ToBeBooks
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ToBeBooks
@tobebooks.bsky.social
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Rebel booksellers, UK based social enterprise founded to sell children’s books so our profits can fund children’s libraries. #changebookdeserts #activists 🫶🏾🏳️‍🌈📚 p.s seeking investment https://tobebooks.co.uk/
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The interest rates on student loans are eye watering, to say nothing of the size of repayments to keep ahead of the added interest.
University education is now for the rich.
I wonder how many kids will choose a local university to save on living costs rather the one they should go to.
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Is there anyone in the uk kidlit community who would be up for helping me organise a fundraiser/auction for #KeepEyesOnSudan? I can't organise my way out of a paper bag but I can shout about things and persuade authors and illustrators to donate stuff #UKKidlit #KidLitUK
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The joy of podcasts for me is I go into a fugue state and never have any idea what I said afterwards. I'm pretty sure I mentioned Roy Orbison at some point but apart from that? BLANK. And I probably talked about Loki. Enjoy!
Today @louiestowell.bsky.social gives us the 5 tracks she will meet in Hell!

We talked about Louie’s journey to being an author; writing and illustrating Loki; separating art from the artist; ice cream; drones; jazz music AND Alex created a live mash-up for us.

Listen here: podfollow.com/hellish
Love it. 🤘 You need long hair and sparkles to be a real rock and roller.

Rock.It.Out!
I used to lean in as it neutralises the bully. Thanks! I’d love to be a girl. Cheers. Works every time for every insult. ‘You’re an idiot’ thanks! I’ve been working up to it. The frustration it induces in the name caller, ends it quickly and puts others off to boot.
‘Bastard you say nothing’ is used by the voice in my head when I must bite my tongue.

Friday news! I have broken into Halloween snacks from M&S for Halloween reading.
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Woo hoo 🎉Our ambassador Sita Brahmachari won The Malorie Blackman Impact Award at #TheDiverseBookAwards last night.

Congrats to all the other winners, and thank you to Abiola Bello and Helen Lewis for hosting another wonderful and important Awards.

#TheDBAwards @malorieblackman.bsky.social
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🎉🎉🎉 So thrilled to see this recognition for the wonderful Sita Brahmachari! Her latest ‘Phoenix Brothers’ is a poignant, funny and very timely story of teenage refugees. global.oup.com/education/pr...
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The people who follow me are monsters. MONSTERS. Nothing but the worst puns on earth, all the time. And i LOVE IT
Fried mushrooms are the breakfast of champignons.
Total game changer in getting more diversity into children’s books if it applies to writers. 🤩
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Duh, they need time to arrest pensioner protesters. Really, think of someone else’s problems for a change. 👀😂
Absolutely love that show. Watched it when it first came out. Love that they used Dane’s. Arsling was a term I used a lot for a while.
Aww thank you! It’s Libro.fm s good work that makes it possible. Yay for alternative tech bro’s.
You would make an excellent Dickens now it’s mentioned. A Christmas special! 🤩 Do it! Do it! Do it!

Come on BBC! This is the sort of thing I pay my licence for! (Some of us want more than Strictly)
And if you don’t want to buy it from a soul sucking planet destroyer you can get it via our @libro.fm shop and the proceeds go to charity. (No shade Helen sorry 😬😂🫶) libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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Just heard that we have 150,000 children signed up for Michael Rosen Day on November 13.
Wouldn't it be great if, when I'm doing my show, I could see them all....?
[Go to my website for the 'Find out more' link to be live]
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ICYMI yesterday, this is my contribution to the @literacy-trust.bsky.social National Year of Reading. Loki's instructions on becoming a terrible reader. In the Galadriel sense of beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night all shall love you and despair. #Lokifesto #KidLitUK #Edusky