If you don't have any luck getting Oasis tickets, I've still got a few left for the Building A Classroom Reading Culture sessions I'm running next term. Happy to have Wonderwall playing in the background if that helps. eventbrite.co.uk/o/jon-biddle-9…

Elephant and dancer at #CowleyRoadCarnival - love the vibe of multi-community-ness going on today

This was gorgeous and timely. Thank you BBC Radio 4 Today Especially in the (nightmarish) light of what happened here at Spellow Lane.

You tell em, Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 ! I’m sangry too!

Gazing into a buttefly's eyes...theguardian.com/environment/ar…

KS1/2 teachers - here’s a useful resource to intro biology!

The world is paying a terrible price for intensive poultry farming: "The origins of all highly pathogenic avian influenzas – the ones that cause severe disease and death – have been tracked back to poultry farms." theguardian.com/environment/ar…

A date for your diary! We will announce the winner of the 2024 #KlausFluggePrize one week today, Wednesday 11 Sept. Meanwhile, enjoy our Shortlist Sketchbook films & hear these talented illustrators discuss the shortlisted books #illustration #PictureBooks youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Aweeee it turned into a star.

Year 2 are enjoying learning about their class author Mini Grey. We have loved reading her books and finding facts out about her. Today, we made some Biscuit Bear friends! 🧸🍪📕

"I feel at ease in nature. Drawing things that I see, sculpting silly twig installations, collecting leaves & so on. Nature's palettes & compositions are gorgeous always." NEW #KlausFluggePrize shortlist Q&A with Sarthak Sinha #illustration #picturebooks klausfluggeprize.co.uk/2024/farah-lov…

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield. ‘Cake’ (Yes, it is a painting - from Third Picture Book, 1971)

Behind the scenes of the children's TV series The Banana Splits (1968).

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Sarah McIntyre from Adventure Mice: The Ghostly Galleon with Philip Reeve. Using her familiar precision, detail, sense of fun, stylishness. A picture (as on every page) to pore over. Out (paperback) from ⁦David Fickling Books⁩ on 12 Sept. @Jabberworks

Adventuremice: The Ghostly Galleon by Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve is a stunning addition to the series. Phoebe and I agree it’s the best one yet. The added mystery really got Phoebe thinking and she loved going back and spotting the clues after. Out on Thursday David Fickling Books

Creating one of the most remote chapels in Britain After my recent pilgrimage to Iona, I travelled on to the Island of Gometra just across the water. On Gometra (which is located off the Island of Ulva, off the Island of Mull), I had the same sense as on Iona that it was a

I need to know what happened here in 1620.

Great to see this article about my awesome sister in The Times and The Sunday Times today. Very studiedly not looking at the comments...

I'm so grateful to have this unique and magical shell connection with Nadia Shireen & Frank Cottrell-Boyce on the The Island of Brilliant! This month I recommend amazing books by Piers Torday benjamin dean Molly Potter The Catchpole Agency Francine Pascal have a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/2uLNKL…

Underwater folk...