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This bundle of 4 speeches from famous women (Michelle Obama, Theresa May, Emma Watson & Angelina Jolie) is perfect for analysing language and rhetoric: tes.com/teaching-resou… #speeches #persuasive #rhetoric #education #language #power #teaching #edutwitter

Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books | @lithub pwne.ws/44JUR3W

Vale Martin Amis 1949-2023 Son of Oxford and Kingsley Amis. Graduate of Oxford University. Booker-shortlisted author of era-defining novels, including Money, London Fields and Time's Arrow.

Nobody could riff like Martin Amis (from London Fields):

What did Jay-Z call his wife before they got married? Feyonce.

Shakespeare didn't invent his own stories and characters; he borrowed them. Here's the source material for all 38 of his plays, in alphabetical order:

FRANKENSTEIN IS ACTUALLY THE DOCTOR, NOT THE MONSTER, EXCEPT HE'S NOT EVEN A DOCTOR AND THE FACT THAT HE REJECTS HIS CREATURE MEANS HE *IS* A MONSTER BUT THE CREATURE BEING VICTOR'S SON MEANS HE'D TAKE HIS FATHER'S NAME SO THE CREATURE IS ALSO TECHNICALLY NAMED FRANKENST—

At BookTrust, we are all devastated to hear about the death of Raymond Briggs. Raymond - the author and illustrator of The Snowman, Fungus the Bogeyman and so many other wonderful books - won our Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. He will live on in his stunning, iconic books.

Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88 #Echobox=1660116233" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/books/2022/aug…

It feels illegal to know about these 20 websites:

35 of the Best Children’s Books from the ’80s and ’90s | via Teaching Expertise pwne.ws/3BwAkVb

The Booker Prize guide to... dystopian fiction. Looking for your next dystopian fiction read? Or is it a genre that you've not delved into before? Find out all you need to know👇 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

I know it's a long shot but does anyone know what a trebuchet is?

imagine your roommate eats the plums you were saving for breakfast and then writes a bitchy little poem talking about how good they were. and then it becomes one of the most famous poems of all time

@FunkyPedagogy Jean Anouilh’s Antigone works well with KS3.

Looking for 19th-century essays? Here's Charles Dickens' first writing about Christmas, advising readers to count their blessings and 'dwell not upon the past'. bl.uk/collection-ite… Find a whole host of essays on #DiscoveringLiterature: bl.uk/romantics-and-…

Which were Shakespeare's best plays? Votes and explanations from 3 very respected Shakespeare scholars: fivebooks.com/books/shakespe…

Contemporary Dutch illustrator Lieke van der Vorst #WomensArt

now that’s a headline

Joan Didion, American journalist and author, dies at age 87 theguardian.com/books/2021/dec…