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Letterbox Library
@letterboxlibrary.bsky.social
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Est. 1983. Not-for-profit children’s booksellers celebrating equality, inclusion & diversity. Schools/EY supplier. Co-runs Little Rebels Award. Workers’ Cooperative. www.letterboxlibrary.com
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 1d
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CONGRATULATIONS to the first ever double prize winner of The Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social
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Little Rebels Award @littlerebsprize.bsky.social · 7d
🥳🎉CONGRATULATIONS🎉🥳

We are delighted to announce that the Winner of the 2025 Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction is @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social for The Fights That Make Us, published by Usborne.

Congratulations, Sarah! Our first ever double champion!!
#KidLitUK
Photo right hand corner of author Sarah Hagger-Holt. Under which is written the title of her book “The Fights That Make Us” and then “WINNER”. Left side is the book cover and, above that, a confetti shower.
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 10h
“A week to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced, and to stand with the people who write, sell and share them”.

#BannedBooksWeek is THIS WEEK!

Visit the Banned Books Week folk in the UK on X & @indexoncensorship.org

And in N America @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social
A screenshot of a tweet from Banned Books Week UK with suggestions for actions people can take including reading a banned book.
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Books for Keeps, the online children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 6d
Congratulations again to Sarah Hagger-Holt and to all the shortlisted rebel authors! Great evening celebrating with @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social Their book packs include excellent reading guides www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 1d
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CONGRATULATIONS to the first ever double prize winner of The Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social
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Little Rebels Award @littlerebsprize.bsky.social · 7d
🥳🎉CONGRATULATIONS🎉🥳

We are delighted to announce that the Winner of the 2025 Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction is @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social for The Fights That Make Us, published by Usborne.

Congratulations, Sarah! Our first ever double champion!!
#KidLitUK
Photo right hand corner of author Sarah Hagger-Holt. Under which is written the title of her book “The Fights That Make Us” and then “WINNER”. Left side is the book cover and, above that, a confetti shower.
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 9d
For all #KidLitUK Folk- all the latest children’s lit news & reviews & analysis in one beautiful package: Books for Keeps
-latest edition is out.
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Books for Keeps, the online children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 19d
Out now! #BfK274 articles, interviews, news, comment, reviews. Authorgraph interview James Mayhew, Windows into Illustration Emma Farrarons, 10 of the Best books to turn children into poets, Simon Mole interview, Beyond the Secret Garden,new Picture This #KidLitUK
booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...
The cover of the new issue of Books for Keeps, the children's online review journal. Cover image is from Doug Naylor's book Sin Bin Island, illustration by Khadijah Khatib of four children running towards the viewer, and clearly away from a Komodo dragon which is in the centre of the image. Contents listed Authorgraph interview James Mayhew, Windows into Illustration Emma Farrarons, turn children into poets for National Poetry Day.
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 9d
Generous overview of characters of colour in comics&graphic novels, from stereotypes to representation. (Via gems like Ed Sec’s K Baker’s book ban)

Latest @darrenchetty.bsky.social & @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social column in @booksforkeeps.bsky.social
#UKKidsLit

booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/beyo...
Beyond the Secret Garden Drawn to the Stereotypes: Comics and Graphic Novels – Books For Keeps
booksforkeeps.co.uk
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 9d
We’re so proud to run the Little Rebels Award alongside @housmansbookshop.bsky.social on behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers -and we can’t wait to share the news with you!
(Over at @littlerebsprize.bsky.social and on Instagram)
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 9d
This week…there is surely only ONE big story in the children’s lit. world..

The Little Rebels Award Winner Announcement THIS WEDNESDAY!!!

IN TWO DAYS!!
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
#LittleRebelsAward
Pastel balloon shapes frame a poster announcement. Top left has a logo “little rebels award 2026” Top middle reads: “celebrating radical fiction for children!” Centre, written in to large maybe balloon: “Winner Reveal Wednesday 1st October (evening)” Bottom left logo for “Barry Amiel & Norman Melburne Trust” Bottom right “stay tuned” followed by deets of Insta & Bluesky accounts.
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Little Rebels Award @littlerebsprize.bsky.social · 17d
To get your books with their swag 🙂, visit:

www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...
@letterboxlibrary.bsky.social

OR

housmans.com/product-tag/...
@housmansbookshop.bsky.social

(Both #notforprofit booksellers who administer the award on behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers)
Little Rebels Award 2025 – Housmans Bookshop
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Little Rebels Award @littlerebsprize.bsky.social · 17d
The #LittleRebelsAward merch is out! That means if you buy your 2025 shortlist titles from award organisers @housmansbookshop.bsky.social or @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social you’ll get:

⭐️our popular reading guides
⭐️bookmarks
⭐️poster

🍿Taster video below
#UKKidLit #KidLitUK
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 20d
There will be a short interval while we take a few-days interval (you can still order online at www.letterboxlibrary.com and we will process on our return/24th Sep)
Shows a map of the Avignon region framed by two French paperback books.
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A. M. Dassu (Az) @amdassu.bsky.social · 24d
Hello teachers!

My book Wild Journey will be published on 6th November and to celebrate it I’m doing a free online school event with Seven Stories The National Centre for Children's Books

sevenstories.org.uk/event/author...
Authors into Schools: A.M. Dassu - Seven Stories | The National Centre for Children's Books
sevenstories.org.uk
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 22d
As Censorship Escalates, Little Free Library Updates Its Book Ban Map
(N. America) ⬇️
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Little Free Library @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social · 27d
Find the areas hit hardest by book bans and the nearest Little Free Library book-sharing box locations!

We are proud to reveal our 2025 Book Ban Map, created in collab with @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social & @penamerica.bsky.social.

Learn more and try the interactive map! littlefreelibrary.or...
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 22d
“There’s humour, risk, drama and joy here – just as there is in friendship.”

8 Key Stage 1 books about friendship by @darrenchetty.bsky.social for @booktrust.org.uk

www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme...
8 favourite picture books about friendship
Author Darren Chetty recommends eight fantastic stories about friendship.
www.booktrust.org.uk
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 26d
The @littlerebsprize.bsky.social shortlist making someone’s day a little sunnier…🙂

#LittleRebelsAward
#KidLitUK
#UKKidLit
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 26d
Yes!! Inaugural winner of the Children’s Wainwright Prize!!

#KidLitUK
#UKKidLit
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The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · 28d
We're delighted to announce that the inaugural winner of the Children's Wainwright Prize Book of the Year is...

Flower Block, Lanisha Butterfield, illustrated by Hoang Giang (@puffinbooksuk.bsky.social)

#WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 26d
Proud to find ourselves in lovely #cooperative #coop company⬇️

We were set up as a not-for-profit workers’ coop in 1982.

Still all of those wonderfuls today!
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Co-operatives UK @cooperativesuk.bsky.social · Sep 8
It’s #NationalLiteracyDay 📖

Literacy unlocks opportunities - and co-operatives are helping make that possible. From bookshops to libraries, our members are putting the power of knowledge in people’s hands.
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Little Rebels Award @littlerebsprize.bsky.social · 27d
Yesterday was Judges Day! A good chunk of hours mulling over, discussing & ideas-ping-ponging the #LittleRebelsAward 2025 Shortlist.

With a side serving of cake.

@housmansbookshop.bsky.social
L➡️R
@chrishaughton.bsky.social @alomshaha.bsky.social @soofiya.bsky.social Phoebe (@theclpe.bsky.social)
Shows the four judges for the award, together holding the six shortlisted books, standing outside Housmans Bookshop. The window display of the award’s shortlisted books at Housmans Bookshop.
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 26d
🇵🇸“We cannot remain silent while children are killed, starved & denied the right to grow up in safety and peace: their lives, their stories, and their futures matter.”

A statement for UK children’s authors & illustrators & educators to ✍️
statement-on-palestine.org?fbclid=PAVER...
#KidLitUK
#UKKidLit
Children’s authors, illustrators, <br/>and educators' statement <br/>on Palestine
statement-on-palestine.org
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 26d
Happy Book Birth Day to @catwrote.bsky.social for Dance of Resistance.

Experience our 💯% love here: www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...
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Barrington Stoke @barringtonstoke.bsky.social · 29d
The wonderful @catwrote.bsky.social is #BookSquad's spotlight author this month! Find books, extracts and resources here: collins.co.uk/pages/catherine-johnson-author-spotlight
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 27d
Yeah 😑
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 28d
…😕But at least #BannedBookWeekUK is back!
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 28d
…😕But at least #BannedBookWeekUK is back!
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 28d
The good news is… #BannedBookWeekUK is back!

📣5-11th October

@indexoncensorship.org
#KidLitUK
#UKKidLit
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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 28d
In 2019 ⬇️we joined a #BannedBookWeek Panel at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on Queer YA Lit with Dean Atta & @redbreastedbird.bsky.social, chaired by Erica Gillingham re: the impact on authors growing up under Section 28 & contemporary protests against inclusive kids lit projects.
#KidLitUK
#UKKidLit
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