Don't suppose any of my followers on here are involved with a London bookshop and would be interested in having me pop in to sign some copies of The Notwitches? I'm going to be in town towards the end of the month and would love to visit a few stores. My DMs are open if so!

Searching for the best books for KS3 - 11-13 year olds? Cracking reading picks from librarians & teachers in schools. Authors include Patrick Ness, Anne Fine, Susan Hill & John Wyndham schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/sec... #YA #kidlit

Boosting!

Introducing Children's Chatter! ✍️🎨 For everyone who plays a part in bringing stories to young readers. Join the list here 👉 www.thebookseller.com/maili...

Recently updated on our site: Free reading resources to download. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/fr... #kidlit Free reading resources to download, share, send home to parents, use in the classroom and use on school websites - including book list PDFs,...

40 great books for children in year 2 aged 6-7, including modern and classic titles by Britannica books, Samuel Langley-Swain, C.K. Smouha, Michael Rosen, Berlie Doherty and Eoin Colfer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPMd... #kidlit #teachertwitter

Lynda's in Tales on Moon Lane today, sharing The Big Bang! and signing BSL with children from Westmeads Community Infant School. [1/2] #WBD26 #ChildrensBooks

What perfectly timed #BookPost! Thank you @nosycrow.bsky.social for this pair of fantastically fun stories that we can sit down and enjoy this #WorldBookDay (alongside all the special #WBD26 books of course!). What are you reading today? 👀📚 #ChildrensBooks #ReadForFun

Happy World Book Day! Today is all about inspiring children and young people to see reading differently, because reading for fun seriously improves lives. #WorldBookDay #GoAllIn #NationalYearOfReading2026 #WorldBookDay2026

It's March, it's Book Week and we already don't know if we're coming or going! 🥴 One thing we do know is that it's time for a brand new Artist of the Month and this month it's the brilliant @karenowenwrites! 🤩📚📝🎉 Read her interview now! 👇 www.authorsabroad.com/latest-news/...

We're ready for World Book Day 2026 with our new @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social and bookish pin badges from Pawprint Family! We love them and couldn't just pick one, so we treated ourselves to a few 😉 Have you grabbed any of them yet? Which one would you wear? 📚✨ #WBD26 #WorldBookDay #ReadForFun

Books we love in March 💙 Every month, we review dozens of books for children and teenagers. Here are our top picks this month 👇 https://bit.ly/487zIVT

So much great stuff in the Funday Times! @jamiesmart.bsky.social! @louiestowell.bsky.social! @rashmiwriting.bsky.social! @jessbradley.bsky.social! @monstrouscomics.bsky.social! AND MANY MORE. They should do this every week, right? Ok good we are all agreed, they should do this every week.

Congratulations to the fantastic winners 🏆

Our March books of the month Fiction: I Am Ray’s Imaginary Friend by Brian Moses, illustrated by Bethan Welby Nonfiction: Locked in the Museum by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe, illustrated by Acapulco Studio Picture book: Mo’s Stick by Fiona Lumbers 📚 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/new-book-rel... 📚

Many cities held Lunar New Year celebrations at the weekend, and we hope you enjoyed the start of the Year of the Fire Horse if you attended! If you've ever wondered about the stories behind your favourite foods, then we recommend the book Chinese Menu: www.libraries4schools.com/2026/02/25/c...

Huge thanks to Lola @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social for today’s fabulous bookpost. Can’t wait to read the second titles in the Marty Moose and Relic Hamilton series by Claire Powell and Joseph Coelho. #KidlitUK #UKKidlit

Tour of the UK! Correct dates! Free stuff! Tickets available through link! More dates to come throughout the year in more places! www.walker.co.uk/patrick-ness...

The first review of WE ARE DRAGON is out, and it's a corker! "Highly original, technically brilliant, and utterly gripping, this is middle-grade sci-fi at its absolute peak." Thank you so much! 😍 missclevelandsreading.com/2026/02/24/w... @nosycrow.bsky.social #KidLitUk #WeAreDragon

WORLD BOOK DAY is next week! I've a page on my website to help. FOR TEACHERS: a video to play in your classrooms. FOR PARENTS: costume ideas. FOR CHILDREN: Dress up as 1 of my characters& email a pic or @ me on socials & I'll put you in my website gallery! www.mgleonard.com/worldbookday

Loved The Overthinkers’ Club by Nat Luurtsema, illustrated by Cécile Dormeau, when I received an early proof. Huge thanks to Jess #UsborneBooks for this fab finished copy. Out 12/03 for 9+ readers, here’s my review again to tell you more: worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/t...

Thank you to @dannieprice.bsky.social for sending us a proof copy of @meltaylorbessent.bsky.social's fantastic new book, Riley Wright is Always Wrong! The first day of school is bad enough - but it's even worse when you're as clumsy as Riley, AND your dad is the new headmaster! [1/2]

It's spring(!!) half-term in a number of places, and there are bookish events to be found if you look 👀 Lynda went with her grandson Gabriel to see @giannapollero.bsky.social, author of the Monster Doughnuts series at Creative Maidstone in Kent. [1/2]

Thank you to Rosie Watts from @scholasticuk.bsky.social for sending us this copy of Rumpelstiltskin. It's the second of Mac Barnett's retellings of classic tales, and it's just as good as The Three Billy Goats Gruff before it - this time featuring stunning illustrations by Carson Ellis! #Booksky

The weather has been grim all year so far, so why not hunker down with a book? That's what we've been doing anyway! If you need some recommendations, then check out the various fiction, non-fiction, and picture/graphic books we read over January: www.libraries4schools.com/2026/02/13/b... #KidsBooks

My new book, 'Toby and the Pixies: How to be Cool' is out NOW! Read all about Toby's quest to become the coolest kid in school which also facing meddling pixies, giant pimples, possessed video games, dandruff cowboys and much much more. Get your copy here: thephoenixcomic.shop/collections/...

Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt out now! Human history from the point of view of the animals who have lived, worked and played alongside side us. Horrible Histories meets Creature Comforts via the Beano by an Eisner-nominated team. Available in all good bookshops!

Happy publication day to @alastairc.com and @rikinparekh.bsky.social. #stickymildred is a riot of colour, chaos and fun. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

I’m delighted to have teamed up with @questfriendz.bsky.social to reveal the cover for their new book, SuperQuesters: Mission: Desert Danger by @pauliancross.bsky.social Join the SuperQuesters for another exciting adventure on May 7th 🌵 Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/BSdesertdanger #KidlitUK

We have four fabulous books publishing today from Helen Rutter, @juliachristians.bsky.social, @melindasalisbury.com, Chris Bradford, Charlotte Grange, Sophie McKenzie and Melania Badosa! Learn about all four in the thread below.

It's STICKY MILDRED DAY! She's the stickiest creature who ever lived… And she HATES taking a bath! With silliness, antics and calamities brilliantly illustrated by the @rikinparekh.bsky.social, it's out today! 👉 alastairc.com/books/sticky... @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social #KidLitUk #StickyMildred

It's STICKY MILDRED DAY! Written by @alastairc.com, published by @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social and illustrated by me! Out NOW in all good bookshops! #childrensboomks

📚 World Book Day is in a few weeks time, but FROM TODAY children can choose their own book FREE with a £1/€1.50 book token - including this exclusive BUNNY VS MONKEY book! Tokens are available through schools, some magazines, McDonalds Happy Meal boxes, or digital tokens from worldbookday.com

Biographies and autobiographies for children featuring books by Mick Manning, Brita Granström, Michael Rosen, Vashti Harrison, Floella Benjamin, John Agard, Alastair Humphreys, Malala Yousafzai, David Long & William Grill schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/biogr... #teachertwitter #kidlit

Out 26/03 for 7+ readers, Will Shakespeare Mysteries: The Stinky Stolen Toenails by Kaz Penney, illustrated by Sammy Elgie, looks like a whole heap of fun. Huge thanks doth go to Jade @andersenpress.bsky.social #KidlitUK #UKKidlit

Out today! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/pets...

HURRAH! It's publication day for THE IMPOSSIBLE GLADIATOR! Treat yourself to a mental holiday in Ancient Rome searching for a missing magician! m.youtube.com/watch?v=3IMi...

Tickets for the Saturday events at PhoenixFest are on sale TOMORROW. It’ll be a ton of comic artists (and me) in Oxford, in April, doing comic workshops and drawalongs, all the details here: phoenixfest.co.uk (tickets tend to go really fast. Tix for Sunday’s events are on sale in a week’s time!)

Thank you to @kirankhanom.bsky.social at @scholasticuk.bsky.social for sending us this thrilling #Bookpost! The Last Resort: The Claiming is the second in the series, this one by Jasmine Warga. [1/2] #Bookstagram #TheLastResort #ChildrensBooks #SpookyReads

Gosh it's horrible out isn't it?? Thank you so much to @nosycrow.bsky.social for this fantastic #Bookpost bundle to keep us busy reading while it rains and blows outside! 🌧️ #Bookstagram #ChildrensBooks #KidLit #NonFictionForKids #NationalYearOfReading2026 #GoAllIn

Over the moon to see two Troika books on this incredible list by @empathylabuk.bsky.social - Star! the story of Nadia Nadim by @michaelamorgan.bsky.social and Jakub's Otter, a beautiful story of connection and kindness by @coralrumble.bsky.social 👏👏👏

How exciting 🤩

If ever you needed a reason to buy more children's books (like we need *another* excuse!) then this should definitely be it 💙

Some great guests, and some very important conversations to be having 👀

Winter-themed books for children, including titles by Chitra Soundar, Walter De la Mare, Dawn Casey, i-Spy, Abi Elphinstone, Sam Usher, Sue Hendra, Michael Morpurgo, Michael Rosen and more. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/winte... #teachersofx #kidlit

It's National Storytelling Week! 📖 Lynda's in a school today with a story about Stonehenge, so here's some pics from some of her previous sessions - from the Stone Age all the way up to the Second World War. [1/2] #NationalStorytellingWeek #Storytelling #KidsBooksUK

Our Poetry Competition is now open! You don't have to have read the books YET - write a poem inspired by the title or cover of our shortlisted books. Participating schools have received further details via email this morning. We can't wait to read your poems!

Follow in the footprints of some of Earth’s most majestic creatures and magnificent minibeasts... 🐾💚 Introducing debut author Judy Wise's non-fiction picture book, beautifully illustrated by Kristen and Kevin Howdeshell 💫 WILD FOOTPRINTS is out 9th April 2026!

An accessible adaptation of an important children's book, Refugee: The Graphic Novel shows the stories of three children from three different places and times, all trying to escape their countries and find a new, safe, home. See our full review here: www.libraries4schools.com/2026/01/29/r...