All in one place: our #BestiveBooks favourite-reads-of-the-year advent. Day 1 brought the joys of How to Read A Book by @kwamealexander & Melissa Sweet – a perfect starting point #BestiveBooks 1/28

Day 2 offered us a Lift created by @dsantat & @bottomshelfbks , published by @LittleBrownYR #BestiveBooks 2/28
Day 3 opened up new possibilities with How to be a Butterfly by @LauraMakesBook & @catellronca #BestiveBooks 3/28
Day 4 addressed the critical issue of coiffure-maintenance with The Hairdo that Got Away by @JosephACoelho & @fionalumbers #BestiveBooks 4/28
Day 5 got creative with How to Spot an Artist by Danielle Krysa #BestiveBooks 5/28
Day 6 stopped and took in and some beauty with @lantanapub 's A Story about Afiya – James Berry #BestiveBooks 6/28
Day 7’s slot was taken by My Shadow is Pink by Scott Stuart, published by @LarrikinH. #BestiveBooks 7/28
Day 8 got practical with the vibrant When Grandpa Gives You A Toolbox
By @jlbdeenihan & Lorraine Rocha, published by @sterlingbooks #BestiveBooks 8/28
Day 9 made way for the mighty The Girl who Stole an Elephant by @NizRite published by @NosyCrow @NosyCrowBooks. #BestiveBooks 9/28
We got well-informed on Day 10 thanks to The Britannica All New Children’s Encyclopaedia, edited by the marvellous @chrislloydwoep of @whatonearthbook #BestiveBooks 10/28
Day 11 celebrated a timeless great with The One That Got Away a ‘first retrospective’ of Jan Mark’s short stories, expertly curated by @appletonbooks #BestiveBooks 11/28
Day 12 was charmed and bewildered by @amytimberlake & @burstofbeaden ‘s Skunk and Badger #BestiveBooks 12/28
Day 13 unleashed the vivid joys of Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright: an Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year – expertly curated by Fiona Waters and illustrated by the super talented @Bteckentrup #BestiveBooks 13/28
Day 14 fell under the intoxicating influence of The Lost Spells by @RobGMacfarlane & @JackieMorrisArt #BestiveBooks 14/28
Day 15 brought the wonderful The Lost Homework by @therroneill & Kristi Beautyman #BestiveBooks 15/28
Day 16 gave us the gripping Orphans of the tide by @Struan_Murray #BestiveBooks 16/28
Day 17 provided two treats. the first choice got us outdoors with Wild Things: Over 100 Magical Outdoors Adventures by Jo Schofield & Fiona Danks #BestiveBooks 17/28
Day 17 kept us busy with two choices – there was also The Puffin Keeper by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated to perfection by @benji_davies #BestiveBooks 18/28
Day 18 also offered up two wonderful books – we shared Rise Up: Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories by Amanda Li & Amy Blackwell #BestiveBooks 19/28…
And also, on day 18, we shared David Attenborough: Little People Big, Dreams Series by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Mikyo Noh, @QuartoKids @Frances_Lincoln #BestiveBooks 20/28
Next we shared Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission, by Dan Long and Stefano Tambellini #BestiveBooks 21/28
And on day 20, we shared Can you See me? By Libby Scott & Rebecca Westcott @scholasticuk #BestiveBooks 22/28
Day 21 took a fresh view of the world through Holes by @JonathanLitton #BestiveBooks 23/28
Day 22 took a wander down Belonging Street - Poems by @MandyCoePoet @OtterBarryBooks #BestiveBooks 24/28
Christmas Eve Eve (apparently) or day 23 shared in the joys of Julian at the Wedding by Jessica Love, published by @WalkerBooksUK 25/28
Our poetry choice for the final day of our #BestiveBooks favourite reads advent brought two of our firm favourites together: The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice
By @afharrold & @Bonzetta1 Utterly usefully brilliant! 26/28
Our Picturebook choice for the final day of our #BestiveBooks favourite reads advent is the lyrical, true beauty that is @jscottwrites & @Sydneydraws I Talk Like A River. 27/28
And we reached the end of our #BestiveBooks favourite-reads-of the-year advent with the important & timely The book of Hopes edited by Katherine Rundell @BloomsburyBooks. May we wish you all a happy and safe holiday - and plenty of good reading! 28/28 Happy Christmas. 📚🎄📚

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.@bellingcat's attempt in their new book, published by
@BloomsburyBooks, to coverup the @OPCW #Douma controversy, promote US and UK gov. war narratives, and whitewash fraudulent conduct within the OPCW, is an exercise in deception through omission @marydejevsky @freddiesayers


1) 2000 words are devoted to the OPCW controversy regarding the alleged chemical weapon attack in #Douma, Syria in 2018 but critical material is omitted from the book. Reading it, one would never know the following:

2) That the controversy started when the original interim report, drafted and agreed by Douma inspection team members, was secretly modified by an unknown OPCW person who had manipulated the findings to suggest an attack had occurred. https://t.co/QtAAyH9WyX… @RobertF40396660


3) This act of attempted deception was only derailed because an inspector discovered the secret changes. The manipulations were reported by @ClarkeMicah
and can be readily observed in documents now available https://t.co/2BUNlD8ZUv….

4) .@bellingcat's book also makes no mention of the @couragefoundation panel, attended by the @opcw's first Director General, Jose Bustani, at which an OPCW official detailed key procedural irregularities and scientific flaws with the Final Douma Report:

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