Someday: what happens when you accept the love you never thought you could have? "For as long as A can remember, life has meant waking up in a different person's body every day, forced to live as that person until the day ended. A always thought there wasn't anyone else who had a life like … Continue reading BOOK BLOG: David Levithan
Today, I have the utter joy of hosting author Peter G Bell on my blog, talking about the story opening in 'The Train to Impossible Places'. You'll also get to hear about his wonderful main character, Suzy, and her rationalist beliefs and how these relate to the action of the story and the reader. Hope … Continue reading BOOK BLOG: Peter G Bell
This past weekend, I was at an amazing day of CPD centred all around reading. At this conference, Piers Torday spoke and said something that has stuck with me, something I hadn't even thought of, but something that I think is so true. It's one of those quotes that just hits the nail on the … Continue reading Giving a part of yourself…
Hello guys! Happy Sunday! How are we all today? I spent all day yesterday at amazing reading CPD so I'm pretty tired today, but envigorated about reading in school! Today's #SixforSunday explores one of my favourite things: Favourite trilogies/series I am a TOTAL sucker for a trilogy. I LOVE getting to know characters and then … Continue reading S4S – Favourite trilogies
Hello friends! In the spirit of October being a spoooooooky month, I'm taking on a spooky tag! I was tagged by Cora (of Tea Party Princess fame) to do The Halloween Creatures 2.0 Book Tag, which was created by Anthony at Keep Reading Forward (who also created the original version). If you'd like to see Cora's post, check it out here! … Continue reading Halloween Creatures (2.0) Book Tag
I Am Human: a beautiful picture book, delivering an important message of empathy "I am human I am a work in progress Striving to be the best version of ME From the picture book dream team behind I Am Yoga and I Am Peace comes the third book in their wellness series: I Am Human. A hopeful meditation on all … Continue reading BOOK BLOG: Susan Verde
Hello friends! How are we all? What is everyone reading at the minute? I'm currently reading Someday by David Levithan (in preparation for the event I'm hosting with him and the AMAZING Laura Steven. If you're knocking about Newcastle on October 30th, come along... you can get tickets from Waterstones or click this link to … Continue reading Mini reviews – wrap up!
To coincide with National Poetry Day, we celebtrated at school with Poetry Week, where our English lessons all centred around poems. We in Year 5 had already done a week of poetry (it's what I started the year with), so when it came round the celebrating Poetry Week, the kids were enthused to say the … Continue reading Blackout poetry
Hello my friends! How are we all on this cool Sunday? I've been to town and am home now, doing a big of blogging before tackling school work for the week! What are you doing with your Sunday? We're here for #SixforSunday does: Best debut books I'm going for 2018 books (some of these I … Continue reading S4S – Best debuts
Hello there friends! Today I'm doing a tag I saw on my friend Amy's blog, filled with 'would you rather...?' type questions (Those of you who have seen any of my events know that I love a would you rather...? question!). Check our Amy's post here. 1. Would you rather have a friend who loses … Continue reading Would you rather…? Bookish edition
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