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On Instagram, I share updates on what I am reading and mini-reviews, as well as book quotes with quick questions that you can use to spark amazing discussions with children. If you are not on Instagram, you can still view all of my activity here on my website! Just click any of the images below to see the accompanying commentary. Enjoy!
Michael Morpurgo, The Book Trust Annual Lecture, 2016.
"Let there be half an hour of Storytime at the end of school in Primary schools up and down the country... make this the half hour they all long for, that they don’t want to be over... Let the children go home dreaming of the story, reliving it, wondering."