Lio Kerfoot
@llykaios.bsky.social
School librarian 📚 | textiles teacher | children’s writer | poet | artist & crafter | avid reader | nature enthusiast | dnd nerd
AllStories Mentee 2021
Autistic | hEDS | Non-Binary they/them 🏳🌈
AllStories Mentee 2021
Autistic | hEDS | Non-Binary they/them 🏳🌈
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Never felt like a meaner dog owner than when the clocks changed and now my dog is forced to wait an extra hour for dinner, every single day, for reasons he cannot ever comprehend.
October 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Never felt like a meaner dog owner than when the clocks changed and now my dog is forced to wait an extra hour for dinner, every single day, for reasons he cannot ever comprehend.
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Important piece from @booktrust.org.uk and @openuni-rfp.bsky.social about the value of book choice for pupils and how to help promote it in the classroom. Do have a read! files.booktrust.org.uk/docs/documen... @teresacremin.bsky.social @richardruddick.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Important piece from @booktrust.org.uk and @openuni-rfp.bsky.social about the value of book choice for pupils and how to help promote it in the classroom. Do have a read! files.booktrust.org.uk/docs/documen... @teresacremin.bsky.social @richardruddick.bsky.social
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Katherine Rundell on, "understanding the pedagogical value of fart jokes;" and so much more. Well worth a read.
It's sunday so I am finally reading the links I opened during the week. Or possibly last week. Anyway, this one is worth your time (should be a free link, it was for me at least). Katherine Rundell on reading for pleasure. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
There is a silver bullet for childhood happiness: a love of reading
Bestselling children’s author Katherine Rundell says to reverse the reading crisis we must let young people rediscover the enjoyment of books — whatever they may be
www.thetimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Katherine Rundell on, "understanding the pedagogical value of fart jokes;" and so much more. Well worth a read.
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Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶
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11 exceptional middle grade novels, August(ish) 2025 -- imaginationsoup.net/middle-grade... #kidlit
11 Excpetional Middle Grade Books, August 2025 - Imagination Soup
Today, I’m sharing middle grade books from previous months as well as new middle grade releases from this month, August 2025! There are so many...
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August 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
11 exceptional middle grade novels, August(ish) 2025 -- imaginationsoup.net/middle-grade... #kidlit
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The @theclpe.bsky.social Reflecting Realities report is an essential read each year. Please share it with colleagues in schools and look at the books currently available to pupils. They deserve authentic representation in the books they find on the classroom shelves. clpe.org.uk/research/clp...
August 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The @theclpe.bsky.social Reflecting Realities report is an essential read each year. Please share it with colleagues in schools and look at the books currently available to pupils. They deserve authentic representation in the books they find on the classroom shelves. clpe.org.uk/research/clp...
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My latest article for Educate magazine is all about how children choose books. It was inspired by this wonderful blog from David Reedy and Alice Reedy: collins.co.uk/blogs/the-bo...
The article can be found here: neu.org.uk/latest/libra...
The article can be found here: neu.org.uk/latest/libra...
July 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
My latest article for Educate magazine is all about how children choose books. It was inspired by this wonderful blog from David Reedy and Alice Reedy: collins.co.uk/blogs/the-bo...
The article can be found here: neu.org.uk/latest/libra...
The article can be found here: neu.org.uk/latest/libra...
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This is so true. 99% of book bans have the intended effect: you never hear about those books again. The 1% of banned books that become infamous bestsellers elsewhere are not the norm.
June 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is so true. 99% of book bans have the intended effect: you never hear about those books again. The 1% of banned books that become infamous bestsellers elsewhere are not the norm.
I’ve applied to 12 different schools in the last 3 months and not even got a single interview. I feel so hopeless atm that nobody will even give me a chance, I just want to teaaach 😩😭 #teaching #primaryteacher #covidmessedupmyPGCEsighhh
June 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I’ve applied to 12 different schools in the last 3 months and not even got a single interview. I feel so hopeless atm that nobody will even give me a chance, I just want to teaaach 😩😭 #teaching #primaryteacher #covidmessedupmyPGCEsighhh
Hosted my first in-person author visit and book fair this week. Great to see so many kids get excited about books! Ele Fountain is awesome, folks! ☺️ #schoollibrary #authors #kidlit
June 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hosted my first in-person author visit and book fair this week. Great to see so many kids get excited about books! Ele Fountain is awesome, folks! ☺️ #schoollibrary #authors #kidlit
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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
It is good and proper in a well-kept library to dispose of books.
It is good and proper in a well-kept library to dispose of books.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Almost all of the bugs and problems and breakage in the software you use is known to the engineers, we just aren't allowed to fix it. Gotta ship new features.
Almost all of the bugs and problems and breakage in the software you use is known to the engineers, we just aren't allowed to fix it. Gotta ship new features.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
The number of parents that don't care much about their kids and/or have very thinly veiled resentment against them is much higher than most people think.
The number of parents that don't care much about their kids and/or have very thinly veiled resentment against them is much higher than most people think.
June 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
It is good and proper in a well-kept library to dispose of books.
It is good and proper in a well-kept library to dispose of books.
I’ve been weaving on circle looms for several months now so just had a go at doing a tiny dorset button ☺️
May 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’ve been weaving on circle looms for several months now so just had a go at doing a tiny dorset button ☺️
I dunno why I’m so upset but the F1 minifigure car I bought on a whim in Lidl is missing a wheel centre and 😩
May 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I dunno why I’m so upset but the F1 minifigure car I bought on a whim in Lidl is missing a wheel centre and 😩
Do seagulls ever SLEEP
May 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Do seagulls ever SLEEP
Preordered Silverborn 4 years ago, I’m so happy and excited alshdks 🥹
May 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Preordered Silverborn 4 years ago, I’m so happy and excited alshdks 🥹
😂😂😂
Making my way through LORD OF THE RINGS for the first time and I will admit to being charmed by how Tolkien goes out of his way to explain why the hobbits have tobacco but says nothing about why there's fireworks but no cannons.
May 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
😂😂😂
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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Long thread alert🧵
I’ve been sitting on thoughts about this, but feel a need to post after the all too predictable parent bashing comments in the underbelly of social media.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
I’ve been sitting on thoughts about this, but feel a need to post after the all too predictable parent bashing comments in the underbelly of social media.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests
Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Long thread alert🧵
I’ve been sitting on thoughts about this, but feel a need to post after the all too predictable parent bashing comments in the underbelly of social media.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
I’ve been sitting on thoughts about this, but feel a need to post after the all too predictable parent bashing comments in the underbelly of social media.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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My first post is also an ✨announcement✨ MY DEBUT is coming out with @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social / Macmillan in fall 2026!
I still can't believe I get to say that!? My dream imprint is going to publish my coming-of-age YA romcom about a perfectionist overachiever, an anxious introvert, ace/aro MCs…
I still can't believe I get to say that!? My dream imprint is going to publish my coming-of-age YA romcom about a perfectionist overachiever, an anxious introvert, ace/aro MCs…
February 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My first post is also an ✨announcement✨ MY DEBUT is coming out with @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social / Macmillan in fall 2026!
I still can't believe I get to say that!? My dream imprint is going to publish my coming-of-age YA romcom about a perfectionist overachiever, an anxious introvert, ace/aro MCs…
I still can't believe I get to say that!? My dream imprint is going to publish my coming-of-age YA romcom about a perfectionist overachiever, an anxious introvert, ace/aro MCs…
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We've already raised $10K toward our $15K goal! We're so grateful for the outpouring of support from readers and writers who are standing with us.
We still need $5,000 to reach our goal. Please donate today to help get us bring it home:
buff.ly/gWssN9v
We still need $5,000 to reach our goal. Please donate today to help get us bring it home:
buff.ly/gWssN9v
March 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We've already raised $10K toward our $15K goal! We're so grateful for the outpouring of support from readers and writers who are standing with us.
We still need $5,000 to reach our goal. Please donate today to help get us bring it home:
buff.ly/gWssN9v
We still need $5,000 to reach our goal. Please donate today to help get us bring it home:
buff.ly/gWssN9v
Sooo excited about this chonkier than expected bookpost! 👀🥰📚 #thefirstyear
March 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Sooo excited about this chonkier than expected bookpost! 👀🥰📚 #thefirstyear
Saturdays are always a wild spin game of ‘how exhausted are you ACTUALLY’ and sleeping until 5pm today (17hrs) was um… eye-opening (or the opposite i guess) 🫠🥱
March 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Saturdays are always a wild spin game of ‘how exhausted are you ACTUALLY’ and sleeping until 5pm today (17hrs) was um… eye-opening (or the opposite i guess) 🫠🥱