Autumn leaves and old friends...Joan Aiken & Quentin Blake brought us Arabel & Mortimer stories...still as funny as ever... @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DOEYz-U...

I can't believe it's been a year since this came out... @manderleypress.bsky.social glorious Joan Aiken collection now seen in all the best bookshops... funny, scary AND with literary references!!! Tales of london Town www.joanaiken.com/books/tales-...

Always remembering Joan Aiken...here in her garden at The Hermitage, in Sussex, surrounded by windfalls...

Joan Aiken spooky stories...great for school reading... www.joanaiken.com/books/the-sn...

Joan Aiken believed in the healing power of stories, and after an alarming week I can attest to the power of her own... Comfort reading, inspiration and hope right here... Collections from Small Beer Press @gavingrant.bsky.social joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/h...

Don't you wish you had one of these? A Gift from Joan Aiken... www.joanaiken.com/books/the-gi...

Joan Aiken in fantasy land, spent her 101 Birthday yesterday having all sites hacked, so don't believe any strange messages...except this one of course... @gavingrant.bsky.social 🖤

Happy Joan Aiken Day! Come and share some of her Happiest birthdays, some alarming ones...and some that would have surprised her a lot... joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/j...

Time to snuggle up with a Joan Aiken...

September brings back memories of Joan Aiken...not just because her Birthday falls on the 4th, but because of the autumn mood that comes with it... of leaf sweeping, and apple jelly and thoughts of home...all found in her books... joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/k...

Random read? But unforgettable ..

Joan Aiken...always unexpected...but in good company...

A Golden age of children's writers...Joan Aiken in great company, and a lovely book...♥️📚

Joan Aiken celebrates her debt to a fantastic forerunner, the much loved E.Nesbit... Happy Birthday...🪶🪶 Buy it here and support the Nesbit Society: www.edithnesbit.co.uk/society-publ...

Huge thanks to QuentinBlakeHQ and Lowry Salford for this lovely tribute to the stories created together with Joan Aiken - which introduced us all via BBC's Jackanory to MORTIMER and of course his best friend Arabel...Nevermore!!! thelowry.com/quentin-blak...

Cheers to @philipwomack.bsky.social for his @thespectator1828.bsky.social article imploring Writers and Editors to challenge young readers with more exciting language, like Joan Aiken! Babies love Beatrix Potter for odd words that they can remember and repeat... www.pressreader.com/uk/the-spect...

Celebrating #internationalcatday with Joan Aiken's enormous Mog who saves the town of Carnmog from flooding, and catches a few fish 🐬😻 in one of her classic Necklace of Raindrops stories, illustrated by Jan Pienkowski of course! www.joanaiken.com/books/a-neck...

Stormy in the Highlands? It is for Joan Aiken's valiant heroine Valhalla who abandons the safety of a New York society marriage for some very wild adventures abroad...join her from the comfort of your own armchair... www.panmacmillan.com/authors/joan...

Ahlbergs forever....!!! Books for Babies!!! 💚💛🩵❤️🧡

An encyclopedia of reading, in the best possible taste ...📚♥️

Joan Aiken Gothic Romance shocker - new paperback out now! #Girlrunsawaytohauntedcastle joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/j...

Are you sitting comfortably? Then let Joan Aiken whisk you away to a Scottish Castle and an unputdownable Gothic Romance, coming out in a handsome new paperback from @panmacmillan.bsky.social ....you just have to wait until Thursday... www.panmacmillan.com/authors/joan...

The Cat sat on the Book! That's what all cats are supposed to do...but in Joan Aiken world you never know what will happen next...🌦️🌈 www.joanaiken.com/books/a-neck...

Bringing delight wherever they go, stories by Joan Aiken & pictures by Jan Pienkowski now out in Korea 💕🌈 www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...

Twelve tall tales make up the 'Wolves Chronicles' ... Joan Aiken's lifetime work for readers of all ages, an alternative world with plenty of wisdom to help us survive our own... www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...

Get away from it all with Joan Aiken...and the delightful Dido Twite!

Yay! Looking for a long read? Joan Aiken has you covered ... www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...

Huzzah! Totally agree of course, also celebrating a new Joan Aiken collection from @manderleypress.bsky.social as a perfect introduction to this extraordinary writer... www.joanaiken.com/books/tales-...

I love a list with Joan Aiken - you may also like...? Super scary memories of her own schooldays, Oxford in the 1930's, plus some much older scarier ghosts... www.joanaiken.com/books/the-sh...

A new reader discovers Joan Aiken "Ich bin mittendrin und liebe es" (I'm right in the middle of it and I love it.) @diogenesverlag.bsky.social

Midway between May Eve, Walpurgis Night, and the Summer Solstice the Wonderful @hatchards.bsky.social held their annual highly celebrated gathering of stoytellers... amongst the partygoers of course was Joan Aiken, in this ghostly anthology thanks to @blpublishing.bsky.social and @johnnymains.co.uk

A solitary child, for Joan Aiken books became her friends. As @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social said, old favourites can ground you like anchors... "There's a Joan Aiken book, when I take it down from the shelf, I'm fine..." (Me too!) Dear Person who likes to Read... www.joanaiken.com/dear-reader/

Want to be even more upset? Read a Joan Aiken story...up your street @johnnymains.co.uk ?

A great plot, and a breathtaking adventure...Joan Aiken still gripping readers...

A time of hope for new beginnings, Joan Aiken's life in a picture timeline on the website...VE day at last... www.joanaiken.com/timeline/#19...

A Cool corner for a quiet afternoon, Joan Aiken's reading chair with a favourite Stella Gibbons novel, her blue jug with lilac, and a home made book weight full of old pennies...

Looking for stories for School Reading Time? Joan Aiken's latest collection has something for everyone...Kings, Queens, Monsters and Myths, Tales from Outer Space, (or under the sea) and a sleepwalking bear...! www.joanaiken.com/books/the-wi...

Joan Aiken at school...trying to entertain herself in her rough notebook on a slow day...

Beware...it may be a slippery slope...One Joan Aiken can easily lead you on to another, and she wrote over a hundred...😊 www.joanaiken.com/books/

A Joan Aiken Birthday offering to Mr.Wm.Shakspeere... (was there nothing she wouldn't attempt?) From one of her earliest stories, A Room Full of Leaves, (and many other delights...) Find it here: www.joanaiken.com/books/a-ghos...

A little Holiday treat for Aiken fans... visit her at home, and hear how she imagined her first books with gorgeous excerpts, including chocolate...(and wolves!)

An unusual egg hunt story from Joan Aiken & Jan Pienkowski - can you spot the egg? From their much loved Necklace of raindrops collection...also available as a bedtime audio... joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/a...

Joan Aiken on one of her favourite streets, and in one of her favourite bookshops too...

Yay...! One of the great storytellers...Joan Aiken finds her spot @thestorymuseum.bsky.social

A Mpther's day...keeping up with joan Aiken... joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/k...

Joan Aiken, a life in stories...grippingly retold by fellow writer Amanda Craig...

Great Joan Aiken classic kids reads, find them all here: www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...

A Joan Aiken story with a very happy ending... 💚

Not enough Jane Austen novels to keep you happy? Joan Aiken thought so too, so she wrote six more herself... @lizzieskurnick.bsky.social wrote all about these New Adventures of your favourite heroines in the NewYork Times: joanaiken.wordpress.com/2023/04/25/j...

Go Joan Aiken...and Libraries!!! 💙📚