Got my Irish PLR. My books were borrowed over 800 times! That's a little over £50, but you know what, it's a huge increase from last year!! Thank you so much Irish librarians and little Irish readers 🇮🇪 💕✨️ #PLR #kidlitUK #IrishPLR

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

That AI video must be the most unhinged meta thing I've ever seen: sh*t depicting a giant sh*t sh*thing sh*t.

So many jokes going around all my social media things right now about the prez' neck and what bothers me the most about it? They compare it to a vagina. People! It looks like a vulva! A vulva! Get your anatomy right, please.

gene kelly is antifa

I think there should be an imprint called Star Fucker Books that only signs celebrities and social media stars. I mostly think the purpose is for big 5 publishers to have the odd famous person at their events and for their corporate promos.

No work for months and then ALL the work AT ONCE. Thankful to past me for all the afternoon naps I've taken.

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Went to see Éiru, Cartoon Saloon's latest short, last night. So so good. 13 minutes of beautiful entertainment packed with meaning, from fellow compatriot Giovanna Ferrari. #éiru

'Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth', the seventh in our highly-illustrated series, is out now! Available at all good bookshops! 🐭🐭✍️✍️ @philipreeve.bsky.social @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

My next picture book is ready to pre-order! It's a rompus of a book. Expect prehistoric small humans, dodos, and dinosaurs! Dinosaur Playtime is out in February in the UK with KumushaBooks (HarperCollins). #kidlituk #kidlit

I've also delivered the roughs for my next picture book this morning, almost a whole week ahead of deadline. And today was supposed to be a day off as I did I live event yesterday. Relax is my second name...not.

Today I made a whole new section on my website which is basically an entirely new website. Because my creative career has taken a new route yet again... and so now I probably should add website design to my skills and services. No, I won't, I'm joking. I'm a creative octopus, though 🐙

Tilly Norwood sounds like a junction gap north of London where the chips are shit

For the love of all that is good in the book world, please work with real-life illustrators, cover designers and other creatives. In the UK, they are absolutely the best in the world.

I'm working on the roughs of my next picture book and I'm just looooooving it so much. Pencils are my favourite part of making a children's book: the research, the layouts, the problem solving, the potential of expanding the narrative...✨️💫 it's magical 💫✨️ #kidlitUK #kidlitart #kidlit

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

An important counter narrative to the recent headlines — actual journalism about the daily lives of asylum seekers in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We want it this way.

Comic inspired by (too many) encounters with those who think writing/illustrating children's picture books are a stepping stone to writing/illustrating REAL books. Thanks to Catherine Bailey for the caption! #KidLitChat #LibrarySky #DebbieOhiComics

#kidlitart #kidlituk #kidlitillustration

If you see this, QRP with your yellow art 💛✨️

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

When I was 5 years old I helped my own nonna preparing gnocchi. After making the potato dough, I carefully handled the knife to cut the first ones, when she snatched the knife off me saying "Give it to me, you're cutting them all wrong". One of the most defining moments of my childhood. 🥲

It's #kidlitartpostcard day! I'm Alberta and I'm always on the lookout for projects *with a budget* 🤪 Find me at albertatorres.com or at my agency Darley Anderson for UK/NorthAmerica publishing. 👋

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

I looked at my accounts spreadsheet and there a £20 difference between what's come in and what's gone out since April. ☠️ I'm waiting for a couple of invoices to be paid, but it's not good really not good at all 😐 #freelancerslife

Having such bad mental health days.

Remembering that time I explained how the children's book industry works to a guy who, despite never stepping into a children's bookshop (or kids section), fancied himself writing a picturebook about climate change because he now had a daughter and wife worked for green energy company. #kidlitUK

We have always made delightful little guys.

I'm itching to start working on my next picture book...except I still have to start the final art for the current one 😅🥲 #kidlitUK

Love these!

Another difficult day in 6+ difficult months of freelancing...yet I do not miss my old day job one bit! 😪

Today I was at Tower Hamlets Town Hall doing #liveillustration for the Tiwer Hamlets Food Partnership Summit hosted by the Women's Environmental Network!

Tomorrow I've got my first #liveillustration event! I'm practicing visualising the trickiest concepts. Wish me luck!

What a lovely evening at the HarperCollins authors summer party! Wonderful to speak to my agent, my publisher and my editors and fellow illustrators. #kidlituk

Again for those at the back. There are lots of people (including me) that are finding it very hard to get work. This is in part to the places that used to pay artists now wanking off to AI. It aint cool or funny. It's damaging to the planet & to the welfare of real people. #fuckai #AIShite

Exactly how I'm feeling too.

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

Indie #bookshop needs help alert! Moon Lane Books are over on Instagram. #booksky #books They need help - www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-us-sa...

Went ahead and made a starter pack of Iranian/Persian artists I know who deserve all the love and support now more than ever. Let me know if I missed anyone and I’ll add them go.bsky.app/LHbyaKpv

A message to the UK government: unless you actually support business and champion growth, our creative industries will suffer. Rising costs, AI disruption, nervous clients, post-pandemic debt — you’re talking down the economy while we fight to survive. Help us or lose us. 👀

I haven’t seen nearly enough people talking about this. The levels of greed and inhumane thinking on display is actually terrifying. America really is dystopian as fuck.

Can I be really honest for a minute? I’m tired of algorithms. I’m tired of feeling like I need to jump through hoops for my work to be seen. I’m tired of the creative industries being in a complete state. I’m tired of having to work two jobs just to survive.

It's #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm Alberta, illustrator, several published books in UK, US and Italy. I can do board books, pic books, magazines, cover art. I work a hybrid method of analogue and digital. If you're an art director - I'm available for work now! albertatorres.com

If👏 Creativity👏 Has👏 No👏 Value👏 In👏 Society👏 Then👏 Why👏 Are👏 So👏 Many👏 People👏 Going👏 To👏 So👏 Much👏 Trouble👏 To👏 Steal👏 It👏

Just over a month ago I joined a community food garden. Now my Saturdays are spend potting and planting and pruning and harvesting delicious organic veg. I made this poster for last week's event, celebrating the unveiling of a mosaic chess table and little free library. #posterdesign #event #garden