Library Mice 📚

Library Mice is 16 years old later this month. I have chosen 16 favourite posts from over the years, which I'm sharing, one a day on Instagram, but forgot to do it here. So here goes:

@WalkerBooksUK @theLucyStrange Tom's Midnight Garden

We've got a spooky season giveaway for you! Reply with the name of your favourite ghost story for the chance to win a spooky portrait of yourself painted by Pam Smy + a copy of Lockett & Wilde's Dreadfully Haunting Mysteries by @theLucyStrange and Pam Smy👻

@_Siobhan_Cole @DapsDraws I think they have their place, but not as a substitute for parent-child interaction ☹️

@librarymice @DapsDraws (I realise that sounds a bit judgy and I'm sorry but nothing can/should replace sitting with a child with a book 😭)

@lucasjmaxwell I have one who does this and leaves their little pile of comics where they sit (always in the same space). I just leave them there and every other day the titles in the pile change 😊

There’s a student who comes to the #library every day & reads Bunny vs Monkey. Doesn’t borrow them, just sits & reads & goes. I have copies ready every morning. We nod at each other & that’s the extent of our interaction. IMO there are very few places a kid can do this, just be.

@DapsDraws funding was very different. There was so much hope and for a while there was a real focus on reading in general and lots on the under-fives. But cuts, parents working long hours plus the arrival of smart phones have done so much damage ☹️ 2/2

@DapsDraws The demise of Sure Start and the cuts in funding for Bookstart has been catastrophic. A long time ago I wrote a dissertation on the importance of the books for the under-fives in developing readers. It was at the infancy of Bookstart, the beginning of Blair's Britain where 1/

Anyone know of any resources for writing non-fiction (not a memoir) during #NaNoWriMo ?

We have some lovely giveaways coming up this month - starting with a copy of The Wild Robot by Peter Brown to 3 lucky winners, celebrating the new film! Like & share by 12 noon Friday 11th Oct - UK Only @piccadillypress youtube.com/watch?v=njPNg0…

Marie-Aude Murail and Timothée de Fombelle will both be in London for the South Ken Kids Festival . What a lineup!

📚✨ Meet author Marie-Aude Murail! Join the beloved French writer as she discusses her acclaimed works & her unique approach to writing! 🌟 Have questions? Join the Q&A! 📅 23 Nov - 16.15 @ifru_london 👉 southkenkidsfestival.co.uk/whats-on/works…

This is why while we, in secondary schools, work really hard around reading, it can be an uphill "battle" because students lost reading interest/stamina years ago. Having librarians in most secondaries but not in primaries is pointless and outdated.

@questingvole @OneworldNews Thank you to you and @joannanadin for a great event in Bath

Publication day! The Haunted Wood is in bookshops now. Please buy a copy. (If you do I'll be your best friend AND you can share the Twix from my packed lunch.) oneworld-publications.com/work/the-haunt…

Join graphic artists Posy Simmonds, Pénélope Bagieu, Charlie Adlard and Emmanuel Guibert in an exciting exploration of the history of comics over the last sixty years with comics expert Paul Gravett. 11 September in London: ow.ly/y0QU50TgcFe

Such an amazing event and I so wish I could go! Posy Simmonds, Pénélope Bagieu, @CharlieAdlard and Emmanuel Guibert in conversation with comics expert @paul_gravett on the evolution of comics over the past 60 years.  11 Sept @ifru_london 🎟️ institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/…

@NicoletteJones I discovered her work with "Anita and the Dragons" which @lantanapub publish. They have another two by her as well 😊

@librarymice @lauraobuobi @HarperCollinsCh She’s a new discovery for me but I’m very happy to have found this book.

#NewIllustrationoftheDay. Delicious colour (which reminds me of pink icing and glacé cherries), soft textures and the naivety of folk art in Brazilian artist Anna Cunha’s image from ⁦@lauraobuobi⁩’s What Love Looks Like, out earlier this month from ⁦@HarperCollinsCh⁩

@Modchick @laurenlaverne Mine too 😣

@librarymice @laurenlaverne Well done your right! But out of my price range sadly

@laurenlaverne please where is this dress from?

@PaulWat5 @Misterbodd @smithsmm @Teacherglitter @KarlDuke8 @AdrianBethune @MrEFinch @StephenConnor7 @LTeacher123 @rumena_aktar @RobCrossley4 @f This is about to be released and is lovely for younger children. Barroux always gets the tone right.

Please add suggestions of other books that you think should be shared to help educate children. @Misterbodd @smithsmm @Teacherglitter @KarlDuke8 @AdrianBethune @MrEFinch @StephenConnor7 @LTeacher123 @rumena_aktar @librarymice @RobCrossley4 @f

With all that is going on, think it is important to be sharing these books with children we when get back to school. #Teachers #Books #UK #Reading thegreatbritishbookworm.wordpress.com/2022/06/30/me-…

@PaulWat5 Jeffers' title Begin Again isn't necessarily for children and isn't about kindness or refugees but more of a "we are one" message which I think is vital when fighting the "us and them" narrative we are seeing

Books that highlight that being kind to strangers and those that are different matters. #Books #EduTwitter thegreatbritishbookworm.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/los…