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✨📚 WIN this MASSIVE graphic novel bundle!!!! 📚✨
To celebrate our brand new PHOENIX COMIC MASTERCLASS with videos from @jamiesmart Laura Ellen Andersen, James Turner & more, you can win this WHOPPING bundle including tons of graphic novels, badges, standees, stationery, posters, balloons, bookmarks, a Donut Squad t-shirt & a Looshkin beanie hat! 📚✏️🎈
To win:
🎉 ‘Like’ this post
🎉 RT before 17.10.25
🎉 UK only
And do check out their videos & downloadable extracts at Authorfy.com/masterclasses (in partnership with @phoenixcomicuk) 🎥🥳 GOOD LUCK!!!!
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
7 Aug 2025
It's the summer holidays, which means that I have **two copies** of Primary Reading Simplified to give away.
Simply **retweet** this tweet for your chance to win a copy.
I will pick two winners on Sunday 17th August.
Good luck!
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
22 Jul 2025
A thought for the holidays. If you want your kids to get ahead - let them READ FOR PLEASURE! Let them discover the joy of reading for the sheer fun of it, with no strings attached, choosing for themselves, losing themselves in imagination. Everything else will follow! #literacy
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
7 Jul 2025
Big news! 2026 has officially been announced as the National Year of Reading by @bphillipsonMP.
We’re proud to join @educationgovuk to lead this national campaign to get the UK reading again.
#NationalYearOfReading2026 nationalyearofreading.org.uk
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
7 Jul 2025
Good news re the National Year of Reading 2026! ⭐️ @educationgovuk and @Literacy_Trust - ⭐️ Reading connects us all - looking forward to it!
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
7 Jul 2025
“Go with what the children want.”
Next year will see a 'reading revolution', according to the National Literacy Trust, declaring 2026 a 'year of reading'.
Children's author Michael Rosen tells #R4Today how he thinks we can get kids to pick up a book.
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
7 Jul 2025
I totally support the National Year Of Reading. We desperately need a culture of reading for pleasure to replace the culture of constant tests in schools, backed by proper government funding. And we need STORYTIME to be part of the school day, every day!
(Art @chrisriddell50)
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
10 Jun 2025
"It’s not that we can begin again. It’s that we must." Giving all children access to books. Giving all children positive early experiences with books: sharing wonderful stories; building solid emotional and cognitive foundations. Thank you for all you are doing @frankcottrell_b
9 Jun 2025
Dear MPs ... this is me in your in-house magazine - just a children's writer looking at power asking it to care
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
9 Jun 2025
EVERY CHILD CAN BE A READER. Give them the widest possible range of books; then let them choose freely & read for pleasure, with no strings attached. The books we love are the ones that make us readers – choice is a right all readers should have! #literacy
(Art: Quentin Blake)
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
6 Jun 2025
People sometimes say kids don't read any more. But as a children's author who visits schools up & down the country every week, I can tell you that if you give kids access to books, help them find ones they want to read, and let them read for pleasure - THEY STILL LOVE READING!!!
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
26 May 2025
READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So whatever else you do - please never stop reading books with kids & encouraging them to read. Never stop helping them find books to read & love. Never stop changing lives. #literacy
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Please retweet! @queenkarenclyne @Bozzle @Sally_writes @riewriting @Natalie_Denny_ @BooksandChokers @catherinebruton @BooksTales @Books_n_friends @7Stories @ClareHelenWelsh @alanpeat @frankcottrell_b @7Stories
I've started something over on Facebook!
Feel free to join a new group for book-lovers, parents and educators to encourage a love of reading for well-being both within ourselves and our young people.
#readingcommunity #readforfun #ReadForEmpathy
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I've started something over on Facebook!
Feel free to join a new group for book-lovers, parents and educators to encourage a love of reading for well-being both within ourselves and our young people.
#readingcommunity #readforfun #ReadForEmpathy
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Safiyyah's War is amazing! Looking forward to 'The Line they drew through us.'
✨ WIN!!!! ✨✨
To celebrate our brand new masterclass with @HibaNoorKhan1 at Authorfy.com/masterclasses, we’re giving away 5 signed copies of her stunning new book ‘The Line They Drew Through Us’.
To enter:
📙 ‘Like’ this post
📙 RT by 18.04.25
📙 UK only
About ‘The Line They Drew Through Us’: Three best friends are born on the same day under miraculous circumstances. But by their twelfth birthday, Jahan, Ravi and Lakshmi’s lives are about to change forever. The British announce Indian independence and draw lines of Partition that tear apart the country, and the friends. One of them flees, one of them disappears, and the other is left wondering, could a miracle bring them back together?
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Dogman and Bunny V Monkey so popular in our school at the moment!! Lets encourage the joy and fun of graphic novels rather than viewing them as 'not real books' #readingforpleasure #rfp
10 Mar 2025
Worth reading theguardian.com/books/2025/m… #readingforpleasure @OpenUni_RfP @HubSpringhill @RuddickRichard
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
2 Mar 2025
It’s March, a new month, which means it’s time for me to give away a class set of novels via my book shop @ANewChapterBks.
For a chance to win, simply retweet this lil tweet.
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
1 Jan 2025
Every month this year, I intend to give away a full class set of one book via @ANewChapterBks - I truly believe a full class set is one of the most valuable resources a teacher can have when teaching reading.
No faff to enter, just retweet and consider yourself in.
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
27 Dec 2024
In 2025, if you like an artists work online, share it. 👍
I see AI generated art getting thousands of views, while hard-working creatives go unnoticed. Artists don't exist in a vacuum, creative people need the oxygen of support to find their audience . . .
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MrsA-Y2 retweeted
28 Dec 2024
I’ve written about reading as an antidote to #brainrot for @ftweekend 📚
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