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Ten Days | Ten Stories

5⃣: 🐲 Indigo Takes Flight 🐲

This gorgeous allegory for coming out, by debut author Krista M. Lambert, is illustrated by Chris Riddell, one of our most beloved Children's Laureates, and the first ever triple winner of the Kate Greenaway medal.

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2021-04-17

Happy Birthday Chris Riddell! (b.1962)
Lightweight Dave: ‘I think that went rather well…’
Observer, 2007

Political Cartoonist on the Observer since 1995, writer and illustrator of children’s books. In 2015 he was appointed the UK’s Children's Laureate.

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2021-04-13

"Put simply, libraries change lives. Literacy changes lives." -

We are proud to support the children's laureate's life-changing libraries project. Find out more here: https://t.co/pJv8KwL2MN

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2021-04-13

'Libraries change lives' - Cressida Cowell

Libraries are an invaluable resource for children's literacy and development and we fully support Children's Laureate 's open letter to the government! 🎒📚

Read more: https://t.co/bvlO5H5Hrs https://t.co/41P5L7RHFA

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2021-04-13

"Dryden taught to join / The varying pause, the full resounding line, / The long majestic march, and energy divine." (#Pope)

📖 in the of 13 April 1668, King appointed 36-year-old as the first English Poet Laureate.

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2021-04-13

Commission for Ganga Library Online. Nobel Prize Laureate, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi for Medicine 2008. Painted by Tim Tompkins https://t.co/aUsMfDtrER. https://t.co/0suQzQtPbN

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2021-04-02

In 2014 activist Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Laureate in history for her work to protect all girls' and women's right to education. Cofounder of she is building a world where every girl can learn and lead without fear.

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2021-03-30

Commission for Ganga Library Online. Nobel Prize Laureate, Mario Capecchi for Medicine 2007. Painted by Tim Tompkins https://t.co/aUsMfDtrER. https://t.co/0suQzQtPbN

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2021-03-29

“The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.” — National Youth Poet Laureate
Art:

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2021-03-23

To celebrate we need to look no further than Peeves, who is perhaps the poet laureate of Hogwarts. His rhymes may not be the most elegant, but they certainly speak to his character and give us some unforgettable moments of humor! 😁 https://t.co/lLKlPvh6lF

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2021-03-22

Alfred Tennyson (Poet Laureate), Faustin Betbeder, https://t.co/SW82Ehy5rM (Palette: 🖌🎨

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2021-03-16

"...I am the shore I left behind as well as the home I return to every evening. The voyage cannot proceed without me.” Luisa A. Igloria, VA Poet Laureate

Illustration: Unknown woman from Aeta Tribe, by Nina Mata, '08 https://t.co/381RzCrfQr

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2021-03-08

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was named in honor of Indian-American Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Known as Chandra ("moon" or "luminous" in Sanskrit), he was widely regarded as one of the foremost astrophysicists of the 20th century. 1/3

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2021-03-05

Anne shows no interest in the Lake Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and Robert Southey (1774-1843).
Southey, Poet laureate, lived at Greta Hall, Keswick from 1804 with his & Coleridge's family since Coleridge abandoned them. Author of Goldilocks and the Three Bears etc.

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2021-02-15

Commission for Ganga Library Online. Nobel Laureate Roger Y. Tsien for Chemistry 2008. Painted by artist Tim Tompkins from https://t.co/aUsMfDtrER. https://t.co/0suQzQtPbN

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2021-02-07

🚨New Drawing!🚨

Just finished my charcoal/pastels drawing of the amazing who was named the first-ever national youth poet laureate in 2017!

What a treat it was to hear her words back on the 20th after was sworn in❤️

Thank you, Amanda🙏

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2021-02-05

"Detained"

Myanmar military detains Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders on February 1. The Nobel laureate's party won in a landslide last November 2020, but the military claims that there has been a "fraud."

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2021-02-01

In celebration of the 150th year anniversary of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, have a brand new gorgeous edition by former children's laureate and award-winning illustrator .

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2021-01-21