Niall Walker

Librarian for Schools, Communities, Care-Experienced YP. Interested in Inspiring All Readers and Learners.
Views my own.

[Malorie Blackman @malorieblackman]

This just makes me so sad. Please find the time to read to your children, read with them, let them read to you. These are the shared, defining moments that get remembered well into adulthood and old age. Cherish these moments, they are too soon gone for good.

[YLG Scotland @YLGScotland]

This is such an important book that @BarringtonStoke are publishing. It’s a child’s view of using a food bank and is told so eloquently and illustrated so insightfully. #BuildingIdentities

[The Carnegies @CarnegieMedals]

And the CILIP Carnegie Medal goes to The Poet X! Congratulations @AcevedoWrites @EMTeenFiction #CKG19 #BestChildrensBooks

[Lauren @MrsHgrps]

Nearly there with our library now, a few shelves left to go up 😊

[Mary Myatt @MaryMyatt]

'Simply reading challenging, complex novels aloud and at a fast pace in each lesson repositioned ‘poorer readers’ as ‘good’ readers, giving them a more engaged uninterrupted reading experience over a sustained period.' https://t.co/iv97luEYYh thanks for link @stevewillshaw

[Deafinitely Girly @deafgirly]

Subtitles aren't just for deaf people. Lots of my hearing friends use them, too. If you're hearing and find yourself using subtitles on Netflix and TV and would quite like them at the cinema, please retweet to help normalise their presence! Big thanks #DeafAwarenessWeek

[Laura @272BookFaith]

📘📙🌟 #Giveaway Time 🌟📙📘
For your chance to #win these 3 spectacular books, just RETWEET & FOLLOW before midnight on Sunday May 12th 🌟
International ok 🌎
#ReadingForPleasure
📙📘🌟📘📙📘🌟📘📙📘🌟📘📙

[Jhalak Prize @jhalakprize]

Announcing the 2019 #shortlist for the Jhalak Prize:
1. @RomaTheEngineer, Built
2. @akalamusic, Natives
3. @RaymondAntrobus, The Perseverance
4. @aminattaforna, Happiness
5. @guygunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City
6. @OnjaliRauf, The Boy At the Back of the Class

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

@nypost Literacy is so hot right now.

[Waterstones @Waterstones]

Presenting the winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019: @OnjaliRauf’s The Boy at the Back of the Class – a story focusing on a child's perspective on the refugee crisis, highlighting the importance of friendship and kindness. #WCBP19
https://t.co/kNvrgtEYLP

[Niall Walker @ReadicalScot]

@LousyLibrarian In a school library, bottom shelves are perfect for a display facing out and to the side.

Not many are browsing the bottom shelves, but they'll spot those!

[Noah Lenstra @NoahLenstra]

James Hill, director of @crcpl in Ohio, writes: "Most of the places you visit in your daily rounds have one purpose: for food, for advice, for care, for learning. But the library is for many things. The library is whatever you need it to be." https://t.co/ihGzPA7ew7

[Niall Walker @ReadicalScot]

Agreed.
And to do this you need to know your students, and they need to know you so they'll trust your recommendation - enough to give a book a shot anyway

[FHS Library @FHS_Lib]

@TaylorMadeLIS Reading for pleasure is fabulous. Providing & recommending books to teens that meander in a generally 'more difficult' trajectory whilst giving the same / even more pleasure is an art & a science practised by enthusiasts commonly employed as school & college librarians @CILIPSLG

[Ari, she/her (Books. Libraries. Also, cats.) @AriReadIt]

Dear #LibrarianTwitter, let it be known that today @bookloaner & I achieved peak #TeenLibrarian status by making our own genre wheel that teens can spin to help them decide what to read next, with bookmarks color-coded to match. 👌📚

[Ripley M. @LibrarianRip]

@TLT16 As a highschooler I was very close with my public library’s YA librarian, and her book recommendations did me a lot of good. I try to keep that in mind now as I interact with young patrons in my own job! #lis7423

[Niall Walker @ReadicalScot]

@LizPichon @PhilipArdagh One of our English teachers literally danced when our Tom Gates books came in because they know great kids books are great for everyone.

[Niall Walker @ReadicalScot]

@LizPichon @PhilipArdagh I have 16 year olds in my school reading Tom Gates today in between exam prep.

Relaxing, having a good laugh with books that helped them love reading in the first place.