Whonextmary
@whonextmary.bsky.social
Librarian and Swimmer
Online help to find author suggestions you might like to read
https://www.whoelsewriteslike.com/
Online ideas on what to read next for children and young people
https://www.whonextguide.com/
Online help to find author suggestions you might like to read
https://www.whoelsewriteslike.com/
Online ideas on what to read next for children and young people
https://www.whonextguide.com/
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Congratulations to the winners of The Week Junior Book Awards, just announced! Is your favourite included? #KidLitUK #booksky 🎉 📚 🎉
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September 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Congratulations to the winners of The Week Junior Book Awards, just announced! Is your favourite included? #KidLitUK #booksky 🎉 📚 🎉
booksforkeeps.co.uk/winners-of-t...
booksforkeeps.co.uk/winners-of-t...
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Crime writer and author of the Campbell and Carter mysteries Ann Granger has died at the age of 86.
Crime writer Ann Granger dies aged 86
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September 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Crime writer and author of the Campbell and Carter mysteries Ann Granger has died at the age of 86.
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HEY!
I'm trying to raise money to send as many books as I can to a new Mobile Library being set up to support homeless people.
It's being organised by Cee, founder of London based charity "PINT Giving".
I'm donating £100, but if you can help too, i'd be really grateful.
tinyurl.com/37yn63zu
I'm trying to raise money to send as many books as I can to a new Mobile Library being set up to support homeless people.
It's being organised by Cee, founder of London based charity "PINT Giving".
I'm donating £100, but if you can help too, i'd be really grateful.
tinyurl.com/37yn63zu
September 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
HEY!
I'm trying to raise money to send as many books as I can to a new Mobile Library being set up to support homeless people.
It's being organised by Cee, founder of London based charity "PINT Giving".
I'm donating £100, but if you can help too, i'd be really grateful.
tinyurl.com/37yn63zu
I'm trying to raise money to send as many books as I can to a new Mobile Library being set up to support homeless people.
It's being organised by Cee, founder of London based charity "PINT Giving".
I'm donating £100, but if you can help too, i'd be really grateful.
tinyurl.com/37yn63zu
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New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
August 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
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Following the sad news that #AidanChambers has died, @celiarees.bsky.social and I share our admiration and respect for this influential writer's writer: "a quiet trailblazer". reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/05/spec... #youthfiction @booksforkeeps.bsky.social #CarnegieMedal #writerswriter
SPECIAL FEATURE: a tribute to Aidan Chambers, 1934 - 2025
reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Following the sad news that #AidanChambers has died, @celiarees.bsky.social and I share our admiration and respect for this influential writer's writer: "a quiet trailblazer". reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/05/spec... #youthfiction @booksforkeeps.bsky.social #CarnegieMedal #writerswriter
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Per @washingtonpost.com: 'President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress — the first woman and first African American to hold the position. She was informed of the decision in a terse, two-sentence email'.
#DrCarlaHayden #LibraryofCongress.
#DrCarlaHayden #LibraryofCongress.
May 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Per @washingtonpost.com: 'President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress — the first woman and first African American to hold the position. She was informed of the decision in a terse, two-sentence email'.
#DrCarlaHayden #LibraryofCongress.
#DrCarlaHayden #LibraryofCongress.
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The late writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah will receive the first ever City of Birmingham Medal.
He was honoured with a Blue Plaque last year at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
He was honoured with a Blue Plaque last year at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
'Proud Brummie' Benjamin Zephaniah remembered by first city medal
The council says Zephaniah was
www.bbc.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The late writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah will receive the first ever City of Birmingham Medal.
He was honoured with a Blue Plaque last year at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
He was honoured with a Blue Plaque last year at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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Congratulations to Percival Everett on winning the Pulitzer for his novel JAMES. I really enjoyed reading it when it came out in paperback.
May 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Congratulations to Percival Everett on winning the Pulitzer for his novel JAMES. I really enjoyed reading it when it came out in paperback.
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‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models
Authors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.
Novelists Kate Mosse and Tracy Chevalier as well as poet and former Royal Society of Literature chair Daljit Nagra will be among those in attendance outside the company’s King’s Cross office. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
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Fully deserved! Benjamin Zephaniah - a celebrated dub poet, musician, nature lover, actor, and activist - he was a voice of creativity and freedom! 💚 #Birmingham #Legend
The late writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah will receive the first ever City of Birmingham Medal.
He was honoured with a Blue Plaque last year at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
He was honoured with a Blue Plaque last year at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
'Proud Brummie' Benjamin Zephaniah remembered by first city medal
The council says Zephaniah was
www.bbc.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Fully deserved! Benjamin Zephaniah - a celebrated dub poet, musician, nature lover, actor, and activist - he was a voice of creativity and freedom! 💚 #Birmingham #Legend
Swam to the Sun . Still a tadge chilly but soon warm up .
January 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Swam to the Sun . Still a tadge chilly but soon warm up .
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A personal reflection on the transcendence of storytelling in childhood | Dr Pam Jarvis
The power of the story
A personal reflection on the transcendence of storytelling in childhood
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
September 14, 2024 at 9:13 AM
A personal reflection on the transcendence of storytelling in childhood | Dr Pam Jarvis
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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.
September 7, 2024 at 9:17 AM
My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.