Check if your local independent bookshop has a free copy of Booktime mag - 'Hannah and the Violin' by Satoshi Kitamura features in the Jan/Feb edition! 📚👇 The mag is packed with features about books -what's not to love?! @bouncemarketing.bsky.social #kidslit #kidsbooks @booksaremybag.bsky.social

Waiting for Pamela Butchart!!! ❤️📘❤️📘💰💰💰

Are we all ready for half-term?! YES we are! And we've got a FANTASTIC half-term competition for young illustrators inspired by #DogMan: we want to see your very own cartoon characters! Goody bags for everyone who enters, plus some excellent prizes for the winners! @bouncemarketing.bsky.social

Half-term treats at Far From The Madding Crowd: a drawing competition, we're taking orders for signed Pamela Butchart books AND we've got a real-life policeman coming to tell stories with us on Friday afternoon! Book your free slot for stories with Sergeant Brodie today! @bouncemarketing.bsky.social

The world needs empathy now more than ever. We're thrilled that Elki is Not My Dog by @earevalomelville.bsky.social & Tonka Uzu has been chosen by EmpathyLab for the #ReadForEmpathy collection 2025! 💫 Download the guides here: buff.ly/33scbwN @empathylabuk.bsky.social @bouncemarketing.bsky.social

Congratulations to Carlos Sanchez and @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social on Rune being shortlisted for the #WCBP2025👏🍾🥳📘❤️

Massive congratulations to all the shortlisted creators here - especially thrilled to see Rune by Carlos Sánchez on there. It’s an absolutely brilliant graphic novel. Go comics!

Congratulations to Xi Fang and @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social on the shortlisting of the brilliant Dim Sum Palace 👏🎈🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟

Look what’s landed! Get ready to blast off with MEEP, the smartest robot ever built, as she searches for life on Mars. This sweet & funny picture book is by Máire Zepf & illus. by Paddy Donnelly & was originally published in Irish as Míp. littleisland.ie/products/meep @bouncemarketing.bsky.social

Bounce February Top Picks. ask your Bounce Sales Manager for more information. #ChooseBookshops #ChildrensBooks

Spotted 👀 Ivy Newt and the Vampixies by Derek Keilty, illus. by Magda Brol, in Waterstones Lisburn, described by their booksellers as 'perfect for aspiring little readers'! @bouncemarketing.bsky.social @waterstoneskids.bsky.social #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks #kidsbooks #mgreads #youngfiction

Join us this February to explore your own ‘museum of marvels’! 📚✨ We have partnered with @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social on a new, free family museum trail for February half-term, inspired by Tourmaline and the Museum of Marvels by @ruthlaurenbooks.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/3CbbBIT #TourmalineTrail

From country pop princess to fearless feminist megastar, Taylor Swift has become a record-breaking global phenomenon. The perfect book for little Swifties! 🎶 The Story of Taylor Swift by Nicola Edwards and Lindsey Sagar is out now!

My Friend Andy is a carefully-observed story that challenges us to re-evaluate perceptions of homelessness from debut author-illustrator Emma Chinnery. Out now in paperback!

From the creators of the bestselling I Love You to the Moon and Back and I Love You Forever and a Day comes this heartfelt ode to the love between a parent and a child. 💕 I Love You to the Moon and Back All Year Long by Amelia Hepworth and Tim Warnes is out now.

Celebrate the heart-warming 60th story in best-selling author Holly Webb's Animal Stories series. The Bold Kitten by Holly Webb, illustrated by Sophy Williams is out now!

A celebration of all the little ways we show our love from the talented Jane Massey 🐻 Love is in the Little Things by Stella J. Jones is out now!

Tractors have wings, don't they? And trains . . . run on water? That can't be right! 🚜 Turn the peep-through pages to transform  vehicles back to how they should look. With dry, humorous text and a surprise flap on the final page! Tractors Have Wings by Becky Davies and Gareth Lucas is out now!

From the author of If You Still Recognise Me comes a delicious story of two people brought together by a shared love of food as they figure out themselves and each other. 🍜🥀 This Feast of a Life by Cynthia So is out now!

🎉🥞 Happy Publication Day to Croc's Cooking Day! Book 2 in my series Busy Chores for Little Paws, it's full of novelties so tiny hands can help Croc make pancakes to share with Hippo! @littletigeruk.bsky.social

The Bold Kitten is published today! This is Amal and Hana's story of finding a home, and I loved writing it. The 60th book in my Animal Stories series - the first book was published in 2006, the year my 18-year-old twin sons were born!

Discover the inspiration behind the Guardians of the New Moon series in our latest blog post from author Eric Huang. 🐉🔥 Guardians of the New Moon: Ming and Miaow's Great Race and Year of the Rat are out now! littletiger.co.uk/the-inspirat...

I'm very excited to read this debut younger fiction from Eric Huang (writer) and Phùng Nguyên Quang (illustrator)! Banging first page where the Jade Emperor is bored cos he made earth and...now what? Reading on asap! @littletigeruk.bsky.social I'm not sure if either of 'em are on here?

Ooh, I like the sound of this! Plus here's a cat AND a dragon on the cover. Win win! #ukkidlit @littletigeruk.bsky.social

With action aplenty and dramatic illustrations #GuardiansoftheNewMoon #MingandMiaowsGreatRace #ChineseNewYear & #TheYearoftheRat #EricHuang @phungnguyen.bsky.social @littletigeruk.bsky.social #kidlit #youngfiction are reviewed today on #RedReadingHub blog wp.me/p11DI5-cV9

From the author of If You Still Recognise Me comes a delicious story of two people brought together by a shared love of food as they figure out themselves and each other. This Feast of a Life by Cynthia So is out now! 🍜 🥀 #ThisFeastOfALife #CynthiaSo #LBGTQReads #UKYA #YAbooks #QueerLit #YALit

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Emma Chinnery from her picture book My Friend Andy out in paperback from Little Tiger on 9 Jan. Effective use of light and dark, and lively drawing, in a vividly evoked city. From a heartwarming story of homelessness, kindness, and a lost dog. @littletigeruk.bsky.social

We were so pleased to see our first new title of 2025, Hannah and the Violin by Satoshi Kitamura, featured in @lovereading4kids.bsky.social 2025 Preview - and it's one of their star books! ⭐️🎻 www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/blog/loverea...

I've had a lovely break from social media but I can't drag out Christmas any longer...not when exciting things like this are happening! Congrats @susanbrownrigg.bsky.social Wrong Tracks is another cracker - hope it races into the hands of lots of readers! Out now @uclanpublishing.bsky.social

Here's a bit of lovely - thank you @bouncemarketing.bsky.social for sending this new paperback copy of #thecomet. What a beauty!

Huge congratulations to Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin as Gina Kaminski Rescues the Giant has been Longlisted for the Derby Children's Picture Book Award 2025! 🎉📚 #GinaKaminski #CraigBarrGreen #FrancisMartin #BeMoreGina #picturebooks #littletiger @bouncemarketing.bsky.social

These are the Bounce January Top picks. Please get in touch with your Bounce Sales manager if you want more information. #ChooseBookshops #Booksaremybag #Childrensbooks

Tomorrow i'll be on the TV talking about Christmas books (and not mentioning the amazing high tension nativity sequence what I wrote in Millions). So. Favourite children's stories for Christmas. I'll start ... the Fir Tree by Tove Jansson

We can't wait to share LET'S PLAY RUGBY by @gordondarcy.bsky.social and Paul Howard, illustrated by Ashwin Chacko, with cover design by Sarah McCoy in February! Available for pre-order now. Learn more: www.littleisland.ie/products/let... #LetsPlayRugbyBook @bouncemarketing.bsky.social

Still searching for gifts? 🎁 Bunny's Most Fabulous Holiday Ever! by Brian Fitzgerald was included in @thetimes.com best Irish children's books to put under the tree 🎄👇 @bouncemarketing.bsky.social #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?! (is it Santa?!!) NO! It's even BETTER! It's Dog Man: Big Jim Begins! Can Dog Man & co stop the Space Cuties from destroying the city? Grab your copy in time for #Christmas and find out if good will prevail over evil! @bouncemarketing.bsky.social #DogMan

Another fabulous non-fiction book from the Britannica team is Listified by Andrew Pettie. Unsurprisingly, it’s full of lists! Which in my humble view should speak for its brilliance in itself. It would make a great gift book for any fact lover. #NonFictionNovember #UKKidLit #KidLitUK

Another set of non-fiction titles I’d get for every school if I could is Owen Davey’s animal books for @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social. Crazy About Cats is my sons’ favourite but there’s a whole rand and they’re all excellent. I adore Owen Davey’s illustration style too. #NonFictionNovember #UKKidLit

Todays work view 😍❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚

some great presses here coming across to Bluesky

My next Scottish kids books for #BookWeekScotland are the absolute modern classic A Kind of Spark and it’s wonderful prequel Keedie by @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social. Addie and Keedie’s stories feel both all consuming and essential. And they have helped make real change in whose stories we get to hear.

Hey! Hi! Hello! Here we are & here we go!

Welcome to Gulliver's Bookshop of Wimborne Minster - And look at those gorgeous snowy windows!

I had so much fun yesterday at the Chicken House Big Breakfast! It was great to meet so many lovely people 🤩📚

Hello (is anyone out there?!) We're an indie bookshop based in Sheffield, promoting reading for pleasure & making sure everyone in our community feels seen through the books in our shop! How beautiful is our new window by @lorettaschauer.bsky.social for her and @katethompson.bsky.social new book!

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Korky Paul from One Snowy Christmas Eve, Marc Bratcher’s rhyming origin story for Santa and his sleigh as a man with a wheelchair and an idea. Light-hearted wintry scene-making with plenty to look at. Out in paperback from UCLAN Publishing. @uclanpublishing.bsky.social

First book post needed to be a special book. Fox Goes North is a special book and is a future classic. It is a story of the power of friendship, of love, the wonder of nature, the joy of food, the beauty of art and appreciating everything life has to offer. “ Friends to the End” Thank You Jeremy.

It’s Christmas-theme at book club this week so I’m taking this gorgeous one from Bethan Welby and @scallywagpress.bsky.social 🌲