Tower Hamlets Schools Library Services

Congratulations to the winner of the Tower Hamlets Book Award 2025 - The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival! Congratulations Tom! Thanks to all the authors that came along for the day! It was so much fun! @simonschuster

Wishing everyone a very spooky half term break 🕸 👻We will still be open during the break, but we will be operating on skeleton staff💀 We can't attest to their reliability!

The votes are in and we can finally announce the winners of the Tower Hamlets Picture Book Award! 🥇 The winners are...🥁 Best Illustrations - We are the Wibbly Illustrated by Jane McGuinness Best Story - There's a Tiger on the Train written by Mariesa Dulak

A well-deserved and important win for @SarahHaggerHolt - The Fights that Make Us - at the @littlerebsprize awards tonight.

Ten years of the creative writing competition - always a privilege to give these out as prizes to amazing young writers in Tower Hamlets

@jprosewriter @TomPercivalsays @storyvilled @MJHowardWrites @DevyaniNK @MrEagletonIan

We are so excited to announce our 2025 Tower Hamlets Book Award shortlist! 🎉Thanks to the Canary Wharf Group Community Grants Programme for assisting with the funding of our book award and a huge congratulations to the shortlisted authors. We can't wait to see who wins🏆!

Just in time for Windrush Day! Here's a sneak peak of our newly created Windrush Generation artefact boxes! Celebrating the legacy, resilience & culture of a generation that helped shape Britain ⛴️🎉 #SLSUK #TowerHamletssls #windrushday #windrush

Fresh from the printers - the books from the second part of the Our Global History project - produced with the wonderful support of @AAF1895

@_BethanClarke @KaelTudor @rebecca_cobb @Karlwheel @zehrahicks @mrstwit @janelikesyou @nicolaslater

PICTURE BOOK AWARD 2025📚 We are back in 2025 to celebrate five outstanding new picture books with our 5 Days of Stories! We are excited to find out who Tower Hamlets schools will vote as the winner! 👏 #SLSUK #picturebooks #reading #TowerHamlets #TowerHamletsSLS

@FaberBooks @AndersenPress @BloomsburyP @Scholastic @LittleTigerUK

📚✨THe list 2025 — the ultimate teen book list from Tower Hamlets Schools Library Service — Packed with some of the best reads for young people this year. There’s something for everyone! #TheList2025 #TeenReads #YABooks #TowerHamletsSLS #SLSUK

📚✨ The Tower Hamlets SLS Must Reads 2025 are here! A brilliant collection of unmissable books – bold stories, diverse voices, unforgettable characters. Perfect for inspiring a love of reading for years 5 & 6. #MustReads2025 #TowerHamletsSLS #SLSUK

Full list can be found at our website: towerhamlets-sls.org.uk/takeoff25/

🚀📚 The Tower Hamlets SLS 2025 Take Off book lists have landed! Packed with exciting, diverse reads for years 3 & 4. Get ready to explore, imagine, and soar. #TakeOff2025 #TowerHamletsSLS #DiverseBooks

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After quite a few delays, we're on the move to our new home!

Exhausted after the Book Award Finale! With @EarlyTrain who won with 'The Final Year', @nazneen372 , @NateLessore and @simonjamesgreen - all inspiring the excited readers and watching amazing school performances. So sorry @bookgirlsr couldn't make it - Twig Man came a close 2nd!

@EarlyTrain Fantastic to have you there! You really inspired so many kids who followed the award

Top to win the Tower Hamlets Book Award. Great shortlist. Voted for by local schools. Top laugh.