Tidy little book pack order just landed from a nursery group. #KidLitUK

A lovely blog for @theclpe.bsky.social by @harrywoodgate.bsky.social re: The Butterfly House with its emphasis on community, compassion and wellbeing- which all also sing out of Grandad’s Pride , shortlisted for #littlerebelsaward in 2024. #KidLitUK

“The journey home from school, across rural landscapes, to a village, is transformed in to a super sprint thanks to an effervescent uncle and an abundance of imagination.” Recent review celebrating the best of uncles! www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page... #notforprofit #KidLitUK #BookSky

Your regular reminder:we’re famed for our stringent, darn fussy, book review process. We don’t ‘just’ sell inclusive children’s books. We sell THE VERY BEST inclusive children’s books. See our insta for our recent reels & pinned posts where you can also meet our review team! #KidLitUK #BookSky

If you’d like to be inspired to embed empathy across your curriculum & school culture – & understand how you can do this through every day reading practice, we have online training coming up in June. Find out more: empathylab.uk/empathy-scho...

📣Hey fans of #LittleRebelsAward The award may not be running in 2026 BUT the organisers are running a fab #LittleRebelsAwardHighlights2026 series ⬇️ Follow them at @littlerebsprize.bsky.social #KidLitUK

📣Hey fans of #LittleRebelsAward The award may not be running in 2026 BUT the organisers are running a fab #LittleRebelsAwardHighlights2026 series ⬇️ Follow them at @littlerebsprize.bsky.social #KidLitUK

Your reminder that you can find highlights from the superb Beyond the Secret Garden columns on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social shop front. @booksforkeeps.bsky.social @darrenchetty.bsky.social @booksforkeeps.bsky.social #notforprofit #coop #workerscoop #KidLitUK uk.bookshop.org/shop/letterb...

Fostering a love of reading and curiosity is at the heart of education. Reading diverse books develops critical thinking, belonging, and a passion for learning. Censoring school library books is unacceptable. An urgent motion to fight censorship and defend librarians was passed at #NEU2026.

“HR 7661, if passed, will compel nationwide book censorship. It confuses obscenity with identity& stigmatizes vulnerable young people, particularly trans children&teens, based on who they are” Coalition sign statement opposing House Resolution 7661. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

We’re thrilled to reveal this year’s CLiPPA shortlist! 🌟 Featuring works by Sean Taylor, Traci N. Todd, Sam Gayton, Simon Mole & John Agard, it's a true celebration of poetry’s power and joy! Sign up to the Shadowing Scheme: https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/1RW5-1LFF/clippa26

Just making sure Bluesky #BookSky #KidLitUK is all-a-buzzing with the news that “our” @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social has been awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award for writing. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a... @ibbyuk.bsky.social (All in spite of #PassportWoes)

The #JhalakPrize shortlists are out! And the Children’s/YA Category looks, as ever, 💜superior💜 @profsunnysingh.bsky.social #KidLitUK

📣Teachers! 20th April. Another generous course offering from @theclpe.bsky.social #KidLitUK

Is children’s fiction in danger of becoming a fast food diet..? “Books become merely a product for consumption, a written-to-order consumable.A paint-by-numbers literary commodity…They shouldn’t just please us. That leads to not being able to handle disagreements, different world views..” #KidLitUK

“We were prisoners of our own country, though we were not guilty of any crime, just our ancestry”(Minoru Tonai) Bringing ‘difficult’topics to picture books-something close to our #littlerebelsaward hearts. Mia Wenjen& @writerjolene.bsky.social .. #KidLitUK www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

1/3 FROM THE B WORD…to EXTINCTION REBELLION! 😷We brought out our 1st #LittleRebelsAward video during the 2020 lockdown 🤓Watch our judges introducing that year’s 7-strong shortlist! ⭐️JUDGES: @darrenchetty.bsky.social Shaun Dellenty @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social #KidLitUK youtu.be/5WttycAT0Hg?...

“I love that my kids have aunts&uncles that they could go to & talk about things that they might not talk to me about.They can be there for them in a different way” Just as we posted on Insta re: our aunties/uncles-in-pic-books love,Tọlá Okogwu describes centring them in her new MG books. #KidLitUK

Yes! The @ibbyuk.bsky.social list is out! 11 books which “show a wide range of disabilities and backgrounds and provide authentic, respectful representations and reflect the growing numbers of ‘own voice’ and ‘lived experience’ books.” #KidLitUK

Hey #KidLitUK folks! We think aunties, uncles, piblings are way too scarce in children’s picture books. Head on over to our Insta grid (cover image below) to see some of the people fixing that!

I wrote Queerly Autistic as the book I desperately wish I'd had as a young queer autistic person. I know what it was like trying to figure myself out without access to this sort of information, and how vulnerable that made me. Knowledge is empowerment - and safety. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“If disabled young people don’t see writing like this, how can they believe that they too have a right to express themselves?” Rebecca Butler, in the latest @booksforkeeps.bsky.social , discusses the under-representation of disabled children in #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/ampl...

Great work, #KidLitUK publishers 👏👏👏

🥳🥳🥳 Newcomer Shortlist! 💜 @storymix.bsky.social We are so excited about your move in to publishing. And were thrilled with your first publication The Other Father Christmas 🎅🏿 CONGRATULATIONS for your arrival on this shortlist.

📣 NEU disabled members’ conference 📅 22–24 May 📍 Eastside Rooms, Birmingham The conference will have inspiring speakers, interactive workshops, and opportunities to connect – all aimed at strengthening our power to organise for real change in our workplaces and communities.

Library Director, Tennessee, refuses to ‘relocate’ 190 books from children’s to adult section. Great article on #bookbans, pushbacks and (here) framing in context of availability of lgbtq+-content books to young readers. #KidLitUK whnt.com/news/tenness...

“It's hard to believe that she has only been in the industry for 6 years” Enjoyed this @bookbrunch.bsky.social interview with @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social on her journey from children’s books to adult-and her ref to A Kind of Spark as The Autism Book😆➡️ #KidLitUK www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

The @neunion.bsky.social on recent #Bookbans , referencing school librarians reporting "internal and external censorship". #KidLitUK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At the start of the year our co-founder and Trustee Linton Kwesi Johnson was honoured for his work as a reggae poet and lifelong activist. Goldsmiths University named a lecture theatre in his honour with speakers including journalist Gary Younge. More on our website www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org

1/2 UK Comics Laureate @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social on graphic novels as a conduit for engaging children with literacy- and his Graphic Novel Library List which “celebrates the rich tapestry of… #KidLitUK www.thebookseller.com/trade-interv...

“Book banning in schools uses young people as an excuse to silence certain voices&ignore difficult realities while calling it child protection, which is completely reprehensible.”Kelly McCaughrain @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social & Little, Brown #bookbans #KidLitUK www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

“This is Gothic horror with real teeth and a message about identity that will resonate long after the last page." This has Everything! 🧟‍♀️Gothic/folklore horror🧟‍♀️ @storymix.bsky.social AND @savitakalhan.bsky.social 💜

Trans people and their right to life are not a political distraction. Period. Here’s a booklist of comics by trans creators/featuring trans and GNC characters and stories. Please support trans comic creators (and all trans ppl), now more than ever!! bookshop.org/lists/trans-...

If you’re in Belfast Sunday, check out the wares from this super children’s illustrator: #KidLitUK #Belfast

Perfect, hopeful, welcoming displays for schools to get in ahead of #RefugeeWeek 15-21 June 💜Includes posters and flyers from Quentin Blake!💜 #KidLitUK

1/2 “Librarians could start to self-censor by not ordering certain titles or removing books from their shelves through fear, and publishers could be more prone to pre-publication censorship, which often means that representation within children’s literature drops”. V Dilly @sla.org.uk #KidLitUK

Remember how we mentioned this last week…? ⬇️ #KidLitUK …

2/2 to appreciate our appreciation of KID REX TO THE RESCUE see- ⭐️Our insta reel(grid image below) ⭐️Our online review: www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page... where you can also buy the book while supporting a not-for-profit workers’ #coop ! @mayowrites.bsky.social @creativedy.bsky.social #KidLitUK

1/2 A event last week celebrating the launch of debut author @mayowrites.bsky.social and illustrator @creativedy.bsky.social ‘s Kid Rex to the Rescue at the @hachettechildrens.bsky.social offices. #KidLitUK

1/2 A brilliant afternoon last week, welcoming Chapter 2 of GLL Literary Foundation (a #coop like us!) That’s 22 new early-career creatives signed up for support in reaching their audiences. Inclusive literature & an inclusive industry woven into the project. #KidLitUK @cooperativesuk.bsky.social

Fantastic to see Alexandra Sheppard at the GLL Literary Foundation’s celebration of its second cohort of early career writers. Alexandra will be joining them! Last year she was on our #LittleRebelsAward longlist with her MG debut Alyssa & the Spell Garden #KidLitUK @faberchildrens.bsky.social

“All alphabet books are political”. What an opener. The politics of children’s ABC books. Another on point #BeyondTheSecretGarden column in the latest @booksforkeeps.bsky.social by @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & @darrenchetty.bsky.social #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/beyo...

#USA: A librarian from Tennessee is refusing to remove over 100 books from shelves at Rutherford County library, saying the action violates the First Amendment. Many of the flagged books deal with LGBTQ+, race and feminist themes: eu.tennessean.com/story/news/2...

Latest @booksforkeeps.bsky.social editorial highlights: ⚡️House of Lords’ recent report on AI, copyright and the creative industries. 😊new prize from @barringtonstoke.bsky.social & @sla.org.uk 😐suspension of @littlerebsprize.bsky.social while they seek funding.. booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/edit...

Esssntial reading @indexoncensorship.org “-a school library in Greater Manchester underwent a purge. Inspired by the headteacher’s dislike of one particular title,books were pulled off the shelves, in a case unlike any previously seen in the UK. Within weeks,130 books+ had been targeted” #KidLitUK

Writeup of London Book Fair including insights from many of the English Pen @englishpen.bsky.social events which discussed recent book bans & censorship. #KidLitUK www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

“A truly impressive roll call of children’s book creatives&academics..famed for the ways..they have interrogated & interrupted the versions of UK history children have traditionally received” We blogged for @ibbyuk.bsky.social on their Nov 2025 Conference. www.ibby.org.uk/whose-histor... #KidLitUK

23rd April 6-8.30pm The super-dooper @harrywoodgate.bsky.social shares their artistry at the Klaus Flugge Salon @andersenpress.bsky.social 💜WRITING/ILLUSTRATING DIVERSE&INCLUSIVE STORIES💜 Tix: www.tickettailor.com/events/ander... #KidLitUK

Always wonderful to see accounts sharing the joy of #LittleRebelsAward shortlistee. Hey You! was shortlisted in 2022. An insightful & glorious picture book anthology- 18 Black artists brought together by @dapsdraws.bsky.social @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social #KidLitUK

“I tell teens on school visits that empathy, manners, a sense of humour, curiosity... these are all ways of becoming more likeable. And you get these traits from books. None of the world’s current problems couldn’t be solved with more kindness.” #KidLitUK www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...