Tom Palmer
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Children's author. History and sport fiction. Angel of Grasmere, published 9 May 2024.
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Proud to be part of this lovely film about how children from
@grasmereschool
helped me to write
#AngelOfGrasmere
. Thank you
@ITVborder
.
@BarringtonStoke
@SReadBooks
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Two more celebrities inspired to become children's authors this week alone. I understand there are upsides in this for publishers, big booksellers and for encouraging reading in children, but it's not getting easier to make a living as a children's author if you're not a celeb.
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To teachers. For what you have done for children, their families and their communities, for all of us, over the last months, thank you.
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This is one of the best things ever to happen to me. Thank you to
@CILIPCKG
,
@BarringtonStoke
,
@HolocaustLake
and countless others for helping to make me feel like I did a good job. Good luck, good health and well done to all the others longlisted.
#CKG21
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WIN a signed set of these four children's historical novels for your favourite school, library or home.
Please RT to enter. One winner wins all 4 books.
Deadline 23 Aug 2020. Thank you.
#edutwitter
#uksla
#teachertwitter
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I've had some happy moments as an author. But nothing compares to the news - via
@HolocaustLake
- that Sir Ben Helfgott has read and enjoyed 'After the War'. Sir Ben is one of the Windermere Boys, on whom I based my characters. Thank you
@SirBenHelfgott
.
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On Sunday I'll be publishing short Remembrance film for schools to use this November. With a focus on civilian casualties of war as well as military.
You can sign up for a reminder - and find lots of free stories and other activities - here:
Thank you.
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Thrilled to live my proudest author moment to date (and probably ever). Thanks to
@FCBGNews
for my Children's Book Award.
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This just happened. Finn and I are feeling very emotional. But want to say thank you to the children who voted and
@FCBGNews
@CBACoordinator
for all the amazing work they do to celebrate children's books!
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My next book cover. I am so happy to have been built - and refitted on a regular basis - in the
@BarringtonStoke
shipyard.
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I am asking teachers and librarians to nominate a child they think would particularly benefit from the gift of a book this Christmas. Details about our Christmas 2020 book giving here:
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Christmas schools giveaway! Win for each child in your class (max 40) a stroopwafel, bookmark and personalised Christmas card from me. Plus a single class copy of RESIST - about Audrey Hepburn and the Dutch Resistance. Please RT to enter. One winner drawn 11 December. Thank you.
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AUDREY HEPBURN & ANNE FRANK were born within six weeks of each other in 1929. During the German occupation of Holland they lived just fifty miles from each other. While researching RESIST I found some moving links between the two girls.
THREAD 1/8
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Please help spread the word about five stories I have written with
@Literacy_Trust
for next week's
#RefugeeWeek
. If you think them worthwhile.
Called BOAT PEOPLE and based on testimony, they are short stories for schools to read aloud.
Age 10+. All free.
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Win a
#FIFAWomensWorldCup
@Lionesses
bumper reading pack. Inc.
@SheKicksMag
and two signed
@race_rocky
books. Please just RT to compete. Deadline tomorrow at 10 p.m. In the post to you - maybe - on Monday! Thanks!
#Giveaway
#Competition
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Best school visit question of the week.
Is it easy making a living as an author nobody has heard of?
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I've written a short story for school or home based on events Audrey Hepburn was involved with during Christmas 1944. Linked to Resist. To be released in print and a video tonight. (Cover by
@jamesinnerdale
.)
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Very proud to hear that 'After the War' has been nominated for the
@CILIPCKG
Carnegie Book Award. This is the stuff of dreams and is very welcome at this time. Good luck to all judges, authors and publishers. And thanks to whoever nominated me!
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Unofficial, but... it looks like I'm going to be working with
@Literacy_Trust
on a live story for the EUROs. Free to schools and homes from June 11th.
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Would you like a FREE signed poster and bookmark pack delivered to your school or library, featuring positive mesages about reading for pleasure? If so, please order here. Many thanks.
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Very proud to receive an
@histassoc
Young Quills Award on the 30th anniversary of my mum's death. She'd have liked this.
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Thrilled that RESIST won the Cheshire Schools’ Book Award tonight. Thank you to
@CheshireELS
and everyone who was there. A wonderful evening and Finn’s first awards event!
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Win a class set of 30 copies of AFTER THE WAR.
Please RT and sign up for my termly newsletter to enter, as explained on this link. (If you already receive the newsletter, then please just RT.)
Many thanks.
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I am thrilled that the reprinted cover of 'After the War' features this new quote. Thank you
@CEOAnneFrankUK
: it means the world to me.
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What a great man he was. I remember seeing him talk to children one-to-one at an event as of they were the only one there. An inspiration.
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I am thrilled that 'Arctic Star' has been nominated for the 2022 Carnegie Medal. Thank you to everyone involved with
@CILIPCKG
. Good luck to all those nominated. And thank you
@BarringtonStoke
and
@DLuxAssociates
for making my dreams come true.
#CKG22
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Win a signed dedicated copy of RESIST, inspired by Audrey Hepburn's extraordinary and courageous WW2 teenage years. Plus a pin badge!
#InternationalWomensDay
Please RT to compete. One winner. Deadline midnight tonight. Thank you.
#compettion
#giveaway
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Published one month today. I can't wait. Here's the first chapter.
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COMPETITION
To celebrate the publication of Rocky Race’s new spin off series, a competition.
Win 9 books for your favourite school library.
Please RT to compete.
Pre-order signed copies here too:
Deadline tomorrow night, 24/9.
Thank you
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I am thrilled that Armistice Runner has won one of the
@lancspublib
Fantastic Book Awards. A huge honour for a Yorkshireman. Thank you!!!
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FOUL PLAY is 15 years old!
Win a full signed set of the FOOTBALL DETECTIVE series - and the only and actual shirt from the cover.
Please RT to compete. With thanks.
Deadline: May 1, midnight.
#competition
#giveaway
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To celebrate the
#FIFAWomensWorldCup2023
I am offering SIX sets of THREE books about girls doing football for schools to use when they go back after the summer. Please RT and fill in the short attached form to enter. Deadline 20/8. Many thanks!
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Win a signed copy of D-DAY DOG before it's published by
@BarringtonStoke
on May 2nd. Please RT to enter. Deadline April 28th. Thank you!
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I am so happy that
@BarringtonStoke
are publishing my next history story, Angel of Grasmere. Happy, too, that
@SReadBooks
- who are featured in the story - are offering signed preorders here.
#AngelOfGrasmere
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I am thrilled to say that Armistice Runner has won the 2020 Brilliant Book Award. Thank you to everyone who organised it and voted. It's a brilliant award that brings together people who love books. I hope you are all doing okay today.
Congratulations to Tom Palmer Winner of the Brilliant Book Award 2020 with Armistice Runner.Voted for by students in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 🌈📚
@tompalmerauthor
@BarringtonStoke
@InspireELS
@NottsLibraries
@OpenUni_RfP
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This is Michael. He's read all six of my Football Academy books and received a signed certificate for his efforts. He said he would be happy for me to Tweet his picture to encourage other children who'd like to read one of my series over the summer.
…
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To celebrate the
@Lionesses
kicking off at the
#WorldCup
, I'm offering a signed copy of my next book TWO MONTHS before publication.
Please RT to compete.
Deadline tomorrow 10 p.m.
To pre-order signed copies, please visit indie bookshop
@thoughtfulspots
:
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This spring - to celebrate having had 50 books published - my family planted 50 trees at
#AnneLister
's
@ShibdenHall
with the help of
@Calderdale
Council. We visited them on, this, the last day of summer. They're doing well!
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Haircut before and after. A round of applause for my wife, please...
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25 years ago today I went on a hike in the Sahara Desert. To raise money for
@macmillancancer
to thank them for helping with both my parents at the end. The walk was amazing. Best of all I met my wife there. And life became brilliant. We’re celebrating tonight.
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Hi
@ReesesBookClub
and Reese and friends. I wondered - as a fan of Audrey Hepburn - if you'd like to do my new book, RESIST, for your book club. Please? It's the story of Audrey's teenage years fighting for the Dutch resistance.
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'Rocky' is out tomorrow. We have three signed copies to give away. Competition. Please RT to enter. Deadline Sun 1 Nov. Many thanks.
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Exciting news. I am thrilled to announce the rescheduled publication date for 'After the War' is AUGUST 6th.
Thank you to my magnificent publisher,
@BarringtonStoke
.
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Very proud to be one of FOUR
@BarringtonStoke
authors to be nominated for the 2023 Carnegie Medal. What a publisher! Just amazing! Thank you to whoever nominated me. And to the best publisher in the land.
We are THRILLED to share our four wonderful titles nominated for the
#YotoCarnegies23
! 🎉🎉🎉
Huge congratulations to
@katyabalen
@tompalmerauthor
@LawrencePatrice
and
@marcussedgwick
🏆
What a list! View the full nominations here:
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I am absolutely thrilled that Armistice Runner has been nominated for the 2020 Carnegie Medal. To be among such awesome books and authors for the first time is one of the highlights of my career, in fact, my life. So thank you
@CILIPCKG
.
We are delighted to reveal the Nominations for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals! Discover the outstanding lists at
#CKG20
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Competition. Win three signed historical WW1 and WW2 novels. To mark this weekend's
#ArmedForcesDay
. Please RT to enter. Deadline 30/6. Thank you.
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RESIST is published today. My chance to say thank you. To
@BarringtonStoke
for nurturing and publishing me; to Audrey Hepburn for being such an amazing subject; and my wife for so many things there is not space in a thousand tweets to list. ❤️
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Time to stand up for the teaching profession. I'm in touch with dozens of teachers and TAs and the ones I talk to are working their socks off, whilst feeling extremely frustrated they can't give children - who they care deeply about - what they need.
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WIN a signed copy of 'D-Day Dog'. Based on the true story of a WW2 parachuting dog.
One winner will be drawn on June 6th, the 76th anniversary of that astonishing invasion of Nazi occupied Europe.
#DDay76
Please RT to compete.
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Do you know of a child who would benefit from the gift of a signed book this Christmas? A very reluctant reader? A child who's had a hard year, or who's inspired you? If you have someone in mind, please visit before 30 November. Thank you.
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COMPETITION. Win a signed copy of 'Arctic Star'. Please RT to enter. Deadline Sun 25 April. Thank you.
(Signed copies pre-orderable from indie bookshop
@BookCornerHX
too!)
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I will light a candle and safely put it in my window at 8pm tomorrow – to remember those who were murdered for who they were. To stand against hatred and prejudice in the world today.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
#LightTheDarkness
@HMD_UK
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This is Glen, the paratroop dog involved in
#DDay
and subject of D-Day Dog. To mark the 79th anniversary of D-Day, I’m giving away a signed book and cuddly version of Glen. Please RT to enter. Deadline D-Day, 6 June. Thank you.
#Competition
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Win a signed 'proof' copy of RESIST, the story of Audrey Hepburn and the Dutch resistance to the Nazis.
Please RT to enter before Sun 10th July, 11 p.m.
Pre-order from
(Twitter exclusive. One winner. See Facebook and Instagram for parallel competitions.)
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I've done a five-minute
#WorldBookDay
video for anyone who wants to use it, but particularly aimed at families at home. Topics range from Anne Frank to Leeds United to Shirley Hughes.
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During this summer's World Cup finals I will be working with
@Literacy_Trust
on a real time story written as the tournament progresses. Free to schools, families and libraries.
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I am thrilled to end the year with the news that 'Arctic Star' has won the
@booksfortopics
Upper KS2 Best Curriculum Support award. Thank you to the panel and for those of you who voted. Brilliant. Happy New Year everyone.
😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
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Bless you Harry Kane. I was just writing a grim tale for 10,000s of children to hear tomorrow morning. Now... maybe...
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It’s
#AudreyHepburn
’s birthday today. Win a signed copy of RESIST, based on the story of her childhood in Nazi occupied Holland: Deadline midnight. One winner. Please RT to compete. Thank you!
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On the left is Able Seaman Fredrick Norman who served on the
#ArcticConvoys
during the Second World War. On the right, his great-grandson reading my book about the convoys. Doesn't get much better than this!
(Thanks to the family for permission to post.)
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Start a new book tomorrow, after 3 months of planning and research.
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Not forgetting my mum this
#MothersDay
. She’s been dead 31 years, but she’s still in every page I read and write and all my better choices.
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Celebrating 10 years since my first children's book was published tonight. Here's my stuff. I sanded, stained and varnished those floorboards too. But I can see they're a bit uneven, now I look at them. Damn.
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A letter arrived this morning. From my night school English Literature teacher of 36 years ago. I had written to her recently to thank her for her important role in inspiring me become an author.
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This such a fab idea. Children recommending books through their local bookshop. In at time when it's hard to compete with a fair few celebrity authors, this is a wonderful boost. Well done children, school, teachers and booksellers. Awesome.
If you’re around
#Solihull
town centre this summer, make sure you check out our Tidbury Green School book recommendations at
@WaterstonesSol1
as their children’s area has been revamped and there’s an amazing selection for the Summer Reading Challenge 📚
@readingagency
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Oh wow! Thank you. I've never had a window before! Barely been in a window before. That feels so good. And a great day for it.
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I've done a short film for schools to use around
#RemembranceDay
, with a focus on thinking about civilians as well as the forces this year. Please use if you think it's appropriate. Thank you.
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Win a signed copy of Armistice Runner. In which a 14-year-old fell-running girl from today finds out what her great-great-grandad did with his German prisoner at 11 a.m. on 11th November 1918.
Please RT before midnight 7/11 to enter.
See reviews here:
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Schools! Libraries! Families!
To celebrate my online
@royoftherovers
@literacytrust
story set LIVE at the
#EURO2020
, I am giving 12 books to one school/library of your choice.
Deadline 6 June. UK only. Please RT to enter.
More about the EURO story here:
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Schools looking for reading material they can send to their pupils at home, I have loads of free short stories, full novels written live during sports tournaments and multiple-episode stories at . Also a lot of first chapters. Please use them as you wish.
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Thank you to everyone for your kind Twitter wishes after tonight's award. Thanks too to
@Literacy_Trust
,
@ALCS_UK
, the judges and the librarians and teachers who nominated me. I'm thrilled.
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I always talk to kids in schools about what they read. Some schools name 50 authors. Some name 5 authors. The difference?
A school library.
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I'm offering 50 signed books for children who could do with abook this Christmas. Do you know a child who'd benefit?
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It's exactly a year since 'Armistice Runner' was published. Thanks to this book, I have had my best year as an author. But more thanks is due to the librarians, teachers and other readers who've been so good about getting the book into children's hands. Thank you.
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Delighted to confirm that my live World Cup story will be published for free on the
@Literacy_Trust
website from June 14th. More info to follow.
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It's a year since 'After the War' was published and I want to say a big thanks to
#BookTwitter
for helping get the story of the Windermere Boys out there. Here's one of the Boys, Sir Ben Helfgott, with the book. Thank you, everyone.
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Looking forward to this on Wednesday 27th at 9 p.m. And the documentary that follows.
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I've done a video for
#WorldBookDay
next week. It also has a worksheet attached. The theme is book cover design. I do worry it is too long and a bit rambling, but, if it works for you, then please do use it.
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On Tuesday I'm doing a Facebook Live session around reading and writing the Second World War. From my books D-Day Dog, Spitfire and After the War. I'll be taking questions, chatting and doing my first reading from After the War. Everyone welcome.
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Thank you so much! I am thrilled to win the North East Book Award with Resist! Please say thanks to the children who voted and the adults who set it all up.
#happy
@BarringtonStoke
We're thrilled that Resist by
@tompalmerauthor
@barringtonstoke
was voted the winner of this year's North East Teen Book Award
#NEBA
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I am so happy that 'After the War' has been longlisted for the
#UKLAbookawards2022
. With an astonishing array of extraordinary children's books. Thank you to
@The_UKLA
judges.
@BarringtonStoke
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Just been sent the final cover - front and back - of
#AngelOfGrasmere
. The illustrator - Tom Clohosy Cole - is a genius. You can pre-order signed copies from Grasmere bookseller,
@SReadBooks
, here.
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This is magnificent. The best thing I've read this World Cup. One to read in classrooms this week, IMO.
Thanks to
@peterjukes
&
@boydon1976
for tweeting it. And
@sterling7
. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Thank you to everyone in Twitterland for being there in 2020. I've drawn so much hope and happiness from your friendship and support over the last 12 months. Keep well and - from my family to yours - all the best for 2021.
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Introducing the first chapter of
#ArcticStar
, due out from
@BarringtonStoke
next month. Signed and dedicated copies pre-orderable from
@BookCornerHX
now.
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A wealth of FREE
#RemembranceDay
resources for schools available from today.
A video assembly for 2022 (Commonwealth topic).
Posters. Stories. Certificates.
Black out poetry.
Videos on location from the battlefields.
And lots more.
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And another brief video about how I would edit a short piece of writing:
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Proud to unveil the new cover for 'Over the Line', created by
@TobaccoViolet
, who has also done 'After the War'. Both are lovely, I think. Huge thanks to
@BarringtonStoke
for publishing them.
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Celebrate
#FairtradeFortnight
with a
#COMPETITION
.
Win a vast amount of
@divinechocolate
, a signed copy of Off Side (my fairtrade & football children's book), plus a 30-minute virtual chat with me for your favourite school. Please RT to enter. One winner.
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A lovely thing this morning. I have been contacted by a relative of Emile Corteil. Corteil was a nineteen-year-old paratrooper who is a major character in my new book, D-Day Dog.
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During September we are offering 50% off class sets of "After the War" for any schools wanting to use the book while studying the Holocaust. This special offer for schools has been organised by
@UCL_Holocaust
and
@BarringtonStoke
. Thank you.
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Finn and I are delighted to announce that 'D-Day Dog' has won the James Reckitt Hull Children's Book Award 2020. We're thrilled. Thanks to
@hull_libraries
and all the children who voted.
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Huge thanks to
@thatboycanteach
for revealing the cover of
#AfterTheWar
today. To
@TobaccoViolet
for creating the cover. And to
@BarringtonStoke
for publishing it in May. This is a very exciting day for me and I am grateful to you all.
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It's
#RefugeeWeek
. I have worked with
@Literacy_Trust
to write 5 stories called BOAT PEOPLE. Based on testimonies, they're set in England 1914, Denmark 1943, Malaysia 1975, Christmas Island 2010 & England again in 2023.
Free to read, one a day perhaps, at
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For some years I've asked teachers, TAs and librarians to nominate a child who would benefit greatly from the gift of a book at Christmas. My family and I would like to do the same for Christmas 2023.
You can find out what it's about here:
Thank you.
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Every child, regardless of where they live, should have access to a well-stocked school library. But 1 in 7 UK primary schools do not have one. That’s why I am supporting the
@Literacy_Trust
#LibrariesForPrimaries
campaign.
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Start a new book tomorrow. Historical fiction. Initial research done. Planning now. Love this bit. Might not sleep.
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My one-word response: 'Speechless.'
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