The placement of the first two headlines in The Bookseller had tickled me this morning 🤣

Anddd that's a wrap! What a fun, thought inducing day at The Bookseller's Marketing and Publicity Conference yesterday - please hold while my brain whirls and twirls with ideas 👀🧠✨ @thebookseller.com #MPConf

Reason 3743 of why I love my husband: When he buys an sneaky iced coffee for me, because he knows I am a fan, and hides it in the fridge so I don't see it until the morning 🥹☕🧊

It's a good week when the advances get delivered to @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social 👀✨ 🫧Albert's Bubble Bath 🐦Harry and the Heron 🌌Cosmic Cadets and the Universal Uni-Korn These children's books are coming this autumn - yay!

Mirror, mirror on the wall 🪩

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Gwen Millward from Kerfuffle Bird by Helen Docherty, a picturebook about expressing bottled-up feelings. Neon tones, a scribbly line and an exuberant sense of fun. Paperback from Oxford Children’s Books 5 June. @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social @helendocherty.bsky.social

Cheese is a privilege, not a right, I just told my dog But on second thought is this actually true? Where is the case law

S A T U R D A Y night 🧊🌇👯‍♀️🪩

"Millward’s scratchy, wild drawings [are the] perfect accompaniment to this fabulous exploration of feelings and freedom" 🐣💛 Kerfuffle Bird featured in The Observer, ahead of pub day next week! 🎉 observer.co.uk/culture/book... @helendocherty.bsky.social @imogencarter.bsky.social

One of my pet peeves is Nice Places having crappy toilets. Soooo I am going to try and document loos for public interest (aka for my husband 😅) Here we go with tonight's loo... #AnnaLooksInLoos

Goooood morning from a tired wannabe gym bunny 🐇

Book Club 🤝 Black Sheep Coffee @blacksheepcoffee.bsky.social

I don't take the ability to vote lightly. Many, many, many have gone before us to give us a voice 🙏🏻

I'm a dog person, but just look at my cutie boy 🥹🥰☀️

This weekend I was at the FCBG conference talking to the loveliest crowd of librarians, teachers, and children's book enthusiasts in sunny Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿☀️✨ Thanks to Megan for snapping this photo during my presentation 📷 @oxfordeducation.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

Isobel McArthur's adaptation of Pride & Prejudice was stellar this evening! It's Austen but as a freshly mixed comedy 🤩 Highly recommend: prideandprejudicesortof.com

And we're London Book Fair ready🎉 📷 by Aleena ⭐ing Lauren and I #LBF25

I've got my box of tricks ready for #WorldBookDay to celebrate the WONDER OF BOOKS! Have a great World Book Day everyone @naomijones1.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

Happy #WorldBookDay! 🎉📚 We inspire children and young people to read for fun, because it makes a serious difference to their lives. Show us how you #ReadYourWay and stay tuned for a day full of fun! ✨

Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment. Happy World Book Day.

Blue skies for Blue Sky ☀️😎 #OUP

BIG Up Kate Bush and the other musicians who stepped up like this. I was surprised at the amount of creatives who didn’t realise that this affects ALL OF US!

Revealing the 2025 Carnegie Medal longlistees joining Joseph Coelho for a FREE event celebrating storytelling! 📖🌟 Featuring Mariajo Ilustrajo, Yuval Zommer, Danielle Jawando, C. G. Moore and Margaret McDonald! 📚🎨 #Carnegies2025 #BookTownTakeover Secure your group's spot here: https://buff.ly/4i4Fo4Z

Cloud Boy flies into The Guardian, thanks to @imogenrw.bsky.social 🥳 "A lively, empathetic picture book, which may provide particular insights for families managing ADHD" 🧠☁️✨ Read more: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Cheering for @marcelafwrites.bsky.social and Alex Falase Koya being selected for the GLL Literary Foundation Placement 🥳

I wish I could tell the moon how much I like it

Have only read a few of them so far but I'm very excited by the books on the longlist for the 2025 Klaus Flugge Prize. So important for new picturebook creators to get this spotlight. www.klausfluggeprize.co.uk

🌟I’ll be doing a #thetwirlywigglydance #storytime at the newly refurbished Burnt Ash Library -Bromley Libraries on Saturday 22 February⭐️🌟💫 Come join us for the reopening 😊 www.better.org.uk/library/lond... ⬇️⬇️

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Claudia Ravalli from The Dolls’ House by Tanya Rosie. One of the picturebooks on the 15-book longlist for the Klaus Flugge prize for an emerging illustrator, announced today. Out from OUP Sept 2024. A dolls’ house brings children together. @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

Buy any of the #PictureBooks on the longlist for the #KlausFluggePrize from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social during February and 10% will go to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social as part of #ReadItForward. You'll be supporting indy bookshops too ❤️📚 uk.bookshop.org/shop/klausfl...

I sent my husband a photo of our kitten snuggled by my leg 🥹 His response? 'I'm on my way home' 😂🐾

Thank you so much Jo, so glad Gordon is helping the children to explore different behaviours! @alexlatimer.bsky.social

Word of the day, for the umpteenth time, is ‘apricate’, the sister of ‘apricity’. It means to bask in the warmth of the sun, especially on a chilly day.

No cats spotted this time 🐈🐾

Box of frogs 🐸

I am absolutely blown away to have been shortlisted for the Ruth Rendell Award 2025 which recognises a writer who has had a significant impact on literacy in the UK over the last year. www.alcs.co.uk/news/ruth-re...

So proud to see The Wild by the one and only #YuvalZommer longlisted - go Yuval! 🤩

Now THIS is the kind of book I'd like to be able to write. It's beautifully raw, real, and relatable. It's also brimming with hope and I felt that with my whole heart. I think we all need that. Thank you @alisonespach.bsky.social for writing The Wedding People 🙏🏻✨ 5/5

Children's books are not a luxury. Libraries & librarians are not a luxury. The teachers who work so hard to inspire kids to read are not a luxury. If you cut or undermine or lose these things – #literacy will cease to be a basic human right, and will become a luxury, available only to a few.

Read It Forward is GO! Buy ANY children’s book via Bookshop.org during February and we’ll donate 10% of the sale to the leading children’s reading charities, @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social 📚 Every sale supports independent bookshops 📚 bit.ly/RIFEB25

My nice little stack of January reads ❄️Wintering #KatherineMay 🎁The Christmas Appeal @janicehallett.bsky.social 🌍Boy, Everywhere @amdassu.bsky.social 💭Dallergut Dream Department Store #MiyeLee 🐾Olga Takes Charge #MichaelBond 🐹Olga Carries On #MichaelBond 🌵Just.Got. Real @janefallon.bsky.social

When the going gets tough, go to the bookshop ❤️

I’ve been really busy signing books in all the bookshops around Oxford - it’s always such a treat to meet booksellers and browse the shelves @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

📣 Oxford Children’s Word of the Year 2024 is KINDNESS 💗 6,000+ children aged 6-14 took part in the research. Artificial intelligence and conflict came 2nd and 3rd. SLAY is the top slang word, followed by skibidi and sigma. Read the full report: ow.ly/Ob6N50UKoL0 #OxfordCWOTY

It was so much fun helping @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social announce the Oxford Children’s Word of the year at an assembly in Banbury today - and what an amazing word it was too. I think we need to take inspiration from the kids and all have a bit more kindness in our lives.

In a world that looks bleak, there is hope... Kindness is Oxford Children’s Word of the Year 2024, following research carried out by the Children’s Dictionaries and Children’s Language Data team at OUP. #OxfordCWOTY

"This isn't something that's just nice or lovely. It's something fundamental to becoming a human being." Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social shares why reading is a right for every child. #ReadingRights

Really happy to be coming back to Stepping into Stories this year! Come along on Sunday 9th for a story and plenty of fun activities! www.steppingintostories.org/event-detail...

A good strong quote at the start of a book pleases me greatly. Also enjoyed casting shadows on shadowy quotes 📖👀 #Dickens