My new year’s resolution generator for @GuardianBooks. Let me know what you get!
ALT Title: Still haven't made a new year's resolution? Let us help you generate one!
Image: a diagram which asks you to input “The year of your birth added to the number of pets in your home”, “The number of days in the current month plus your shoe size” and “The sum of the first three digits in your telephone number” which will seemingly make a random resolution but actually always* makes “support your local bookshop”.
*Unless you have size 68 shoes or a negative number of pets or some other nonsense in which case you will get the silly outcome you deserve.
The Expanding World of Data from @OxfordChildrens Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds series, written by Tom Jackson and illustrated by Ekaterina Gorelova & Ana Seixas, is reviewed by @StephenConnor7 📚🖥️
Authors always bang on about pre-orders because we need them in order to keep our jobs. So I thought I’d tell you what I’m pre-ordering for next year, because there are some CRACKING books coming, some of which I’ve been lucky to read early…
#113
The Little Big Things
Henry Fraser
A remarkable autobiography, recommended to me by a friend. Henry became a tetraplegic in 2009 following a freak swimming accident - his story of determination and gratitude is absolutely inspiring and humbling.
#179
Home in a Lunchbox
Cherry Mo
Largely wordless portrayal of a Cantonese speaker missing home - food is something that connects us all to memory and to others. Vibrant and soulful.
The story of Jonathan Humble and his marvellous Dirigible Balloon, an extraordinary online compendium of poetry for children. Now with 2,000 poems from 500 poets, all searchable by topic as well as author.