Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉

@brightchildrens

Client: #warner #disney #macmillan #ladybird

interests #ADHD #Autism

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

If you're looking for a Halloween read, I ordered a new print run of The Ghost In The Window - A Paranormal Graphic Novel :D https://t.co/HjZDu84AuX via @Etsy

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

@andyburnham Generative AI is ruining the careers of artists in the UK.

It's having an impact on young creatives and their career prospects. I'm giving a talk to those young creatives at Carmel College in St Helens today - please focus on lifting them up. Say no to AI.

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

@foliosociety @AlisonMoyet

[The Folio Society @foliosociety]

Win The Faraway Tree Collection 📚

To celebrate World Book Day, one lucky reader will win Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree trilogy.
To enter:
- Follow @foliosociety
- Repost this post
- Reply and tag a friend

Closes 11 March, midnight UK time. Good luck!
https://t.co/7GgJ4EVMG1

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

@_sorrengailll Hairstory shampoo and conditioner. It did the opposite of everything it promised.

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

New Substack

Come and join if you like the idea of painting, but don't know where to start, this is a perfect no-pressure way to get going 🥰❤🎨

https://t.co/gy0VmctSY8

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

@currys #CurrysTechmas Jingle All The Way 😂

[History Press Local @THP_Local]

As it's officially #cosyseason, we're giving away ONE #folklore book bundle.
To enter, simply re-share this post, follow us and @THP_Folklore. #Giveaway ends on the 10th of November at 12pm GMT and is UK only! #folklore #bookgiveaway ⭐ ✨ 🌙

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

@THP_Local @THP_Folklore #Enter :) This looks amazing!

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

I'm puzzled by quizzes saying 'You may have #ADHD if you do these three things.'

I have ADHD and one of the main issues is that I try not to repeat behaviours because I need the novelty of not doing things the same way every time.

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

Lots of prints, zines, books and oracle cards in my #etsy store. Go take a look!

https://t.co/dI2XsUhrTJ

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

@HooklandGuide @moretaredstar Thanks for explaining - I will look this up :)

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

@moretaredstar @HooklandGuide It's the Mari Lwyd and is a Christmastime tradition in Wales. I'm not sure if this is a different thing because of the time of year.

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

@EdelaQuintaine This is something to behold!

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

Hello #BookTwitter ! I've been away for a while and my feed is full of people fighting over pretty much anything.

I want to get back to seeing lovely Children's books and book news! I'm a children's book illustrator/sometimes author and I sell prints, original art and zines.

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

‘School hasn’t changed! Why are so many more young people unable to attend? Don’t they just have to learn to put up with it?’

I’m often asked all of these questions. So here’s a quick answer.

School has changed since most of us over the age of 30 were there. Starting in 2010 with Michael Gove, there was a deliberate shift in schools to a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’.

This meant, more focus on learning information and facts. Less focus on play, creativity, problem solving and social and emotional skills. There was a philosophy which ignored child development and instead focusing on how to get more information into children and more test results out. More standardised tests have been introduced starting in primary school. Phonics Screening, Multiplication Tables, Spelling Punctuation and Grammar ‘checks’ AKA tests.

Secondary schools have become more controlling. I hear regularly of schools where children walk along lines painted on the corridors in silence. I hear of frequent use of detention and isolation. Parents tell me quietly and say that they can’t complain openly because their children don’t want them to make a fuss. There’s a lot of focus on exam results, and education has become about retaining information.

All of this has a huge impact on children’s day-to-day experience.

More pressure has been introduced throughout the system. There are fewer options for those who don’t enjoy academics. Teachers are stressed, parents are stressed and it all results in stressed children. When they start to say they can’t go to school, the answer is more pressure. When parents complain they’re called vexatious. The answer is fines and threats. No one is listening.

So, no, I don’t think this is the ‘real world’ and they ‘just have to learn’.

I do think that something has changed. Schools have become less child-friendly, and the children are telling us so.

[David Williamson @theirishego]

8 years ago I was "invited" to a mandatory #PIP assessment after returning the 80-page @DWPgovuk questionnaire with a post-it note saying "As I'm not a salamander my legs haven't grown back."

This is what happened next...

[The Sooty Show @Sootyandco]

It's that time of year again...

[Sarah McIntyre @jabberworks]

A message to our government:
please respect our copyright 🙏

[Maxine Lee-Mackie🗝️♊🐉 @maxillustration]

@helenpoolebooks Happy birthday to you xx