Dom Conlon
@domconlon.bsky.social
Disabled poet / author. Books nominated for the Carnegie / Greenaway. Inspired by nature and space. UNESCO poet. Award-winning poet. Cake poet.
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Some strong agrees on the list, esp City of Stolen Magic and Fight Back. Most of my disagreement is in what's missing - Don't Trust Fish and Boss of the Underworld. But those are from this year so their time will come.
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Some strong agrees on the list, esp City of Stolen Magic and Fight Back. Most of my disagreement is in what's missing - Don't Trust Fish and Boss of the Underworld. But those are from this year so their time will come.
When there’s an article about reading, the author often focuses on the C20th as if they too don’t understand the link between not reading and not feeling represented. Thankfully, @tygertale.bsky.social put this list together
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
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The 100 Best Children’s Books of the 21st Century
In September the Guardian published the 100 books of the 21st Century. It contained only five children’s books, two of which were published in the year 2000 – wrong century – and featur…
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November 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
When there’s an article about reading, the author often focuses on the C20th as if they too don’t understand the link between not reading and not feeling represented. Thankfully, @tygertale.bsky.social put this list together
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
Stranger Things 5 has all the awkwardness of adults pretending to be children
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Stranger Things 5 has all the awkwardness of adults pretending to be children
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November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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To show how in touch they are with public wishes, just 3 peers out of 827 members of the House of Lords voted Wednesday in favour of water companies being nationalised.
824 chose to continue the Thatcher legacy of the British public being ripped off and raw sewage being dumped in our waterways.
824 chose to continue the Thatcher legacy of the British public being ripped off and raw sewage being dumped in our waterways.
November 22, 2024 at 1:16 PM
To show how in touch they are with public wishes, just 3 peers out of 827 members of the House of Lords voted Wednesday in favour of water companies being nationalised.
824 chose to continue the Thatcher legacy of the British public being ripped off and raw sewage being dumped in our waterways.
824 chose to continue the Thatcher legacy of the British public being ripped off and raw sewage being dumped in our waterways.
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Biodiversity is *crucial* to our wellbeing.
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
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We need to stop treating it as expendable.
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How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
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November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Biodiversity is *crucial* to our wellbeing.
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...
The speaker setting on a phone is the single most appalling technical development since biological warfare
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The speaker setting on a phone is the single most appalling technical development since biological warfare
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Always a privilege to help someone out of their reading slump! 🎉 #THIRST
@pushkinchildrens.bsky.social
@pushkinchildrens.bsky.social
Have been in a slight reading slump of late and this just blew me right out of it! Absolutely brilliant YA folk horror by @darrensimpson44.bsky.social. A creepy, dark tale about folklore, nature and what people will do to survive. A must-read!
📚👍 #yalit #kidslit #schoollibraries
📚👍 #yalit #kidslit #schoollibraries
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Always a privilege to help someone out of their reading slump! 🎉 #THIRST
@pushkinchildrens.bsky.social
@pushkinchildrens.bsky.social
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Good thoughts from @justimaginecentre.bsky.social justimagine.co.uk/2025/11/23/w...
What? No Poetry! What sense are we to make of this? - Just Imagine
Last week, I posted about some insights we have started to gather from The Reading Journey and noted the high volume of graphic novels that children are consuming. However, the gaps are also interesti...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Good thoughts from @justimaginecentre.bsky.social justimagine.co.uk/2025/11/23/w...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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I do love this poem. It’s perfect. But I feel for poor Nael. He’s written the best thing he’s ever going to write in his life, aged 6. It’s all downhill from here for Nael.
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I do love this poem. It’s perfect. But I feel for poor Nael. He’s written the best thing he’s ever going to write in his life, aged 6. It’s all downhill from here for Nael.
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I did an Instagram takeover at Candlewick Books about "Sometimes you find a Dragon".
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Candlewick Press on Instagram: "Hello! Viviane Schwarz here to tell you more about Sometimes you Find a Dragon, my new picture book with Candlewick Press.
In some important ways, this is a book abou...
46 likes, 0 comments - candlewickpress on November 18, 2025: "Hello! Viviane Schwarz here to tell you more about Sometimes you Find a Dragon, my new picture book with Candlewick Press.
In some impor...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I did an Instagram takeover at Candlewick Books about "Sometimes you find a Dragon".
www.instagram.com/p/DRPv3lvjis...
www.instagram.com/p/DRPv3lvjis...
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What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be.
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns
Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment
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November 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM
What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be.
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My hot take of the day: chocolate is just a wrapper for something delicious
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
My hot take of the day: chocolate is just a wrapper for something delicious
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It is simply impossible to stop illegal migration by making the system awful, because the system - however bad - will be preferable to the torture, rape and genocide people are fleeing.
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
It is simply impossible to stop illegal migration by making the system awful, because the system - however bad - will be preferable to the torture, rape and genocide people are fleeing.
Trying to recover the joy of my day through food for me and ma boy
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Trying to recover the joy of my day through food for me and ma boy
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Or you could join the Greens, campaign for the Greens, throw your whole chest at getting something better for this country. Something decent.
Despair is a road straight to hell.
I've got no time for it.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Despair is a road straight to hell.
I've got no time for it.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
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November 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Or you could join the Greens, campaign for the Greens, throw your whole chest at getting something better for this country. Something decent.
Despair is a road straight to hell.
I've got no time for it.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Despair is a road straight to hell.
I've got no time for it.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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November 16, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
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Just spreading the word about the government’s appalling cuts to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund! 🤬
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Just spreading the word about the government’s appalling cuts to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund! 🤬
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The artwork of Jackie Morris, Wales based award-winning writer, artist and illustrator #womensart
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The artwork of Jackie Morris, Wales based award-winning writer, artist and illustrator #womensart
I can’t believe how much cassette tapes have shrunk in the past forty years. Shrinkflation strikes again
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I can’t believe how much cassette tapes have shrunk in the past forty years. Shrinkflation strikes again
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The proportion of rapes that lead to convictions is vanishingly small. That the criminal justice system does so little to deter this horrific crime is a national disgrace. So we really can do without headlines like this. 👇🏻
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The proportion of rapes that lead to convictions is vanishingly small. That the criminal justice system does so little to deter this horrific crime is a national disgrace. So we really can do without headlines like this. 👇🏻
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A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.