What do we have here? #kidslit

THE BEST CHILDREN'S BOOK PICKS: FEB 2025 US POST EDITION - MR RIPLEY'S ENCHANTED BOOKS mrripleysenchantedbooks.com

Huge congratulations to @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social and Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick who have both been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Writing for the brilliant #GlasgowBoys and #SistersOfTheMoon! #Carnegies25 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social

February is here! Illustration: The Golden Calendar by Richard Scarry 1956

As a children's writer this is a v interesting read. I'd love more longform discussion of children's books - this piece feels like it needs a follow up about contemp children's books now if anyone wants to commission one! #KidLitUK

Mr Ripley’s Enchanted Books has new book post thanks to @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and what a book cover! The Cursed Tomb by @iszi.com time to have a DREAM!

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mrripleysenchantedbooks.com Check out our favourite children’s book picks for Feb 2025. You might find a new favourite book. #kidslit

5th February. Today in 1923, author Russell Hoban was born. His first full-length novel was 'The Mouse and His Child', a dark philosophical tale for older children. "When I write a book, I don’t have a plan or an outline. The characters move the action, and the action develops the characters."

The final of our children’s book cover illustration competition is under way. Time to get your VOTES in! #kidslituk

It's the final of @mrripleysbooks.bsky.social's book cover competition. Please give Holly Ovenden's gorgeous cover for The World Between the Rain some love, or indeed, one of the other fab covers! www.mrripleysenchantedbooks.com/2025/02/mr-r...

Penny Boxall's first children's novel to be published on 30th January. Penny worked at Shandy Hall for several years, and we understand it contains plenty of Laurence Sterne references! www.penguin.co.uk/books/456555...

Delighted to have my book in this cover competition if anyone would like to vote 👇 www.mrripleysenchantedbooks.com/2025/01/mr-r...

I’ve voted!

Get voting! Some amazing covers here 😍

We have the last round of our children’s book cover illustration competition. Time to make it count and VOTE. mrripleysenchantedbooks.com

🌟📚 Exciting news, everyone! 🎨✨ We're hosting a cover illustration competition for my children's book, and I need YOUR vote! Help us choose the best design that will bring the story to life. Check it out at www.mrripleysenchantedbooks.com and let your voice be heard! 🗳️❤️

What has the biggest impact on children's life chances? It's not their test scores, or socio-economic background. It's READING FOR PLEASURE! So whatever else you do, please never stop sharing books with kids, and helping them to read. It will change their lives forever. #literacy #reading #books

Today we have a book review for the debut book by Jamie Hammond. Grumpfort home to Monsters. 👾mrripleysenchantedbooks.com

Had a wonderful night. Love the pillar in the children’s department in Waterstones Piccadilly. #kidslit #picturebooks

Check out our latest issue of Locus Magazine for an interview with Paolo Bacigalupi, the author of NAVOLA, on the 'Gift of Story'! You can find the issue here: locusmag.com/2024/12... Happy Reading! Thanks for speaking with us @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social

I am a bat flying across the moon at the stroke of twelve, I am a wolf running through the trees, I am OVERJOYED that Midnight Treasure is @thetimes.com Children’s Book of the Year 2024! The 21 best children’s books of 2024 www.thetimes.com/article/612d...

📚✨ Calling all book lovers! 🌟 Help us choose the most enchanting children's book cover! 🎨 Vote for your favorite now at MrRipleysEnchantedBooks.com and let your voice be heard! 📖❤️ #BookCoverVote #ChildrensBooks #MrRipleysEnchantedBooks

🌈📚 The imagination, the adventures, and the life lessons you read in #kidsbooks are priceless. There's something magical about diving into a world created for young minds. Let's keep the love for reading alive! #KidsBooks #Imagination

7 #FairyTales, brilliantly updated with a feminist twist, #Girls by Annet Schaap is out now in paperback and a real treat for #YA readers in need of short or illustrated stories. @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com #NetGalley worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/g...

This was the first ever book in the series which was self published by Marcus Alexander. Who is Charlie Keeper? The books success got it published with other books to come in the series. However it did get a name change. Check it OuT! whoischarliekeeper.com

So lovely to see THE FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES included in @theguardian.com's roundup of books for children and teens! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

This was an intresting book by K. D. Lathar - The Changeling published by Tarragon Publishing in Birmingham in 2005. Nice and creepy. I loved the front cover and the fold out flap. It worked well!

This is another hard to find book. This is the self published version of The Valley of Secrets by Charmian Hussey. Published way back in 2003 by Saint Piran Press. The book is a fantastic edition illustrated by Christopher Crump. I fell in love with this story before it final got published.

Will be posting some of the harder to find books that I’ve loved. This one was by Stuart Webb back in 2010. The book cover was done by Chris Odgers.

Going to have to find this book.

When I started #DrawWithRob at the beginning of lockdown, I never would have thought that children would still be bringing folders full of their drawings to my events 4.5 years later. But they do. Every time! Just look at Abigail's work, here, that she brought to York today. I'm so proud of her!

When you ask people about the books that changed their lives, they almost always mention a children's book. They're the books that make us readers, shape us at the deepest levels, and stay with us FOREVER. That's why I think children's books are the most important books of all! #kidlit #books

Hello Bluesky 👋 📒 My debut children’s book, ALL BRAINS ARE WONDERFUL, is publishing in February 2025! 🧠 🌟Huge thanks to Dr Rachel Williams, The Boy Fitz Hammond and b small publishing for bringing it to life so beautifully! 🔗 Pre-order it here: bsmall.co.uk/product/all-... #AllBrainsAreWonderful

We are ready for your votes! In our children’s book cover competition. Fancy VOTING? mrripleysenchantedbooks.com

I'm off to Leeds for a signing at Waterstones this afternoon at 4.30pm. No need to book, just turn up and I'll sign whatever you put in front of me. They'll be selling all my books but, and this is a secret, you can bring yours from home too 🤫. Same for Newcastle, York & Norwich over the weekend.

DARE TO ENTER? Yes we do! Reading the debut book by author-illustrator Jamie Hammond. Published by Usborne Publishing March 2025. Looks like fun and a bucket full of monsters coming round for TEA!