Grasmere Badgers & Mrs Waters

Starting tomorrow: my Top 40 #FavePicturebooks25, a handpicked, parade of the funniest, boldest, weirdest, and most brilliant picturebooks of 2025. Just pure love for the power of picturebooks Don’t miss it! #PicturebookPage. Some are in the pics below some will be a surprise!

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@justme_samb @bertsbooks Bought ‘A Frozen River’ today from my local bookstore 👍

@bertsbooks Trying to decide which one 🤔

What’s everyone reading this weekend?

@bertsbooks Shuggie Bain… and loving it

@pennywpennyw Thank you so much for the Friday quiz, it is a staple in our family and gets very competitive. Have a great weekend 👍

🔹🔷🟦 #FridayQuiz 🟦🔷🔹 🔹 Like, share and repost 🔹 Have a go and good luck! 🔹 Share your score below with a gif 🔹 Share the quiz with whoever you want! Happy #Friday! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

We are open and accepting applications for our 26/27 courses now. Click on the link below to find out what our 24/25 graduates thought about their training. drive.google.com/file/d/1fUcmH0… Contact us to find out more.

✨📚 WIN!!! 📚✨ We’ve got two bundles of BRILLIANT curriculum-linked books to win from @BloomsburyEd. To enter, just: 🎉 Like this post 🎉 RT by 18.10.25 🎉 UK only You can download extracts from both books at authorfy.com/book-extracts too!! 📘📙 About MY FAMILY THE ENEMY by Karen McCombie: London, 1914. Fred Müller’s life is turned upside down when his dad is taken away by the police - suddenly his family are the enemy because of where they come from. Based on historical events, this beautiful tale is perfect to explore themes of refuge, kindness and empathy with children aged 9+ About UNDER FIRE by @sufiyaahmed: Join 12-year-old Anglo-Indian boy Hasan in 1943, after his family’s life in Coventry is upturned during the Blitz and his parents send him to live with his grandpa in Calcutta. When he reaches India, Hasan is quickly introduced to a world of inequality, secrets and codebreaking. After befriending a strong-minded girl named Jaya, the pair soon decide to stand up for what they believe is right: fighting for freedom.

It's #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek in Scotland this week. My publishers - @BarringtonStoke - do so much to support dyslexic readers. Please check out their website. collins.co.uk/pages/tom-palm…

National poetry day on Thursday, the theme is play and I shall be in schools in Worcestershire playing about with words as usual. There'll be a new word poem too. #poetry #rhyme #storytelling

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Your 2026 UKLA Book Awards Longlists are here - the only national children’s book awards judged by teachers. This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres. Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-awar…

@RumbleCoral @The_UKLA @BardyMum Well deserved 🌟

Oh my, thank you @The_UKLA! So many of my favourite authors are here - what an honour to be longlisted alongside them. AND what joy to see @BardyMum in the mix!

With the new academic year approaching, this picturebook assembly overview might be useful to people. The suggested books cover themes around empathy, inclusion and diversity, and are all texts I've used in the classroom. Any shares appreciated. Link here: padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/rea…

@MrBoothY6 Thanks for sharing, very informative 👍

As the year draws to a close, I'm sharing my Y6 reading folder (though there are some random bits in like some Y2 lessons) for free, which is full of Y6 whole class reading lessons. drive.google.com/drive/folders/… Plus my (very long) blog on how we teach it: mrboothy6.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/who…

A huge thank you to Claire and Gill from @NorthTyneLibs for coming to tell @GrasmereAcademy all about this years Summer Reading Challenge 📚❤️📚

I totally support the National Year Of Reading. We desperately need a culture of reading for pleasure to replace the culture of constant tests in schools, backed by proper government funding. And we need STORYTIME to be part of the school day, every day! (Art @chrisriddell50)

So lucky to have the lake on our doorstep, investigating and comparing habitats today. Got to use our Merlin App, for birds in the woodland that we couldn’t see. @GrasmereAcademy

@AndersenPress @philearle Such an incredible prequel, heart in mouth the whole way through, would be incredible to have a class set for pupils @GrasmereAcademy 🤞📚🦍📚🤞@MrsCurry_GA

COMPETITION TIME! To celebrate the launch of @philearle's much-anticipated follow-up to When the Sky Falls, we're giving away a class set of THE DAWN OF ADONIS plus posters & bookmarks to one lucky school. Plus an extra 10 schools will win a book & poster RT by 26/06 to win!