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Kids' books are brilliant - we'll help you find the very best ones for everyone from toddlers to teens

Henley, UK Katılım Eylül 2012
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Jon Biddle
Jon Biddle@jonnybid·
I have a pupil in my class (Year 6) who did this in about ten minutes. She's massively talented. Some ideas about how to help her move forward would be very much appreciated. Art isn't really my speciality.
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Tom Palmer
Tom Palmer@tompalmerauthor·
@thebookseekers Sorry. I don't have control of that. It might be worth asking publishers?
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Tom Palmer
Tom Palmer@tompalmerauthor·
I'm working up a set of ideas and free resources to help schools, libraries and others with the #NationalYearOfReading. Tying in with events like the men's World Cup, summer holidays and Holocaust Memorial Day. It will be updated as we go... tompalmer.co.uk/nyr
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Darren Leslie
Darren Leslie@dnleslie·
What if the real barrier to comprehension isn’t vocabulary or background knowledge, but something even more fundamental: fluency? If a pupil’s working memory is tied up trying to decode each word, it never reaches the meaning. The cognitive load is simply too high. David Paige’s work is really clear on this: fluent reading frees up working memory so it can do what it’s meant to do, make sense of the text. Automaticity isn’t a shortcut; it’s the foundation that comprehension rests on. This matters for teaching. We sometimes expect pupils to analyse, infer and interpret before they can read with ease. That’s the wrong way round. Build accurate decoding. Build automatic word recognition. Build fluency through repeated practice and expressive reading. Once the mechanics are automatic, comprehension finally has room to breathe.
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thebookseekers
thebookseekers@thebookseekers·
@dnleslie @hmcmenamingmai1 @JenniferS8043 In concln, the literature on e vs. paper reading provides diverse findings, indicating that the “impact” of reading mode on comprehension and related factors is nuanced and context-dependent. The evidence does not unequivocally support the superiority of one mode over the other
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Darren Leslie
Darren Leslie@dnleslie·
Schools should be low tech, high text. Not because tech is bad, but because literacy is the multiplier. Screens split attention; deep reading builds knowledge and comprehension. Books should do the heavy lifting.
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thebookseekers@thebookseekers·
@dnleslie @JenniferS8043 Re 'We’ve got a solid body of evidence...' . Please point me to this research as the research I've seen does not support this.
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Darren Leslie
Darren Leslie@dnleslie·
I’m completely with you. We’ve got a solid body of evidence now showing that reading from paper tends to support deeper comprehension, reduced cognitive load, and better recall compared with screens. The same goes for writing by hand; it strengthens processing, memory, and conceptual understanding in ways typing doesn’t fully replicate. So moving everything online without providing devices, and without offering books as an option, feels like a step in the wrong direction. A balanced model that protects access and keeps books at the centre would almost certainly serve pupils far better.
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Jon Biddle
Jon Biddle@jonnybid·
I've got lots of amazing picturebooks about the oceans but now looking for a couple more. Any recommendations gratefully received!
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Bridget Phillipson
Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP·
The Tories' policy of an endless cycle of resits consigned young people to the scrapheap. White working class pupils are twice as likely to need to resit. Labour is putting better support in place to give them the vital English & maths skills they need. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/1…
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The Labour Party
The Labour Party@UKLabour·
Labour is rolling out free breakfast clubs, helping children start the day ready to learn and saving parents up to £450 a year.
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Bridget Phillipson
Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP·
The Tories left our schools to RAAC and ruin. The next generation will inherit RAAC-free schools from Labour, with rebuilds done in under a decade and all other schools cleared of RAAC by the end of this Parliament. That's national renewal. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce@frankcottrell_b·
What's the best children's book about life in primary school? Or starting primary school?
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Sarah McIntyre
Sarah McIntyre@jabberworks·
The algorithm isn't helping me, so if you could share about this upcoming sale, I would really appreciate it! Income from selling the original illustrations is a significant part of what keeps me able to keep making these books x
Sarah McIntyre@jabberworks

Less than a week away! 🐭🎨

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James Lucas
James Lucas@JamesLucasIT·
This is not Sora 2 It's Castle Combe, an actual village in England
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James Lucas
James Lucas@JamesLucasIT·
This oak door in Westminster Abbey, where monarchs have been crowned since 1066, is Britain’s oldest door. Although the abbey was rebuilt 750 years ago, the door dates back to Edward the Confessor’s original abbey in the 1060s, making it nearly a thousand years old.
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The Labour Party
The Labour Party@UKLabour·
A library in every single primary school in England. That is what this Labour government will deliver.
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Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves@RachelReevesMP·
Today I am promising a library in every single primary school in England by the end of this parliament.   That’s a statement of my values.   That’s a statement of the value this Labour Government places on all our children’s futures. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
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