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13 Jun 2020
Y’all! Excuse the screaming but YOUR GIRL IS IN THE TIMES! On top of being @GuardianBooks book of the month!!!
Things like this don’t just happen, so excuse me while I cry a little and freak the hell out🙆🏽♀️😩😭🙆🏽♀️
#theColoursThatBlind
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💜 SADÉ IS OUT TODAY 💜
#SadeandherShadowbeasts is officially out today 🙌🏾 Thank God.
🌟My only wish is that Sadé gets into the hands of all the kids and anyone else who needs it.🌟
It's OK not to be OK.
How it started vs How it's going
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6 Mar 2022
"If God forgives us we must forgive ourselves otherwise its like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than him.” -C.S. Lewis
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1 Feb 2022
When I wake up tomorrow I’m going to be a debut author 🥺
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24 Jan 2022
Nah. Been sleeping on myself this past year. Time to make proper waves! 💪🏽 🤞🏾
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THE COLOURS THAT BLIND - @ruruwrites
A breathtaking YA novel set in Zimbabwe. Tumi desperately wants to make the Zimbabwean national swimming team. Only in swimming does he escape the hatred and exclusion that his albinism brings him.
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25 Dec 2021
I hope you have a nice Christmas
Click for the full #booktree
@NaminaForna @faridahlikestea @timbertilley @BooksandChokers @laurenstjohn @ZillahBethell @jamieillustrate @ClareFPovey @KalynnBayron @ruruwrites @adiba_j @kacencallender @skinofthesea @SethPatrickUK @michellequach
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30 Jun 2021
🚨We've had to postpone this live to next week. Catch us with @ruruwrites on Wednesday, July 7, 6pm CAT!
28 Jun 2021
🗣️Mark your calendars.
We are going LIVE on Instagram this Wednesday June 30 at 6pm CAT with the remarkable @ruruwrites.
Join us right after our weekly #ComeWriteAlong session and end the first half of 2021 on a literary high!
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11 Jun 2021
This looks amazing @yaba_badoe!! Need to get my hands on one!
11 Jun 2021
How stunning is the proof of #LionheartGirl by @yaba_badoe??? 😍😍😍
And it's just as breathtaking inside! Publishing on 14th October and available to pre-order now.
Cover design by Leo Nickolls.
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15 May 2021
Is your class up to the challenge? Find @ruruwrites poem ‘The Store Full of Magical Things’ in Katherine Rundell’s eBook #TheBookofHopes. Find the eBook and resources made in collaboration with @KidsBloomsbury & @Literacy_Trust all FREE here 👉 twinkl.co.uk/l/ldbju
#edutwitter
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10 May 2021
Mark #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek with @ruruwrites' poem The Store Full of Magical Things, featured in #TheBookOfHopes. You can also take on her challenge to write a letter to a friend or family member who you'd like to send "a smile that can never fade." wordsforlife.org.uk/activiti…
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8 May 2021
Help your students mark Mental Health Awareness week with @ruruwrites' beautiful poem The Store Full of Magical Things from #TheBookOfHopes. You can also take on her challenge to send "a smile that can never fade". @KidsBloomsbury literacytrust.org.uk/resourc…
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7 May 2021
Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week, @ruruwrites reads her poem The Store Full of Magical Things from #TheBookOfHopes. She's tasking pupils to write a letter to a friend or family member and send them "a smile that can never fade". @KidsBloomsbury
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25 Mar 2021
Our #BookofTheWeek is “The Colours That Blind” by Rutendo Tavengerwei, a breathtaking novel set in Zimbabwe about racism, freedom and friendship.
#Reading #GreatSchoolLibraries #libraries #LovetoRead @Ninestiles @ruruwrites
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25 Mar 2021
Honored that #theColoursThatBlind is your book of the week. I hope you are enjoying it
25 Mar 2021
Our #BookofTheWeek is “The Colours That Blind” by Rutendo Tavengerwei, a breathtaking novel set in Zimbabwe about racism, freedom and friendship.
#Reading #GreatSchoolLibraries #libraries #LovetoRead @Ninestiles @ruruwrites
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28 Nov 2020
Loved doing this. Thank you so much @litfever 🤗
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2 Nov 2020
We are so thrilled to announce that we have three books nominated for the 2021 Carnegie Medal and one nominated for the 2021 Kate Greenaway Medal! 🤩
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo, @KerryDrewery, @ruruwrites and @TheSallyGardner & @RovinaCaiArt! Thank you @CILIPCKG! 🍾🥂
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2 Nov 2020
So honored to be nominated for this, together with such wonderful company too!
2 Nov 2020
We are so thrilled to announce that we have three books nominated for the 2021 Carnegie Medal and one nominated for the 2021 Kate Greenaway Medal! 🤩
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo, @KerryDrewery, @ruruwrites and @TheSallyGardner & @RovinaCaiArt! Thank you @CILIPCKG! 🍾🥂
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29 Oct 2020
If you were excited about #TheColoursThatBlind before, wait until you see these wonderful photographs of author @ruruwrites dressed up as one of her favourite characters from the book: Thandiwe 😍 Doesn't she look fabulous?
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28 Oct 2020
'The easy detail, authentic dialogue, nuance and humour... @ruruwrites draws characters that are conflicted, compassionate…I can’t recommend it enough.' – @aoconnell for @thetimes (Read more: bit.ly/2B9deXw)
#TheColoursThatBlind by @ruruwrites is out now! 🕊️
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