Happy World Book Day! Celebrating with a fun little doodle from Anaya (age 10). The message: read whatever you love in whatever format you want! 📖 🎧 ✨ 🎉 It’s ALL reading. #kidlit #worldbookday

Yes! Every week! So proud to have been a part of this.

We’re really excited about our latest AI model that can parent your children, make love to your wife and experience all of human joy for you, while you just stare at your phone or something. Isn’t that better than living your life?

I’ve been hoping Maisie Chan would do an Author’s Live for ages. So excited for this! Open to all schools in the UK. Get your classes registered folks. It’s going to be another brilliant one. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #EduSky

Children’s book people - any suggestions for stories with great friendships (with Stargazing vibes)? #kidlit #childrensbooks

Another lovely feature for #poemsontheunderground 40th anniversary If there’s a poem you loved, you can buy the poster from @poetrysociety.org.uk here: poetrysociety.org.uk/projects/poe... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/b... #poetrysky #ukpoets

So much chat about business rates for pubs. So little chat about business rates for independent bookshops who do so much for their local communities.

If any tech people do happen to have the ears of billionaires, I am here with my wallet open saying I would pay EXTRA for devices and software that don't have AI in them. Please take my money.

Jumping on this trend with a little twist: 🌟 the author and illustrator ✍️ 🎨 🌟 front cover 👀 📖 🌟 first page 🦖 Never Show a T-Rex a Book by Diane Ewen and me - it’s all about falling in love with ALL KINDS of books, following your interests and going all in. VERY National Year of Reading. 👀

My #GoodNewsFriday is we finally have a website for the charity! libraries-kids. It’s in the title #KidsNeedLibraries raising money to provide book grants 📚 so schools can spend on what their kids would love to have. Thx to Thinktech systems for the site!

My picture book with Diane Ewen, Never Show a T-Rex a Book, is a joyous love letter to libraries, reading and ambition and is often used in whole school assemblies. More recs below! #Kidsbooksfriday #kidlituk

Hey Fellow Youth #Library folk Pen & Inc is a great read! Be sure to take look! 📚📜

Continuing my list of children’s reading recommendations for the National Year of Reading. This time, we’re zooming in on comics. Just a few faves here and most are series. Titles and creators in the ALT text. #kidlit #kidscomics

📣Little Rebels Award Folk! An Announcement: Award organisers @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social & @housmansbookshop.bsky.social are pausing the Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction this year. Full announcement below. #KidLitUK

Turns out kids are ALREADY asking for Hari Book 2. Last week, one heard me mention it and the news rippled down the signing queue! So here it is: HARI KUMAR, ULTIMATE SUPERSTAR - GOING FOR GOLD. Out 13th August. Art by Mamta Singh, design by Elorine Grant and Kate Clarke. 🎉🌟

I would like to express something in no uncertain terms about the publishing industry re availability and I would really like this carved in stone. Carers and chronically ill writers are structurally disadvantaged in prestige economies. This is brutal and rarely said out loud. I need more support

An excellent series for anyone interested in how we get children reading for pleasure. I have lots to catch up on but I had to give it a boost! #kidlituk #ukkidlit

Super thrilled to speak at the @ylglondon.bsky.social Unconference for the National Year of Reading! Like so many writers, the local library was my happy place, a refuge from life’s travails & a second home. Here I am in the wonderful school library at Queensbridge School in Brum!

I met young readers today in the signing queue who actually know and love my books. And readers who were excited to talk about their ADHD brains and writing. What is this life? Seriously. Blown away that I get to call this my job.

As a long-term supporter of EmpathyLab’s work to raise an empathy-educated generation through books and reading, I’m super proud to be an official EmpathyLab ambassador. Here’s to giving time and energy to things that make a difference. #kidlituk #ukkidlit @empathylabuk.bsky.social

If any of you is looking for someone to write about / explain science to children, including fact-checking, I am looking for work. You can see why I’d be a good hire here at alomshaha.com

💡Did you know? Order #Bookspark for your school and you'll get 40 books plus resources to support impactful shared reading sessions. But that's not all - you'll also get access to an exclusive live event with super author Jennifer Killick! Find out more about Bookspark 👇 https://bit.ly/3ZwNE6V

Honoured to be featured in DESIblitz talking about Hari Kumar Ultimate Superstar, joyful representation and whose stories are considered “universal” in children’s books. Love this thoughtful and celebratory piece by Dhiren Manga. #kidlituk #uklkidlit www.desiblitz.com/content/rash...

Only TEN more days until "Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Rome" will be on shelves in bookstores! You can also order it now: tinyurl.com/PetsRome A kids' comic by @rikworth.bsky.social & me that tackles some of the big topics of the ancient world of humans, from the perspective of animals.

Proud to support Bookshop.org’s Read it Forward campaign. 10% of ALL children’s book sales in February go to BookTrust/Scottish Book Trust AND you get to support indie bookshops at the same time. I’ve got a whole list of book recommendations for you if you’re not sure where to start. (Link below!)

This is amazing!

Some beautiful reads here but I think it’s also important to have books like The Cheat Book by Ramzee in the mix. Because kids who were refugees can star in fun stories too. It matters. #KidLitUK #KidsBooksFriday

We've had a couple of days off recommending books to give you a chance to catch up with reading them! Today we're looking at #poetry books and we might be a tad biased because these are all by some of the brilliant poets we work with. #NationalYearofReading #GoAllIn

Important reading. Love the work Lit in Colour is doing in this space. Everyone should know about it.

Keep forgetting this place exists. Still getting used to how fragmented my social media world has become. I should really quit one of my spaces and it’s either Bluesky or Threads. 🤔

Very excited to read this one! Love Ian’s books.

Watching Refaat was a reminder of why I do what I do. Teaching storytelling is powerful, sacred act. And a great responsibility. A duty that must be fulfilled with courage, humility and care

I taught Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire (edited Jehad Abusalim et al, 2022) yesterday. The supplementary texts included this TED talk by Refaat Alareer thanks to which my students have discovered his lecture videos. Looking forward to their essays youtu.be/YsbEjldJjOw?...

📢 ⬇️ 📖 This incredible prize is in its 10th year and it’s currently open to submissions. Look!

It often does. What would you add?

That is some very good news but YES, we can do better. Take a look and contribute/amplify if you can! #Creatives4Sudan

I’ve just bought my mum Sarah Crossan’s brilliant YA ‘Where the Heart Should Be’ for her Christmas. What other great kids / YA books should we be gifting to grown-ups who don’t generally read children’s books? #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

£12K!!!!! 🤗🤗🤗 There are lots of little lots that would make brilliant treats, go on! Also remember there are US-located lots, so if you're a pal from there you can grab 'em for a steal! (I really wanted the hair appointments 😂)

Do Bluesky handles really have to be this long? I don’t like it.

Fellow authors juggling way too many social media platforms - how are you doing this? Every time I think I’ll drop one there’s an interesting convo or something there or something nice happens and I decide to stay. 🤯

🎄 Brilliant gift ideas for all ages. Unplug, connect with family or friends, and jump into someone else’s story this festive season! 🎄 Visit Bookshop.org today and discover the full list

There’s definitely luck in publishing, so do what you can to meet it halfway–join a crit group, take courses, enter comps, read lots, try writing for different age groups. Livia actually started as a middle grade but I was able to revise and resubmit after chat with editor. #ukteenchat #liviainrome

The heart of the book comes from lived experience and that neither-fish-nor-fowl aspect. I lived in italy and in Rome for years and met a lot of third-culture-kids who felt the way I did. A lot of it is experience and memory, but mine is bad so I made trips to double-check things! #ukteenchat

It’s a sunny summer clean-teen romance ☀️ about Livia, a Scottish Italian teenager who is trying to find a sense of belonging, with a bit of family drama and a very distracting Italian boy - as they tend to be! #ukteenchat

Boosting because I’m OBSESSED with Livia in Rome. A beautifully written, fresh and funny FEEL GOOD teen/YA book that everyone should have on their list. #ukteenchat #LiviainRome #kidlituk

From artists to every day Black histories, @sla.org.uk presents the 2025 Winners of the #InformationBookAward #KidLitUK

Lovely that Steven is buying my book, but I made the videos FREE so that the ideas in it are accessible to everyone. These “marvellous machines” are fun to make and can get children thinking about science, and acting like engineers, all using scrap materials you probably have around the house:

We are into the last 5 days of the #Creatives4Sudan auction. There are some INCREDIBLE lots on there. Please consider a cheeky little bid. EG on creative mentoring from @rashmiwriting.bsky.social #KeepEyesOnSudan app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

Sorry for being that annoying author sharing lots of happy news in what is such a tough industry. I do my best to support my peers too because I know the luck I have is unusual. But I share every good thing because it’s so hard to reach readers. Even with all this luck.

Thank you @imogenrw.bsky.social for including THIS IS WHO I AM by Ruchi Mhasane and me in this beautiful collection of ‘The best children’s books of 2025!’ With an amazing write-up too (see below). #kidlituk