It's been a crazy & exciting autumn term and alas, I have been terrible at popping any of it on here! First up, I was thrilled when @booktrust selected BADGERS ARE GO in their Great Books Guide 2025-26! Read all about it & the other incredible books that they've selected at: www.booktrust.org

A deliciously daft adventure for Lulu Rifferton-Rear #BadgersAreGo #RevengeoftheClaw @susannahlloyd.bsky.social ill. Nici Gregory David Fickling Books is #RedReadingHub's #kidlit #fiction book of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dof

Box 4 is here 📚 Picture Book Club provides everything you need to run a peer-led book club in a primary school. The model involves Year 5 or 6s reading aloud and leading small book chats for Year 1 or 2s. Find out more: buff.ly/1X1Q3pU #ReadingForPleasure 🧵1/3

I'm so excited to see that the sequel to ‘Badgers Are Go, the 'Revenge of the Claw’ is included in Waterstones’ 25% off FLASH SALE on selected pre-ordered books this week! Enter the code SUMMER25 at the checkout to redeem your discount & get your paws on a copy today! ow.ly/VlRv50Wvp01

Introducing REVENGE of the CLAW, the thrilling new sequel to BADGERS ARE GO! YES, The Velvet Claw is BACK, with enough VILLAINY to strike terror into your EVERY WHISKER! WARNING! This book contains SHENANIGANS, SCANDAL, and LASHINGS of CUSTARD! So get YOUR PAWS on a copy and PRE ORDER NOW!

And congratulations to the amazing @susannahlloyd.bsky.social who did some excellent school visits with us and survived the heat ☀️☀️ #kidlitUK Hoping Steve gets another adventure!

An illustration by Kate Handley @susannahlloyd.bsky.social

Yipppeeee! Who Ate Steve by me & Kate Hindley has won Picture Fiction for Early Readers at the Spark Book Awards 2025! Hooray for TEAM STEVE at @nosycrow.bsky.social! Especial thanks to Steve himself who went through QUITE an ordeal in the making of this book (what with all the being eaten)

Wooohoooooooooo! Who Ate Steve by me and the brilliant Kate Hindley won the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards in the category of What's The Story for age 4-7. Hooray for Steve and Marcel!!! Coventry Schools Library Service - you are the very BEST! ❤️ @nosycrow.bsky.social @nosycrowus.bsky.social

‘Who Ate Steve?’ by @susannahlloyd.bsky.social & Kate Hindley was particularly popular in Year 2 as it made us laugh a lot! @sparkbookaward.bsky.social

School's out for summer 🌞 Take a look at this incredible #kidlit book stack 📚 So excited to get started on this sunshiny library haul!

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Thrilled to have THREE books included in the #BookTrustStorytime Prize longlist: ⭐️ Suki Cat Astronaut by Grace Habib ⭐️ Who Ate Steve? by @susannahlloyd.bsky.social and Kate Hindley ⭐️ My Very First Spotter’s Guide: I Spot a Duck by Kay Vincent (in partnership with @nationaltrust.org.uk

I'm thrilled that Badgers Are Go by me and Nici Gregory has been shortlisted for the @theweekjunior.com.web.brid.gy Younger Fiction Category in their 2025 Book Awards! Hurrah for all of team badger at @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social!

UK Primary Schools! Check out my updated workshops page at www.susannahlloyd.com/school-works... Features feedback including my top favourite one from a year 5 child: 'Susannah was also full of joy'! 🙂 @nosycrow.bsky.social @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

Hey Americaaaaaaaaa! Me and Kate Hindley's book WHO ATE STEVE is coming out VERY SOON, with @nosycrowus.bsky.social I'm very excited because we got a Kirkus review! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... AND it described the book as having 'side splitting proceedings'! Out on March 11th!

Thank you @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social for my fabulous prize. The chocolate didn’t last long! Great books! And the AdventureMice badges are currently being fought over in our house. @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social @philipreeve.bsky.social @susannahlloyd.bsky.social @nicigregory.bsky.social

I'm absolutely thrilled that my amazing editor Meggie Dennis and me are long listed for the #branfordboaseaward2025! Squeee!!! And look at the amazing selection of books that are also long listed! I'm so happy to see Badgers Are Go in such wonderful company! Go team @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social !!

This review of Who Ate Steve made me very happy! ❤️

Last but definitely not least, here are the four incredible books shortlisted in our Picture Fiction for Early Readers Category: #Spark2025Shortlist @whycraigwhy.bsky.social @littletigeruk.bsky.social @trygv.bsky.social @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social @susannahlloyd.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social

So excited that Who Ate Steve by me and Kate Hindley with @nosycrow.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the Picture Book section of the @sparkbookaward.bsky.social And in such fantastic book company too! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Me, Marcel AND Steve are thrilled that Who Ate Steve by me and Kate Hindley with @nosycrow.bsky.social has been short listed for the James Reckitt Hull Children's Book Award! Yippeeeeeee! ❤️

Things were looking SO festive today at The Little Bookshop Leeds where I met lovely Cheryl & Alison & we visited Hugh Gaitskill Primary & New Bewerly Primary with a crash course in BADGERING FOR BEGINNERS! BADGERS ARE GO! By me & @nicigregory.bsky.social with David Fickling Books

First festive evening of the year last night at Waterstones Leeds where there was late night Christmas browsing, delicious mince pies and lots of lovely local authors to meet and greet! Lots of signed copies of Who Ate Steve and Badgers Are Go are there now if you want to pop down!

Hello to all my new lovely followers! These are my books in case you want to check them out. I specialise in blunderers, scoundrels and VERY unreliable narrators and I ❤️ all things Picture Book and Mid Grade with an ardent passion!

Only ONE WEEK to go til the launch of BADGERS ARE GO illustrated by the incredible Nici Gregory and out with the publishing wonders of David Fickling Books!!

This is the Prime Minister. He is absolutely NOT a Badger Operated Person & he is most certainly not short circuiting due to over consumption of cheese and tomato sandwiches. BADGERS ARE GO by me and illustrated by Nici Gregory is out on the 12th September with David Fickling Books!

WHO ATE STEVE by me and the hilarious Kate Hindley is out TODAAAYYY!!!!! With Nosy Crow Welcome to this extremely interesting book about size. Marcel is a bird. He is big. Steve is a worm, and he is . . . Wait a minute! Steve has DISAPPEARED!

WHO ATE STEVE is out tomorrow! Welcome to this extremely interesting book about size. Marcel is a bird. He is big. Steve is a worm, & he is . . . Wait a minute! Steve has DISAPPEARED! Does Marcel know something about it? & can he be persuaded to return that poor worm RIGHT NOW?!

EGADS! I had the greatest time yesterday day at the opening of the HELDEN GEZOCHT / HEROES WANTED expo at Bibliotheek Hasselt in Belgium, with Paddy Donnelly & all the characters from our books HIER BENNE DRAKEN / HERE BE DRAGONS & WAAR BENNE REUZEN / HERE BE GIANTS. Librarians are the GREATEST!

HUZZAH! TODAY is the day that HERE BE GIANTS by me and the marvellous Paddy Donnelly is launched into the world! The knight is back! And he is setting forth on a new MOST PERILOUS quest! A quest to find a GIANT! Out NOW with Frances Lincoln

Snouts up if you please! Because I am SO excited to show you the cover of BADGERS ARE GO! Out this September with David Fickling and illustrated by the brilliant Nici Gregory! Sequel to follow in 2025!

FORSOOTH! Copies of HERE BE GIANTS by me and the brilliant Paddy Donnelly have landed! We can't wait to show you a sneak peak of this hapless knight's latest quest! Out on 4th April, with Frances Lincoln at Quarto Kids, most verily! Available to pre order now!

✨ Cover Reveal ✨ The hapless knight from 'Here Be Dragons' is back! And he is setting forth on a new most perilous quest... for a GIANT! EGADS! 'Here Be Giants' will publish with Frances Lincoln in April 2024. Written by me and Illustrated by the hilarious Paddy Donnelly!

Forsooth! I am excited because Paddy Donnelly and me will be doing a #coverreveal tomorrow for our next picture book adventure together with Frances Lincoln at Quarto Kids! If you liked Here Be Dragons, our hapless knight is about to set forth on a new most perilous quest …

So happy to see my books in stock in the beautiful Waterstones Picadilly. I signed some copies of The Terribly Friendly Fox, This Book Can Read Your Mind and Oh Monty. Their picture book section is incredible!

Love this quote by Natalia O'Hara! “Children like sweet and safe stories but they also like dark, bleak, unsettling or horrible stories. Children are like everyone else, they want stories that reflect the whole contradictory tangle of their lives.”

Hello Bluesky! I am a picture book author. I would love to connect with the kidlit community on here. Follow me for books featuring scoundrels, blunderers and VERY unreliable narrators...