Today's Annual Event Interviews are with Chris Vick, Kenechi Udogu, and Aleema Omotoni @chrisvickwrites.bsky.social @zephyrbooks.bsky.social @faberchildrens.bsky.social @scholasticuk.bsky.social #UKYA #UKYASpotlight ukyaspotlight.co.uk/2025/07/22/a...

Many thanks @hatchards.bsky.social Kings Cross for warm welcome and lovely table display for Shadow Creatures

Thrilled that Shadow Creartures has WON the @histassoc.bsky.social Young Quills award in the 11-13 category. Warm thanks to the judges, team @zephyrbooks.bsky.social and all the young readers who put the book on the shortlist.

Thanks so much

A must read. A bit depressing, yes, but simultaneously hopeful and hugely inspiring. (and the usual brilliance from @frankcottrelboyce.bskyb.social, and @booktrust.org.uk The future is in our hands. It looks very much like a book, waiting to be read (aloud).

THRILLED Shadow Creatures has been shortlisted for The Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social Young Quills Book Award, along with Fellow @zephyrbooks.bsky.social author Annelise Gray and many other fantastic writers.

LOVED my chat with the brilliant Lucas, talking Shadow Creatures, war books, Shakespeare and writing.

Great Show Creatures in this list! www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

Scottish seas should be bursting with life but right now, they’re under pressure. This week only, every £1 you donate to WDC’s @BigGive Green Match Fund campaign will be doubled, 🌍 Start local. Save the world. #RestoreScottishSeas

If you give £1 WDC gets £2!

It’s Never Too Late! Protecting the oceans 🐋🌍🐋 Find out more: issuu.com/educationcho... @chrisvickwrites.bsky.social #educationchoicesmagazine #educationcornerpodcast #EDIB #DEI #equality #diversity #inclusion #belonging #thelastwhale #ocean #planetearth #whales #savethewhales #childrensbooks

Thrilled that The Last Whales is featured in the latest edition. Thanks so much :)

Huge congrats and richly deserved.

If anyone is coming to the @waterstoneskids.bsky.social festival in Lincoln tomorrow, and didn't manage to get a ticket to see us, that's @hannahgold.bsky.social @jennypearson.bsky.social me & Natasha Farrant, we'll be in the bookshop afterwards so come & say hello, ask questions & get books signed.

I am supporting #ReadItForward! Buy any book during February on Bookshop.org and @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social will donate 10% to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

An incredible list as always. Special congrats (and fingers crossed!), to fellow @zephyrbooks.bsky.social author Blessing Musariri, and @clarefurniss.bsky.social and her brilliant book: The things we leave behind.

I was contacted yesterday to comment on imminent WH Smith sale and impact on young reader/buyers (end of article): Less visibility for books across a range of platforms, impacts numbers of young people reading for pleasure. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

'Tense, evocative and compelling.' Guardian 'Vital gripping tale...Beautifully written.' Telegraph One of The Spectator's Children's books of the year Available: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shadow-cr...

Thank you so much for this lovely write up of Shadow Creatures.

Five reasons why you should consider running the Spark! School Book Award in your secondary school, by our 11+ panel chair @rebeccarouillard.bsky.social on Literacy Hive Don't forget to sign up by 9am Friday to be in with a chance of winning one of our longlists www.literacyhive.org/five-reasons...

Our 9+ Category Longlist is overflowing with brilliant books in the #Spark12BooksOfChristmas 🎄🎁📚 @mcwriterspark.bsky.social

thanks @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social for this wonderful review of Shadow Creatures: schoolreadinglist.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Oh wow! I'm thrilled. Thanks so much, @sparkbookaward.bsky.social

Thrilled Shadow Creatures is one of the Spectators childrens' books of the year, along with fellow @zephyrbooks.bsky.social author Blessing Musariris's When its your turn for midnight. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-... (must read Spectator lit ed's @questingvole.bsky.social 's The Haunted Wood)

Loved being part of this panel for Nikki Gamble @justimaginecentre.bsky.social along with Manon Steffan Ros and @rhiantracey.bsky.social You can see/listen here: justimagine.co.uk/video/war-st...

Thanks so much, I'm thrilled you love it :)

Send help! I'm stuck in a fantastic kids' historical novel! LOVING Shadow Creatures by Chris Vick, set in Norway in WW2. It's beautifully written and the setting, folklore and hopeful heroism of the anti-Nazi resistance feel grounded in truth and balancing ambiguity. I don't want it to end.