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Rob Walton

@robwaltonwriter.bsky.social

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https://theemmapress.com/shop/childrens/please-dont-read-the-footnotes-please/ www.robwaltonwriter.co.uk “playful, zingy and warm”. Here for books 📚& active travel 🚴🏃🚶‍♂️👩‍🦽‍➡️. From Scunthorpe to Whitley Bay. @robwaltonwriter on other places.

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 7h

I read to find my place in the world, escape the world, find new worlds. Always have. Today I will #take10toread #ReadMCR with National Literacy Trust @theemmapress.bsky.social for World Mental Health Day.

Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 2d

I had a cheese salad sandwich (with homemade green tomato chutney) & a cuppa, listening to @RebeccaLeek_ s poetic Ditty Bag. You could have a fried egg sandwich, Greek salad or last year’s Christmas pud you forgot all about. Just make sure you give yourself 15 minutes to listen.

Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Reckon I deserved a few post-Storm Amy-parkrun treats today. Blowin’ a hoolie round here, like. #parkrun #whitleybay @parkrunuk.bsky.social

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Really excited for National Potato Day. Started queuing at the chippy last night to get first dibs. Even wrote a potato to celebrate. #nationalpoetryday #nationalpotatoday

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks very much to Helen Farish and @poetrysociety.org.uk for this.

The Poetry Society @handle.invalid · 9d

Rob Walton reads 'Record selector', a winner of the Members' Poetry Competition - Autumn 2025: 'Clearing', judged by Helen Farish.

Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 9d

Lovely publisher puts out lovely message about lovely review of lovely book by lovely reviewer.

The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social · 9d

“Looking for a book of short stories to appeal to those who love quirky humour and to inspire creativity? [...] I highly recommend this hard to define book" - Brenda Marshall, from English 4-11 @englishassociation.bsky.social on Please Don't Read The Footnotes Please by @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social🦣

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The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social · 21d

"To write something that children will enjoy, I think it's important to have elements of silliness, but also some heart" 🦣 Read our children's author @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social's interview with @peters-books.bsky.social!

Find the interview: buff.ly/RovCW03
Order the book: buff.ly/iCGywXO

Yellow book cover of Please Don't Read The Footnotes Please on a white background

Cartoon illustrations with quote "To write something that children will enjoy, I think it's important to have elements of silliness, but also some heart. I love the idea of children having fun with their teachers."- Rob Walton

Book cover with quote “Riddings Library in Scunthorpe was where it all started for me [...] That library, those bookcases, the windows, the porch and the loans desk are so clear in my memory”. - Rob Walton

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23d

Great to have some mildly scary poems for kids aboard the scary-ness express. scaryness.com

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Sep 8

Finding some great scary poems for children from a range of excellent poets over on scaryness.com #kidlit #childrenspoetry

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Sep 1

Delighted to be included in @brianmosespoet.bsky.social Back to School poems blog post alongside some top poetry pals.

Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social · Aug 30

New blog post: End of Holiday/Back to School poems Part 2. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/08/end-...

Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel

END OF SUMMER HOLIDAY & BACK TO SCHOOL POEMS (Part 2) (Copyright of all poems remains with their creators) First Day Back We said our tw...

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Sep 1

Brilliant offer here from @brianmosespoet.bsky.social

Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’ve taken delivery of 900 remaindered copies of my book of animal poems - The Budgie Like stories Boogie - and am offering FREE class sets (30 copies) to the first three schools that book me for online sessions this term. Details - brian-moses.blogspot.com/2024/01/virt... Reposts appreciated.

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Aug 28

Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent.
@friends_earth 👇
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Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent

Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...

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Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social · Aug 28

New blog post: End of Summer Holiday/Back to School poems by top children’s poets.

brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/08/end-...

Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel

END OF SUMMER HOLIDAY & BACK TO SCHOOL POEMS (Part 1) (Copyright of all poems remains with their creators) Home From Holiday Blues I’ve go...

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Aug 25

@thetoypress.bsky.social #word of the week is TRAIN, and this is a response… #kidlit #childrenspoetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great to receive You’re Never Too Much, thanks to First Ink Books @panmacmillan.bsky.social Charlie Castelletti. Pleased to have a couple of my things in this new anthology of “Poems for every emotion” for YA readers. My rubbish photo doesn’t do the fab cover justice- so you’ll have to order it.

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Hilary Elder (she/her) @hilaryelder.bsky.social · Aug 18

Here is a new blog post about some fantastic summer reading. Dive in!
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Summer time is reading time! a book review special – Hilary Elder

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Aug 18

Delighted to get my contributor copy of The Northern Gravy Anthology of Poetry.Thanks to Ed @ralphdartford.bsky.social @northerngravy.bsky.social Proud of the four poems I have in here. All, I think, quite different, but all my authentic voice. Go buy it - and their other anthologies.

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Aug 14

A Level results day. Daughter will be out with mates later. I’ve prepped her room for her return. #ALevelResultsDay #ALevelResults #ALevel

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The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social · Aug 13

Footnotes author @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social has done a lovely interview with the librarians of @peters-books.bsky.social, the legendary suppliers of books for school libraries which just so happen to be based in Birmingham too 💛 Check it out here: buff.ly/yqDyzIL

Yellow and blue border, decorated with drawings of notebooks and sweets, and in the middle is a quote reading: "I love the idea of rebellion and rebelliousness in literature, but that wasn’t my original intention. One intention I had was to ignore markets, genres and those ‘outside’ things.
I started to have fun as I was writing, and hope this comes across in the reading." Rob Walton. Artwork by Reena Makwana

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Aug 9

Proper parkrun morning. Course check, help the finish set up, run, then home to have bath time treats, including reading about parkrun thanks to @pauls-h.bsky.social Paul Sinton Hewitt’s book from @panmacmillan.bsky.social #parkrun #WhitleyBay

Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Aug 6

Big thanks to @elainefeeney.bsky.social and @wordsofhelen.bsky.social for tonight’s excellent short story workshop. Useful, helpful and encouraging. 👏👏😊

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Aug 5

Big thanks to @brianmosespoet.bsky.social for letting me loose on his blog. Also 👏 to @theemmapress.bsky.social Tyger Tyger and The Dirigible Balloon. brian-moses.blogspot.com?m=1 #kidlit #childrenspoetry

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Aug 4

Full interview at peters.co.uk/news-page/q-...

Q&A with writer and teacher Rob Walton - Peters

Writer, performer and teacher Rob Walton talks about his latest book, Please Don't Read the Footnotes Please, published by The Emma Press.

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Aug 4

@theemmapress.bsky.social @peters-books.bsky.social Peters do many wonderful things, including supplying books to the UK’s schools and libraries. They were kind enough to interview me, and publish my answers to their questions. #libraries #librarians ##schoollibraries #scunthorpe

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