A fantastic award and brilliant panel, including our very own Primary Advisory Teacher Darren Matthews

Woot!! Just Sayin' is out now! 😄

I'm so happy that #ImpossibleQuestions is @booksforkeeps Book of the Week, thank you!!
'infectiously enthusiastic'
'a book you’ll want to return to again and again'
Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK BloomsburyUS Kids/YA Aaron Cushley (he/him/his)

How does gravity work? Why do we need eyebrows? Do animals have imaginations? What’s the opposite of spider? Just some of the impossible questions posed and answered in this excellent information book! It's our new #BookOfTheWeek 🌟
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‘I just go where the best story is.’ Don't miss our new interview with Kenneth Oppel who talks ghost stories, fathers, and writing a love letter to Toronto. #Ghostlight out now from Guppy Books ow.ly/AHYC50Lf2Xl

Half Term workshops - come insect drawing with me at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History next week! Free sessions Monday and Tuesday afternoons for children 7 & up...oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/mini-gre…

Whether you're in the classroom or at home for half term, join me on Thursday morning 10am for a 💫 free 💫 author visit that combines science, non-fiction writing and huge amounts of fun!

The Bedtime Book of #ImpossibleQuestions is out now! Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK

‘I just go where the best story is’ wise words from Kenneth Oppel on ghost stories, fathers, and writing a love letter to Toronto. #Ghostlight

If you'd like a chance to win a fully signed and dedicated copy of The Haunted Hills, follow this link!
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Read all about it! booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/adapti… Wilton's Music Hall

Reminder that you have until Friday to download my Cambridge Element, Diversity and Inclusion in Young Adult Publishing 1960-1980, for free.

'I love the romance of lighthouses. Bastions of security on the edge of a tumultuous sea, they are symbols of endurance. And I enjoy the ghost stories that accumulate around them.'

NEW BfK interview with Kenneth Oppel about his new book, Ghostlight

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Come and celebrate the launch of Jump Up! join us online with our patron, the brilliant Ken Wilson-Max and George Padmore Institute on 2nd November.

All attendees will receive both Jump Up! And Dream to Change the World for FREE! Book now: ow.ly/Z9n450L0Ni8 #bhm #reflectingrealities

This will be a fabulous event—sign up and bring your children along!

The International Youth Library have published the 2022 White Ravens catalogue. This year’s edition contains 200 titles from 53 countries in 37 languages.
booksforkeeps.co.uk/the-2022-white…

I just need another lifetime to wander down all the byways signposted by Neil Philip!

For those who did and didn't catch my keynote at Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils Cheltenham Festivals, I cover some of the same ground here: youtube.com/watch?v=BpqHC1… #RTRP
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‘I try to draw situations which are unusual or where I’ve turned things on their head.’ My Rhinoceros by Jon Agee is our new #BookOfTheWeek and we're revisiting Jake Hope 💙's Authorgraph interview too ow.ly/L66I50L7wuH Scallywag Press