I’m doing my first Christmas shopping signing event for @waterstones.braehead on Sat 29th Nov 2-4pm! Signed copies of some of my books will be available! Just in time for Christmas! Please do come along #Glasgow!

With the IBC Excluded Voices report making for sober reading this week, let’s use #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate brilliant books from global majority writers. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit www.inclusivebooksforchildren.org/excluded-voi...

Happy Halloween!!! 🎃 It's halloween and my new book has a GHOST in it!!!! I kinda forgot because he's a lovely guy! It's not a scary book, and it is gently supernatural! I'm dressed a panda (hint to my next published book! 😱 which is for Early Years/KS1)

I'm going to be doing some school visits in Hong Kong next year! How exciting! I feels pretty amazing knowing there will be kids in Hong Kong reading my books. How lucky am I!!!

For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have recognised the best fiction for adults. Now, we're delighted to announce the Children’s Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation. Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children

This is amazing for whoever wins it! I remember saying I wanted to win the Booker Prize when I first started to write nearly two decades ago. Probably won't happen! But I am happy that there is an award recognising children's literature in the U.K. and of course £50,000 is amazing!

The Booker Prize Foundation has launched the Children’s Booker Prize, the charity’s first award for children’s fiction. 👇 #BookSky

Just your annual reminder that if you’ve got a reader who loves Strictly Come Dancing they might like my novel Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu!

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the Hounslow SLS Junior Book Award 2026! 📚🥳 Congratulations #josephcoelho @jprosewriter.bsky.social @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social #jessieburton @erandalljones.bsky.social #jackmackay

I loved Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths and Keep Dancing Lizzie Chu has not disappointed! Maisie Chan manages to combine a pacy storyline with humour and empathy. Wonderful!

I’m so happy to see Nate Yu’s Blast From the Past on the @hounslowsls.bsky.social shortlist!!!

My fab colleague Paul and I got to write the autumn children's book reviews for the Scotsman. I think they were in the paper at the weekend but you can read them here online... www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul... #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

This September’s inclusive children’s books celebrate culture, identity & community 🍲✨ From sharing wonton soup to exploring Diwali, embracing who we are & tracing humanity’s roots back to Africa — these stories uplift, unite & inspire. 📚🌍 www.inclusivebooksforchildren.org/collections/...

It’s always great to have some stats to back up what you already feel.

FREE author events at Holborn Library in London. Sat 18th October for the Bloomsbury Festival. There isn't a bookshop on site but I will happily sign any editions of my books if you bring them along! There are lots of events happening! bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/2025_events/

Storm Amy…take care peeps! I’m gonna go get some food in and then will hunker down! Waterproof trousers are on!

Storm Amy eh…

I wrote an article for work about reading with dyslexia. This includes a list of kids books of various formats that I’ve personally found super-readable for different reasons. www.scottishbooktrust.com/articles/rea... #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek #KidsBooksFriday

A special shout out to the phenomenal @barringtonstoke.bsky.social for everything they’re doing to ensure dyslexic readers have access to high quality texts that readers of all different abilities can enjoy on an equal basis. #KidsBooksFriday #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek

It’s #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek in Scotland this week and in the rest of the UK next week. As a dyslexic reader myself I wanted to use #KidsBooksFriday this week to celebrate brilliant, accessible and super-readable texts of all kinds. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

Delighted to announce that my debut picture book "Kid Rex To The Rescue", illustrated by the fantastic Diane Ewen will be released on the 26th of March 2026 t.co/ohez7oPTcZ (£)(screenshots below)

I hate unboxing videos. HOWEVER, I am a CARTOONIST. So.

The latest email from JANE TACTICS who is promising me big things for my book Nate Yu’s Blast From the Past #BOT

Ooh, it's been a while, but we've got a scammer trying to fiddle people's credit cards again. They keep trying to buy Mr Bump over and over again with made up names and addresses. Poor Mr Bump.

Nearly every day this week I’ve had an email via my contact form, sent to my agency or my uni email telling me how wonderful my books are and it goes on for paragraphs. My head swells with the praise and then there is a line at the end asking me to contact them to see the ways they can help promote

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

I’ve been ill with what’s turned into a chest infection for over a week now. I’m very sad not to be able to attend the first LITTLE STORY FEAST tomorrow at the British Library. I didn’t organise it but I’ve wanted to see something like it for ages. A day of ESEA kidlit events for kids.

📚 Let's promote #readingforpleasure and #reflectingrealities with diverse authors, own voices, and new talent in children's books! Share your recommendations and let's build a library of books for all. 📚 #teamenglish #kidlit schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/ho...

Wonderful launch at @britishlibrary.bsky.social for their new digital archive ‘South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories’ site. A wealth of information, including original sources, oral histories and more, for schools, families, academics and writers. #edusky #academicsky southasianbritain.org

KS2 library has a new addition and it’s a corker 🤩📚 @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social

Without urgent, radical intervention, #Gaza faces total annihilation. We call for an immediate end to evacuation orders used as a tool of forcible displacement, a lasting ceasefire and the unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid at scale. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-th...

I don’t often go out but tonight I went to see Arrows Meet in Glasgow and had a nice dance! I want to get a glitterball helmet!

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

If you don't know what my new book is about then you can read this lovely review from @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social - this would be a great book for primary or Y7 (S1) - topics include WW1, untold histories, Liverpool, Adoption, Ants, Identity and more. Out now with @piccadilly-press.bsky.social

Choose 20 books per day on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 7: #NateYusBlastFromThePast by @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social published by #PiccadillyPress which I have on the #Borrowbox app

I followed a guy named Danny Chung years ago when my book came out and yesterday the real Danny Chung (the voice of Baby Saja in K-Pop Demon Hunters) told me he knew about my book! What a fun little exchange!

Nate Yu’s Blast from the past is a brilliant book about heritage and identity by @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social and is a wonderful book to build empathy and understanding in our young people as well as some forgotten history @bonnierbooks.bsky.social tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/n...

I asked my publisher for the PNG art files from my book cover (title font, characters, etc) so I can create social media assets and also school resources for my books. Why have they never given me those before? It makes things so much easier and 'on brand'. Still learning!

Wow, what a lovely review from @slatterymr.bsky.social for Nate Yu's Blast From the Past!

GLASGOW PALS! I'm going to be doing a FREE interactive author talk @ this year's Byre Road Book Festival which takes place 25-28th Sept. I will be talking about my new novel Nate Yu's Blast From the Past and I will even bring about the 1917 shell casing I have! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maisie-cha...

Glasgow you glorious beings. Here’s a FREE EVENT with me and Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch. Not only that, it’s hosted by the ace @nicolameighan.bsky.social at Hillhead Library for Byres Road Book Festival on 25/09 💚🩵 Muckle Empire 💜💛. 🎫 : www.eventbrite.com/e/muckle-emp...

A lot of people have asked for recs of things to read after Loki, and after much whittling and pondering I have a wee poster for you. Things that Loki readers might like with the aspects of Loki that those books capture! #UKKidlit @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

Fancy another alternate reads poster? There’s a wealth of brilliant children’s books around memories and/or intergenerational relationships so instead of reading Grandpa’s Great Escape, here are some alternatives. Which other books would you include? #kidlituk

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

Someone thought I was in my late 30s...I love that person.

What good things are there to do in London with teens? Autumn time? Any tips welcomed. We're going to see Totoro but that's all I've booked so far.

Abdullah's Bear Needs a Name by Yasmin Hanif and @sophiebenmouyal.bsky.social is a gentle yet powerful story about the value of cultural heritage🧸 Thank you to @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social for the wonderful review! ❤️ Pre-order your copy now: discoverkelpies.co.u...

I rarely have photoshoots but I had three in August and this was one of them! I am the excitable face of the BYRES ROAD BOOK FESTIVAL 2025 along with the very cool Muckler @michaelpedersen.bsky.social - Byres Road Book Festival will be 25-28th Sept 2025. Programme incoming! byresroadbookfestival.com

I’ve been storytelling to very small children today. I was singing (sorta), doing actions, running around with kids following me and acting a little. 30 mins talking (outside with no mic) with little kids and adults talking is not easy. I give myself a pat on the back!