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It's time to move on. Come and find us on Bluesky and LinkedIn
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It is finally time! We are excited to reveal the longlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration. 🎉 Congratulations to the wonderful authors and illustrators longlisted for the #Carnegies2025! 🖌️📖✨
View the full list here: carnegies.co.uk/2025-longlis…
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Public #Libraries are running lots of informative, entertaining events to mark #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek. Why not pop in to your local #Library and see what is going on - or borrow something from their #ReadingWell collection?
Join us at #Deanshanger Library on Wednesday 5 February between 10am-12pm and take part in a host of activities hosted by the #FamilyHub and @SaintsRugby to celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week! This is a free, drop-in event for all ages and refreshments will be available.
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It's #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek Libraries have the widest range of books to support and spark discussion. Look for the #ReadingWell for children curated booklist for information, stories and advice to support children’s mental health and wellbeing reading-well.org.uk
Our new research outlines the diversity in School Library Service provision across England, the positive contributions they make and the opportunities for the future. It's the first SLS research in nearly 20 years. Read more at ascel.org.uk/impact.
#SLS #ASCELUK
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As 2024 winds down, the ASCEL team wish you all a very Merry Christmas and New Year. Thank you to our team, Trustees, Members, Partners and Supporters for making 2024 so special for our new charity. Here's to 2025... keep your eyes peeled for our exciting developments.
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Read #CILIP, @CILIPSLG , @uksla & @ASCELUK's joint response to the DfE's Curriculum & Assessment Review. School librarians have a vital role to play in supporting children’s education in line with any curriculum. Read our response. #GreatSchoolLibraries
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🎥 | Let there be light!
#Spellow Community Hub and Library is illuminated once again!
#ShareTheLight
#CommunityUnity
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Spellow #Library will reopen its doors to the public this Thursday, 12 December. To mark this they ask that you light up one or more of your community libraries tomorrow evening, Wednesday 11 December. Post your images using #SharetheLight and #Spellow. librariesconnected.org.uk/ne…
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Had a brilliant time at the @ASCELUK in Derby. Was so good to connect with librarians and talk about The Love Dare and @hashtag_press
Next stop back to @YALC_UK We nailed the set up in 2 hours and I heard books sold out today so I'm excited to see everyone
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Listening to a warm & wonderful talk by @ManonSteffanRos
📚 “I have the privilege & honour to be someone who reads for pleasure”
📚”Writers have a responsibility to introduce readers to a happy future”
📚”Books show us we are not alone”
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Looking forward to recording and sharing my session on Taming the Anxiety Guard Dog that technology prevented me from delivering online for #ASCELWOW24. This will be even better because loads more people can see it! On my Substack end of next week.
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It was an absolute honour to speak at #ASCELWOW24 today. Lovely people and such a warm audience. Plus... I met @BerlieDoherty !!! I'm thrilled to share that she's just as engaging and kind as her novels would lead you to believe. I'm delighted.
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Listening to a warm & wonderful talk by @ManonSteffanRos
📚 “I have the privilege & honour to be someone who reads for pleasure”
📚”Writers have a responsibility to introduce readers to a happy future”
📚”Books show us we are not alone”
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Books, reading & young people with @ManonSteffanRos at @ASCELUK:
Power of translation, poetry is in our everyday language.
Reader finding something in the writing & writer returning something that is lost.
Books are a mirror, you feed into what you are reading.
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The wonderful @ManonSteffanRos brings our conference to an end. Talking of how and why she writes.
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I’m very excited to be hearing from this afternoon’s author panel about diversity & writing for YA at #ASCELWOW24, not least because one of the authors is @BerlieDoherty whose book ‘The Sailing Ship Tree’ was the first YA book I was given to read by my librarian mum age 11 ❤️
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So much to consider from @FireflyPress @hashtag_press @ABelloWrites @BerlieDoherty @nicolamorgan @readingagency @LGAChildren @libsconnected @Literacy_Trust all at @ASCELUK conference:
Raising awareness
Diversity
Sustainability
Shouty Alliances
Poverty Proofing
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Wonderful session by @isobel_at_sls
re: Book knowledge for teachers & librarians.
She had a queue afterwards!
SLS can help - a reading update service 😊📚
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Starting Saturday’s #ASCELWOW24 programme is @marcrowland73 with a thought-provoking talk about how libraries & schools can level the playing field for children through reading. It is conversation not word exposure that develops literacy & language.
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Next up at #ASCELWOW24 we are celebrating, addressing & recognising our own story, other people’s stories, and the human story with the truly inspiring @jeffreykboakye. Are we telling these stories to young people and are we giving them permission to tell theirs?
