My debut picture book The Go Away Rain Dance is on tour with Hygge Book Tours tomorrow! 🥳 Ziggi has the zoomies with the excitement of it all! 🐾🐶☔ @hyggebooktours.bsky.social

The Go Away Rain Dance is out today and available from www.hbpublishinghouse.co.uk/shop - or use the special publication day QR code below to get 50p off! #hbpublishinghouse

🐶 Ziggi loves zooming on zipwires! 🧵⬇️

www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2... Cover reveal for my debut picture book The Go Away Rain Dance out with HB Publishing House on 25th May! ☔🌧️🐶🐾

This is a great interview - full of gems - I really enjoyed reading it! 🤩

Ziggi is fast asleep, waiting to leap into action in my debut picture book, The Go Away Rain Dance, out next Spring with HB Publishing. Watch this space for more updates and a cover reveal in the New Year!

I'm absolutely delighted that my picture book text 'The Dream-Travellers' was awarded second place in the Yeovil Literary Prize Children's & Young Adult Novel category and my middle grade novel 'The Groucher' reached the shortlist! 🧵⬇️

Woohoo! 🎉 Very chuffed indeed to have two stories on the shortlist of the Yeovil Literary Prize in the Children's and Young Adult category, alongside lots of great-sounding titles! 😀🥳🤞 #yeovilliteraryfestival

Delighted to have been longlisted twice today in the Yeovil Literary Prize Children's and Young Adult Novel category! 😀🥳🎉 A big thank you to Yeovil Community Arts Association for providing this great opportunity for writers ✍️ #yeovilliteraryprize

Introducing Honey and Jimmy, the mischievous stars of a fun new picture book by Anne and @brianmosespoet.bsky.social - together these playful canine pals try their best to save the planet and show young readers how they can help the environment! 🐾🌿 🧵⬇️

This is such a brilliant opportunity! If you're a picture book author looking to develop your craft, don't miss it! (applications close on Friday 11th April)

Devon people, see you at @thebookery.bsky.social today at 11! ✍️🐭✍️🐭 Storytime, drawing, book signing. And we’d love to see you sketchbook if you bring it along!

I've just signed this: tr.ee/gtutYY_aMy

Please. PLEASE sign and boost this.

This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this. www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...

Pardon my screenshot, but I agree that this should be read. It's a rough one to read, but insanely informative and addresses the horrific reality that AI direction is headed. Near the bottom does have this, but I implore you to read the meat of this post.

Anyone in the mood for some ice-skating? ⛸️❄️🏔️ With thanks to @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social for the lovely atmospheric graphic!

#LyricalLanguageLab #poetrycontest FIRST PLACE: "Silent Snow" by Pamela Moritz See what the judges have to say about the winning poem here: www.reneelatulippe.com/winners-wint...

Meet Nora Ho, Children's Picture Book Author, in verse. She shares a love of the California Redwoods featuring a daring kitten who seeks the perfect home. Meeting forest inhabitants in their homes proves challenging for a little barn kitten. "A Place Called Home" ages 3-6 Amazon. noraghoauthor.com

A really interesting blog post about Voice and POV - well worth reading! 👀⬇️

Sorry to keep posting about this, but...I was awarded 2nd place for my poem 'Night Skaters' & I'm absolutely delighted! Congrats to all for their brilliant poems, & huge thanks to @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, @suzylevinson.bsky.social & Lou Piccolo for hosting & judging!

The names and poems of the winners and honorable mentions for @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social's 1st Annual Rhyming Poetry Contest will be revealed on December 17 at www.reneelatulippe.com/winners-gallery! 🤞

Hooray! My poem is on the shortlist of @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social's 1st Annual Rhyming Poetry Contest! I'm over the moon!!😊🥳🎉

Woohoo! My poem made the longlist!! 🥳🎉😊 Thank you @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social and the judges for hosting this lovely wintry contest!

Delighted to make the Searchlight #picturebook longlist again! 🥳🎉 Congratulations to all the other longlistees, and well done to everyone who entered for putting your work out there. Huge thanks as ever to all the incredible readers, and to Kim for organising!👏🏻

Congratulations to all the longlistees and to everyone who put their words out there by entering in the first place! 👏👏👏

I can't wait to read this one from @nadineholland.bsky.social and #WennyStephanie - it looks fab! 🤩

Hello all! My name is Sophie and I’m an illustrator from rural Essex rep’d by the Bright agency! I’ve worked with Ladybird, Hachette, Scholastic to name a few! 📚 I love travelling, (I’m often known to fly in and out of a country in a single day) cooking, and tending to my plants!

Very excited and delighted to announce that my debut illustrated picture book 'The Go Away Rain Dance' will be published by the lovely HB Publishing in Feb 2026! 🐾🌧️💦

Schools! We have a fantastic guide to running a comics club for you, with top tips from @eggyhelen.bsky.social and super illustrations by Emily Kimbell. PLUS get a free comic from The Phoenix and the chance to win a year's subscription for your school! 💥👇 www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...

Did you know we run Playtime sessions on Wednesday mornings for young children & their carers? We offer creative play, music-making & messy crafts, free 'picnic snack time ', & a bookbag for each child so they can borrow a book to take home with them each week... 🧵 ⬇️

Advance notice of our extended Saturday opening hours in the run-up to Christmas - plenty of opportunities to find the perfect book for friends & family! (& help us run our schools and community outreach projects at the same time) #BuyBooksDoGood #'ShopSmall #IndependentBookshops

For our final event of the year we were joined by excited puzzlers eager to help us complete the 500 piece puzzle of The Bookery ! We were delighted to partner with @alljigsawpuzzles for this event & most grateful to Clare & Sara who helped create our unique puzzle

Fun in the snow! 🐕🐾

Check out the free downloads of this fabulous magazine! Proud to have illustrated the cover of the Green' issue 🌿

I made up a starter pack of children's poets. Poetry is brilliant. It's quick to read, packs a punch, and it's fun. People often go straight for picture books and novels. And did too. But now I am enlightened. 😁 Check these top poets out! go.bsky.app/Tk98tFK #kidlit #parents #teachers #poets

Has this happened to you before? Why not visit us for a good browse and see if it happens again! #TheBookery #IndependentBookshops #ShopSmall #BuyBooksDoGood #Crediton

A very SILLY, festive first post from me to say 'Hi' to everyone in the kidlit community! I'm a children's author, mainly writing picture books and I'd love to chat bookish things! My next picture book is out on Jan 2nd... more on that soon!

If you’re wondering which books to select for your school or classroom @imaginecentre have over 2000 book reviews that you can search by theme, subject, genre and age, reviewed by a panel of teachers, librarians and literacy specialists. Here’s the link: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-book…

Looking forward to this! ⬇️

My map of children's independent bookshops is updated regularly. Most provide an online service and they're all run by people who can make well-informed book recommendations. Make sure you support your local one if you want to keep it. Any missing, please let me know. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

I've put together a #starterpack of illustrators based in, or focused on, UK publishing bsky.app/starter-pack... Do let me know if your name should be there :) #kidlit #kidlitUK #UKkidlit #kidliART #illustrator #illustrators

Hi Debbie! I made a Starter Pack (you're on it 😉) go.bsky.app/B8U5Ekc

Just spotted this starter pack too from @dapsdraws.bsky.social go.bsky.app/U3UQX2A

We've also begun a starter pack for writers of funny middle grade or chapter books. These books bring joy. It's a work in progress so shout if we haven't added you yet! #kidlituk go.bsky.app/HZJ8Sdy

Lovely walk yesterday up to the Church of St Michael de Rupe at Brentor near Lydford, Devon

I've added a few people to the UK Children's book publishing starter pack, including my esteemed colleage @ambercaraveo.bsky.social who has joined us! Please let me know if I'm missing anyone else - so many people have signed up this week! go.bsky.app/kRfNFe

Well, I hacked together a Starter Pack for #KidLitArt folks! I guess you can also use it if you're already here too. I tried to pick accounts of interest (& preferably active) here on Bsky to recommend, although the list is only half full right now - go.bsky.app/PdRV7Sw