Mark Carter

@AmyGreatrex_RfP @woodbridgebks One for the TBR pile!

The wonderful @woodbridgebks window display. @markleecarter thought you would appreciate the new ABC #TaylorSwift board book. I wonder what the Z is for?! #readingforpleasure

Joining the exodus to the other place so this will be my last post here. If you are over there, please connect with me @markleecarter.bsky.social

A fun week last week convening and teaching @LondonRareBooks CHILDREN'S BOOKS. Huge thanks to all my excellent guest tutors, @markleecarter, @kaywaddilove67, @DrEmilyCorbett, Professor Martin Salisbury and @cgsloan, to guest speakers Abigail Reynolds and @CathAMClarke...

@Ebonyteach This was the very first film I saw in the cinema when I was 7 or 8. The wheelies were the most terrifying thing I had ever seen but I loved it.

@racheledini1 Mazel tov! Very happy to hear! xx

So, some news! As of next month, I'll be joining the dynamic Coventry University's School of Humanities as Lecturer in English and Creative Writing. Looking forward to collaborating with an amazing group of scholars and developing the hell out of some new programmes!

@TriciaAyrton @LondonRareBooks @pykelets Hmmm, it doesn't ring any bells - the only Mother Alphabet reference I've been able to find is this rather brilliant-looking example from 1917. Any more clues/date range/format?

@markleecarter @LondonRareBooks @pykelets I have been hunting for an Alphabet book that I once had and have now lost for many years. It was about a character called (I think) Mother Alphabet and her children. Can you help?

I *think* I have finally narrowed down the selection of ABC books to bring for my session at the @LondonRareBooks summer school with @pykelets tomorrow. I just hope I can carry them all!

Fantastic start of my week long course on children's books @LondonRareBooks talking about their impossible existence with @pykelets and about the many messages in and roles of ABC books with @markleecarter Loved every minute of it! Head bursting with new research ideas 🤯🤯🤯

@theTLtweets @LondonRareBooks @pykelets It was lovely to meet you and the rest of the class and share so many interesting discussions. Hope you have a fantastic rest of the week!

Drumroll please 🥁 We’re officially opening our doors on Saturday 1 July! Get ready to spark your creativity at our brand new museum for children & young people: bit.ly/3y6incU

@DrEmilyCorbett @LondonRareBooks @pykelets Now that's just not true! Hope you have a brilliant session too.

@markleecarter @LondonRareBooks @pykelets Mark, these look so exciting! You are putting me and my book selection to shame!! I hope you have a brilliant session.

@theTLtweets @LondonRareBooks @pykelets Looking forward to sharing them with you!

@markleecarter @LondonRareBooks @pykelets Archival boxes🤩😄 Looking forward to hearing all about those ABCs!

@pykelets @LondonRareBooks Live footage of the @LondonRareBooks tutors en route to Senate House next week.

@markleecarter @LondonRareBooks And you weren't even the wheely suitcase emailer!

Me to my @LondonRareBooks guest tutors: Please bring lots of books My guest tutors: *emailing me about wheely suitcases*

@theTLtweets @LondonRareBooks @pykelets Don't worry, they are on a table, not the floor! (And now safely in archival boxes inside the suitcases)

@markleecarter @LondonRareBooks @pykelets The librarian in me is screaming to pick them up from the floor*, the child, cannot wait to read them all!😄 *and alphabetise them, obsv. 😌

@phoebelambdon @UORHumanities And well done for all your hard work Phoebe, as well as for another superb paper on Fanny Keats!

And the DPD is over! So grateful for all the blooming amazing people from all across @UORHumanities to make this year’s event so brilliant 💙

@evey_reidy Your paper was so good, Evey! A great start to a great day.

How many beverages does it take one PhD student to get from southeast London to Roehampton to present a paper first in the conference line-up

@Ebonyteach Congratulations! Can't wait to read it!

@lechatelle @jhope10 @mumblerik

@markleecarter @jhope10 @mumblerik Oh! Can we see the book cover please?

We are so accustomed to abc books that follow the a=apple, b=ball format that we can forget there are other possibillities as beautifully explored in this wonderful work by @jhope10 and @mumblerik, B is Two Bubbles

@Nottingham_Jim @jhope10 @mumblerik

@markleecarter @jhope10 @mumblerik Ha! What's 'J'?