Sullivan Upper Library

Children's Literature Conference 2026!📚 The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's is hosting a free three-day conference on writing for young people from 26-28 March 2026. Join authors, academics and industry voices, led by Children's Writing Fellow for NI Shirley-Anne McMillian, with a keynote panel chaired by Damian Smyth, Head of Literature and Drama at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Register for free here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference-o… @HeaneyCentre @smcmillanwriter

CILIP & CILIP School Libraries Group continue supporting this school librarian member through this unprecedented and worrying situation indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school…

Mindful March - Day 20: Focus on what makes you and others happy today dayofhappiness.net actionforhappiness.org/mindful-march #MindfulMarch

Well done to @AccReader monthly draw #prizewinners @sullivan_upper Chloe 8A Harriet 8D Elsa 9A & Olivia 9E plus @WorldBookDayUK 'Guess Staff Behind Books' competition Lucy & Martha 9D🤩#lovereading #librarylife #inittowinit

Everyone who takes part in Giant Steps has their own reason. Who will you walk for? 💛 Join us on 6 June to walk 7, 13 or 20 miles for mental health on the Causeway Coast. Sign up today ➡️ aware-ni.org/giant This event is kindly supported by Bell Contracts.

Quote of the day: “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” ― C.S. Lewis #kidlit #reading #ukedchat

Busy 1st meeting of @sullivan_upper @CarnegieMedals #ShadowingGroup today when junior pupils discussed #firstimpressions of the #Carnegies2026 #writing #shortlist🤩Buns & books disappeared quickly❤️📚#lovereading #bookawards #ShadowersChoice2026 @youthlibraries @ALCS_UK

Quote of the day: “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.” #kidlit #reading #ukedchat

Quote of the day: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” ― Joseph Brodsky #kidlit #reading #ukedchat

Mindful March - Day 19: Cultivate a feeling of loving-kindness towards others today actionforhappiness.org/mindful-march #MindfulMarch

It’s amazing the difference a bit of sunshine can make ☀️ You can be the sunshine for others too Image: instagram.com/happyzodesigns

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Calling all Shadowing groups! @ALCS_UK invites you to design a poster celebrating the power of reading. 🏆 Win £1,000 prize for your school library and have your poster displayed at the #Carnegies2026. 🗓️ 2nd June 2026 Want to Enter, visit: alcs.co.uk/carnegies/ Good Luck!

Congratulations to Martha 8E whose recent @AccReader quizzes have scored 💯% to now total 10👏Reading lots of great titles by @KimberlyWhittam @hurrahforgin #LaurenStJohn #JennyHan❤️📚#lovereading #keepquizzing #100percent

Well done Ellie 8C @sullivan_upper Library who's achieved 💯% x20🥳Reading & @AccReader quizzing her way through some #greatseries by @hurrahforgin @WilsonJaqueline & #DavPilkey❤️📚#lovereading #keepquizzing #fullmarks #bookprizes

What’s the chances the factory robots at @walkers_crisps would sponsor my May book launches and schools workshops for #RunawayRoad with some free boxes of Beef MonsterMunch? Me and Evie do love Beef MonsterMunch… pretty please??? Support the arts etc.?

Spring is here & so is our new issue, #BfK277. Packed with interviews, features, comment, children’s book reviews. Authorgraph interview is with Patrick Ness; plus Sarah McIntyre, Polly Dunbar, Ursula Dubosarsky + NEW Letterbox Library Recommends🔽#kidlit bit.ly/4s944Pq

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively. James is fed up. His family has moved to a new cottage with grounds that are great for excavations and trees perfect for climbing - today's classic book #readingforpleasure #BookOfTheDay #ad amzn.to/2Vtq3Rd

Belfast Book Launch for Runaway Road! Do book a free ticket and join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/runaway-road…?

Really looking forward to this! 3rd novel… I reckon it’s the best so far, but I’m clearly biased. Please book a free ticket and come along!