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Sara Stanley
@saralstan.bsky.social
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Author of Carnegie nominated One-Button and the Sea. School workshops & events, enquiry based literacy & philosophical play UK & SA. 💕 Also have a life where music, family & stories matter.
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Open for summer term bookings #edusky #reading #thinking Education
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Our very own @saralstan.bsky.social will be at the @writerscentre.bsky.social in Norwich on Sunday for an immersive storytelling event for One Button and the Sea as part of their #RefugeeWeek activities 👇🌊
Celebrate #RefugeeWeek with us! 🎉

Take part in immersive storytelling with Sara Stanley ('One Button and the Sea'), hear traditional stories from those with lived experience of refuge, and try your hand at Moomin-themed activities.

Sun 15 June, 10am–3pm, NCW. buff.ly/PZhdVXR
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FREE family drop in workshops all #Easter at the National Centre for Writing in #Norwich. Join me on Monday 7th April for an immersive storytelling & philosophical play session #schoolholiday
FREE family drop in workshops all #Easter at the National Centre for Writing in #Norwich. Join me on Monday 7th April for an immersive storytelling & philosophical play session #schoolholiday
Lovely video sent to me by one of the teachers at a township crèche where we have been sharing creative literacy planning around books . @scallywagpress.bsky.social @vivschwarz.bsky.social
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Today in masiphumele we carried on working with One-Button and the Sea and the theme of pulling together after a storm physically and emotionally. Lots of language & discussion as we re - created scenes from the book & our playing at being in a storm #storypower #community #Edusky
Today in masiphumele we carried on working with One-Button and the Sea and the theme of pulling together after a storm physically and emotionally. Lots of language & discussion as we re - created scenes from the book & our playing at being in a storm #storypower #community #Edusky
Doing a book reading at Exclusive books at V&A Waterfront this morning so of course I have woken up to a mosquito bite on my eyelid . Writers are supposed to look ummm , interesting right?
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Seascapes , paperboats and stories of storms from children in Masiphumele today @scallywagpress.bsky.social
It can’t possibly be him as this one is patterned but he must be a very close relative, probably made at the same time from the same pattern. He has had many repairs & stitches & lots of love. And now he’s all scrubbed up clean again & will be coming back to the UK for my granddaughter to love
I immediately took a photo and sent to my mum who said “Pinky Pig “ !!! As soon as I held him I could remember the feel of his overstuffed body and the one tiny patch of fur that I hadn’t rubbed off . It’s so visceral
Reassured me he had only gone travelling . And today I was in a charity shop here in Cape Town and felt a strong pull to go to the far end of the shop and look up . And there on a shelf, too high for a child to see, look what I found!!
Today the universe reconnected in a tiny way. When I was born my godmother gifted me a small plump sheepskin pig from South Africa where she still lives. Pinky pig was lost at sea on an overnight ferry to France when I was 7 or 8 & it was, as you’d expect, heartbreaking. But my mum 1/2
Seascapes , paperboats and stories of storms from children in Masiphumele today @scallywagpress.bsky.social
My favourite photo from todays session with the children, it captures the excitement and colours of #play #AntonLebowskiEducationalTrust
This is One-Buttons first ever #WBD and he’s off on a Cape Town adventure. Really enjoyed yesterdays book event at Moorlands Primary , taking lots of the children’s brilliant empathic thinking to share with others #uprooted. Thanks for having us @jonnybid
Join me in a free picturebook based storywriting creative #family day at Dragon hall #Norwich with the Norwich centre for Writing this Sunday. No need to book - just turn up anytime between 11.30 and 2.30
Seen them three times in Berlin -all amazing .Pompeii amphitheatre this July ,can’t wait & hopefully no injuries
But why are everyone else’s injuries so cool ? My only gig related injury was horrendous heel blisters from new boots walking to a Nick cave concert in Berlin
That’s definitely cooler 😂
Exactly that !! 😂
Excited to be delivering a copy of my debut #picturebook to my old college library in Cambridge tomorrow #Homerton
Most ridiculous injury this week? I’ll start … fracturing my sternum leaning over a sofa to stroke a cat
Big Congrats to the #Carnegie longlisted authors & illustrators. So proud of Viv Schwarz,the illustrator of our picturebook for her initial nomination & although this journey has ended I want to say a very big thank you to the wonderful librarians who do such a wonderful & difficult job 🤩
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Open for summer term bookings #edusky #reading #thinking Education