🐚📣 PUBLICATION DAY!🐚🎉 THE SHELL KEEPERS is now available to buy! trulyjohnston.co.uk Thanks @chickenhousebooks for making this dream come true! I hope this book brings joy, helps young readers explore the magic in our world and know that they can play a part in protecting it. #kidlituk

For ✨ no particular reason ✨ nothing to do w comics discourse ✨ Here are some booklists I compiled of really great comics, made by creators of color: BIPOC 🌟 bookshop.org/lists/graphi... AAPI & SWANA 💫 bookshop.org/lists/graphi...

Weird? Yes. Unnecessarily polluting and damaging to our planet whilst we're in the midst of a climate crisis? Also yes.

Our recent webinar for schools about the link between reading and wellbeing is available to watch - whether you want to relive it or missed it the first time! 📺 Here's a snippet of @beckygoddardhill.bsky.social talking about the value of books - find the full video here: bit.ly/4lidRzv

I've made a website! 😯🎉 it's taken a while and been a learning curve but a fun process 😊. You can find out more about me, The Shell Keepers and pre-order links on the site. It will evolve I'm sure but at the moment it's a nice little home for my bookish life. Trulyjohnston.co.uk #kidlituk

CAW! CAW! I AM RAVEN out April 10th!! 🐦‍⬛🐺🥳 @nosycrow.bsky.social #IAmRaven #IAmWolf #KidLitUk

Spring has sprung & so has the LATEST WRDMag. That's not all. You can now read it online… for FREE! Still available in print for those who like to turn the pages in person 😊 It's a CORKER! Stuffed with extracts, interviews & reviews for 8yrs+ & Xtra for teens. Spread the WRD! 📚😍

My good news? I HAVE A BOOK OUT DID I SAY I HAVE A BOOK OUT POSSIBLY I DIDNT MENTION I HAVE A BOOK OUT? lokibooks.com/books/loki-a... #KidLitUK

Pretty lovely to have an opportunity to write like this yesterday. Good riddance to that anti-cyclonic gloom! Spring is springing and may your creativity too ✨️ 🌸 #writing #spring

So excited to share the cover of my talented cousin's new children's book - out on 5th June and absolutely stunning. 🤩🤩

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🐚🎉🐚🎉 COVER REVEAL! So delighted to be able to share this with you! This is my debut middle grade childrens novel, due out on 5th June 2025. A magical seaside read with themes of family, environment and heritage. Thanks to @trindles_ for the beautiful cover art. bit.ly/43KMcRr #childrensbooks

Hey I wrote another book by the way, it's about making stuff, and haunting stuff, and love, and Chris Riddell illustrated it www.walker.co.uk/978152951594...

Publication Day for Recycling Day! Written by me and illustrated by #KlasFahlen. Thanks to all the team @nosycrow.bsky.social for making such a delightful book full of rubbish.

Keep sending us your middle grade #kidlit and YA submissions for the next issue of PaperBound! Writers AND illustrators welcome! 👇

Do a good deed in this naughty world! It's the last few days of #ReadItForward! Buy any children's books - even mine! - through @bookshop_org_uk and if they will donate 10% to @BookTrust and @scottishbktrust - uk.bookshop.org/lists/read-i...

Happy #FamilyDay! We believe every family should be supported to make sharing books a regular part of daily life, helping children to enjoy the benefits of reading. Here's why shared reading has a vital role to play in early education and childcare 👇 www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...

Hooray! Congratulations @garypanton.co.uk Looking forward to reading this! You can get your hands on The Notwitches in shops from today🎉🧙

It is finally time! We are excited to reveal the longlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration. 🎉 Congratulations to the wonderful authors and illustrators longlisted for the #Carnegies2025! 🖌️📖✨ View the full list here: carnegies.co.uk/2025-longlis...

Hey there 👋🏾 we’re new here so we thought we’d introduce ourselves so you can get to know us a bit better! We are a multi-award-winning inclusive children's book publisher 🏆 focused on publishing underrepresented voices! From illustrated young fiction to YA.📚 meet our fantastic team below.

The spectacular shortlist for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 is here! 🥳 Chosen by booksellers across the country, there's magic on every page, whatever their age. Discover the amazing shortlisted authors and illustrators here: bit.ly/3w9ZuZb #WCBP25

I’m supporting #ReadItForward! Buy ANY children's or YA book!) during February and @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social will donate 10% to @booktrust.org.uk BookTrust's mission is to get children from low-income and vulnerable family backgrounds reading regularly and by choice. (Links in Bio!)

Apparently a new runway at Heathrow could create 100,000 jobs. A home retrofit industry: hold my beer. www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/p...

Inua Ellams is a master craftsman. I fell into the world of this narrative poem and stumbled out stunned the other side. Fabulous storytelling and myth making. Catch it if you can! ✨️📚 #booksky

London Lit Lab: How to Plot a Page Turner. Explore effective methods of plotting and storytelling to help you to turn your passion project into a page-turner. Dates: 17th February – 30th March 2025 Online £220 for six weeks Details here www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/plot-... Please share :)

I'm looking to create an author website and am keen to use green Web hosting. Does anyone have any suggestions of good green Web builder and hosting options? Squarespace doesn't say too much abut sustainability. I've found hostwoody, but can't see many examples. Any tips most welcome! 🙏🌱 #Booksky

I'm feeling inspired by all the amazing posts about the #ReadingRights summit. Thank you @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social & @booktrust.bsky.social for championing children's reading - EVERY SINGLE CHILD CAN BE A READER, and should have access to all the lifelong, life-changing benefits of literacy!

Brilliant work by @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social, @booktrust.bsky.social and many others to raise awareness of access to early years reading and inequality. Early reading changes lives. Children facing a ‘happiness recession’ says laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

At times like these, I wonder what use children's books can be. But maybe they're more important than ever now. However dark things get, we have to help kids imagine a better world. So please: never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop giving them HOPE. www.theguardian.com/childrens-bo...

Why read books? Because reading opens minds & hearts. It helps us imagine different lives and different worlds; it can help us build a better world. So please keep reading books with kids, and encouraging them to read. There is nothing more important. #literacy #books #reading

This is such a brilliant programme and so important...any fictional genre any woman of any background. With, er, a two week intensive novel-writing course by me to win. Please dare to submit: it might change your life (for the better) (I hope)

I went to a conference at one of my favourite places today, @barbican.bsky.social where I got married in 2016. I found this pocket garden filled with poetry written in the pandemic. It's striking to stumble across echos of that strange time, and special to have green seeded throughout the city.

When it's freezing cold and you decide to paint a snowy illustration. #illustration #illustrationart @scbwi-bi.bsky.social

I still love this old advert from the Australian Booksellers Association

If you are looking for diverse books to gift this year for kids and teens then my Dec newsletter will be very useful. Every month I review my fav diverse authored MG and YA books and it’s the first place I share news on Time Tub Travellers. www.clairelinney.com/signup

A lovely Icelandic term for pins and needles (tingling after your foot goes numb) is stjörnur í skónum, or “stars in your shoes.” A Yoruba version is pajapaja (“kill dog kill dog”). And the best one I’ve heard in German (uttered by a friend’s child) was mein Fuß glitzert. It means “my foot twinkles”

I reckon it's about time we showed some love to all the book publishers and publishing people who fill our TBRs and introduce us to new authors 💙📚 Suggestions for this pack welcome! 🫶 #BookSky go.bsky.app/BAJ3bag

We all need something positive 🐝🐝🐝

It's nearly advent calendar time, and this year I've made you a #DrawWithRob arty advent book that includes a creative activity for you to do every day in the build up to the big one! Get your copy now in time for those #Christmas boxes... 👉 amzn.to/3Br7eIO 🎄🎅🏻📕✏️

Hello! 👋🏽 My first post into the blue. Hoping to reconnect with lovely bookish peeps! I write childrens fiction and poetry and have my debut MG novel out next year. I'll be mostly posting about kidlit, nature and london. How's the bookish chat here? Any tips to help me find my way? #kidlituk