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I know how to spend a Saturday night! Now WEEPING over @LawrencePatrice’s latest. NEEDLE is just a heartbreakingly powerful story - of uprooted love, devastating little cruelties and the power of apologies, even when they stick in the throat. Absolutely loved it 🧶 🦖 📖
No one conveyed the small heartbreaks and riotous excitement of a toddler’s daily life like Shirley Hughes did - such tenderness, warmth, humour and understanding in every line. Desperately sorry to say goodbye to the creator of Dogger, Alfie, Lucy and Tom and so many more.
What a staggering book. Taut, tight, heartbreaking poetry, transporting touches of illustration - all saturated with the anger and despair of being written off as criminal from birth, soul and talent ignored/snuffed out. A nuanced, powerful examination of a racist, cruel system.
💕BOY QUEEN, @TheGeorgeLester's foray into fierce world of drag. Robin's devastated when he doesn't get into drama school - but at a drag show, a new world opens up. Coping w failure, moving past trauma, working to craft & find onstage persona = hilarious, exhilarating & touching
Quietness of @JackieMorrisArt's books only underscores their power - mysterious resonance of rich image w well-chosen word, organic & inevitable as mushrooms. The Unwinding is filled with subtly intoxicating fragments, inviting the reader into the clear, poised state of creation.
Dramatic kennings, elegant coinages, sharp imperatives - poetry poised for flight from @dom_conlon in Leap, Hare, Leap! Around the world, fleeing fox, coyote, owl & bulldozer, Hare leaps through @izlesou's gorgeous bee-buzzing foliage, dry pink earth & bearded grasses - stunning.
Ooh in October a huge treat is coming in @kereengetten’s WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU MANGOES - beautiful vivid story set in a fishing village in Jamaica, full of secrets, memories, family and friendship. Rich, immediate and intensely evocative 🥭
Yes, yes, I did cry. Messily and copiously. Over this beautiful thing