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Tower Hamlets Schools Library Services @thsls
Joined March 2009
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Congratulations to the winner of the Tower Hamlets Book Award 2025 - The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival! Congratulations Tom! Thanks to all the authors that came along for the day! It was so much fun! @simonschuster
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Wishing everyone a very spooky half term break 🕸 👻We will still be open during the break, but we will be operating on skeleton staff💀 We can't attest to their reliability!
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The votes are in and we can finally announce the winners of the Tower Hamlets Picture Book Award! 🥇 The winners are...🥁 Best Illustrations - We are the Wibbly Illustrated by Jane McGuinness Best Story - There's a Tiger on the Train written by Mariesa Dulak
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A well-deserved and important win for @SarahHaggerHolt - The Fights that Make Us - at the @littlerebsprize awards tonight.
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Ten years of the creative writing competition - always a privilege to give these out as prizes to amazing young writers in Tower Hamlets
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We are so excited to announce our 2025 Tower Hamlets Book Award shortlist! 🎉Thanks to the Canary Wharf Group Community Grants Programme for assisting with the funding of our book award and a huge congratulations to the shortlisted authors. We can't wait to see who wins🏆!
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@jprosewriter @TomPercivalsays @storyvilled @MJHowardWrites @DevyaniNK @MrEagletonIan
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Just in time for Windrush Day! Here's a sneak peak of our newly created Windrush Generation artefact boxes! Celebrating the legacy, resilience & culture of a generation that helped shape Britain ⛴️🎉 #SLSUK #TowerHamletssls #windrushday #windrush
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Fresh from the printers - the books from the second part of the Our Global History project - produced with the wonderful support of @AAF1895
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PICTURE BOOK AWARD 2025📚 We are back in 2025 to celebrate five outstanding new picture books with our 5 Days of Stories! We are excited to find out who Tower Hamlets schools will vote as the winner! 👏 #SLSUK #picturebooks #reading #TowerHamlets #TowerHamletsSLS
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@_BethanClarke @KaelTudor @rebecca_cobb @Karlwheel @zehrahicks @mrstwit @janelikesyou @nicolaslater
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@FaberBooks @AndersenPress @BloomsburyP @Scholastic @LittleTigerUK
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📚✨THe list 2025 — the ultimate teen book list from Tower Hamlets Schools Library Service — Packed with some of the best reads for young people this year. There’s something for everyone! #TheList2025 #TeenReads #YABooks #TowerHamletsSLS #SLSUK
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📚✨ The Tower Hamlets SLS Must Reads 2025 are here! A brilliant collection of unmissable books – bold stories, diverse voices, unforgettable characters. Perfect for inspiring a love of reading for years 5 & 6. #MustReads2025 #TowerHamletsSLS #SLSUK
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🚀📚 The Tower Hamlets SLS 2025 Take Off book lists have landed! Packed with exciting, diverse reads for years 3 & 4. Get ready to explore, imagine, and soar. #TakeOff2025 #TowerHamletsSLS #DiverseBooks
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Full list can be found at our website: towerhamlets-sls.org.uk/take…
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Reminds me of something...
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After quite a few delays, we're on the move to our new home!
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Exhausted after the Book Award Finale! With @EarlyTrain who won with 'The Final Year', @nazneen372 , @NateLessore and @simonjamesgreen - all inspiring the excited readers and watching amazing school performances. So sorry @bookgirlsr couldn't make it - Twig Man came a close 2nd!
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Tower Hamlets Schools Library Services retweeted
Piers Torday
@PiersTorday
5 Nov 2024
But also let's have less of the moral panic like "shocking and dispiriting" - reading habits change constantly. They always have. The definition of pleasure evolves. This survey shows a shift in behaviour that is "revealing" "an opportunity for new ways to engage readers" 😘
The Guardian
@guardian
5 Nov 2024
Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
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