Me in the 90s. I loved my short hair.

A poem in the latest issue of Little Thoughts Press for #pride . Lovely to see Twitter pals Mark Bird aka DreamBeastPoems 📕 Linda Middleton 💜📚🌿 Josie De Falco 🌿, Delia Black and Stephanie Lupo Henson 📕 in there too 🌈

#childrenspoetry #poem s4kids #poem #poetry

I introduced you to Mila last week, from ‘Jakub’s Otter’ (out Sept). This week I’d like you to meet Enzo. It really is a novel, I promise, it’s just that one character, Marta, loves writing and keeps a poetry journal! #debutnovel #eek ! Troika Books

Double the Laura, double the fun!

✨️NEW BOOK!✨️

To top off my amazing week, I've just received my author copies of KINDNESS COMES BACK 💖

Gorgeously illustrated by Siân Roberts and published by Farshore

Out 1st August!

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#coverreveal #childrensbooks

Just a shorts one

Should Sarah Ziman aka BardyMum make plenty of noise on Twitter (never X) about all the lovely things folk are saying about her forthcoming book?

How about a bit of #Thursday #positivity tonight! I love an internal rhyme and just came up with this little #poem #poem s4kids Brian Moses Scallywag Press 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 Otter-Barry Books Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 #selfbelief EmpathyLabUK #FindYourOwn #findyourthing #findyourtreasure

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Congratulations Susan - looks gorgeous! 🌧️

If there's already a copy of #CornflakesAndGravy in your school, you'll get a discount when booking a Zoom poetry visit from me (which includes poems from my first book, coming in Spring 2025! 🎉). Please msg or see my website for info! #books #teachers #poetry #fun #schools

My YA #Splinters is out today. And I think I can take the first-to-last-draft trophy from SF Said ... It took me 15 years. To put that in perspective, my mum, now 80, was 65 when I started. And I looked like this.

Quick! Twisty dark speculative #YA lovers get yourselves a copy of this pronto! Happy happy book birthday to the fabulous Rachel Delahaye Lefever and of course to Jean. And Jean…

Roger Stevens’ brilliant Roger Stevens website has been publishing poems written by children for over 25 years, and there is currently a #competition for young poets where they could win an equally brilliant copy of ‘Zooming the Zoo’ by John Dougherty ⬇️

#BOOKGIVEAWAY thingy! KS1/EYFS teachers! #ATicketToKalamazoo (sister of #ZimZamZoom ) - fun performance poems aplenty! Groovy illustrations! Pls like/repost. Ends Mon. Live Zoom versions of both books available for KS1/EYFS classes! Otter-Barry Books Neal Layton #edutwitter

COVER REVEAL! My next poetry collection, released in Sep 2024. It's gonna be a good un 🥰