Karen Sands-O'Connor
@ksandsoconnor
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Literature professor interested in Black British children's literature, and issues of race and diversity.
Newcastle, England
Joined September 2015
As 2024 draws to a close & 2025 approaches, we're taking a look back. We've reviewed hundreds of new #ChildrensBooks, interviewed authors & illustrators, published articles, comment pieces & more and it's all there for you to enjoy with one click! #kidlit
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@greeborunner @HeadofEnglish In answer to the question you ask, whose curriculum is it? Currently it’s the 96% female white middle class curriculum of the teachers that teach it. However, this does not reflect the race, class and gender of student populations, nor the global world we prepare kids for.
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@rapclassroom @storyriver @EngMediaCentre @ksandsoconnor Late seeing this, as barely managed to get in social media. But a belated massive congratulations!!
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Delighted that @ksandsoconnor will continue our @BooksForKeeps column for an eighth year. Next one looks at books featuring children of colour in care / alternative family situations. Fostering, adoption, care homes for example. Please share suggestions! Thx
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My writing partnership with @rapclassroom has been the longest and most sustained of my academic career—and I have learned so much from him! I’m so grateful to @natcphd for introducing us!
This book is the result of a 10 year friendship & a 7 year collaboration. @ksandsoconnor and I met at a conference at UCL convened by @natcphd. We've since worked together on the #ReflectingRealities steering group, the Carnegie Diversity Review, and our @BooksForKeeps column.
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This book is the result of a 10 year friendship & a 7 year collaboration. @ksandsoconnor and I met at a conference at UCL convened by @natcphd. We've since worked together on the #ReflectingRealities steering group, the Carnegie Diversity Review, and our @BooksForKeeps column.
Beyond the Secret Garden is NOW AVAILABLE: https://t.co/anS4Fbb458 Thx to Patrice Lawrence for the foreword, @lucyfarfort for the cover, @storyriver for the chapter on #ReflectingRealities, all those who gave us lovely quotes. Special thanks to @EngMediaCentre for publishing us!
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Beyond the Secret Garden is NOW AVAILABLE: https://t.co/anS4Fbb458 Thx to Patrice Lawrence for the foreword, @lucyfarfort for the cover, @storyriver for the chapter on #ReflectingRealities, all those who gave us lovely quotes. Special thanks to @EngMediaCentre for publishing us!
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⭐️Publishers It's not too late to register for the Reflecting Disability:Representation of Disabled People in UK Children's books- a survey of all children's books for 3-11 year olds published in 2024. You shld have received an email;if not email info@reflectingdisability.co.uk
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I like the dancing book—we should charge extra for the dancing version.
Good things have happened in the post…. @rapclassroom @ksandsoconnor @EngMediaCentre
#BeyondTheSecretGarden
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Good things have happened in the post…. @rapclassroom @ksandsoconnor @EngMediaCentre
#BeyondTheSecretGarden
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@jeffreykboakye Thanks! Very much a team effort with @ksandsoconnor!
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✨Happy publication day @rapclassroom & @ksandsoconnor!!! For people who are interested in children’s books - Beyond The Secret Garden ✨
Beyond the Secret Garden is now available to buy! A great gift for people who teach, parent, care for, or ever were children. Link:
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@EngMediaCentre @rapclassroom @ksandsoconnor @BarbaraBleiman Here it is, MA students on our MA course in Children's Literature. @GoldUnivMACL
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It's here! Amazing collection of writing by @rapclassroom + @ksandsoconnor. Must read for teachers and anyone interested in children's literature @MichaelRosenYes @BarbaraBleiman
https://t.co/hON0ykC8zX
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Glasgow University, last night. Reflecting Realities and Beyond the Secret Garden. Huge thanks to Dr Melanie Ramdarshan Bold for the invitation and to everyone who came along.
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Today, I am going to listen to @storyriver @rapclassroom and @ksandsoconnor speak to @ILoveCopyright about Reflecting Realities in children's books. The writer, parent and past academic in me is interested in what can be done.
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On the 5th December (4-6pm) we have a bumper event - Reimagining Realities: Diversity and Representation in Children’s Literature - with @storyriver @rapclassroom @ksandsoconnor: Book your free tickets here:
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Reimagining Realities: Diversity and Representation in Children’s Literature – St Andrew's Building, Room 213, Thu 5 Dec 2024 - This thought-provoking event brings together three leading voices in...
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Beyond the Secret Garden: Racially Minoritised People in British Children’s Literature. Written with @ksandsoconnor. Cover by @lucyfarfort. Foreword by Patrice Lawrence. Published by @EngMediaCentre. Pre-order: https://t.co/anS4Fbb458
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