This is the passing of an utter genius. A poet and innovator whose work, funny and clever and unsentimentally sweet, is a blessing on all the kids who have experienced it.

Solidarity with all the trans folk in our brilliant, irreducible, irrepressible LGBTQueer+ community. There are better days up ahead.

📣Ssh, would you like to listen to one of the My Words, My Book children author interviews before World Book Day?! ✅Like, share and follow @mywordsmybook 🤩Then we might, just might share one or even two! #MyWordsMyBook #WorldBookDay #WBD

Let 100 ghost-lions roar. 🦁 Let 100 voyaging turtles swim out to sea. 🐢 Let 100 lovesick owls tap-dance in the light of a rainy taxi cab. 🦉 Let 100 clockwork mice set out on a dangerous journey to find their heart’s desire. 🐭 Happy 100th birthday, Russell Hoban! 🎈📚 #Hoban100

I look forward to celebrating Russell Hoban’s centenary all 2025 but the day itself has snuck up on me. If you’re yet to discover his wry, melancholy, surreal, philosophical and magic work, try this reading of (maybe) my favourite book of his #Hoban100

Pfffh, it’s all a bit overwhelming at first, isn’t it? Or is it just me?