Nicola Davies @nicolakidsbooks Twitter profile

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

8 months

Never eat random stuff on your desk: what I thought was a sunflower seed was in fact a dead woodlouse.

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@nicolakidsbooks

6 years

Just in case anyone is wondering how bad discounting is for authors. One title of mine sold over 13,000 copies in 6 months and earned me just over 800 quid plus VAT.

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5 years

Every year, this hummingbird comes back to the man who saved him

Every Year, This Hummingbird Comes Back to the Man Who Saved Him

Ever since Michael Cardenaz saved a hummingbird, the little bird keeps coming back to visit him.

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5 years

I’ve started feeling grateful to every small sign of life-a sparrow on the shed roof,a sleepy butterfly in the loft’s corner. so last night the flock of tumbling rooks brought me to my knees on the lawn. Our world must be transformed through a new gratitude to nature.

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1 year

This is what access to a variety of books looks like: a well curated, generously stocked school library.This is what every school should have @whatSFSaid @CressidaCowell @clpe1 @uksla @Lib4Sch huge impact on children's learning, well being and ability to self start

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@nicolakidsbooks

4 years

Seal pup Solva harbour - not quite got the hang of life in @the wild yet ⁦ @yernamesnotdan ⁩

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4 years

Today today today!!! The launch of my picture book Last,my first outing as author+illustrator. Join me at2pm for live launch with @HelpingRhinos @TinyOwl_Books You can buy signed prints too,all proceeds to rhino conservation @scottishbktrust @Booktrust

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1 year

Have you actually SEEN the book you refer to as 'Rob Macfarlane's children's book' ? I feel you haven't because if you had you could not possibly ignore its huge visual presence which is entirely down to its co creator @JackieMorrisArt Very poor @guardian

The Lost Spells review – enchanting musical has an abundance of magic

A cockney fox and a preening jackdaw open our eyes to the wonders of nature in this charming show based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s book

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5 years

Mostly last week I was getting married...but back at my desk now everyone, so everything from now on will be ALRIGHT

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@nicolakidsbooks

11 months

So readers we kinda won @PHoracek not the top slit but a SPECIAL PRIZE with A TROPHY AND EVERYTHING totally amazing totally overwhelming THANKYOU @clpe1 @graffeg @charliehacking

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

Don’t forget the @ExtinctionR people on the streets again tonight suffering intimidation and harassment from police to try and make our government act on their promises on climate chaos action @XRCardiff @XRBristol @XRLondon

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@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

That book shaped my perception of uk birds. I carry those images in my mind like visual spells

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@nicolakidsbooks

2 years

A while ago I made some story start luggage tags to help get young writers going with their words. Hugely enjoyable thinking of the start of so many stories in one go. I might do this again if anyone might be interested in having them...? @DHAchildrens @bookwormswales

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@nicolakidsbooks

6 years

I met children this week who couldn't name a dandylion, a thrush, a jackdaw or a buttercup.Nature is being stolen from these children by a loss of language and a society turning its back on the land

Spell Songs, from The Lost Words

@lwspellsongs

6 years

As a companion to the inspiring #TheLostWords by @RobertMacfarlane & @JackieMorris , @FolkByTheOak have commissioned #SpellSongs , singing nature back to life through the power of music, poetry & art with 8 remarkable musicians who already engage deeply with landscape & nature

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5 years

Dear freelance kids’writers + illustrators who got their royalties this week, +who are now worrying about getting through the year.Hang on in there.Just ignore the celebs getting all the promotions, keep doing what you do.We need diverse voices+views.Lots of love from me

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@nicolakidsbooks

2 years

Just another little post card from the frontline of publishing: a book that has sold over 79 thousand copies in its 20 yr life, my cut is 10p a copy. Luckily I have a lot of books in print but for authors starting out these maths just don't add up to a living

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9 months

Dear Teachers just a reminder as you begin the school year with classes over 30,collapsing walls,no budget for arts,a curriculum like a strait jacket that, tho' this govt clearly doesn't care about kids, we know YOU DO. Your job builds all our futures.GOOD LUCK have a great year.

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@nicolakidsbooks

3 years

Very briefly thus afternoon I held a real copy of my new book baby in my arms. And it is very VERY beautiful. THANKYOU @pennyanne771 @FireflyPress @JackieMorrisArt for making it so lovely

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

9 months

1/4Due to circumstances beyond my control I have 3 books out TODAY! They all represent collaborations of various sorts+are VERY beautiful @DHAchildrens @OtterBarryBooks @MacmillanKidsUK @FireflyPress @thebookseller @GuardianBooks @ImogenRW @nikkigamble @NicoletteJones @clpe1

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@nicolakidsbooks

3 years

Also today this.Every moment of my life spent under green canopies,in blue oceans,every meeting with a wild creature,all my love for it all, my fear for it+ all my hope is in this story. I give it to your heart and hand dear reader @veroniquebaxter @JackieMorrisArt @FireflyPress

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@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

Stick your neck out for tomorrow's Climate Strike @ExtinctionR @XRCardiff @XRBristol @XRBath even you can only join in for an hour.If you can't, shout, write, draw,sing on social media @Soc_of_Authors @poets4climate @Booktrust @CressidaCowell @LaytonNeal @neilhimself

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5 years

Calling all uk children and their teachers. Please send your best whale pictures and poems to The Japanese Embassy to protest against the decision to start hunting whales again @TeachPrimary @The_UKLA @primary_orchard @norfolkschools @Booktrust @laurenstjohn

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4 years

This is a big day for me,my 1st copies of my first picture book written +illustrated by me. Thanks to Mary Shooter @yernamesnotdan @JackieMorrisArt @CathyFisherArt @PHoracek +lovely @TinyOwl_Books Let’s hope this book can work for @HelpingRhinos

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

3 years

The kindest friend @JackieMorrisArt printed her cover for my book today to show what it will look like.BEAUTIFUL! She's added some clues about the story too. Thankyou to everyone who has liked+ RT my reading of a fragment of this story + this glorious cover.Your support means *🌏

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

3 years

So lovely to have worked together on this book, after 20 years of talking and sharing our work: The Song That Sings Us,my words @JackieMorrisArt gorgeous art.publishing oct. @FireflyPress signed proofs going wild this week @Waterstones

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

6 years

Sooo pleased to be @Booktrust Writer in Res. Want to get kids outside looking,reading,writing,thinking+generally furnishing their brains with good stuff-like the cool touch of a frog’s skin,the light through leaves,the sound of the sea, caught in Words,printed on hearts

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@nicolakidsbooks

4 years

In spite of all discouragements, self doubt and negative feedback, THIS IS WHAT I AM DOING NEXT YEAR. So there.

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4 years

Yesterday. And at the other side of that hill was sea. I have indeed expired and gone to heaven

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4 years

Dear @BBCRadio2 I am an author who has spent more than 20 years working in schools, helping children to find their writing voices. #500Words was a wonderful way to get kids writing.I can't begin to imagine why you have axed it.Could you explain in 500 words or fewer?

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

Been thinking about children’s non fiction + why it needs more attention.Put simply,if you don’t know about the world as it is, how can you make it better? @Booktrust @JackieMorrisArt @RobGMacfarlane

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@nicolakidsbooks

2 years

'Yes your honour I'd did rob the bank, but I genuinely feel I did nothing wrong' @BBCRadio4 And as for Boris being Stressed. Ask @doctor_oxford about stress

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

4 years

Today I saw something that made me cry with renewed hope: a wire more full of swallows -100 perhaps - than I have seen in 40 years. most of them had flown off by the time I got this photo

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

4 years

My book LAST,about a rhino who thinks he is the only one of his kind left.Words+pictures by me, pub. Sept.22nd World Rhino Day by @TinyOwl_Books @DHAchildrens @worldlandtrust @savetherhino @thebookseller @KenilworthBook @Booktrust @drakebookshop @EScienza

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@nicolakidsbooks

6 years

Children’s books are holding up the publishing industry and yet the creators are second class citizens of the uk cultural world. Time media+govt woke up to the contribution they make to all our lives @JackieMorrisArt @JGreenAuthor @mrjamesmayhew

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@TeresaCremin

6 years

Fascinating stats: children book sales represent 24% of total bookmarket Thanks @EgmontUK This needs more media attention I agree @whatSFSaid @fictious_cat @triciaad @Joyisreading @TinyOwl_Books @FlyingEyeBooks @OxUniPress

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5 years

A sample of the reality for authors+illustrators:over 5 years over 94,000 copies of one title sold,cover price around £10; my cut £912.49 per year+ that's really good. @Soc_of_Authors @DHAbooks @mrjamesmayhew Please schools, don't ask authors to visit your school for free

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@nicolakidsbooks

11 months

Sneak preview of THE MOST beautiful book, THE STAR WHALE, art by @PHoracek poems by me.Publishes in sept from @OtterBarryBooks See it with Petr +me @CheltLitFest Bath Lit @WigtownBookFest Stratford +Malvern this Autumn @bouncemarketing @Waterstones @childrenheffers

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6 years

What signal does it give children to have no library in a school?The library should be the heart of every school, empowering children to be the authors of their own learning, the curators of their own minds @Booktrust @The_UKLA @BookTrustCymru @clpe1

FCBG

@FCBGNews

6 years

An impassioned shout out for libraries in primary schools by Neil Griffiths

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2 years

My old friend and shipmate Hal Whitehead just sent me a photo of a humpbacked whale(distinguished by its unique tail markings) that we photographed off Newfoundland in 1979, photographed again this year off Guadalupe.VERY HAPPY MAKING @_lrendell @imhannahstowe

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3 years

Why aren’t we vaccinating teachers and pupils? Or am I missing something? If kids are the big spreaders wouldn’t that make sense?

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@nicolakidsbooks

6 months

CHRISTMAS BOOK GIVEAWAY number 3 is this series of magical, mythic short stories for year 6+ all with illustrations by rising stars rt with #nicksgiveaways for the chance to win these for your school @graffeg_books @bouncemarketing @uksla

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4 years

V.excited!Just got the PDF the very 1st book I have written AND illustrated.Can't WAIT to share. Sneak preview of a tiny detail for now. Thanks to lovely @TinyOwl_Books Hope it can help rhinos @HelpingRhinos @savetherhino @sudantherhino @bookwormswales @Booktrust @BookTrustCymru

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3 years

Lovely teachers,I know next term is not what you want to think of right now but @clpe1 have laid on this FREE programme to nourish you+your pupils in greeness allll next year I PROMISE it's FAB 😉 @BIGPictureBooks @Petersbooks

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

This is for all the people on the streets in London tonight, sleeping in tents, superglued to cars, sitting on cold concrete, fighting for all our lives, yours, mine,our kids and our fellow species. Love and power to you all @ExtinctionR @XRCardiff @XRLondon @XRBristol

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Nicola Davies

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4 years

Finished painting my bizarre asymmetrical chairs, rescued from a skip and recycled to our dining table. One day we’ll have friends sitting on them ⁦ @CathyFisherArt ⁩ ⁦ @JackieMorrisArt ⁩ ⁦ @JGreenAuthor ⁩ ⁦ @yernamesnotdan ⁩

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6 years

1st copy of The Day War Came,pub in June. £1 from every copy to @HelpRefugees pl RT @JGreenAuthor @DHAbooks @davidjalmond @frankcottrell_b @Jake_Hope @JackieMorrisArt @LornaScobie @Alex_T_Smith @eddieizzard @catwrote

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@nicolakidsbooks

3 years

Every day I can do this I thank the universe

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@nicolakidsbooks

3 years

Piled high and waiting for signing by me and @JackieMorrisArt whose beautiful starling sings on the cover. I could not be more excited to be sending proof copies of this book out into the world.Not long now for those who are waiting for them! @FireflyPress

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@nicolakidsbooks

4 years

40 yrs ago I was on this boat+the island behind it,studying humpback whales with an extraordinary group of people.That time set a gleam in my heart that has illuminated every moment of my life since.Sending love to my crew mates then+since ⁦ @_lrendell ⁩ ⁦ @sgero ⁩

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@nicolakidsbooks

1 year

QUICK BOOK GIVEAWAY FOR EARTH DAY I have three paperback copies of ONE WORLD @JenEDesmondArt to give away RT LOTS with #loveoneworld plus your favourite animal Also tag @BIGPictureBooks + @DHAchildrens + I’ll pick the winners on the train to London on Friday @poets4climate

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@nicolakidsbooks

2 years

My 1st book 'Big Blue Whale' art by Nick Maland.Published 25 years ago.1st of 25 book posts to come in the next 10 days. Rt with the hashtag #nicoladavies25 for the chance to win ALL 25 for your school. @EcoSchoolsWales @DHAchildrens @BIGPictureBooks @FireflyPress @graffeg_books

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

Incredibly proud that the University Of Wales is making me Professor of Practice today in Swansea. This is where my father graduated so it’s very special @SwanseaUni @BookTrustCymru @LitWales

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

3 years

This afternoon I have been mostly signing proofs of my novel with my lovely friend @JackieMorrisArt who has made it look beautiful with the help of @firefly typeset is LUSH. VERY happy, very proud

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

4 years

Big day today: en route to London to attend the recording of the voice over for The Promise animation and film my intro tomorrow. @cheevil @SeedThePromise @Candlewick @BIGPictureBooks @DHAchildrens @DHAMedia @BBCEarth @JeromeFlynn

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

Leaving France on the Caen Portsmouth ferry.Feeling so sorrowful that when I come this way again I won’t be a European any more. Brexit stinks in every way, I hate it beyond description

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Nicola Davies

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4 years

Struggling this morning. Just have to focus on the spring bulbs coming up in the garden, the failure of the Bristol airport expansion + the knowledge that somewhere in the world humpbacks are still singing.

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@nicolakidsbooks

3 years

This beautiful starling by ⁦ @JackieMorrisArt ⁩ will be on the cover of my novel The Song That Sings Us,publishing Oct.Its full of action+animals +carries a big message that we are all one kin. Preorder special hardback edition now from ⁦ @FireflyPress ⁩

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4 years

Two hours on the sea in my kayak. Looking through gin clear water at light on rocks, St rations of barnacles limpets swirls and ochre weed, shimmers of sand eels, anemones like breaking hearts.I was actually inside magic

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5 years

Huge thanks to @JackieMorrisArt @RobGMacfarlane and all the Spell Songers @IAMKP @juliefowlis for an evening no one in the Albert Hall tonight will ever forget. I feel that the balance has been shifted just a little towards the positive. Love to you all

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@nicolakidsbooks

6 years

Bathe children in language (and grown ups too) let’s have National Read Aloud year @clpe1 @Booktrust

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@nicolakidsbooks

7 months

Delighted to be on the @CarnegieMedals nominations lists. CHOOSE LOVE our book representing true stories of people forced to seek refuge is nominated for both @PHoracek art + my buy a copy from @graffeg_books our royalties go to @chooselove

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

2 years

Thinking of @NHS staff who have spent Christmas working.We need to remember that COVID is not the main reason you are so over stretched.That is caused by YEARS of Tory underfunding,eroding of spare capacity+ zero govt.preparedness for pandemics.

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@nicolakidsbooks

3 years

What part of 'refugee' does Priti not get? How do you get passports/ visas etc from countries that are in chaos or when you belong to an oppressed minority?What part of running in fear does she not understand? @BBCr4today @RefugeesEU

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@nicolakidsbooks

6 years

The library is your ladder into the forest of knowledge..the door to the world and all that’s in it.Climb! Walk through!choose what you can become. ⁦ @Booktrust ⁩ ⁦ @youthlibraries ⁩ ⁦ @TinyOwl_Books ⁩

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3 years

A library in every school, access to reading for pleasure for every child ⁦ @CressidaCowell ⁩ ⁦ @Booktrust ⁩ ⁦ @EmilyDrabs ⁩

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4 years

Bike ride before work

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3 years

A card wot i done today

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5 years

You know the ‘rat climbing up the loo’thing? I thought it was impossible but no,5am today slurping sounds from the bathroom revealed a rat in the lavvy. I confess to cold blooded murder. Dear reader,I drowned him with a pair of barbecue tongs.

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@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

Very heartening that we’ve seen almost no plastic on Uist beaches ⁦ @gill__lewis ⁩ ⁦ @yuvalzommer ⁩

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@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO ME! Every Child a Song a celebration of children's rights +the @UNCRC is out in the world today, with Marc Martin's incredibly beautiful art. @wrenandrookbook @HachetteKids @JGreenAuthor @clpe1 @JackieMorrisArt @NicoletteJones @hayfestival @ainevenables

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@nicolakidsbooks

3 years

Absolutely sick of being asked to pretty up messages about climate change in books for children.

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11 months

W.I.P....whales in progress

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@nicolakidsbooks

6 months

Terrible terrible news about dear lovely wonderful Benjamin Zephaniah. I was lucky to work with him a few times. He was simply the dearest human, joyful to spend time with and his work was and will remain a beacon of light in the world. Love to all his friends and family

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3 years

Beach dream on Whitesands this evening. Reflection and reality muddled in my tired head so reassuring to see the world is muddled too sometimes

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@nicolakidsbooks

11 months

I adore this poster. It should be in every classroom. Reading for pleasure not only means reading WHAT you choose, but WHERE,WHEN and HOW you choose.PLEASURE and CHOICE are intimately connected

SF Said

@whatSFSaid

11 months

Never, ever forget the rights of the reader. Children might be younger than you, but they still have rights. And every reader has the right to choose what to read, and how to read it. #literacy (Art: Quentin Blake)

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10 months

Yesterday me + @JackieMorrisArt signed beautiful giclee prints of the world of The Song That Sings Us and Skrimsli. We'll be giving 1 or 2 away to schools+ copies of the book in September. Tag a school who might like one @bouncemarketing @FireflyPress @EcoSchoolsWales @uksla

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3 years

My lovely editor @pennyanne771 with our baby xxxxxxx @JackieMorrisArt @cheltwaters @FireflyPress a pile of signed copies ready for readers and official publication isn't until 14th.

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@nicolakidsbooks

2 years

Today I think another one of these but sea swim first - gotta go high tide in 32 minutes

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@nicolakidsbooks

6 years

I'm collecting stories about the big difference that libraries/librarians make to kids lives:do you have one you'd be willing to share?Will collate+post in Jan. @uksla @Booktrust @autumnrosewell @Literacy_Trust @BookTrustCymru @scottishbktrust @MrEPrimary @BarringtonStoke @clpe1

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@nicolakidsbooks

2 years

I cannot describe how beside myself with delight that The Song That Sings Us is DOUBLY nominated for my words +for @JackieMorrisArt illustration.Hugely proud to be in such wonderful company too.Congratulations to all nominated authors +illustrators @DHAchildrens @FireflyPress

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@CarnegieMedals

2 years

📣 We are delighted to announce the nominations for the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration! Congratulations to all the incredible authors and illustrators in the running for the #YotoCarnegies23 ! View the full lists here:

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2 years

For @pritipatel @BorisJohnson Only luck separates any of us from the Ukrainian people fleeing mayhem. One day you+yours may need the compassion you currently deny them. Make the RIGHT choice for once in your life.

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3 years

The Song That Sings Us is the story of a planet in peril, threatened by greed.Young people challenge these dark forces+struggle to help people understand that we are all one kin. Sound familiar? How will the apocalypse be averted? Read and find out. @FireflyPress @DHAchildrens

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6 years

Beyond delighted that A First Book Of The Sea is out today with its ravishing pictures by Emily Sutton. The colour of my heart is sea blue and always will be @JGreenAuthor @JackieMorrisArt @yernamesnotdan The thing you have to understand, the sea is bigger than the land!

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3 years

Scenes from a studio - beautiful work in a beautiful place Lou Tonkin’s studio flooded with light and loveliness @JackieMorrisArt

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2 years

CHRISTMAS GIFT GIVEAWAY hardback of The Song That Sings Us, signed,+dedicated,wrapped in hand painted paper + tiny portable artwork enclosed.Rt with #tstsugiveaway for a chance to win. Will draw at noon today post tomorrow ! @FireflyPress @bouncemarketing @DHAchildrens

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@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

Poster for school libraries @uksla going to the printers today . I’ll be selling them for cheap but to raise funds for @Book_Aid

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@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

Not sure I can rock a mortar board but trying hard here with Derek Bainton outgoing Head Of School for Swansea’s fab illustration course. Looking forward to my year as Prof. Of Practice ⁦ @SwanseaUni ⁩

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@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

Having a school library and a librarian should be a basic right in all schools. It signals to children that the learning can be in their own hands

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@MissNCleveland

5 years

@JackieMorrisArt @Konnie_Huq It's a subject I spoke about at #OxReadingSpree . Every child deserves to grow up with a #GreatSchoolLibrary . There's ring fenced funding for P.E. Why, when Reading for Pleasure is embedded in the National Curriculum, and not cheap to do properly, is that not ring fenced too? 🤔

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2 years

In Ukraine these are the choices that people are having to make. As usual the Tories only think of profit, shareholders, selfishness.Their sanctions are the weakest in the West +where other countries welcome Ukrainian refugees, Patel has closed the door. I am ashamed be British

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@nicolakidsbooks

6 years

Somewhere in all our family histories there is a refugee, somewhere in all our futures there may be a refugees. Refugees are us, not them. @HelpRefugees

BookTrust

@Booktrust

6 years

It seems more vital than ever to raise awareness of the plight of those fleeing their homes. @nicolakidsbooks tells us why she wanted to write a picture book about child refugees (and how she hopes it will make a difference): #RefugeeWeek2018

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Read this. He’s my total hero/idol/inspiration

Shaun Tan: 'We’re not being mean to animals – but there is evil in obliviousness'

What would happen if bears sued humanity and fish left the sea? The author-illustrator of Tales from the Inner City on animal rights, veganism and winning the Kate Greenaway medal

www.theguardian.com

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Nicola Davies

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Shampoo - pink- and conditioner - blue. Used every day for five weeks and have many weeks worth left. No plastic container was involved in the care of my hair!

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

5 years

Humpback ready to post to the Japanese ambasador to London, to protest against the decision to return to commercial whaling #waveofwhales ⁦ @WHALES_org ⁩ ⁦ @mrjamesmayhew ⁩

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

4 years

Hello SCHOOLS.Planning eco projects for next year linked to literacy?Your search ends here! ⁦ @EcoSchoolsWales ⁩ ⁦ @EcoPembs ⁩ ⁦ @PearsonSchools ⁩ ⁦ @HoxtonGarden ⁩ ⁦ @MrEPrimary ⁩ ⁦ @Read4eva ⁩ ⁦ @clpe1 ⁩ ⁦ @TeachPrimary ⁩

The Promise

The Promise. A beautiful new film, based on the beloved children’s picture book of the same name by Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin. Coming Soon to the BBC.

www.thepromise.earth

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

2 years

The functioning of children's literature is not to pretty up the world. It's to give children the ability to see, to understand, to love and and to be curious about the world as it is, and be able to imagine it changing for the better.

andrewkarre

@andrewkarre

2 years

In light of a Tennessee district banning MAUS, I'm sharing the greatest two pages ever written and drawn about the importance of children's literature and protecting children's access to books, starring Art Spiegelman and Maurice Sendak. From the New Yorker, September 27, 1997.

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

3 years

Just read this one more time please: Flower rich grasslands store 500% more carbon. We need to notice, value +safeguard diverse plant communities, forests, seagrass beds, meadows, bogs because they are the best way to save ourselves from climate apocalypse.

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

2 years

I've loved this picture by @JackieMorrisArt for a long long time. You can see it now @TheDruidstone along with walls full of her other lovely art... foxes, otters,bears,dreams. And the sea views through the window are pretty fine too @VisitPembs

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Nicola Davies

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6 years

I have never meant a dedication more deeply than this for The Day War Came @BIGPictureBooks @HelpRefugees @DHAbooks

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Nicola Davies

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Well done @MichaelRosenYes for fighting our corner @BBCr4today I'm betting 50% of listeners at least wouldn't know what the @CarnegieMedals are or who ever won one @JackieMorrisArt @MGLnrd @ManonSteffanRos @gill__lewis @katyabalen

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Nicola Davies

@nicolakidsbooks

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He's here, in my hands at last, my brave, wise,beautiful Skrimsli. He can be yours too, very soon 14 more days.Thankyou @JackieMorrisArt for this cover,+ thankyou @pennyanne771 for believing ❤ + @JGreenAuthor @LondonBessie for kind words @bouncemarketing @FireflyPress

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