Tom Palmer
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This is me on BBC Breakfast last week trying to articulate that picture books are a great way to help children understand difficult subjects. Through shared reading with parents, teachers and librarians. @scholasticuk @RachelPhillipps @fcbg @uksla .
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RT @checkemoutbooks: Thanks @BarringtonStoke for these gems, all out 11/9. Can’t wait to read more Night House Files along with Dance of Re….
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RT @KateHeap1: Created in partnership with The Week Junior Magazine (years 3-6) and high-quality real books (year 2), these non-fiction com….
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🐶 📷 📷@CarolinaRabei and I are thrilled that Judy and WAR DOG are included in the #PrimarySchoolBookClub August 2025 vote this evening. Please go to.@PrimarySchoolBC.and vote for it via the pinned tweet! Thank you!.@scholasticuk.@RachelPhillipps
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🐶 .@CarolinaRabei and I are thrilled that Judy and WAR DOG are included in the #PrimarySchoolBookClub August 2025 vote this evening. Please go to @PrimarySchoolBC.and vote for it via the pinned tweet! .Thank you!
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🐶 🐶 🐶.Illustrator @CarolinaRabei and I are thrilled that Judy and WAR DOG are included in the #PrimarySchoolBookClub August 2025 vote this evening. Please go to @PrimarySchoolBC and vote for it via the pinned tweet!.Thank you!.@scholasticuk .@RachelPhillipps
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RT @tlander93: Read my review of War Dog by @tompalmerauthor , @CarolinaRabei 5* story of animal bravery. Loved it, keeping this one! #W….
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RT @Therabbits21: Some more wonderful authors who will be joining us at #NoLimits 2025. A FREE entry festival celebrating the creative arts….
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Listening to one. Reading the other. Am in a good reading place. Books are great!
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RT @rosemaryhillbo1: Great review of @tompalmerauthor War Dog. It’s part of the brilliant book pack I put together for Tom. Also includes….
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RT @QuokkaBookstore: Happy #InternationalDogDay!.Discover some of our favourite books dedicated to dogs. TINA: THE DOG WHO CHANGED THE WORL….
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RT @theAliceRoberts: @AlanB737 I’ve actually mentioned this gatekeeping role in my book. And it’s one of the reasons I think it’s important….
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RT @dwinnera: It's famous at last! A Brilliant Orange question on last night's University Challenge (at 8.28 )
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In another first-round heat, students from Trinity College, Cambridge take on a team from Linacre College, Oxford. Amol Rajan asks the questions.
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Today I am going through all my sources for real events that happen in the book I’m doing. To hopefully undo a bit of how I have distorted them in writing the story.
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RT @Jb5Jane: A book from @tompalmerauthor & beautifully illustrated by.@CarolinaRabei @scholasticuk that brings conflict and war into the c….
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RT @larrainesharri3: Please consider sending a rep from your school to this important conference. Please RT. Thanks @NormantonCommon @Norm….
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Huge thanks to @ImogenCarter and @ObserverUK for including WAR DOG in their picture books of the month feature today. @scholasticuk @CarolinaRabei @RachelPhillipps.
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Michael Rosen reunites with Bear Hunt’s Helen Oxenbury for more animal shenanigans, while elsewhere a buffalo gets a watering
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RT @alisonstowe: @tompalmerauthor.@jonnybid @CarolinaRabei @bertsbooks. Got my copy today and it is wonderful.
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RT @jonnybid: With the new academic year approaching, this picturebook assembly overview might be useful to people. The suggested books cov….
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RT @Booktrust: For children from vulnerable family backgrounds, the benefits of reading can be particularly transformative. We reached ove….
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