August’s full moon rises 🌕🌠 Named the 'Sturgeon Moon’ by Native Americans for plentiful fishing, & the 'Grain Moon' in Old English to mark the harvest. Tonight, it shares the sky with the Perseid meteor shower (peaking 12 Aug), so keep an eye out for shooting stars! Moonrise: 21:16*

I finished 2 excellent magical books this week. Both expertly weave magic into our own world, making it feel like the most natural of phenomena and helping me look at our world with a different slant. What brilliant magical books would you recommend? #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

Incredible news: Tyger is a bestseller in the US! THANK YOU to everyone @penguinschoollib.bsky.social for bringing it to the US, everyone @barnesandnoble.com for making it their monthly pick, and all the brilliant booksellers, educators & librarians who've embraced the book & made dreams come true!

Upper MG Reformation Fantasy 🍂nature-led magic 🏰historical world building 🐈animal companion After her mother is burned at the stake, Kat must master Threads - banned magic - to protect her father and sister from the Queen’s persecution or face a similar fate. #QuestPit #MG @questpit.bsky.social

Hey there! You there! Are you thinking of preordering Loki? Well, if you'd like to do that while also supporting indie bookshops AND getting ten per cent off, here is the link for you! Just add LOVEBOOKSHOPS at checkout! @bookshopmark.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/p/books/loki...

#@wainwrightprize.bsky.social I'm so happy to see Ettie and the Midnight Pool on this shortlist. Thank you! Nurturing a love of the natural world is very dear to my heart #storiesthatconnect #wainwrightprize

Each Peach Pear Plum... Peepo!... Heard it in the Playground... Burglar Bill... what an incredible legacy. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

'This is a seriously readable book... It's the top 1% of readable books about economics that I've ever read.' - Cahal Moran of @unlearnecon.bsky.social Delighted to do a YouTube livestream with Cahal last week

Global Governance Futures is a broad-minded & insightful podcast led by Tom Pegram at UCL. I got to speak to him about Economics, Power and the Real World. More specifically on my problems with William Nordhaus and my love of Susan Strange. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tS0...

We all have too much to read… so appreciate those who’ve taken the time with RICARDO’S DREAM and shared their thoughts 📖👍🏼

Gorgeous evening last night meeting fellow writers and touring The London Library!

Teachers! This Thursday I will be running a LOKI CLASS SET GIVEAWAY on my newletter. Sign up to be in with a chance! louiestowell.substack.com#Edusky #KidlitUK

Call for Papers! Call for Workshop Leaders! Writers for young people in the academy - students or faculty - come and share your insights with your community. Details: ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/conference Speakers attend for free. #ukkidlit #kidlituk #booksky #academicsky

Excited to be part of this programme. www.londonlibrary.co.uk/the-london-l...

Absolutely thrilled ✨ I was selected for the 2025-26 London Library Emerging Writers Programme. I’m honoured to be in such creative company with fellow EWP writers. An amazing year of building community, developing my craft, and writing in a library steeped with history is ahead. #EWPLondonLibrary

It's been a busy old day at the workplace so I've only just spotted this. I'm chuffed to the nines to say that I'm part of this year's London Library Emerging Writers cohort. www.londonlibrary.co.uk/the-london-l...

I'm extremely happy and excited to be an ~emerging writer~ at the London Library this year! More about the programme and everyone in it here: www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/lat...

So happy to announce that I am one of The London Library's Emerging Writers for 2025/26. Humbled and inspired by the chance to write where Dickens, Darwin, Kubrick and Woolf found inspiration. www.londonlibrary.co.uk/the-london-l...

Thanks Chris for this lovely review - with a focus on the chapter on climate economics! Look forward to talking more soon

If we were recording that podcast now, our thoughts about Ricardo would certainly have been different thanks to @natjdyer.bsky.social's excellent book 'Ricardo's Dream'. It's a fantastic read & gives you the context behind Ricardo's model. #EconSky

I'd like to recommend this by @natjdyer.bsky.social. A brilliant book about why economics, as it is currently practiced, is wrong.

Our book 'Adventuremice: Mice, Camera, Action!' launches tomorrow (13 March)!! We'll sell original watercolour painted illustrations from the book in the Adventuremice online shop from UK 9pm that evening. The best/most affordable pieces go quickly, so set an alert! 🐭🎨 @philipreeve.bsky.social

📣 Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing! With a focus on marginalised perspectives, these books highlight diversity and empathy ✨✍️ Congratulations to the exceptional authors shortlisted for the #Carnegies2025! 🏅 Delve into the books here: 🔗 carnegies.co.uk/writing-shor...

Authors and illustrators, do please sign - Lambeth libraries are under threat. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And here’s a link to the petition that anyone can sign. Again, please help us spread the word and stop this from happening. www.change.org/p/halt-the-2...

Here’s the link to the letter for authors and illustrators/publishing folk to add their names to. Please help us spread the word. 🙏🏿 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Libraries are so important for ALL children to have access to. Yet Lambeth council are about to cut £1M from the budgets of the libraries in their borough. We need your help to STOP this. I wrote an open letter to the council to try and get them to see the error of their decision. Please repost.

Every time you encourage a child to read a book, you will change their lives - sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. But child by child, book by book, we can change the world. Children who read become adults who think - and will build a world that’s better for EVERYONE. #books #reading #literacy

From @natjdyer.bsky.social -- the true history of global trade is a lot messier than wine-for-cloth.

Yes indeed. on.ft.com/41iRhxq

This is your LAST CHANCE to join #ReadItForward on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social! Order any children's or YA book by midnight on 28 February and 10% of the sale will go to us or our pals at @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social. Which books will you treat yourself to? 📚 uk.bookshop.org/shop/booktrust

Please add your name if you agree. Please share :)

Ah, my announcement of my new children’s Podcast @mywordsmybook.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/laur...

My book was shortlisted for the selfies awards!! So pretty chuffed about that! 🤩

Firstly, aww Dustin😍! Secondly, had an amazing school visit with Y7s and Y8s - reaffirming my belief that kids are the best people. Thirdly, this! Eeek!

I'm going on @laurahallain.bsky.social's new podcast, #MyWordsMyBook, soon and I'm excited! Laura is a force of nature in children's books and @mywordsmybook.bsky.social promises to be a really exciting podcast! I'll post when it goes up! @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

THIS! As someone who is about to start querying, I will be returning to 👀 at the ideas here. Will try to add some too once I’ve gathered my thoughts. Thank you, @louiestowell.bsky.social

Fabulous @laurahallain.bsky.social has created a podcast to celebrate children's writers and boost the profile of children's books. #kidlituk

The latest Read for Empathy collection has been launched. As always, it's full of absolutely superb books, including graphic novels, poetry, picturebooks and non-fiction. The work @empathylabuk.bsky.social are doing is incredibly important. More information here: www.empathylab.uk/rfe

The longlist! *gasp* Thank you to all at @carnegiemedals.bsky.social and @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social ♥️

Congratulations, Clare 🎉 This is fabulous news! Tidemagic is a favorite book of mine. This is so well deserved. #ukkidlit #kidlituk

We're delighted that two CBC alumni have been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 🥳📚 Check out @clareharlow.bsky.social 's #Tidemagic and @piudg.bsky.social 's #SecretsOfTheSnakestone! Read more: https://www.waterstones.com/the-waterstones-childrens-book-prize

I've filled this in. I'm not going to lie, it did take me a while, as I had a lot to say. BUT you can do it quickly by clicking space in the comment boxes. The questions are stacked towards the proposed 'opt-out' system (No thanks, loves), so really worth us making ourselves heard while we can.

Biologist David Sloan Wilson: "Ricardo's dream was to discover economic laws as universal and mathematically tractable as Newton’s laws of motion. He became so mesmerized by his models that he gave them priority over the more complicated real world—just like the neoclassical economists of today."

Economics describes the world in highly misleading ways. A new book, "Ricardo's Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray," by @natjdyer.bsky.social takes us on a fascinating exploration of how & my Salon author interview provides an overview: 1/15 www.salon.com/2025/02/01/h...

I'll be speaking at this free, in-person event at University of Bath on Tuesday 25th February. Come along if you live nearby! @uniofbath.bsky.social #RicardosDream

I wrote something about the Greek myth that helps explain the failures of modern economics For the Real World Economics Review #EconSky rwer.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/t...

It's friday, time for the weekly good news thread. What's YOUR good news from the week? What's made you smile?

Is there anything more exciting than just finishing a book only to find there’s a radio adaption of it on bbc iPlayer. I love a radio adaptation!! Listening to the Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros. Brilliant dystopian YA!!

I’m supporting #ReadItForward! Buy ANY children's or YA book!) during February and @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social will donate 10% to @booktrust.org.uk BookTrust's mission is to get children from low-income and vulnerable family backgrounds reading regularly and by choice. (Links in Bio!)