To celebrate 2026 being the NATIONAL YEAR OF READING, TTS are giving 5 schools the chance to WIN a Storytime at TTS Headquarters with Laura Henry-Allain MBE. 🌟 To ENTER: 📖 FOLLOW @tts_resources 📖 COMMENT below how reading inspires your children 📖 LIKE & SHARE with your friends (one tag = one entry!) TERMS &
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PRESS RELEASE Author and educationalist Laura Henry-Allain promotes FREE Reading is Everywhere poster Resource launched following popular It Takes a Village webinar Poster promotes children’s reading in the Early Years Award-winning CBeebies writer behind drive to foster children’s love of books Laura Henry-Allain, the author behind well-loved titles including JoJo and Gran Gran and Maya
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I am absolutely thrilled that my children’s picture book, Maya and Marley and the Great Big Tidy Up has won a Teach Early Years Award 2025, in the picture book category! This means a lot to me. I started my career in Early Years Education, and it was an honour to know that this award
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I am super delighted to share that I have partnered with Siren Films and The Grove Nursery School, in Peckham, London on a film that showcases sustainability in practice. The film is free until Sunday 5th October 2025. All UK schools and Early Years settings, will need to have a Climate Action Plan in place.
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I am honored to have written another children’s picture book; My Blood, Your Blood. This book is very personal; the themes are Sickle Cell and Blood Donation. I had 10 units of blood 13 years ago. The book is based on Angel Salami, who has Sickle Cell and is illustrated by Zenovia Grant. We had
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Recycling week in two weeks! Monday 22nd to Sunday 28th September 2025 I have put together a suggested list, for Early Years settings and schools; resources, materials, displays, books, video clips, etc Books: Clean Up by Dapo Adeloa and Nathan Byron publisher Puffin Who Stole the Recycling bin: Ada Ray United Nations – Sustainability Goals
Such an honour to be included as a changemaker, and add my voice in this timely and important report, from United for All Ages. My work focus heavily on community and intergenerational and I hoped I captured this in my 100 word contribution. New ‘Hope for All Ages’ report sets out fifty ways to leave
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During the webinar in June; It Takes a Village ~ How We Can All Support Children in their Early Years and Beyond! I shared the Reading is Everywhere poster, many settings and schools asked if they could download to display. If you would like to purchase the poster, please do so via this link: It
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My Words, My Book presents! It Takes a Village ~ How we can all support children’s reading in their Early Years and beyond! A free webinar for educators, teachers, parents, childminders, librarians, authors, publishers and anyone who is interested in supporting children with their reading. At least a few times a year there is either
’Laura, How Do I?’ Is back for 2025! Every day I receive either an email or a direct message on one of my socials asking a ‘How Do I?’ question. These are usually accompanied by a request to either meet in person or have a virtual coffee. How do you get a book published? How
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Delighted to be interviewed by Alice Hopkins on BBC London Upload. I shared by career journey: working in education, creating children’s content; TV and books. The rationale behind my new Podcast My Words, My Book. Equally, ‘The Business of the Creative Business‘, and what I would tell my younger self. Listen below: Follow the conversation
I was at the House of Commons yesterday in my role as an expert commissioner for the Raising the Nation Play Commission. The event was for the Interim Report. Reflecting on the chair Paul Lindley OBE, quoting one of my profound quotes by Nelson Mandela: “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul
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