Hannah Baker
@mrsbaker6.bsky.social
Primary Literacy Consultant • Literacy Tree 📖
Mum of 7yo • Singer • Book Blogger 🎶
UKLA Regional Rep Coordinator ✍️
Based in Yorkshire • Manx 🇮🇲
MEd • NPQH • NPQLL 📚
Views my own
http://mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com
Mum of 7yo • Singer • Book Blogger 🎶
UKLA Regional Rep Coordinator ✍️
Based in Yorkshire • Manx 🇮🇲
MEd • NPQH • NPQLL 📚
Views my own
http://mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com
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#UKLALucky13 Discover #WildJourney by A.M. Dassu, a gorgeous, linked collection of contemporary adventure stories, set across the world and inspired by the migratory flight of starlings. Stunningly illustrated in 🟧 & ⬛️ by Joe Lillington. RT to win a signed copy!
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
#UKLALucky13 Discover #WildJourney by A.M. Dassu, a gorgeous, linked collection of contemporary adventure stories, set across the world and inspired by the migratory flight of starlings. Stunningly illustrated in 🟧 & ⬛️ by Joe Lillington. RT to win a signed copy!
📣 New book blog post: Accessible books for children who love gaming and online adventuring 🕹️🎮💻📖👇
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Accessible books for children who love gaming and adventuring online
This half term, I am experiencing the absolute joy of delivering two ‘Finding their Story’ book clubs in two Wakefield Primary schools. I am now three weeks into my four-week book club …
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October 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
📣 New book blog post: Accessible books for children who love gaming and online adventuring 🕹️🎮💻📖👇
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Getting my ‘book blankets’ laid out this eve - that must mean its time for another ‘Finding Their Story’ book club day! Week 3 of 4 this week for both my lovely groups. I’m excited to see what the children make of this week’s recs & what they have say about the books they borrowed last week 🫶📚
October 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Getting my ‘book blankets’ laid out this eve - that must mean its time for another ‘Finding Their Story’ book club day! Week 3 of 4 this week for both my lovely groups. I’m excited to see what the children make of this week’s recs & what they have say about the books they borrowed last week 🫶📚
Week 2 for both book club groups today: following the directions readers are guiding me in as they tell me about themselves & their reading preferences, exposing them to books they might enjoy & letting them explore/choose what they want to try out next 🧭🗺️
October 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Week 2 for both book club groups today: following the directions readers are guiding me in as they tell me about themselves & their reading preferences, exposing them to books they might enjoy & letting them explore/choose what they want to try out next 🧭🗺️
Happy National Poetry Day! Today I’m sharing Benjamin Zephaniah’s Poem ‘People Need People’ illustrated by Nila Aye. A simple poem about the importance of community, friendship & relationship for us all & I don’t think the reminder could be any more timely 💙🌎 #peopleneedpeople
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Happy National Poetry Day! Today I’m sharing Benjamin Zephaniah’s Poem ‘People Need People’ illustrated by Nila Aye. A simple poem about the importance of community, friendship & relationship for us all & I don’t think the reminder could be any more timely 💙🌎 #peopleneedpeople
I can’t wait to share these recommendations with my ‘Finding their Story’ book clubs at Stanley Grove Primary & Jerry Clay Primary tomorrow! I’m excited to see which they’re most drawn to in each group from my curated lists based on what they told me about themselves 🥰 #readeridentity
October 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I can’t wait to share these recommendations with my ‘Finding their Story’ book clubs at Stanley Grove Primary & Jerry Clay Primary tomorrow! I’m excited to see which they’re most drawn to in each group from my curated lists based on what they told me about themselves 🥰 #readeridentity
A joy to kick off my ‘Finding Their Story’ book clubs in both Stanley Grove and Jerry Clay Primaries today, both part of @accomplishmat.bsky.social A 4-week book club to help children find the books that make them tick the most #lovewhatIdo 🥰📚
September 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A joy to kick off my ‘Finding Their Story’ book clubs in both Stanley Grove and Jerry Clay Primaries today, both part of @accomplishmat.bsky.social A 4-week book club to help children find the books that make them tick the most #lovewhatIdo 🥰📚
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Your 2026 UKLA Book Awards Longlists are here - the only national children’s book awards judged by teachers!
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
September 16, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Your 2026 UKLA Book Awards Longlists are here - the only national children’s book awards judged by teachers!
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
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The stories we connect with when we're little can shape us into lifelong readers. 👴 📖
Let’s take a look at Team Literacy Tree’s current favourites… and the books that got us here. Next up, @literacyhannah.bsky.social
What books shaped you into the reader you are today? 💭 👇
Let’s take a look at Team Literacy Tree’s current favourites… and the books that got us here. Next up, @literacyhannah.bsky.social
What books shaped you into the reader you are today? 💭 👇
August 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The stories we connect with when we're little can shape us into lifelong readers. 👴 📖
Let’s take a look at Team Literacy Tree’s current favourites… and the books that got us here. Next up, @literacyhannah.bsky.social
What books shaped you into the reader you are today? 💭 👇
Let’s take a look at Team Literacy Tree’s current favourites… and the books that got us here. Next up, @literacyhannah.bsky.social
What books shaped you into the reader you are today? 💭 👇
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Delighted to be the first stop on this week's giveaway tour for the hilarious new book in @nadiashireen.bsky.social's Grimwood series, Rock the Vote! There are three copies as prizes so to enter, just like, share and tag two friends you'd also like to win. Closes at 8:00pm on Tuesday 15th July.
July 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Delighted to be the first stop on this week's giveaway tour for the hilarious new book in @nadiashireen.bsky.social's Grimwood series, Rock the Vote! There are three copies as prizes so to enter, just like, share and tag two friends you'd also like to win. Closes at 8:00pm on Tuesday 15th July.
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New blog post for the weekend 📢! My reflections on the book 'After' by Pádraig Kenny, the role we are collectively giving to AI and the human traits that will always shout the loudest in the end: mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/a...
After by Pádraig Kenny
I am always a little nervous about reading a book by an author I’ve thought is brilliant following my first encounter with their work as I so desperately want their following books to pack the same…
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July 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
New blog post for the weekend 📢! My reflections on the book 'After' by Pádraig Kenny, the role we are collectively giving to AI and the human traits that will always shout the loudest in the end: mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/a...
New blog post for the weekend 📢! My reflections on the book 'After' by Pádraig Kenny, the role we are collectively giving to AI and the human traits that will always shout the loudest in the end: mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/a...
After by Pádraig Kenny
I am always a little nervous about reading a book by an author I’ve thought is brilliant following my first encounter with their work as I so desperately want their following books to pack the same…
mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com
July 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
New blog post for the weekend 📢! My reflections on the book 'After' by Pádraig Kenny, the role we are collectively giving to AI and the human traits that will always shout the loudest in the end: mrsbakersbooks.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/a...
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A National Year of Reading 2026 👏👏 to ‘change the nation’s culture’ is Good News! 👏👏 A DfE initiative with NLT as delivery partner @jonnybid.bsky.social @jonny-walker.bsky.social @rootedinreading.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social Do share and get involved! 👏 www.nationalyearofreading.org.uk
July 8, 2025 at 6:02 AM
A National Year of Reading 2026 👏👏 to ‘change the nation’s culture’ is Good News! 👏👏 A DfE initiative with NLT as delivery partner @jonnybid.bsky.social @jonny-walker.bsky.social @rootedinreading.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social Do share and get involved! 👏 www.nationalyearofreading.org.uk
Sending well-wishes and positive thoughts to all Y6 teachers and school leaders today 💪🫶 #SATsresultsday
July 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Sending well-wishes and positive thoughts to all Y6 teachers and school leaders today 💪🫶 #SATsresultsday
Teaching in West Yorkshire? Come and join us next year 🥰! 🫶📚
BOOKING OPEN NOW FOR OUR OU UKLA TEACHERS’ READING GROUP✨
📚Brilliant feedback from this year’s group
📚Led by the passionate @MrsBaker6
📚Come & talk about literature, enhance knowledge & access OU Reading for pleasure materials
Booking link👇🏼
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📚Brilliant feedback from this year’s group
📚Led by the passionate @MrsBaker6
📚Come & talk about literature, enhance knowledge & access OU Reading for pleasure materials
Booking link👇🏼
docs.google.com/forms/d/1T7Ytu…
July 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Teaching in West Yorkshire? Come and join us next year 🥰! 🫶📚
An update about the upcoming @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Blether session next Thursday: Craig Barr Green, winner of the 3-6+ category and author of ‘Gina Kaminski Saves the Wolf’ will be joining too! Sign up at: bit.ly/45QRg7Z
July 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
An update about the upcoming @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Blether session next Thursday: Craig Barr Green, winner of the 3-6+ category and author of ‘Gina Kaminski Saves the Wolf’ will be joining too! Sign up at: bit.ly/45QRg7Z
UKLA members – don’t miss our final Book Blether of the year! 📚 Join @uklitassociation.bsky.social Reps on 10th July, 7–8pm, on Zoom to chat about the UKLA Book Awards books. Share your 2025 favourites or just listen in for some brilliant summer reading recommendations: bit.ly/45QRg7Z
July 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
UKLA members – don’t miss our final Book Blether of the year! 📚 Join @uklitassociation.bsky.social Reps on 10th July, 7–8pm, on Zoom to chat about the UKLA Book Awards books. Share your 2025 favourites or just listen in for some brilliant summer reading recommendations: bit.ly/45QRg7Z
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Wonderful to see the team together today.
Welcome to a few new members too 🧡
Preparing for a strong September start is key 🙌🏻
All our English Hub programmes are now full for 2025-26. We will be confirming your places very soon!🙌🏻
Look out for our TRG by @MrsBaker6 this week
Welcome to a few new members too 🧡
Preparing for a strong September start is key 🙌🏻
All our English Hub programmes are now full for 2025-26. We will be confirming your places very soon!🙌🏻
Look out for our TRG by @MrsBaker6 this week
June 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Wonderful to see the team together today.
Welcome to a few new members too 🧡
Preparing for a strong September start is key 🙌🏻
All our English Hub programmes are now full for 2025-26. We will be confirming your places very soon!🙌🏻
Look out for our TRG by @MrsBaker6 this week
Welcome to a few new members too 🧡
Preparing for a strong September start is key 🙌🏻
All our English Hub programmes are now full for 2025-26. We will be confirming your places very soon!🙌🏻
Look out for our TRG by @MrsBaker6 this week
Well this weekend at the @uklitassociation.bsky.social International Conference in Liverpool has been brilliant. Travelling home with a full heart (and brain!) and with hope for what is possible. Glasgow next year 🥰!
June 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Well this weekend at the @uklitassociation.bsky.social International Conference in Liverpool has been brilliant. Travelling home with a full heart (and brain!) and with hope for what is possible. Glasgow next year 🥰!
En route to Liverpool for the @uklitassociation.bsky.social International Conference! Excited to learn lots, be inspired, see friends, make new friends and find out who has won the UKLA Book Awards ☺️
June 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
En route to Liverpool for the @uklitassociation.bsky.social International Conference! Excited to learn lots, be inspired, see friends, make new friends and find out who has won the UKLA Book Awards ☺️
So excited to have won this month’s @uklitassociation.bsky.social ‘Lucky 13th’ competition! Thank you so much UKLA & @quartokids.bsky.social for this gorgeous, signed copy of The Lost Book of Undersea Adventure by Teddy Keen. It arrived today and is 🤩🥰
June 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
So excited to have won this month’s @uklitassociation.bsky.social ‘Lucky 13th’ competition! Thank you so much UKLA & @quartokids.bsky.social for this gorgeous, signed copy of The Lost Book of Undersea Adventure by Teddy Keen. It arrived today and is 🤩🥰
Happy weekend! A new blog post from me today on two more shortlisted books for the 7-10+ @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Awards: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow & The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival ⬇️. 2 weeks to go until the winners are announced 🤗📚! What a shortlist 👏!
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UKLA Book Awards 7-10+ Shortlisted books: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow and The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival
The UKLA International Conference in Liverpool is fast approaching, as is the equally eagerly awaited UKLA Book Awards ceremony where this year’s winners will be announced. With just two week…
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June 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happy weekend! A new blog post from me today on two more shortlisted books for the 7-10+ @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Awards: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow & The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival ⬇️. 2 weeks to go until the winners are announced 🤗📚! What a shortlist 👏!
bit.ly/402TT2J
bit.ly/402TT2J
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NEW in the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling ‘Unknown Adventurer’ series! 3 signed copies of THE LOST BOOK OF UNDERSEA ADVENTURE! By Teddy Keen are the UKLA Lucky 13th prizes for June. UKLA Members just RP to be in with a chance to win.
@quartokids.bsky.social
@quartokids.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
NEW in the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling ‘Unknown Adventurer’ series! 3 signed copies of THE LOST BOOK OF UNDERSEA ADVENTURE! By Teddy Keen are the UKLA Lucky 13th prizes for June. UKLA Members just RP to be in with a chance to win.
@quartokids.bsky.social
@quartokids.bsky.social
My heart is so full after our @jcenglishhub.bsky.social OU/UKLA TRG celebration event today! So inspiring to hear attendees present their work. Fab, committed educators having real impact on RfP in their schools, rooted in research ❤️📚 it works! @openuni-rfp.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
My heart is so full after our @jcenglishhub.bsky.social OU/UKLA TRG celebration event today! So inspiring to hear attendees present their work. Fab, committed educators having real impact on RfP in their schools, rooted in research ❤️📚 it works! @openuni-rfp.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social
I'm continuing to explore shortlisted books in @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Awards 7-10+ category in my blog this week. Next up: Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan & And I Climbed And I Climbed by Stephen Lightbown. Two more excellent books for UKS2/LKS3 classrooms! 👇
bit.ly/43x4iGl
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May 31, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I'm continuing to explore shortlisted books in @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Awards 7-10+ category in my blog this week. Next up: Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan & And I Climbed And I Climbed by Stephen Lightbown. Two more excellent books for UKS2/LKS3 classrooms! 👇
bit.ly/43x4iGl
bit.ly/43x4iGl