Passionate about promoting reading for pleasure. Love information books. Reading CBG Chair @GrrChris
Tadley, England
Joined August 2020
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Our NEW issue is here #BfK279 with interviews, features & children's book reviews. Includes Tom Palmer, Patrice Lawrence, Britta Teckentrup, Melinda Salisbury, Letterbox Library recommends, new Beyond the Secret Garden & more! #summerreading sorted!😎
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ALT Graphic advertising the new issue of Books for Keeps which includes an Authorgraph interview with Tom Palmer, interview with new Waterstones Children's Laureate Patrice Lawrence, Britta Teckentrup interview, new Beyond the Secret Garden and more.
It’s been great being back in the company of Wyndham & Banerjee! #TheBurningGrounds by @radiomukhers is set in & around Calcutta in the dying days of the British Empire & embellished with Abir’s customary sharp historical detail & dry sense of humour. Loved it!
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Congratulations to John Agard, just announced winner of the #CLiPPA26 for THE POETRY WORLD OF JOHN AGARD, illustrated by Shirley Hottier published by Otter-Barry Books🎉 Playful, serious poetry and an unprecedented third win👏@clpe1 @OtterBarryBooks
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Congratulations to Patrice Lawrence, just announced as the new Waterstones Children's Laureate. She pledges to ‘champion the power of books to make us feel like we belong and stories as a tool for bringing people together.’ 👏
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#TheEagleOfTheNinth is a magnificent novel by Rosemary Sutcliffe, doyen of historical fiction for children. First published in 1954, this edition celebrated Sutcliffe’s birth. Inspired by the discovery of a bronze eagle during the excavation of the nearby Roman town of Silchester
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Congratulations to the winners of the @The_UKLA Book Awards! Chosen by teachers, and hotly debated! Giving classroom practitioners the opportunity to read high quality new children’s books is as important as finding an overall winner.👏💐
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"At a time when we are so quick to outsource thinking, knowledge and expertise, it is books like this years' Information Book Award winners that will ignite curiosity, fuse connections and build empathy." Helen Cleaves, Chair of the Judges 👏 @uksla
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ALT Cover of Choose Your Own Evolution by Jules Howard, illustrated by Gordy Wright, published by Nosy Crow. Children's Choice Award winner in the SLA Information Book Awards.
ALT Owning It Our Disabled Childhoods in our own words edited by Jen Campbell, James and Lucy Catchpole, illustration by Sophie Kamlish, winner of the Overall Judges Choice in the SLA Information Book Awards.
Chris Routh retweeted
Great to see information books celebrated at the @uksla Information Book Awards 2026.
For children who don't enjoy fiction, information books can be a brilliant way in to reading, and this year's award highlights some of the best.
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Congratulations to the winners of the #Carnegies2026 @CarnegieMedals 💐 Beth O'Brien wins the Medal for Writing AND the Shadowers Choice Award. Kate Rolfe wins the Medal for Illustration. Shadowing Medal for Illustration goes to Aimée de Jongh 👏
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Here’s a very happy Reading Children’s Book Club member who’s just discovered there’s a second #BoxFullOfMurders book @JaniceHallett
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Just announced: young readers choose PABLO AND SPLASH graphic novel as the overall winner of the @FCBGNews Children’s Book Award.
Congratulations to author Sheena Dempsey, and category winners Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie, and Fidan Meikle! 💐
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The new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens tomorrow, 5 June. We had a sneak preview - our advice: go if you can! #KidLit #illustrationㅤ
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ALT A young boy crouching to look at illustrations in the new Quentin Blake exhibition Performance at the brand new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, London. Photo by Justin Piperger
Will Davenant inherits a magical edition of The Complete Works of Shakespeare which at first hampers & then helps a whole load of problems. Have fun spotting references to all of the Bard’s 38 plays in this funny, warm-hearted story! #TheLastBard @mazevansauthor @chickenhsebooks
Third adrenaline fuelled adventure @samuelsedgman which finds Isaac & his friend Hattie involved in a daring heist during a solar eclipse while staying in Florence. Fast-moving & full of fascinating scientific facts, it’s ideal for 9-12s. #TheGalileoHeist @KidsBloomsbury
The new book @tompalmerauthor is set in & around Falmouth in Cornwall during WWII. #IfTheInvaderComes @BarringtonStoke sees three 11 year olds drawn into the war effort & witness war’s impact on local people & places. This is the first of a dramatic new series called #Allies
Tom is the Cornwall Libraries National Year of Reading Ambassador for 2026. tompalmer.co.uk/cornwall-nyr…
Following in the footsteps of her prize-winning #TheSongOfAchilles, Madeline Miller’s #Circe is a powerful & beautifully written reimagining of another ancient story which has been described as a ‘kickass portrait of a woman trying to defy the men and Fates arrayed against her.’
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This was a complete pleasure! A perfect Sunday morning of sun, sea and stories at @FourbearsBooks with @GrrChris
We had a brilliant 9-11s Book Group meeting @FourbearsBooks yesterday when we were joined by local author @sueypalmer who talked about her latest book #TheShellSecret @Candy_Jar
We had a brilliant 9-11s Book Group meeting @FourbearsBooks yesterday when we were joined by local author @sueypalmer who talked about her latest book #TheShellSecret @Candy_Jar