#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Rebecca Crane from My Very Own Space, picturebook with text by Pippa Goodhart about a little rabbit looking for peace & quiet to read. Busy but airy composition, with appealing creatures, in shades of sienna & eau de nil. Flying Eye pb 5 March @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social

Poetry News is always excellent reading! Thank you @poetrysociety.org.uk

✨ New blog post ✨ Eva Eland shares the inspiration behind Different and how Mia learns that being different isn’t something to hide but part of who she is. Read more: https://clpe.org.uk/blog/different-blog-eva-eland

✨ New blog post ✨ Mariajo Ilustrajo shares the inspiration behind 'Unusual Guests' and a glimpse into her writing process! Read more: https://clpe.org.uk/blog/unexpected-guests-blog-mariajo-ilustrajo

Books 4 Keeps have been following this project’s journey. Here, @bexlibrarian.bsky.social outlines the work so far and looks forward to the year ahead (and introduces us to the 2nd cohort of 23 creatives! 😍) @booksforkeeps.bsky.social #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/cont...

For #WorldBookNight, Poetry By Heart is encouraging everyone to join in the special #ReadingHour from 7-8pm on 23 April. Want to include poetry? Host a poem swap: find your favourite poems on the #PoetryByHeart website and exchange favourites with friends or colleagues! 📖❤️ poetrybyheart.org.uk

Happy to see a shout-out to our brand new #PoetryByHeart 4+ timeline anthology in The Poetry Society's Poetry News! These new materials will help young school pupils discover the joy of speaking poetry out loud ❤️ poetrybyheart.org.uk/timeline/4plus

NEW Book of the Week: Frank the Monster reviewed by @mattobin.bsky.social "Strange, funny and unexpectedly moving, this is a quietly powerful exploration of what it means to be seen." Bonus author Q&A too @geckopress.bsky.social #KidLit #booksky 🐺 booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/frank...

Measles can be a serious infection - are you and your children protected? Getting up to date with your MMRV vaccinations is the best way to stop this highly contagious illness. Check with your GP.

Another round of applause to all our fantastic winners of the #nationalpoetrycompetition 2025! - you can read the winning poems at poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by award-winning French Canadian illustrator Gerard DuBois, from The Other Side of the Forest. Text by Nadine Robert, translated by Paula Ayer. Picturebook about curiosity and community. Muted double page, with Victorian setting and hares as people. Greystone Kids 26 March.

Calling all young poets based in the South West: catch us at Plymouth Poetry Festival this April! Young Poets Takeovers are a space for up-and-coming young poets and performers to meet one another and share their work on stage. Tickets are free, but booking is essential: bit.ly/PlymouthTakkeover

Congratulations to the National Poetry Competition longlist! Everyone on the longlist wrote a poem that stood out to the judges, Susannah Dickey, Ian Duhig and Denise Saul, out of over 21,000 other works. Well done to all of our longlisted poets!

Free event! 🎭 Shakespeare, Youth & The Secret to Human Happiness 📍 Shakespeare North, Prescot 📅 1 April The event is part of Arts4Us, an Edge Hill Uni project examining arts therapies to support children's mental health. We're glad to partner on it! shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk/event/shakes...

Calling all young #writers! The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition is open & we're looking for stories, poems, song lyrics set in a place you love or inspired by someone you know really well. Thanks to Margaret McDonald for sharing her #writing tips. branfordboaseaward.org.uk/the-henriett...

Looking for some exciting weekend reading? Don't miss our new Book of the Week HEROES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW by Conor Forrest, 'a clever use of Irish legends and as stories of magical young heroes go, definitely amongst the best' @theobrienpress.bsky.social #KidLit #booksky bit.ly/4sq52XG

The shortlists have been announced for the 2026 UKLA Book Awards, high-quality children’s books that reflect all identities, promote diversity, recommended to teachers who want to inspire reading for pleasure @uklitassociation.bsky.social #booksky #kidlit 👏👏 booksforkeeps.co.uk/ukla-shortli...

Congratulations to the Federation of Children’s Book Groups who have announced Jonathan Stroud as their inaugural patron. As patron, Jonathan will champion the FCBG and raise awareness of its work bringing children and books together. 👏 #KidLitUK #booksky booksforkeeps.co.uk/jonathan-str...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Another pretty image by Richard Jones from his counting book One Amazing Journey, a story told mostly in pictures about two children returning a lost baby moon dragon to a magic land. Two sections of a colourful spread. @simonkidsuk.bsky.social @apaintedmouse.bsky.social

NEW #BfK Book of the Week and NEW interview - thank you to Jenny Moore for answering our questions about her magical adventure DRAGON GIRL AND THE AWAKENED FLAMES 🔥 Another treat in our new issue, out NOW! #KidLitUK #booksky booksforkeeps.co.uk

Wow, wow, wow! The Dad Trap has got an amazing review from @booksforkeeps.bsky.social! booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/the-d... @scholasticuk.bsky.social #KidLit #BookSky #PrimaryEduSky

Spring is here & so is our new issue, #BfK277 packed with interviews, features & children's book reviews! Authorgraph interview @patricknessbooks.bsky.social + @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social Polly Dunbar, @literacy-trust.bsky.social @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social & more #booksky #KidLitUK bit.ly/4s944Pq

Congratulations to all and especially #BranfordBoaseAward favourites @patricknessbooks.bsky.social @jprosewriter.bsky.social and Katya Balen 🎉

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Anders Frang from Whack A Moley, with text by Bethan Clarke. Graphic, comic image that shows one of the games Goat suggests but Mole doesn’t want to play, for obvious reasons. Accessible, characterful paperback from Little Tiger Press 5 March. @littletigeruk.bsky.social

Here they are! The shortlists for the #Carnegies2026 Congratulations to the illustrators on the shortlist for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #booksky #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/carnegies-20...

Here they are! The shortlists for the #Carnegies2026 are out! Congratulations to the authors on the shortlist for the Carnegie Medal for Writing @carnegiemedals.bsky.social 💐 #booksky #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/carnegies-20...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Dutch printmaker Jan Hamstra from Cluck: The Eggstaordinary Story of Chickens by Evelien De Vlieger, translated by Michele Hutchison. Magic Cat 5 March. One of the spectacular, elegant & decorative prints in this enlightening non-fiction. @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social

Good gentlefolk of Bluesky! On Saturday 10 May I shall appear at the Stratford Literary Festival. We’ll speak of books, ink and imagination, and I shall conjure drawings before thine very eyes. Mirth and merriment guaranteed! Secure thy place: www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/rob-b...

Celebrate bookshops with us! Buy ANY book site-wide and you could WIN a £250 gift card, every sale supports indie booksellers 💥

'A book that has been carefully and thoughtfully created to inform, educate and inspire.' Glowing 5⭐review for our NEW Book of the Week, SHAPES OF NATURE by Ben Hoare @dkbooks.bsky.social #booksky #kidlituk booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/shape...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Aysha Tengiz from Big Brilliant World which has spreads about 12 cities around the world: colourful, fact-filled patterns peopled by surreal, anthropomorphised animals as well as humans. With words from local languages. Big Picture Press 5 March. @ayshatengiz.bsky.social

Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Story Museum @thestorymuseum.bsky.social has launched 1001 Stories, a brand new, free to access #story resource for everyone. Check it out! #booksky bit.ly/47bZasl

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Corey Egbert from Mr Norton’s New Truck which has cumulative text by Huw Lewis Jones. This comical image of Horace on his scooter is reminiscent of vintage Little Golden Books, with their flat colour and stylised animals. Little Tiger 5 March. @littletigeruk.bsky.social

We’re so excited that Jake Hope will be on this year’s CLiPPA judging panel! A champion of children’s books, Jake brings huge expertise from his work with the Carnegie Medals. Register your school for the shadowing scheme: https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/1RW5-1LFF/clippa26

Very proud 😊 to have this STEM expert as one of our book reviewers. Here’s @alomshaha.bsky.social doing his 🌈🌈🌈magic⬇️ To meet the rest of the Letterbox Library Review Team: www.letterboxlibrary.com/how-we-selec... #KidLitUK

Wow ! Such a rich, fun and authentic session with Nate Lessore today and 2000 Young people! @kashleyenglish.bsky.social

Visiting the London Book Fair (10-12 Mar)? Don't miss the new Disability Inclusion & Accessibility hub hosted by @alexstrick.bsky.social & Beth Cox. Authors/illustrators, book a consultation offering inclusion/accessibility advice on a published or forthcoming title. #KidLitUK bit.ly/3Nh0vr9

Big day for awards! The FCBG have revealed the shortlist for this year's Children's Book Award, the only award completely chosen by children. #FCBGCBA26 #kidlituk Find out which favourite children's authors are on this year's list and congratulations to them all🎆 booksforkeeps.co.uk/childrens-bo...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Joe Todd-Stanton from his picturebook The Lost Robot, in which a broken toy finds saviours. From the tools to the tortoise, the many details of this happy scene are drawn with a fine, exact line in graphic novel style. Flying Eye Books 5 March @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social

We're delighted to share two special recordings by poets Jessica Mookherjee and Kayo Chingonyi of our primary and secondary calendar poems for March - 'The Door' by Miroslav Holub and 'Humming-Bird' by D. H. Lawrence 🗓️❤️ poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/hummin... poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-do...

Ahead of World Book Day, and to celebrate the National Year of Reading, the @sla.org.uk is launching a brand new Reader of the Year award in collaboration with @barringtonstoke.bsky.social Find out more and nominate now! #kidlituk #booksky booksforkeeps.co.uk/school-libra...

Our NEW Book of the Week! 🌊 booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/the-u...

"Inkbound carries the reader along on a current of imagination just like the magical ink river coursing through the city of New London." NEW Books for Keeps interview! Philippa Leathley discusses her INKBOUND books with Tanja Jennings ✨#booksky #kidlituk booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/imag...

Last chance to support #ReadItForward today! Stock up on great books and support @booktrust.org.uk & @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social with @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social 📚#booksky

Our NEW Book of the Week is by a real #BooksforKeeps favourite, Paddy Donnelly. Go adventuring again with Meara and Grandad as they discover the magic of looking at things differently in THE UPSIDE-DOWN LIGHTHOUSE @theobrienpress.bsky.social #kidlit #booksky booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/the-u...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Spread by Ruth Brown from her gorgeous new picturebook Tick-Tock Around the Clock: A day in the life of a cat. Stunning draughtsmanship in a wonderfully detailed handmade scene of the cat going out into the garden, with squirrels, birds, mouse, dog. Scallywag Press 3 March.

Last chance to win! #Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales is Scottish Book Trust's Book of the Month, and you only have until 11.59pm tomorrow to enter the competition to win a shiny copy full of magic & monsters! www.scottishbooktrust.com/competitions... @elisecillustration.com @discoverkelpies.bsky.social

Calling all young poets aged 14-25 - join us at our next writing workshop/Young Poets Takeover double bill! Book your free space: bit.ly/ColourfulPoetry

Congratulations to the winners of the @alcs.co.uk Annual Awards, incl winners of the Educational Writers' Award, in partnership with @societyofauthors.bsky.social, and the Ruth Rendell Award for Services to Literacy, in partnership with @literacy-trust.bsky.social booksforkeeps.co.uk/2026-alcs-an...