Gill Trueman started her professional career working for the BBC and then in the HE/FE sector. Since 2004 she has been working at Peasedown St John Primary School, near Bath, where she loves to enthuse children about the joy of a good book and develop their research and digital literacy skills. She spends a lot of her day finding “just the right book” for children and teachers.

In 2012, she reached the Honours List of The School Librarian of the Year Award. Since then she has written articles on the role of a qualified librarian in primary schools, assisted with book selection in the Read for My School Book Trust Initiative, and been a School Librarian of the Year judge. In September 2013, she was part of the opening night discussion panel at the Bath Children’s Literature Festival with David Almond, Cressida Cowell and Julia Green.

Why did you get involved in Oxford BookMatch? I have daily first-hand experience working with teachers who come and ask me, “Have you got an appropriate book for…?” I know how much time it saves them when I can both suggest titles and give them the actual books a short while later. This database will be a great way for teachers to find appropriate book titles to match their needs, particularly if they don’t have a librarian at their school.