Buzz Sausage Wolf and the Smelly Cat is out on January 29th.

Congratulations to the amazing authors and illustrators of the 12 longlisted books in our 7+ Fiction category! #Spark12BooksOfChristmas 🎄🎁📚

Day 10, 7+ Fiction: 'Buzz Sausage Wolf' by Jim Beckett & Aurelie Lise-Anne. A hapless sausage dog with wolfish dreams scrambles through chaos, comedy and spilled hot chocolate as he attempts to be the perfect pet. @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @jimbeckett.bsky.social #Spark12BooksOfChristmas 🎄🎁📚

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Great set of Buzz Sausage Wolf PRIMARY SCHOOL RESOURCES for any teachers starting to think about the new term 🤪🐾 Available free here tpet.co.uk/downloads/ta...

A big THANK YOU to all the schools and bookshops that have hosted BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF events over the past few weeks! #kidlit #readingforpleasure #readingforfun #childrensbooks #KS1 #readingrocks #authorvisit #primaryschool #orangutan #ukulele

BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF is very excited to be in the window of Waterstones Finchley Road!🐾

I will be celebrating the release of BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF (out now!) with events at these marvellous bookshops: Steyning Bookshop - 26 May Waterstones Finchley Road 02 - 27 May Bags of Books, Lewes - 29 May Chicken and Frog, Brentwood - 7 June Heffers, Cambridge - 29 June and lots of schools!

One week to go!

BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF will be released ONE MONTH TODAY and he’s raring to go. If you know ANY 5-8 year olds, or have ever met one, please PRE-ORDER Buzz Sausage Wolf from your favourite bookshop today. 🐾

📣 HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 🐍 It's COVER REVEAL TIME! I'm proud to present my new novel 🏮NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST 💥 out June 12th. The wonderful cover art is by Simone Douglas @SimsDougie Published by @PiccadillyPress

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. "I knew my grandparents had been ill, but I hadn’t expected them to explode." -The Caravan at the Edge of Doom

My new book. @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @hslanews.bsky.social

Happy publication day to @prleathley.bsky.social and this absolute stunner... 'The book crackles with imagination. It’s beautifully written, with broad appeal to boys and girls, and fizzes with indelible imagery...a fantastic adventure' The Times, Children's Book of the Week

Long eared owl clapping in flight as he hunts over the buttercup fields 📸 driver.david

Many years ago when I was an editor I went to my boss and asked why we were allowing ourselves to become so reliant on Amazon...I suggested that publishers could mutually invest in a central bookselling website where orders were sent direct to relevant hubs and the amount we'd save because...

Libraries & librarians have never been more important. If we care about the future, we must make sure every school, every community, every child has access to a library & a librarian. And we have to give them all our support, so they can do their vital work, which benefits us ALL! #SaveLibraries

⭐️COVER REVEAL⭐️ Here it is! The cover of my brand new picture book out 13th March called I Hate Everything. I am so SUPER excited about this book & I really hope you love it too! Pre order from all your favs…some can be found here bit.ly/40FQeIQ #kidsbooks #childrensbooks #picturebooks #ghosts

PLR is a thing of beauty. I love libraries.

If you’d like to support a brilliant indie bookshop and buy a DEDICATED SIGNED copy of THE DAWN OF ADONIS, then click here c/o @bookcornerhx.bsky.social bookcornerhalifax.com/product/pre-...

"If you want to use a copyrighted work, you ask permission, and then you pay for it. Anything else is theft, and anyone arguing for anything else is harming the UK creative industry." Amen to @richardosman1.bsky.social on the government's pernicious AI proposal. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

THE DAWN OF ADONIS, cover illustrated by Tom Clohosy Cole, publishing in June…x

Bonnie McBarker, my hardworking publicist, just wants you to know that my upcoming MG book #WorldOfWanda was reviewed in #TheObserver yesterday. Good work, Bonnie! #Out2Feb @uclanpublishing.bsky.social @theagencybooks.bsky.social

Hey, any children's publishers out there clearing cupboards and got any groovy posters please? We need a refresh! #kidspublishing #indiebookshop #childrensbooks #groovyposters #childrenspublishing #posters #artwork #refresh

11-year-old devoured ‘Inkbound’ in a couple of days and 9-year-old pounced on it immediately afterwards. Great opening. Waiting my turn…

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