Very excited to announce that 'There's a Tiger on the Train', by Mariesa Dulak and Rebecca Cobb, has been shortlisted for Children's Picture Book of the Year, in The Week Junior Book Awards 2025!🐯

Margaret McDonald will be live with Scholastic Schools tomorrow morning, discussing her Carnegies shortlisted book, Glasgow Boys! Make sure to catch it at 10!🩵 shop.scholastic.co.uk/the-carnegie...

Happy #InternationalDanceDay 💃 Do you have any favourite children's books about dancers? Our reading pick for today is The Great Theatre Rescue by Judith Eagle.

Happy publication day to the authors of Owning It: Our Disabled Childhoods in Our Own Words! Watch a selection of the contributors reading from their pieces here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ3D...

A little shout out in Josie George's most recent Country Diary Column. Follow Josie's path and see the world with new eyes with her book, Letters from Wonderland. Out 5 June!🌸 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🛡️🌳Skin of bark, soul of a hero🌳🛡️ This #EarthDay, we're excited to reveal the new paperback cover of Jed Greenleaf, an astonishing standalone adventure from @kieranlarwood.bsky.social, illustrated by David Wyatt. Available to pre-order now.

Bit of a mind blower being sent pictures of my book at the Bologna children's book fair 🫣 You can preorder it right now at www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-You-Ma... #kidlit #childrensbook #book #booksky

Calling all aspiring authors and illustrators of colour... the FAB Prize 2025 is now open for entries ✒️🎨 To enter and find out more: faber.co.uk/journal/faber-launches-2025-fab-prize-with-a-publishing-deal-for-the-winner/

Wonderland is waiting for you. And it needs you. 🌿 Signed copies of Letters from Wonderland by Josie George are available to pre-order now from @biggreenbooks.bsky.social. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

Last night, we announced the winners of the Action! Prize on the Faber stand at Bologna. Congratulations to Theo Malings, who landed first place for her sensational YA sci-fi fantasy thriller, The Red Twilight 🏆 Read more here: www.faber.co.uk/journal/fabe...

We are so excited to be publishing Max Porter's first book for children, Dogs and Bears, with artwork by Dorothée de Monfreid – coming next summer 🐶🐻 www.thebookseller.com/rights/faber...

Introducing Letters from Wonderland by Josie George, with illustrations by Becky Thorns 🍃 See the world with new eyes and discover the confidence to forge your own path with this gorgeous book that’s part mystery, part guide, and part manifesto for hope. Out 5 June 2025.

Ahead of paperback publication of Podkin and the Tentacled Terror this week, join author Kieran Larwood on a tour of key locations in the the World of Podkin One-Ear series 👇 www.faber.co.uk/journal/watc...

Bookseller by day, author by... different day! Ahead of the release of The Notorious Virtues this Thursday, Alwyn Hamilton talks to @unitedbypop.bsky.social about her experience as both an author and @waterstones.bsky.social bookseller! www.unitedbypop.com/books/author...

To celebrate the publication of addictive new #YAFantasy #TheNotoriousVirtues this week, we are thrilled to share an interview with author Alwyn Hamilton! You can read the full interview free here: paperboundmag.com/2025/03/24/i... Thanks to @faberchildrens.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social 💜

‘These poems were originally written as a loving ode to my mum, celebrating her wonderful, fearless and unapologetic nature.’ Read an extract from Laura Dockrill’s new introduction to her book of poems celebrating the wonder of mothers, My Mum: www.faber.co.uk/journal/extr...

'There are so many books about love and kindness in our market, but are there enough about violence?' We are delighted to be publishing @juliangough.bsky.social and Ross Collins' hilarious picture book When Tad Kicked Vlad. Coming February 2026! www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

Last week #Carnegies2025 shortlistee Margaret McDonald joined BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland to talk about her book Glasgow Boys - described by Andrew O'Hagan as "tenderness itself" - and what the shortlisting means to her. @faberchildrens.bsky.social 🎧 From 2:50:13 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We are so thrilled to see @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social's Glasgow Boys and @mariesadulak.bsky.social and @rebeccacobb.bsky.social's There's a Tiger on the Train on the UKLA Book Awards 2025 shortlist! 🎉@uklitassociation.bsky.social

This September, prepare to sink your fangs into Dracula & Daughters, the first book in a gloriously gothic new adventure series from million-copy bestselling author Emma Carroll. Cover Art by Alice Guidi.🦇 @emcarrollauthor.bsky.social

Faber is looking to recruit a Publicity Manager on our Children’s team. Could it be you? This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for children’s books and connecting them to readers. faber.co.uk/careers/childrens-publicity-manager/

Debut author and #Carnegies2025 shortlistee Margaret McDonald joined Scotland Tonight last night to talk about her book Glasgow Boys and her Carnegie shortlisting. @faberchildrens.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @cilipscotland.bsky.social 📽️ Watch from 16:32: player.stv.tv/episode/4pju...

Huge congratulations to @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social who has been shortlisted for the #Carnegies2025 for her brilliant debut novel, Glasgow Boys 💙 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social

Are you ready to sink your fangs into something VERY exciting next Monday?

For #worldbookday I have dressed up as an autistic son of two librarians, who, after writing since he was a kid, is getting his first book published by @faberchildrens.bsky.social this year. Preorder it at www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-You-Ma... #kidlit #writer #magic #selfhelp #kidsbooks

📚🎉Competition Time🎉📚 Happy World Book Day to all who celebrate! This year, we’re offering one lucky school or library the chance to win a bundle of Faber Children’s books! For the chance to win, head on over to our Instagram page via this link: www.instagram.com/p/DG2v1H9Iiq...

‘A visionary tale.’ Michael Morpurgo The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. Where had he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. The Iron Man by Ted Hughes was first published #OnThisDay in 1968. Which edition is your favourite?

Hugely looking forward to reading #TheNotoriousVirtues by Alwyn Hamilton and joining the upcoming blog tour. Thanks to @thewritereads.bsky.social @faberchildrens.bsky.social for sending this gorgeous romantasy thriller, publishing 27/03.

'A gutsy historical adventure for 8+, with compelling hints of Streatfeild and Aiken.' ✨ @juditheagle.bsky.social's The Great Theatre Rescue is one of the @guardianbooks.bsky.social latest children's recommendations! @imogenrw.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

You have just opened a book about boobies 👀 Witty and wide-ranging, this eye-opening picture book by Nancy Vo is a cheeky celebration of boobies that's fresh and funny, while serving up just the right amount of fact. Boobies is out now!

Escape to 1930s theatre land in a glorious new middle-grade adventure from Judith Eagle, author of The Accidental Stowaway 🎭 ‘Judith Eagle is the absolute queen of cosy adventures.’ Emma Carroll The Great Theatre Rescue is out now!

We are so proud to be part of the #ReadForEmpathy collection 2025 with @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social's brilliant debut, Glasgow Boys. For more information and to download your free Read for Empathy guides, visit: www.empathylab.uk/RFE @empathylabuk.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social and Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick who have both been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Writing for the brilliant #GlasgowBoys and #SistersOfTheMoon! #Carnegies25 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social

We are delighted to share the longlist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing! 🏅🖋️ Highlighting empathy and diversity, these 19 works range from gripping dystopian adventures to stories about navigating grief and self-esteem. ✍️💫 #Carnegies2025 carnegies.co.uk/2025-longlis...

Our author spotlight video today features the brilliant Natasha Farrant talking about her thrilling adventure 'The Secret of Golden Island' - shortlisted in the 9+ Category. @faberchildrens.bsky.social youtu.be/D-CJldmwdfw?...

'Could we have curated this anthology if we weren't disabled? No. Here's why.' James Catchpole, Lucy Catchpole and @jenvcampbell.bsky.social speak to @thebookseller.bsky.social about the process of curating Owning It. Out 24 April. Read more here: www.thebookseller.com/comment/insi...

We are thrilled to reveal the cover for Owning It: Our disabled childhoods in our own words. Out 24 April. Edited by James and Lucy Catchpole and @jenvcampbell.bsky.social, and illustrated by Sophie Kamlish. Read more via @the-bookseller.bsky.social: www.thebookseller.com/comment/insi....

We are so delighted that Margaret McDonald's exceptional debut, Glasgow Boys, has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Readers! Congratulations @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social! 🎉

Read It Forward has begun! Buy any children’s and YA book via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social this month and they’ll donate 10% of the sale to leading children’s reading charities @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social 📚 We highly recommend any of the below to get you started!

Dare to be brilliant with The Magic in You by Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social 🪄 This entertaining guide will teach you an astonishing range of tricks and skills to discover your confidence and the magic in you! Out 31 July and available to pre-order now.

The deadline for the Action! Prize is tomorrow 💥 Last chance to submit your high octane, action-packed adventures! For more details, visit: faber.co.uk/journal/fabe...

Coming 28 August, Moira Buffini’s Torch Trilogy continues this summer with Torchfire 🔥 Available to pre-order now from @waterstones.bsky.social. waterstones.com/book/torchfire/moira-buffini/9780571385683

Join Amara Sage and Cynthia So in-conversation with @anikahussainwrites.bsky.social this Saturday 1st February at Waterstones Bristol! Tickets available here: waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @waterstones.bsky.social @waterstoneskids.bsky.social

A "heartwarming, hard-hitting YA takedown of diet culture"! Absolutely wonderful to see #AmaraSage's Girl, Ultra-Processed in @theguardian.com's Children's and Teens Roundup! @faberchildrens.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

We are delighted to see Songlight and Glasgow Boys on the #BranfordBoaseAward longlist. Congratulations to the brilliant Moira Buffini, @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social and their editors @alisewan.bsky.social and Ama Badu

Beds come in all shapes and sizes: there are submarine beds, beds for fishing, and jet-propelled beds to take you to the stars. Discover The Bed Book – a perfect bedtime read written by Sylvia Plath for her own children – now exquisitely illustrated by Cindy Wume.

‘Merry Christmas!’ said Fox. ‘Merry whatmas?’ said Hedgehog. ‘Merry whichmas?’ said Tortoise. Merry Whatmas? by Eoin McLaughlin and Polly Dunbar now has a new, brighter look – just in time for Christmas 🎄

Today I've been enjoying a new tale from #JudithEagle Set in the London theatre world in the 1930s, we meet Charley - a girl on a mission to save her beloved theatre from bankruptcy. Sure to be as full of adventure & daring as Judith's other thrilling tales! @faberchildrens.bsky.social #kidlituk