
Author & writer. See my books for children and teens including 📚Different Like Us! & 📚Meet the Dyslexia Club! #BeKind #SBSwinner
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So excited that 'You Can Change the World!' has won gold in the USA's Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 2019 in the Multicultural Non-Fiction category. So proud of all the fantastic young people in this book. 🥇🥇🥇
Full list of winners, here: moonbeamawards.com/87/2019-w…
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The wonderful Lynda La Plante @LaPlanteLynda , who has taken part in every single Children in Read auction in aid of @BBCCiN for the past 12 years is helping again. Thanks Lynda 💙
5 fab lots for you to bid on right here 👇
jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta…
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Calling Authors & Illustrators!
There is still time to join Lynette @creswelllyn
and support @BBCCiN with a signed book.
Simply reply to this post.
Thanks Lynette x.
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Authors & Illustrators would you like to join Jane @JaneFallon in the largest book auction in the world and support @BBCCiN ?
Just let the CinR team know here and we will provide you with details.
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Once again the wonderful @JaneFallon is supporting Children in Read.
If you are an author or Illustrator and would like to take part in this year's event simply reply to this post for further details.
We go live online 5th Oct.
All proceeds are in aid of @BBCCiN
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CALLING AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS
Why you should take part in Children in Read 2026
1. Your fans have access to a book signed from you
2. 10s of 1000s of readers visit the site each auction
3. You are helping children as all proceeds go to
@BBCCiN
To take part simply reply here
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To celebrate @MargsRooke new book Life After School - Dyslexic and Taking on the World, her publisher have kindly offered the Toe by Toe community 20% off Margaret’s books bought from their website.
Visit uk.jkp.com/collections/autho… & enter code TOEMARG20 at checkout to redeem 📖
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Our Non-Fiction Picture Book/ Children's and YA Longlist! Don't forget to vote for your favourite to win the Readers' Choice! Link in bio!
Different Like Us! Inspiring Real Stories from Kids Everywhere by @margsrooke
Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
#thedbawards
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Another brilliant book by @MargsRooke launched tonight, hearing from a stream of amazingly articulate young people with dyslexia sharing how they have found fulfilling careers after school - from selling Fairtrade nuts to bring a social housing manager to signalman on railways.
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Excellent, and when is the first water company executive going to be arrested?
A man has been arrested on suspicion of packaging fraud and money laundering.
Our message couldn’t be simpler – whether you are trying to cheat the waste sector or illegally dump waste, we will ensure you face justice.
Find out more: gov.uk/government/news/arres…
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To every child with #dyslexia or a learning difference:
Don’t let anyone — not even the President of the United States — make you feel small.
When influential voices dismiss, mock or misunderstand learning differences, it matters.
Not because they are right — but because children are listening.
And what they hear can shape how they see themselves.
So let’s be absolutely clear.
Dyslexia is not a weakness.
It never has been.
It’s a different way of thinking.
A different way of seeing the world.
Often a gateway to creativity, problem-solving and big-picture brilliance.
Some of the most innovative, resilient and successful people think this way.
What is damaging is ignorance.
What is unacceptable is using power to belittle rather than to uplift.
Our job — as parents, educators and leaders — is to do the opposite.
To notice strengths.
To build confidence.
To create environments where every child feels capable, valued and understood.
Because children with dyslexia don’t need fixing.
They need championing.
And that starts with all of us.
10 Facts Parents Should Know About Dyslexia. A Checklist.
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Read the very wonderful Meet the Dyslexia Club: The Amazing Talents, Skills and Everyday Life of Children with Dyslexia by @MargsRooke
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"Thames Water sewage spills set for record high."
Hard to believe isn't it, even after all of the outrage, all of the publicity, all of the anger Thames Water is well on course to dump more sewage this year than at any point in the last 10 years.
Time for govt to act, time to take back TW.
thisismoney.co.uk/money/mark…
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Just had my mind blown:
Remember the song 3 lions had the line ‘30 years of hurt’?
It would now be ‘60 years of hurt’
I feel old.
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You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.
Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.
And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇
Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water have nearly 200 criminal convictions between them.
On 6 August 2024, Ofwat fined them £47m and £17m for sewage dumping.
Fines not paid, will not be paid. Firms claim to have invested. No penalty for abusing laws
leftfootforward.org/2026/01/…
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Yesterday evening, during our book club for children with a parent in prison, we read Gracie's Story - a chapter in 'Different Like Us' by @MargsRooke .
The book looks at how children and teens who feel out of step with their classmates, find their paths to inner strength and create the lives they want to lead.
Back in 2023, we put forward several young people (including Gracie) with a parent in prison to contribute to this book.
During last night's book club, the young people discussed how they could relate to themes from Gracie's Story, and how they each cope with and process difficult feelings around having a parent in prison.
We are delighted for the opportunity to have our peer support led by the experiences of young people with a parent in prison.
Thank you to @giveabookorg and Margaret Rooke!
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Phone theft: 5 must-dos to secure your data in case your mobile’s nicked!
Courtesy of @itvMLshow ‘Slash mobile phone bills and insurance costs’. Watch the full show on itv.com/watch/the-martin-lew…






















