Mat Tobin
📚 Lecturer - Primary English & Children's Lit | Co-Author of "Understanding & Teaching Primary English" 📖
@lashaps.bsky.social
Developmental Psychologist at Aston University researching how children learn to read, and the long term benefits of reading. Music lover (wannabe trombonist). https://t.co/CVxBncGGLR
@alexjquigley.bsky.social
Education, education, education. Work at the Education Endowment Foundation. Write books, write for TES, and blog: https://alexquigley.co.uk/
@iancushing.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University. Documenting and dismantling linguistic injustice in schools. Editor, Critical Studies in Education. https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-ian-cushing
@damsoned.bsky.social
Dr Megan Dixon: teacher, leader and researcher. PhD, Psychology. All things education and research, with a focus on literacy, English, research into practice, curriculum, SEND. TES columnist. Based in the UK. Often found in schools and reading research.
@profsarahmcg.bsky.social
Professor of Literacy, University of Edinburgh. Connecting research and practice. Website: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/literacylab/
@robwaltonwriter.bsky.social
https://theemmapress.com/shop/childrens/please-dont-read-the-footnotes-please/ www.robwaltonwriter.co.uk “playful, zingy and warm”. Here for books 📚& active travel 🚴🏃🚶♂️👩🦽➡️. From Scunthorpe to Whitley Bay. @robwaltonwriter on other places.
@theemmapress.bsky.social
small press | big dreams Birmingham-based independent publisher of poetry, children's books, short-form prose and translations. www.theemmapress.com
@smithsmm.bsky.social
Headteacher, picturebook addict. Sometimes a bit ranty. Passionate about the best job in the world. #PicturebookPage All views are my own
@joshuaseigal.bsky.social
Poet/Performer/Author. Winner - People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. MA Writing & Education. Loves lemurs. Website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk
@evaeland.bsky.social
Picture book maker, living in Amsterdam. Shop with Risograph prints on www.evaeland.com. Books: When Sadness Comes to Call, Where Happiness Begins and Where is the Cat?
@reeceandrea.bsky.social
Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
@nicandcoread.bsky.social
Teacher. Linguist. Reading for Pleasure ❤️🌊 🌊 NE England. Currently reading: These Stolen Lives by Sharada Keats Reviews https://www.instagram.com/nic_and_co_read?igsh=MWRrNm0wZzNuNWt4bA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
@drjonreid.bsky.social
MBPsS, SFHEA, FRSA #CompassionEdRevolution Academic: SEMH Research Fellow: Children & Young People Network Vice-Chair: Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma Director: Centre for Recovery from Childhood Trauma
@isabelthomas.co.uk
Science & nature writer • Author of 300 books, with Bloomsbury, Phaidon, OUP, Hachette & many others • AAAS Book Prize 2020 & 2023 • Tortoise wrangler 🐢 🐢 • Creators' Rights Alliance Committee • School SEND governor • Cambridge, UK • www.isabelthomas.co.uk
@openingdoors.bsky.social
Educator, presenter and author of the award winning ‘Opening Doors’ series of books. www.searchingforexcellence.co.uk
@kateblyn.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ NTU Singapore | Interested in the history of children’s literature and poetry’s sounds 📚🗣️
@arenaillustration.bsky.social
Arena Illustration has become a well-respected go-to agency for the country's most talented creatives. Home to an enviable and carefully crafted list of illustrators alongside an interstellar cast of award-winners and best-sellers.
@afharrold.com
Poet, performer, children's author. The Imaginary, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Fizzlebert Stump, Greta Zargo and others. www.afharroldkids.com
@imogenm16.bsky.social
Year 6 Teacher, English Lead, OU/UKLA Teachers' Reading Group Leader based in Oxfordshire. CLiPPA judge 2024. Passionate about reading for pleasure! 📚
@amandaallenphd.bsky.social
English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
@deestevens.bsky.social
Making TV @ Tiger Aspect Kids (Mr Bean / Charlie & Lola / Super Happy Magic Forest) Making books @ Knights Of (Children’s Publisher of the Year 2022) Selling books @ Round Table Books (Children’s Bookshop of the Year 2023) Irish | they/them
@londonbessie.bsky.social
Writer type. Making it up as I go. 📖. #TheTwelve out now. Other books #TheIllusions #TheGifts & #Bearmouth. Fond of wanders. Lover of books, films, art & wildlife. Nerd.
@barbarableiman.bsky.social
Education consultant, writer of fiction & children's poetry; passionately committed to English as a subject, to education, and to the idea that learning is founded on dialogue. Poems on Dirigible Balloon & Northern Gravy.
@jgreenauthor.bsky.social
Author of many children's books; most recent ETTIE AND THE MIDNIGHT POOL & The Boy Who Sailed the World. Emeritus Professor of Writing for Young People at Bath Spa Uni. Live at the northeast coast. Love walking, wild swimming, reading.
@francestosdevin.bsky.social
Children's author rep'd by Lucy Irvine at Peters, Fraser and Dunlop. Picture books with UCLan Publishing, Quarto, Rocket Bird Books and Andersen Press. Website: www.francestosdevin.com
@poppybeckyart.bsky.social
Illustrator & Designer, looking for work! Children’s illustration, editorial, pattern design, greeting cards etc. BA(hons) Illustration 🌟 Based in the UK | She/Her | 24 https://www.poppybeckyart.com - portfolio
@jennycapondraws.bsky.social
Illustrator & graphic recorder based in Edinburgh. Listening, distilling & drawing to make complex information accessible with visuals. #visualthinking Also here for cats, maps, birds & kids books, poetry, nature, the sea. www.jennycapondraws.com
@joelillington.bsky.social
Picture book Illustrator based in the UK! I make #joesbrushset brushes for @Procreate - https://ko-fi.com/joesbrushset/ Some #gamedev! https://linktr.ee/joelillington
@mrjclements.bsky.social
I used to work in eduction (teaching, then research and writing) but now I’m spending some time writing stories. And very nice it is too.
@alexandradawe.bsky.social
Writer and artist in Devon, UK. Inconsistent poster. Dawe is pronounced 'door'. Rep'd by @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social The Stitchwort Curse published by @uclanpublishing.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/alexandradawe
@lintonlass.bsky.social
Looking for my tribes #Froebel #Education #EducationScotland #ELC #EarlyYears #EdD #StrathEdD #Equalities #Crafting #Books #Theatre #Posthumanism #NewMaterialism #BlocksRock
@ksandsoconnor.bsky.social
Always thinking about ways to bring literature representing ALL children’s lives to readers, educators, and researchers.
@libraryephemera.bsky.social
Librarian, gleaner, energy seeker. Love calls us to the things of this world.
@minilebowski.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer, part time primary teacher, ex Head, Chartered College Fellow, outdoor learning (Dandy Lions), author. 🚫DMs 🏳️🌈 safe space
@rcharlesworth.bsky.social
AHT & Reading lead. Writer - Children’s Literature, Masculinity, Fatherhood. @GoldUnivMACL @the_UKLA regional rep. #OURfP #UKLAchat #LetsTalkGraphicNovels He/Him
@karenswann.bsky.social
Picture Book Author. Rep'd by Mandy Suhr - StoryWise KarenSwann.com. Other socials @KarenSwann_
@neilphilipmyth.bsky.social
I post about folklore, mythology, poetry, children's literature, art, cats, nature and anything else that takes my fancy. Currently working on an absurdly over-ambitious "key to all mythologies", The Hidden Matrix for Unbound.
@lyndajgraham.bsky.social
UKLA trustee and Book Awards team UKLA.org . Croydon NEU committee.
@robcrossley4.bsky.social
Primary AHT, Y6, curriculum lead, loves kids books and GNs, Dad. https://latetothepartyreader.blogspot.#lovereadingscrapbooks #TextsOfToday Proud geek.
@simonkidwell.bsky.social
School Principal and NAHT Past President . All views expressed are my own.
@alisonbaker01.bsky.social
BA Primary lecturer at UEL. Children's fantasy literature researcher. Podcast host at Fantasy Book Swap. Trans rights are human rights. No DMs without asking first. I am a prolific blocker.
@helencooperbooks.bsky.social
Author and illustrator of ‘Pumpkin Soup’ trilogy. ‘The Bear Under the Stairs’ The Taming of the Cat’ and many others - mainly Children’s books. Northerner living in Oxford. helencooperbooks.co.uk
@nmvandy.bsky.social
MD at Bookshop.org in the UK, formerly Etsy. American living in London, usually reading and speaking bad French. 📚 The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
@susannahlloyd.bsky.social
Children's author of mid-grade fiction & picture books. Badgers Are Go, Who Ate Steve, Here Be Giants, Oh Monty, Here Be Dragons, This Book Can Read Your Mind & The Terribly Friendly Fox. Represented by the Catchpole Agency. www.susannahlloyd.com
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen' Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth' Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
@nicolamansfield.bsky.social
Avid reader, lover of snacks and partial to a wild swim. Part of the PiXL Primary Curriculum Team. All views my own.