Ireland is voting for its stories 💚 From Derry to Dingle, readers everywhere are casting their votes for the books that moved, thrilled, & inspired them this year. Have you voted yet? Join readers across Ireland and help choose the 2025 winners. VOTE: scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote

A new chapter begins Monday — the Carnegie Nominations are coming. 👻📚🕯️ #Carnegies2026

🎵🎶It's the final countdown 🎶🎵 Don't forget to pop your nominations in before midnight tonight! I'm so looking forward to seeing what my reading list is going to look like for the next few months as a Judge!

Don’t miss out! Make sure you nominate by tomorrow night!!

📚 Calling all @cilip.bsky.social members! It's that exciting time once more! Join us in nominating your favourite children's and YA books for the 2026 Carnegies. Each member can nominate one exceptional title per Medal. 🏅 🗓️ Submit yours by 26 September carnegies.co.uk/nominations

ICYMI: The 2024 Yoto Carnegies won Best Development of an Existing Awards Event at the 2025 #AwardsAwards 🏆 Judges praised the “vibrant, youth-powered reinvention” as “massively scaled, emotionally resonant, and culturally important.” We’re honoured! Read more 👉:

“Manhood’s become a rock / I cannot lift alone.” Joseph Coelho’s The Boy Lost in the Maze remakes the Theseus myth into a mirror—reflecting modern masculinity, identity and the timeless search for self. My review for @justimaginecentre.bsky.social justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

📚 Thrilled to share that I’ve been shortlisted for the @sla.org.uk Secondary School Librarian of the Year Award! Honoured and grateful to be recognised among such dedicated professionals. 🌟 #SchoolLibraries

Applications for the Klaus Flugge Bursary for a sponsored place at Journeys Into Reading: #YLGConference2025 are now open! See the following post for details. Thank you to @andersenpress.bsky.social for sponsoring this bursary

Relive the magic of the 2025 Carnegie Awards💫 You can now watch back the ceremony on our website! Don’t miss the heartwarming moments and powerful speeches 🏅🎥 #Carnegies2025 📷: Tom Pilston / Beth Prodger Find the full recording and photo gallery: carnegies.co.uk/take-part/st...

🎟️ General sale tickets now available 🎟️ Join us for a weekend of joyful Resistance at the Children’s Books Ireland International Conference 2025. 🗓️20th & 21st September 📍Light House Cinema 🎟️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/childrens-... #CBIConf25

The winners of the @cilip.bsky.social #CarnegieMedals have been announced! 📚📜

It’s fantastic to see the winners of the Carnegie Medals announced today at the #Carnegies2025 awards ceremony. Huge congratulations to the winners, shortlistees and the judges from CILIP Youth Libraries Group!

Homebody has won the 2025 Shadowers' Choice Medal for Illustration! Congratulations to Theo Parish and @panmacmillan.bsky.social‬! ‏#Carnegies2025

Clever Crow has won the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Illustration! Congratulations to Olivia Lomenech Gill and @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social‬! #Carnegies2025

King of Nothing has won the 2025 Carnegie Shadowers' Choice Medal for Writing! Congratulations to Nathanael Lessore and Bonnier Books UK! #Carnegies2025

And the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing goes to Glasgow Boys! Congratulations to @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social and @faberchildrens.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social! #Carnegies2025

A huge thank you to the Awards Team, to @youthlibrarygroup.bsky.social and to all our judges, led by Ros Harding! Their dedication makes the Carnegie Awards possible 👏

🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Winners of the Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration, and Shadowers' Choice Medals: @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social, Nathanael Lessore, Theo Parish and Olivia Lomenech Gill! ‏#Carnegies2025 Read the press release: carnegies.co.uk/2025-winners...

The Discover Irish Children’s Books Symposium 🗓️Saturday 21st June from 11am to 4pm 📍Cregan Library, St Patrick’s Campus, DCU, Drumcondra, Co Dublin Booking details & more: www.writing.ie/news/discove... @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social #kidslit #illustrators #booksky #teachers

Those picture books look awful fine!

April is full of fab new Irish children's books. Check out the @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social posters for some of our favourites for all ages. Designed by @bexsheridan.bsky.social #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks The posters can be downloaded free from discoveririshkidsbooks.ie/new-irish-ch... Please share!

From the Guardian: This year’s chair of judges Ros Harding said this year’s shortlists “highlight the diversity and high quality within publishing for children and young people in the UK”. #Carnegies2025 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

The Carnegies shortlist is out, for the awards' 88th year. Shadowing starts tomorrow, awards are 19 June. Lovely to hear the panel talk of librarians as "equalisers" who know their readers and how to hook them on reading #Carnegies2025 #LBF25 carnegies.co.uk

The shortlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing & Carnegie Medal for Illustration are here! 16 books, 8 in each category. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors & illustrators and explore the lists now 📚 🏆 #Carnegies2025 #UKKidLit buff.ly/CBjsXur

Revealing the shortlist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Illustration! 🏅 These fabulous books transmit stories in ways that words alone cannot. 🎨✨ Congratulations to the brilliant shortlisted illustrators! #Carnegies2025 🎉 Explore the full list here: 🔗 carnegies.co.uk/illustration...

📣 Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing! With a focus on marginalised perspectives, these books highlight diversity and empathy ✨✍️ Congratulations to the exceptional authors shortlisted for the #Carnegies2025! 🏅 Delve into the books here: 🔗 carnegies.co.uk/writing-shor...

Interested in books and reading? 📚 If you are aged 16-24, we want to hear from you! We're currently looking for two young readers to help select the next KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards shortlist, longlist and winners for 2026. Apply here ⬇️ childrensbooksireland.ie/news-events/...

Brilliant to see so many Irish writers and illustrators on the Carnegie Medal longlists! Congrats to all! #discoveririshkidsbooks

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...

Announcing the longlist for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2025!🏅🎨 Featuring vibrant colours and innovative mediums, these 16 works delightfully portray themes like caring for nature and the power of reading. 📚🌟 #Carnegies2025 carnegies.co.uk/2025-longlis...

It is finally time! We are excited to reveal the longlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration. 🎉 Congratulations to the wonderful authors and illustrators longlisted for the #Carnegies2025! 🖌️📖✨ View the full list here: carnegies.co.uk/2025-longlis...

📚✨ Register your shadowing group now to receive a FREE Carnegies publicity pack! Packs include a selection of posters, bookmarks and stickers featuring the shortlisted books. Pack sign up closes TOMORROW – secure yours today: carnegies.co.uk/take-part/ #Carnegies2025

Drumroll please 🥁 The shortlist for this years KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards is HERE. These 10 titles will compete for six awards at the award ceremony on May 19th. A massive congratulations to this years longlistees and shortlistees. ⭐️ Now without further ado...

We've had a lot of announcements this January, but we saved the best till last! 🎉 The Carnegie Awards are returning to the Cambridge Theatre on 19 June 2025 with host Joseph Coelho! Sora will also be joining as our new digital sponsor! Find out more: carnegies.co.uk/announcing-2...

"This isn't something that's just nice or lovely. It's something fundamental to becoming a human being." Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social shares why reading is a right for every child. #ReadingRights

📚 2025 authors and illustrators, tell me about your book📚 I'm getting ready to plan out my monthly articles for @booksireland.bsky.social in 2025 and want to hear about what books yee have coming out 🧵

An amazing 3 Irish titles featured in this wonderful list of fairy and folk tales. #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20 💙📚 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19 💙📚 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18 💙📚 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17 💙📚 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

The practice of dry stone wall construction in Ireland has been added to UNESCO's list of protected cultural heritages around the world

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 16 💙📚 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 15 💙📚 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14 💙📚 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Interested in children's books and writing or illustrating for children? This FREE Live Online event is for you! @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social Books of the Year Tues 3rd Dec 7pm with a host of brilliant writers like @chrishaughton.bsky.social Booking here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/books-of-t...

#Éire by Art O'Murnaghan, 1922; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0.... #ArtO’Murnaghan was a self-taught #artist, born in Southampton to an Irish father. As an adult, he moved to #Ireland becoming involved in #ConradhnaGaeilge.