I did this on Twitter years ago and got some amazing answers. Let's see if we can get #LibrariesChangeLives trending and show what amazing things can grow from properly funded public services and the value of providing free access to books, reading and educational resources for all.

Quiet Storm was one of my favourite books of the year when it was released. Always Angel is another triumph - authentic voices and full of empathy. Both books allow children to find themselves and to appreciate others. Great reads too! #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

Forget Valentine’s, do you know who has had a brilliant day today? All the dogs! Everywhere I went today, there were dogs; happy to be out with their owners in the long-awaited sunshine.

Honestly the best YA horror ever, treat yourself even if you don’t usually read YA. It’s so compelling, and utterly terrifying.

Announcing the longlist for the #Carnegies2026 Medal for Illustration!🏅🎨 Featuring lively colours and immersive mediums, these 19 works beautifully portray themes of identity, relationships, nature, and life’s journey. 📚🌟 https://carnegies.co.uk/2026-longlists-announced/#Carnegies2026

Revealing the longlist for the #Carnegies2026 Medal for Writing! 🏅✒️ Highlighting diversity and community, these 19 works span from humorous narratives and creative reimaginings to artfully using history to explore identity and relationships . 💫📖 https://carnegies.co.uk/2026-longlists-announced/

🎉 We couldn't be more pleased to share the 2026 #InformationBookAward with you today, along with some new sponsor news! The IBA celebrates the very best UK-published information titles, and is now sponsored by @dkbooks.bsky.social. Read more: bit.ly/3YSAlgz #kidlituk #childrensbooks #bookskyuk

Aaaaarrrrgggh! #TheTraitors

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. ‘Both the crown prince and his wife were shot dead.’

A giftset of my trilogy plus bookmark & soft toy bat is currently in an auction if anyone would like to bid for it (Donated by one of my lovely friends) The auction is raising funds to publish a picture book by Anne Roache who sadly passed away in 2025 Link in next post 👇🏻 #ukkidlit #kidlituk

The smallest gestures can have three biggest impact. (Saving this thread to return to as needed.) #BeKind

Here are almost 40 of my favourite #MiddleGrade reads for 2025. A fantastic range from wild fantasy, to gritty realism, historical adventures and more than a few scares. What a brilliant year its been for children’s books

Teachers! I’m heading the Authors Live stage at the end of the month. Make sure you’re registered here to take part during the broadcast: www.scottishbooktrust.com/learning-and... @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

Finally caught up with #TheTraitors yesterday & watched live tonight. WTF?!

Hello everyone! I am Josh, a poet, performer and workshop leader. Do please visit my website for lots of fun, FREE poems and resources: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk. Below is one of my best known poems, which is one of the many on my site. I hope you enjoy, and do please gimme a follow! #EduSky #poetry

Repost this with your home river. Mine is the River Shuttle - small, but oh so special to us.

This afternoon, I wrapped up warm, dragged out a teenager & enjoyed a walk & mug of tea in the glorious (but freezing) winter sunshine. #WinterWalk

So many excellent books in Helen’s list of her fave MG children’s books of 2025 #UKKidLit #KidLitUK

Sadly, I haven’t heard the woodpecker in the last few days, but this morning 1-2 bluetits, 2 robins & 2 nuthatches have already visited my bird feeder.

I had all these things to do, but I sat down for 2 mins & discovered Rear Window on BBC2 & now I’m not going to get anything done at all.

For 2nd time in week, I’ve just swept, wiped, hoovered & mopped the kitchen. On 23rd, I dropped a glass casserole lid, today 17yo somehow smashed a glass worktop protector to smithereens. Sigh

Finished my new Christmas jigsaw puzzle (started it yesterday, clearly haven’t been out enough).

“We invited a man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years” #MerryChristmas www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Happy Christmas Eve! You folks can keep your Love Actually & Holiday, I want to watch While You Were Sleeping. #ChristmasMovie

“Please, Sir, I want some more.” - our doggo channelling Oliver this afternoon. #Sheltie #DogsOfBluesky

One minute you’re wrapping presents at night (with a glass of wine) while your children are sleeping… Then, before you know it, you’re wrapping presents in the morning (with a mug of tea) while your teenagers are sleeping.

Ways I’ve already annoyed my teenagers this morning: asking them what they want for Christmas. Sigh

It's Monday again and today I'm reading "Utterly Lazy and Inattentive: Martin Parr in Words and Pictures" by Wendy Jones and Martin Parr What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Day 1 of my children’s Christmas book recommendations, some newly published, some much-loved older titles. #AStockingFullOfSpies by @redbreastedbird.bsky.social follows classic murder mystery tropes, for #MG readers. #UkKidLit vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2025/12/01/m...

How am I supposed to ‘surprise with a book’ the very well-read, quiet English teacher I barely know?! Argh! The odds of me picking something they haven’t read/enjoy are teeny & I’m sure I’m going to embarrass myself. Stupid #SecretSanta

Wow! What a story! Horrifying, heart-warming and brilliantly written, this middle grade horror about bravery, family and grief is perfect. The illustrations are brilliantly creepy too. #kidlituk 💙📚

Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute

I was thinking this morning, this year I've not got any new #Christmas books with global majority characters created by authors/illustrators of colour. Anyone got any recommendations? #BookAdvent #KidLitUK

Win a Primary School Book Bundle! 📚 Are you a teacher, librarian, TA, or staff member at a UK primary school? Enter our competition for the chance to win a specially curated bundle of books for your school! 👉 Enter here: forms.gle/Uvz1oTRse4pL... @cilip.bsky.social

What happens in nature in eight minutes? What does a frog look like on the inside? What was the first written language? These questions, and many more, are answered in the books shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize: #YoungSciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/11...

Well, this is excellent news indeed! #SchoolLibraries #UKKidLit

I've got lots of amazing picturebooks about the oceans but now looking for a couple more. Any recommendations gratefully received!

Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction

Whaaaatt?!?? Nick, I am so disappointed in you. #CelebrityTraitors

THE CALL, one of the greatest YA fantasy horror mythology novels of our time, gets a welcome rerelease in 2026! Forget the Hunger Games and other over-hyped dystopian romps, this duology smashes it to bits. Cool new cover too.

We’re all staying up late on a school night for #CelebrityTraitors! (Sorry, teachers)

I'm doing a Loki signing along with some MASSIVELY famous authors on Dec 6th at @booksellercrow.bsky.social in South London. Come and get Christmas signed books as presents for bookish friends and family of all ages. www.thebookseller.com/news/the-boo... #KidLitUK #Booksky #UKKidlit

She won! Huge congratulations, Elle YA Fiction Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2025 with @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social!! #KidLitUK #YALit

Following the ceremony, we are proud to celebrate that The Poisoned King 🦁 by Katherine Rundell is the WINNER of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2025. Thank you so much to the booksellers who shortlisted this title and to the wonderful readers who voted. 📚

An excellent article. Young teenage boys are incredibly underserved in the current publishing market an Nathanael Lessore’s books are incredibly important in filling that gap, and in allowing boys to see themselves and their lives represented in books in a realistic way.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".

Cannot think of a funny self-effacing way to say this, so: Donut Squad has been shortlisted for WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR whaaaaaaat 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯