities for kids in public spaces. Since 2010, the blog has been read by parents, play enthusiasts, practitioners, and policy makers in over 200 countries - playgroundology.wordpress.com
We study children's outdoor #RiskyPlay & #InjuryPrevention. We're a team of researchers, led by Dr. Mariana Brussoni (@mbrussoni.bsky.social), based at The University of British Columbia & BC Children's Hospital Research Institute. www.outsideplay.org
Reader. Teacher. ND. Autistic/ADHD (AuDHD).
📒Author of All Brains Are Wonderful (b small publishing) 🧠💛
📗Author of 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Reading for Pleasure (Bloomsbury) 📚💚
📖Children's Books Consultant
🏆Book Award Judge
✍️Educational Writer
👨🏫 Primary Deputy Head Teacher in Burton
📚 Children’s book blogger.
🏡 Live in Birmingham (proud Brummie)
Check out my blog at tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com
