A thread of book awards 1/?
Book awards are great. They help bring attention to less mainstream titles, provide useful starting points for finding new books to read, give recognition to quality work of #authors and #illustrators, bring together great books on thematically, ... ... help us discover wonderful materials to recommend to readers, fill libraries with, use in lessons. Here are a bunch of UK-based (I've avoided local and intenational) awards that are worth a look, with the list featuring awards from the genral to the specific, & covering ...

Mega-thread 1/?
Here is a list of publishers of books, including fiction and non-fiction, relevant for Librarians and teachers across primary and secondary. I'm including the publisher name, along with their website so that you can take a look at/download their catalogues ... ... and sign up for newsletters, along with the twitter handles where available so that you can follow them too. I've included as many of the major publishers as I can think of, along with a pretty good list of smaller and diverse presses. While mainly ...

@greg_jenner @el_hembo THREAD:
An example of subject-snobbery at best. A line trotted out by those not working in education, and probably never sat in a media lesson.

When you have to denigrate the achievements of others you have to ask why? What is the motivation? @greg_jenner @el_hembo Is it in order to try to assert your own superiority? It smacks of ignorance and exposes surely some sort of fear.
What might that fear be? Fear that someone with a media grade is perhaps going to go into HE? get a degree? improve their social mobility & that of their loved ones?