These books are BRILLIANT!

Very thrilled to join the wonder that is @thebraag.bsky.social !! #ukpoets #poetrysky

Gonna start reviewing funny books the way people review unfunny ones. With that in mind I just read Donut Squad: Make a mess. Urgent, necessary and timely, a masterpiece! The voice of a generation! @neillcameron.bsky.social

It's friday! Time for the weekly good news thread! What's made you smile this week? What's brought you joy?

📙 Episode 37: Libraries Are a Very Good Thing 📚 We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library. 🎧 Listen: https://loom.ly/-2JfVI4

#illustrators #illustration #comic #comicartist #kidlitart

Thanks @amdassu.bsky.social for viewing Loki through a new lens - the question of "what is home". And this is a great and varied bunch of books to be grouped with. www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme...

🙏🏽🥰 My magical middle grade adventures set in an alternate history version of colonial India are available!

This one by & @raynewman.bsky.social precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/12/11/a...

Adorable creature to make you smile this morning.

This is a medley of my funny short poems for young children. End of term fun? Michael Rosen Short Poems | Kids Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2z_...

If you live in Bristol, love horror and want to support local businesses, please consider doing some of your Christmas shopping at The Haunted Bookshop in Stokes Crofts. You may have seen Monika at some of our events and her shop is a wonderful sanctuary for those looking to find their people.

I am reading Clayface comics, and god I love Clayface.

“Ninety-five per cent of the more than 10,000 people who had their say over how music, novels, films and other works should be protected from copyright infringements by tech companies called for copyright to be strengthened..” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Has anyone read Manjeet Mann’s Roar and can advise whether they think it’s suitable for a fairly mature and well read 13yo? Normally I’d read it first to check but won’t have time before I need to post it. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK

🤣 overheard frustrated parent quote this week [on the Tube] ‘can you just stop doing that and read your Skandar.’ #kidlituk

They may moan about teens today but we think we they’re amazing. If your teens a thinker, they may enjoy these! Booky wooks #kidslit #booksky #christmasbooks tobebooks.co.uk/list-of-non-...

I think #KidsBooksFriday might need a wee break for the next couple of weeks. So let’s use this week to celebrate our favourite kids book reads of 2025. Doesn’t need to be something published this year. Hope everyone’s bookish wishes come true this Christmas!🎄🎁 📚 #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

🎁Last shipping dates for Christmas Standard Delivery 2-4 working days: 18th December Next Day Delivery (TRACKING): 20th December #christmas #bookrecommendations #booklist #childrensbooks #YA

#booksky Have you sorted your reading snacks for #Halloween yet?! This is pimped M&S nachos are the perfect snackage to read Thirst with. What’s your reading snack and/or Halloween read? #m&sfood #halloweenreading #halloweensnacks

Is there anyone in the uk kidlit community who would be up for helping me organise a fundraiser/auction for #KeepEyesOnSudan? I can't organise my way out of a paper bag but I can shout about things and persuade authors and illustrators to donate stuff #UKKidlit #KidLitUK

The joy of podcasts for me is I go into a fugue state and never have any idea what I said afterwards. I'm pretty sure I mentioned Roy Orbison at some point but apart from that? BLANK. And I probably talked about Loki. Enjoy!

Arguably, one company should not be responsible for 33% of online services

#HappyDiwali and #Bandichhor everyone! My god do we need some light. 🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔 in these dark times. I’m off to light a few million candles.

Yay! #UKKidLit #KidLitUK

🎉🎉🎉 So thrilled to see this recognition for the wonderful Sita Brahmachari! Her latest ‘Phoenix Brothers’ is a poignant, funny and very timely story of teenage refugees. global.oup.com/education/pr...

The people who follow me are monsters. MONSTERS. Nothing but the worst puns on earth, all the time. And i LOVE IT

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

And if you don’t want to buy it from a soul sucking planet destroyer you can get it via our @libro.fm shop and the proceeds go to charity. (No shade Helen sorry 😬😂🫶) libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Just heard that we have 150,000 children signed up for Michael Rosen Day on November 13. Wouldn't it be great if, when I'm doing my show, I could see them all....? [Go to my website for the 'Find out more' link to be live]

ICYMI yesterday, this is my contribution to the @literacy-trust.bsky.social National Year of Reading. Loki's instructions on becoming a terrible reader. In the Galadriel sense of beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night all shall love you and despair. #Lokifesto #KidLitUK #Edusky

Really fun episode about A MG I've not read yet but now wanna! open.spotify.com/episode/6bnn... #UKKidlit

#childrensbooks #booksforchildren #booksforteenagers #ethicalbusinessUK #books #bookshopUK #bookstoreUK #bookshop #bookstore #branding

This is my Lokifesto #KidsConf #UKkidlit #edusky lokibooks.com/lokifesto/

YES YES YES YES!!!! Every school needs a copy of this!!

Yezzz lokibooks.com printable here but schools booksellers etc can ask the publisher for posters!

You mean there isn't even a 'library' at the moment, in some primary schools? Scary.

Literacy is about social justice. But it's not just about literacy, also enjoyment. Currently have an inverse relationship btwn skills and enjoyment #KidsConf

This 🙌

It only takes 10 minutes to change your life with a great book. The Ten Minute Book Club celebrates amazing children’s and YA novels in 10 minutes or less every week. Check out The Ministry of Mischief here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @foulkeswrites.bsky.social

‘We reject arrogance. We reject hatred. We reject willful blindness.’ -Natasa Musar Pirc, Slovenian president. Power isn’t a trophy; It’s a call to duty on behalf of the people who put you there.👇

If you are involved with making comics please, please, please take the short amount of time to fill this survey in - it’s genuinely vital information for understanding the current UK comics landscape!

SAILFest is THIS Saturday at the Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain! ⛵️ Still time to book tickets! Both in person (£15) and online (£5) available! www.sailfest.org.uk/store/p/sail...

If you found that Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled due to FCC coercion was a heinous attack on free speech (& it sure as hell is!) wait till you hear about the 10,000 books that have been banned in schools & libraries! If you're an author, join the fight @authorsabb.bsky.social We're stronger together!

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness. Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you. Right this way. /1

Have decided I’m only voting for people who use public libraries from now on, please present your library card to me while door knocking.

Thrilled to see this news out there in the world! I've been looking forward to this one for a while!