We're delighted that #Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social has been shortlisted for #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026! 🥳 Huge congrats and thank you to @booktrust.org.uk for all their important work in engaging children across the country through the prize!

This week’s #PictureBookFriday review is for the beautiful Follow the Swallow by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by @thomasdocherty.bsky.social. Out 05/06 from @farshorebooks.bsky.social worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/f...

Thrilled to have two fabulous books on the #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 longlist! ✨One Goose, Two Moose by @kaeltudor.bsky.social & Nicola Slater ✨Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social Huge congrats!

In advance of publication this week of #TheBearShapedHole, thanks to @thomasdocherty.bsky.social and @quartokids.bsky.social for my lovely new t-shirt!

Who doesn’t love a Julia Donaldson story? Excited to receive a copy of her latest title, Follow the Swallow, illustrated by @thomasdocherty.bsky.social Out 05/06 for 3-6 readers, huge thanks go to @sarahreadsandruns.bsky.social @farshorebooks.bsky.social 🥰 #KidlitUK #UKKidlit

A skilfully written moving rhyming story of loss and love @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social beautifully illustrated by @thomasdocherty.bsky.social #TheBearShapedHole @quartokids.bsky.social #FrancesLincolnChildrensBooks is #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-d8f

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Thomas Docherty from his picturebook Moon Girl about Leila who is afraid of the dark but is helped by the girl in the moon who has a paintbrush full of moonlight. Spot the cat, the fox, the owl. From OUP 3 April. @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social @thomasdocherty.bsky.social

The Bear-Shaped Hole is publishing this May! 🐻✨ "The Bear-Shaped Hole is going to be one of the most important picturebooks of 2025." @jonnybid.bsky.social "powerful, sad and joyous in equal measure." @smithsmm.bsky.social By @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social 🩵

Absolutely lovely bookpost today “The Bear-Shaped Hole” by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social is a truly wonderful book for supporting young people in preparing for loss. It’s powerful, sad and joyous in equal measure. Beautiful @quartokids.bsky.social #PicturebookPage

Unboxing video!!! "The Bear-Shaped Hole is going to be one of the most important picturebooks of 2025." - Jon Biddle #BearShapedHole #HareShapedHole #kidlit #loss #grief @thomasdocherty.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social

Got to see @thomasdocherty.bsky.social's roughs for our next collaboration and they are GORGEOUS.

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

Thank you to the lovely people at @rshipbshop.bsky.social in #Salisbury for getting lots of copies of our books in for us to sign! 📚 😍 @thomasdocherty.bsky.social grew up in Salisbury, so this is a special bookshop for us ❤️ and it has such a brilliantly curated selection of children's books! 📚

My new book Moon Girl with OUP is out in April and available to pre-order now. It's also being published in The Netherlands and in Finland. I had so much fun painting the moonlight glow and all the creatures hugging in the dark and the lovely, trusting relationship between the girls.

If you look carefully in the last photo, you'll see a signed copy of The Hare-Shaped Hole by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social on display 😊

This beautiful, heartfelt book by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social will be coming out in 2025 💗✨ Another deeply emotional and important book (following on from The Hare-Shaped Hole) which will help to comfort anyone facing the death of a loved one 💜 #thebearshapedhole

So proud of our new book The Bear-Shaped Hole by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and myself . I know that this book is going to help so many people, young and old, to talk about and discuss something that can be so hard to put into words. It has been a wonderful experience to work on this book.

I'm so proud to have had FOUR picture books published in 2024! 📚 🥰 Illustrated by four equally amazing #illustrators: #DavidRoberts, @brizidamagro.bsky.social, @thomasdocherty.bsky.social & @stevenlenton.bsky.social ✨✨✨✨ These would all make great #Christmas #gifts, just saying 😉💖 #picturebooks

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