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All about children's & YA books for teachers, parent & librarians!📚 Sharing teacher reviews, extracts, author interviews. #kidlit #rfp 📧: [email protected]

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Carl Hendrick
Carl Hendrick@C_Hendrick·
My sense is that the emergence of frontier AI has created 3 types of users right now which is effectively running a real-time social experiment in cognition: 1.) Group 1 (bootstrappers) - those who are using it to bootstrap their thinking and to learn as much as they can 2.) Group 2 (offloaders) - those who use it to avoid all thinking and yet are producing high quality outputs but learn absolutely nothing 3.) Group 3 is (business as usual) - those who more or less ignore it, or use it like a slightly better Google.
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Barbara Band
Barbara Band@bcb567·
I've never understood how institutions that are in the business of teaching children to read and learn and acquire numerous skills and qualifications do not consider a library to be an essential part of this process.
Sue Williamson MBE@librarychampion

Did you know that in the UK, we spend £12 per capita on our public libraries, while the European average is £25 and in Finland, they spend £50 per capita? We insist that there are libraries in our prisons, but not in our schools and public libraries are constantly under threat.

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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet." Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution. Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer. The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss. The wool is then: - Naturally flame-retardant - Naturally antibacterial - Moisture-wicking - Biodegradable - Renewable, annually - Carbon-storing while in use The replacement, in performance fabrics: - Polyester - Polyamide - Acrylic - Polypropylene - All petroleum-derived - All shedding microplastics on every wash - All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce - All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals. A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years. The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic. The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer. The polymer also has not been asked. Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made. Brian is selling it at a loss. The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical. Reject plastic. Wear wool. Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.
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Kenechi Udogu
Kenechi Udogu@KenechiUdogu·
Augmented has won the People's Book Prize in the Children's Literature Category! What a way to start the month! Exceptionally happy as this is an award voted for by the public. Thanks to the team, and congratulations to all the other winners! peoplesbookprize.com/https://people… @FaberBooks
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Camus
Camus@newstart_2024·
This MRI study on young kids just exposed something terrifying: They scanned the brains of 60 children aged 3–5 — including 5-year-old Rose — and found interactive screen time is causing measurable loss of white matter in their developing brains. Even just 2 hours a day is linked to impaired neural connectivity, language, and literacy development. Professor Mike Nagel (neuroscientist and father) said his first reaction was simply: “Wow… I was not anticipating seeing anything like that.” We’re physically changing children’s brains before they even start school — and the damage is visible on scans. This one actually unsettled me. I’ve always suspected too much screen time was bad, but seeing real white matter loss in toddlers hits different. Parents of little ones — has this kind of research changed how much screen time you allow?
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Author Sophie Anderson talks to @ReadingZone about The House with Chicken Legs Runs Away, the sequel to her international bestseller @Usborne "The characters from The House with Chicken Legs have stayed with me - I've thought about them often." ▶️ readingzone.com/authors/sophie…
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The #CLiPPA26 poetry award shortlist is announced - and @ReadingZone has a set of shortlisted books to give away! ➡️RT & share to enter the draw. ➡️Ends 5pm today! ➡️Inspire a love of poetry - take part in the CLiPPA Shadowing Scheme: readingzone.com/news/clippa-po…
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