UK Waterstones Children's Laureate!!!!!!
Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant ...
"too classy" The Guardian
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Aug 12 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
V personal thread with a public punch line
A few days ago my sister was at the curfew tower in Cushendall. She met a man from Liverpool. They got talking and he realised he knew our Mum. More importantly that HIS mum knew our mum …..
More than knew her. Loved her. Said she had changed her life (for the better). Our mum went into education late - after we’d all left home. She did an access course called Second Chance to learn. When she completed it …
Sep 22, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Little thread of unravelling
This morning I went to a community special school which I often go to. I wasn't very prepared so I read them The Skull by @burstofbeaden
It turned into one of favourite mornings. The children - usually v distractible - sat rapt, occasionally making guesses at where the story would go ...
Dec 11, 2022 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I have various things to say about this article ..
People moan about celebrity authors but the reason publishers turn to big names is that there is ZERO national converation about children's books.
Nov 13, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Remembrance Day Thread:
In my mid twenties I was privileged to make the acquaintance of an elderly gent who had celebrated his 21st birthday during the Battle of the Somme.
He’d worked all his life with dray horses on the docks and canals. He was always immaculately turned out and wore a bow tie to church. A dandy and a flirt, I used to take him shopping and to mass ...
Nov 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The cacophony of crows grew so intense this morning I had to look out. The conker tree was FULL of corvids - crow, magpies, a jay - looked like Hitchcock was filming the Nogbad Biopic. What were they screaming at?
A young fox. They hounded it out of the garden and into next door, then next door but one and then back again. Twice.
