There will be a short interval while we take a few-days interval (you can still order online at www.letterboxlibrary.com and we will process on our return/24th Sep)

Hello teachers! My book Wild Journey will be published on 6th November and to celebrate it I’m doing a free online school event with Seven Stories The National Centre for Children's Books sevenstories.org.uk/event/author...

As Censorship Escalates, Little Free Library Updates Its Book Ban Map (N. America) ⬇️

“There’s humour, risk, drama and joy here – just as there is in friendship.” 8 Key Stage 1 books about friendship by @darrenchetty.bsky.social for @booktrust.org.uk www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme...

The @littlerebsprize.bsky.social shortlist making someone’s day a little sunnier…🙂 #LittleRebelsAward #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

Yes!! Inaugural winner of the Children’s Wainwright Prize!! #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

Proud to find ourselves in lovely #cooperative #coop company⬇️ We were set up as a not-for-profit workers’ coop in 1982. Still all of those wonderfuls today!

Yesterday was Judges Day! A good chunk of hours mulling over, discussing & ideas-ping-ponging the #LittleRebelsAward 2025 Shortlist. With a side serving of cake. @housmansbookshop.bsky.social L➡️R @chrishaughton.bsky.social @alomshaha.bsky.social @soofiya.bsky.social Phoebe (@theclpe.bsky.social)

🇵🇸“We cannot remain silent while children are killed, starved & denied the right to grow up in safety and peace: their lives, their stories, and their futures matter.” A statement for UK children’s authors & illustrators & educators to ✍️ statement-on-palestine.org?fbclid=PAVER... #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

Happy Book Birth Day to @catwrote.bsky.social for Dance of Resistance. Experience our 💯% love here: www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...

The wonderful @catwrote.bsky.social is #BookSquad's spotlight author this month! Find books, extracts and resources here: collins.co.uk/pages/catherine-johnson-author-spotlight

The good news is… #BannedBookWeekUK is back! 📣5-11th October @indexoncensorship.org #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

In 2019 ⬇️we joined a #BannedBookWeek Panel at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on Queer YA Lit with Dean Atta & @redbreastedbird.bsky.social, chaired by Erica Gillingham re: the impact on authors growing up under Section 28 & contemporary protests against inclusive kids lit projects. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK ⭐️giveaway!⭐️

“We know that children benefit from choosing the books that reflect their voices&communities, and this is the message that I give to young people...their voice, their story..matters” Congrats Matt Goodfellow on becoming @booktrust.org.uk Writer in Residence

ICYMI: Hachette UK’s network for Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage employees and allies, THRIVE, is looking for romance writers of colour to submit entries for this year’s Grow Your Story 👇 #BookSky

🚙Yesterday was a day for delivering #PowerOfReading books, in quantity (and in person) to Team @theclpe.bsky.social 🤓PoR is a complete books-based approach to improving literacy in schools. 🥳Letterbox Library is 1 of the PoRbook suppliers. 😃These are the smiles we left behind: ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

“Highlights include Missy’s declarations that Nate is ‘the Worst Chinese Person Ever’ & the unforgettable scene of the flying Chicken Roast in Liverpool’s China Town!” Plus the many other reasons our reviewers loved @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social’s latest MG www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...

Covering social justice issues from structural bullying through to intergenerational racism via combatting anti-refugee rhetoric (by jumping on books!) … the 2025 #LittleRebelsAward Shortlist truly has it all! #UKKidLit #KidLitUK

Hachette UK’s network for Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage employees and allies, THRIVE, is looking for romance writers of colour to submit entries for this year’s Grow Your Story 👇 #BookSky

“The fact that it is more needed than ever is heartbreaking.” Founder of N American @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social campaign, Ellen Oh, reflecting on the past 10 years. With two key bits of advice for the publishing industry…: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

SAIL Fest is back for its second year- in partnership with Tate Publishing. SAIL Fest is committed “to celebrating, connecting&empowering South Asian children’s authors, poets and illustrators creating books for younger readers between the ages of 0-17” www.sailfest.org.uk/sailfest2025

What do you mean you’re a not-for-profit? Our latest Instagram reel answers a question we’re sometimes asked… Pop along to: www.instagram.com/letterbox_li... #KidsLitUK #UKKidsLit

“The Little Rebels Award really lifts out the smaller publishers&lesser known voices.” @jakehope.bsky.social chatted to award administrators @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social @housmansbookshop.bsky.social about their dreams & hopes for their radical prize! www.cilip.org.uk/blogpost/163... #KidLitUK

Palestinian Childhoods: Solidarity & Ṣumūd* starts *TODAY, Monday 1st Sept* A 2-week programme of art & daily events bearing witness to Palestinian children’s struggle for everyday life, love, play and learning in the face of loss and brutality. reimaginingchildhoodstudies.com/solidarity_a...

A happy couple of hours collating our reviewers’ feedback in to blurbs for our website www.letterboxlibrary.com/how-we-selec... #UKKidsLit #KidsLitUK

What do you mean you’re a not-for-profit? Our latest Instagram reel answers a question we’re sometimes asked… Pop along to: www.instagram.com/letterbox_li... #KidsLitUK #UKKidsLit

A little story about radical booksellers…… @housmansbookshop.bsky.social & @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social DREAMT up the #LittleRebelsAward RUN BY @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social & Housmans. The sibling, adult non-fiction prize 🍞 BREAD & 🌹 ROSES is run by @lighthousebks.bsky.social ➡️

What stories do we tell children about the past? What are historical facts & who gets to interpret them? The @ibbyuk.bsky.social conference will explore these questions. Speakers include @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Find out more ⬇️1 FREE place on offer via #BfK. booksforkeeps.co.uk/books-for-ke...

In celebration of Lantana Publishing's 11th anniversary this week, and as a reminder of the kind of person you have to be to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize, #NewIllustrationoftheDay is a collage by Mickael El Fathi from Peace and Me (2018) about 12 distinguished Laureates @lantanapub.bsky.social #Nobel

Happiest of 11th Birthdays, Lantana. 🎂🎁🎈😘😘😘 11 years of publishing some of the brightest and original inclusive UK children’s books. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

New @cilip.bsky.social Intellectual Freedom Committee to ‘counter disturbing effects of censorship’- “This new committee needs to see and understand the challenges to intellectual freedom in their full complexity.” @thebookseller.com www.thebookseller.com/news/cilip-l...

“Going back to school or going back in time?” A thoughtful video from @penamerica.bsky.social on the impact of state book bans on children’s lives.

“C Johnson has managed to extract, from a complicated history, all of the  gems & then polished them up so as she can deliver them both honestly&thoughtfully to her young audience” Dance of Resistance @catwrote.bsky.social is out 11th Sep! Review/pre-order: www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...

I have a copy I can read 🥳 AND a snazzy bookmark. Thanks @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social

The @littlerebsprize.bsky.social can only be found in bluey skies now- and on Insta. And they’ve just been summing up the magnificent 2025 #LittleRebelsAward Shortlist. Follow and enjoy, folks! 😊

Mini Fest 2-7thSep from My Kind of Book “showcasing some of the wonderful ways books and stories are being made accessible for children with additional needs” Scottish Storytelling Centre National Library of Scotland mykindofbook.org.uk/festival/ @natlibscot.bsky.social @scotstorycentre.bsky.social

“The return of one of our most huggable picture book stars…” Lulu is back! And this time she’s moving house. A book which delivers all of the soooooothes needed for big transitions! 👏👏👏 #AlannaMaxBooks #RosalindBeardshaw #AnnaMcQuinn

The exciting moment we unwrapped our delivery of @sflayzell.bsky.social ‘s Cottonopolis from @northodoxpress.bsky.social They have the #LittleRebelsAward Badge! Our reminder to share with you again that….

“The stories that make up this year’s shortlist reminds us that the fight for justice is nothing new.” We were very honoured this year to be joined again by Dr. @darrenchetty.bsky.social at the shortlisting stage. Reflecting on the shortlist, Darren said…⬇️⬇️⬇️ #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

Let’s hear it, loudly, for the 3 debut authors on our 2025 #LittleRebelsAward Shortlist. Half the shortlist! 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations again to @sflayzell.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social Chibundu Onuzo @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Cathy Jenkins @graffegbooks.bsky.social #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

“Trans children..deserve uncompromising representation, without the labor of having to parse strained metaphors filtered through a cis-centric model of pathologization” Parrish T.on the failed metaphors of portraying trans IDs through anthropomorphism.. #KidLitUK www.slj.com/story/animal...

A fascinating KS2 delve into the complicated, dazzling life of #JosephineBaker Dancer, impersonator, silent screen star…French Resistance Agent & civil rights activist! Beautifully penned through the magic touch of author @catwrote.bsky.social & @barringtonstoke.bsky.social #KidLitUK

How using animal/anthropomorphic characters in children’s books to “sidestep pesky human problems” so often “faithfully reproduce—and even exaggerate—the cultural norms we think we’ve left behind”… and worse. A NAmerican study of 300 picture books. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... #KidLitUK

Oooh! This is sooo exciting! #kidlit #kidlituk

🦡🐮🦡🐮🦡🐮🦡🐮🩸 Have the book and the TShirt (thank you @guppybooks.bsky.social ) and love to see this on the #YABookPrize shortlist. The end of the world as you’ve never known it. Done queerly. And with badgers. And cows of course. #KidLitUK Caroline Carpenter talks to @orsorrel.bsky.social

The @wainwrightprize.bsky.social shortlists are out, including three for children. “…we’re especially excited to reflect the evolving landscape of environmental storytelling and champion work that engages younger generations in the care and protection of the natural world” #WainwrightPrize

Who has been excluded from the UK canon of ‘classic’ children’s literature? Which author voices are heard? Teachers- A rich resource/book pack for Key Stages 1&2, complete with discussion plans. #KidLitUK

Who has been excluded from the UK canon of ‘classic’ children’s literature? Which author voices are heard? Teachers- A rich resource/book pack for Key Stages 1&2, complete with discussion plans. #KidLitUK

We’re famed for our stringent review process here… Will these boardbooks from @childs-play.co.uk pass the very final quality test? Go to our Insta reel to find out: www.instagram.com/letterbox_li... #KidLitUK