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Letterbox Library
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Est. 1983. Not-for-profit children’s booksellers celebrating equality, inclusion & diversity. Schools/EY supplier. Co-runs Little Rebels Award. Workers’ Cooperative. www.letterboxlibrary.com
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Visual asset for the Nero Books Awards shortlist 2025. Reads “2025 Children’s Fiction Shortlist “ Beneath is a stack of four chapter books. Titles from top to bottom are: People Like Stars My Soul, A Shining Tree Shrapnel Boys Dragonborn
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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“Recent news stories include school and public librarians being asked to remove books, such as LGBTQ+ titles from shelves following complaints and universities navigating free speech.”

Quotes from @bookbrunch.bsky.social
article:
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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For a longer account of the day, with take out quotes, see our Insta reel on the grid!
A visual asset which is the cover for the instagram reel. Purple background. Along top, text reads: Whose History? in white font with big yellow question mark. Yellow inner panel with wavy edges. In this, text box reads: WHOSE histories are we told? HOW are our histories told? WHO gets to narrate our past? Bottom of asset, text reads: An IBBY Conference
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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… @candygourlay.bsky.social & @balirai.bsky.social
@darrenchetty.bsky.social & @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social
Sandra Agard with @catwrote.bsky.social & JT Williams.
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social who sang us out with join-in choruses 🙂

Look out for the blog up and coming on the IBBY site.
Karen Sands O Connor stands, hands on hips. Right is Darren Chetty holding a mic and speaking. Panel shows Sandra Agard facing audience, speaking in to mic. Catherine Johnson and JT Williams are both laughing. All are seated behind a table with black cloth. Michael Rosen is sat behind a table. He speaks in to mic, reading from an open book. Right hand is raised.
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Special mention to People Like Stars by @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social

The launch in February this year was truly starry 🤩🤩🤩
Pics below.

(People Like Stars 🦊 also inspired our 1st ever Insta reel)

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Photo of Patrice Lawrence giving a speech at the launch. Expressive hands, head raised and smiling. Wearing a deep orange jacket, pink T-shirt and a large fox brooch. Stands behind a table display of People Like Stars. A group photo at the launch. 5 people are sat or stood around a sofa. All hold up a copy of People Like Stars and are smiling, off to their left. Patrice is sat far left side. Includes Darren Chetty, Sophie Anderson, Adam Ferner and ?- all are authors.
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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REFLECTING REALITIES PACK Primary Key Stage 1 & 2 (Ages 5-11) *26 Books* | Letterbox Library
Selected by Letterbox Library and the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) The 2018 Reflecting Realities report by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) found that, of the chi...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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…We may not like the meaty issues that come our way, but we should not deny them…real change needs courage and persistence. We should expect leaders to lean into this, not sit idly by as others do the work and pay the cost. Okay. Okay?” @philipdsjones.bsky.social
Letter, @thebookseller.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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See the whole bumper @booksforkeeps.bsky.social issue: booksforkeeps.co.uk
Books For Keeps – The Children's Book Magazine Online
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November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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“Inclusivity in publishing isn’t a trend to be managed,it’s a responsibility to be shared. The loss of these organisations leaves a gap that we can’t afford to ignore.”
#PopUpProjectsUK

Responding to closures of @knightsofbooks.bsky.social #TinyOwlBooks Pop Up Projects & #GoodLiteracyAgency
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM