Just a shout out to say thanks to everyone who attended our Zoom chat with Paul Macdonald from The Children’s Bookshop. As always Paul was informative; it was great to hear about the current trends in publishing, what’s hot with the buyers, what to look out for in the upcoming awards. This was generally an inspiring and fun way to spend the afternoon. It was also great to hear other peoples answers to Pauls questions, thanks for your contributions. I don’t know about you, but I now have a long shopping list of books for school and at home!😀 If you missed this, you can keep up with Paul’s recommendations by signing up for his newsletters here.

Are any of you podcast listeners? Earlier this term I surveyed students and staff at our school to see what podcasts they listen to. I have finally finished putting together a guide and there are lots of great recommendations from students and staff. This is high school orientated, although there are some primary age recommendations in there. You are welcome to have a look, copy etc. I have included some that have language or content warnings, so be warned -I have edited out many that were less suitable, but there remains some that are a bit iffy. Here is the guide: https://sites.google.com/edu…/shhslibrary/reading/podcasts

Daniel Jones