OK UK artists: our kids are home from school indefinitely. Can we make a list of readings, YouTube videos, activities from writers and illustrators? I’ll start. 1/many (hopefully)
Humza Arshad @HumzaProduction reads from Little Bad Man, @Karyn_Parsons talks about How High the Moon, and @chrisriddell50 does a sketchalong in this 30 minute episode from the great Puffin Story Makers series
2/20
Emma Carroll @emmac2603 and her dog Olive take young readers on a tour of the real places in her 17c. novel The Somerset Tsunami 3/20
.@CressidaCowell talks to children about creating characters and using details in stories
4/20
This is adorable: Grove Junior School @GroveJnr students interview Varjak Paw author SF Said @whatSFSaid
5/20
Jamila Gavin @jamilaji talks about why she wrote Blackberry Blue
6/ 20
Elizabeth Laird and the Ethiopian Folk tale project have collected over 300 folk tales and posted them online: ethiopianfolktales.com 7/20
Chris Riddell @chrisriddell50 teaches three Ws of starting a story and create a character: 8/20
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself reads The Graveyard Book
9/20
Katherine Rundell talks about her inspiration for her books The Explorer and the exquisite Rooftoppers
10/20
Funnyman @davidwalliams reads from The Beast of Buckingham Palace (Slime, the new book will hopefully be out in two weeks when we're all finished with every single book in the house)
11/20
Tom Gates creator @LizPichon teaches kids how to doodle like him … on a t-shirt! 12/20
Some of this great content is thanks to children’s publishers. Their channels are filled with good ideas. Simon Kids for instance youtube.com/channel/UCTjLH… 13/20
For example, the History of Fun Stuff series has some great videos including the history of fire crackers:
14/20
On the HarperKids channel, US YA and middle grades author Lauren Oliver @OliverBooks teaches what goes in to making a book 15/20
The British Library has a fantastic set of resources on children's literature, such as this page featuring poet @JosephACoelho with an interview and readings bl.uk/childrens-book… 16/ 20
Running out of things to read? The Book Trust has a recommendation for 100 books to read before you're 14 booktrust.org.uk/books-and-read… 17/20
.@BFI and @intofilm_edu have put together a list of activities for primary and secondary children intofilm.org/news-and-views… 18/20
Lesson plans and activities to go along with films on the @BFI site, including a scifi module which will be a hit in my house. bfi.org.uk/education-rese… 19/20
My list is solidly for middle grades/older primary kids because that's where I'm at. Add your own ideas below because together we #BustBritBoredom 20/20
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