#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

✨🐦 KERFUFFLE BIRD is out this week!!! 🐦✨ Illustrated by Gwen Millward @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social Huge thanks to Gerry Smith for the FAB Kerfuffle Bird song 🎵 & to @imogencarter.bsky.social @familyofbeasts.bsky.social @marcelafwrites.bsky.social for the reviews 💗💛💚 Available to pre-order now! 😍

Thrilled to have two fabulous books on the #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 longlist! ✨One Goose, Two Moose by @kaeltudor.bsky.social & Nicola Slater ✨Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social Huge congrats!

"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

✨ Delighted to share that I'll be opening the @canterburykidslit.bsky.social on Fri 11 July, with 2 public events at 10 am & 4 pm 📚😍 Join me for a fun and interactive storytelling session! ✨ Learn to sing the Kerfuffle Bird Song 🐦🎵🎵 & draw Superwolf! 🐺🎨🖌 www.canterburykidslitfest.co.uk/programme

Cover reveal! ✨📗🌈💖 I'm so excited to share the cover of Make It All Go Away, my upcoming book about sensory overload. It's beautifully illustrated by @taylorbarron.bsky.social and published by Moon + Bird in the UK and the US. Available to pre-order now!

Exciting news in @the-bookseller.bsky.social today about my forthcoming book with Moon+Bird, with stunning illustrations by @taylorbarron.bsky.social 📗🌈💛 Make It All Go Away is a story about sensory overload, drawing on personal experience. It's the book I wish we'd had on our shelves years ago 💛

Thank you to the lovely people at @rshipbshop.bsky.social in #Salisbury for getting lots of copies of our books in for us to sign! 📚 😍 @thomasdocherty.bsky.social grew up in Salisbury, so this is a special bookshop for us ❤️ and it has such a brilliantly curated selection of children's books! 📚

Thank you, Kim! 💗🧡

✨ Indie bookshops, who would like some signed bookplates for my latest books published by Alison Green Books @scholastic.bsky.social ? DM me if you'd like some! 📚✨ @booknookhove.bsky.social @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social @telltales.bsky.social @maxminervas.bsky.social @portybooks.bsky.social

Parenting Expert UK are giving away a copy of 💗ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU 💗 by me and Daniela Sosa 💗 "The best bedtime story EVER! We gave this toddler book a well deserved 10 out of 10 stars. All the adults and children we shared it with loved it!" 💗 parentingexpert.co.uk/book-review-...

Huge thanks to @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social for hosting the book launch for 💗ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU💗 by me and Daniela Sosa! We had a brilliant evening - thanks so much to everyone who joined us, and to everyone who's bought a copy of our book! 🙏🏼💗 @scholastic.bsky.social #picturebook #love 💗

Lovely @helendocherty.bsky.social has sent us some bookplates! Order a copy and you'll receive one fitted with a signed bookplate 💕

Look what arrived in the post today! These beautiful Italian and German co-editions of All The Things We Carry by me and @brizidamagro.bsky.social 🌻🧡💛 #lecosecheportonelcuore #alleswaswirtragenkonnen #allthethingswecarry @scholastic.bsky.social

✨ You can help raise money for the Jo Cox Foundation by buying a (signed) copy of SOMEONE JUST LIKE YOU by me and David Roberts from @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social ✨ Our book was inspired by the words of Jo Cox: "We have far more in common with each other than things that divide us" 💗🧡

Our friend is running The Leeds Marathon raising money for the Jo Cox Foundation (which he leads). To support him, we're going to donate £1.50 from every sale of Someone Just Like You by @helendocherty.bsky.social to his fundraiser 💕 wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/some...

Hello #writingcommunity. My reach here is so very low. If anyone sees this, would love a little support. I want to reach out to the amazing #librarians and #teachers out there fighting for diversity in publishing. Pre-orders and ARC requests now available. #Weneeddiversebooks #debut #barefootbooks

These two brothers are SUPER fans of all my books with @thomasdocherty.bsky.social 📚 Here they are enjoying our latest book together, SUPERWOLF! 🐺❤️ With thanks to their lovely mum for allowing me to share this photo 🥰 @scholastic.bsky.social #alisongreenbooks #superwolf #picturebooks #boysreading

Came across these three in Swansea Museum today. #TheTraitors mission eat your heart out. @thetraitors.bsky.social

Join me and Daniela Sosa on 29th Jan at the wonderful @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social for a celebration of our new book 💗All The Ways I Love You💗 and the chance to buy a signed & dedicated copy for the little ones in your life! 💗 @scholastic.bsky.social #booklaunch #picturebook #love

Signed copies of my new book with Daniela Sosa 💗 ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU 💗 at our local indie bookshop in #Mumbles #Swansea, Cover to Cover 💗 #allthewaysiloveyou #picturebook #love

Happy New Year to you all 🎉 and Happy Book Birthday to All the Ways I Love You! 🥳 My new picture book, beautifully illustrated by Daniela Sosa and published by Alison Green Books for Scholastic UK, is out today! ❤️ We hope you will love it 🤗 💕 #AllTheWaysILoveYou

This beautiful, heartfelt book by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social will be coming out in 2025 💗✨ Another deeply emotional and important book (following on from The Hare-Shaped Hole) which will help to comfort anyone facing the death of a loved one 💜 #thebearshapedhole

Great to see my book with David Roberts 🧡Someone Just Like You💗 on the shortlist for the @booksfortopics.bsky.social Books of the Year 2024 ✨ in fantastic company! ✨ You can vote for 🧡Someone Just Like You💗 by following this link. Thanks for your support! 🥰 www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/be...

Over the years, I've visited so many primary schools as an author - one of the best bits of my job! 🥰 I'm looking for more school work in 2025, so please recommend me! 🙏🏼 Schools in #Wales can apply for funding from Literature Wales ✨ Diolch! ❤️ Thank you! #authorvisit #primaryschool #worldbookday

My mum gave a copy of The Green-Fingered Witch to a friend's granddaughter, and this was the wonderful thank you card she received 💚💜🎃 Somebody REALLY loves our book @stevenlenton.bsky.social, and look at Mia's amazing illustration! 💚💜✨ #thegreenfingeredwitch #picturebook #gift #thankyou

A poem came to me this morning. Not in rhyme, and not for children, so a bit of a departure for me. Here it is anyway. #stormwarning

Watched a phenomenal one man performance of A Christmas Carol by Andrew Margerison / Dyad Productions at the #Taliesin Theatre in #Swansea tonight. So worth going to see if you can catch this on tour before #Christmas 🕯 www.dyadproductions.com/theatre-prod...

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to [email protected] JOIN US - there's cake!

Another beautiful image from @hobslantern.bsky.social from her work with @eloisewilliams.bsky.social, using natural botanical indigo ink 💙

Being kept waiting - often for months - for contracts and payments to come through is incredibly stressful, especially when you're supporting a family 😟 I'm sure many other #writers, #illustrators, #artists and #creatives feel the same way. But what can we do about it? #selfemployed #stress

The first time I've seen an illustration done using woad ink! So beautiful - I love the different tones

My next #picturebook, All the Ways I Love You ❤️ (beautifully illustrated by Daniela Sosa) is coming out Jan 2025 🎉 We're hoping to hold an evening book launch 📚 🍷 #London people, who'd like to join us? Any #teachers or #librarians? All welcome! 🥰 Thanks for your support & for spreading the word! ❤️

@simonjamesgreen.bsky.social writes brilliant books for teenagers and I'm sure this one will be a fantastic read too! 🌈

Fantastic advice to all #teachers and #librarians on how to host a really successful author visit, with long lasting benefits to the children ⭐ I love visiting primary schools; the best visits are always the ones where the school has prepared well in advance. Book me for an author visit in 2025! 😊📚

So true! I think the reason may be that we don't take children that seriously (as a society), so why should we take children's books seriously? Or maybe it's because too many adults have lost touch with their inner child... Children's books help grow the next generation of readers! 📚

I'm so proud to have had FOUR picture books published in 2024! 📚 🥰 Illustrated by four equally amazing #illustrators: #DavidRoberts, @brizidamagro.bsky.social, @thomasdocherty.bsky.social & @stevenlenton.bsky.social ✨✨✨✨ These would all make great #Christmas #gifts, just saying 😉💖 #picturebooks

Sunrise over Mumbles Pier, from our house this morning. Such a beautiful start to the day 💗🧡💛 #sunrise #Mumbles #SwanseaBay #Gower

Here is the beautiful Taiwanese edition of 💗Someone Just Like You🧡 - words by me and illustrations by David Roberts, published in Taiwan by the Eastern Publishing Company and featured on their website! 💗🧡 #someonejustlikeyou #picturebook #taiwan #davidroberts

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

Tesni (Tess-knee) is 4 today! 🥳 She enjoyed her birthday walk in #ClyneGardens this morning. Nothing like a good pile of leaves to celebrate with 🍂🍁🐶 #birthday #dogwalk

Anyone in need of #mondaymotivation? 🤣

#Mexican #veggie lunch with Nopales #tortillas from #Otomi in #Bristol and veg from #Swansea market (The Choice is Yours). Candles lit 💛 Perfect antidote to the storm outside 💚

My wise 14 year old just now: "Imagine how different our perspective on history would be if it was herstory" #history #herstory

Before the storm #Langland #beach #dogwalk #Gower #waves

🎉I've just received advance copies of Croc's Cooking Day, out with @littletigeruk.bsky.social in January, and it's so lovely to hold and play with the finished novelties! Second in a series of novelty board books about Busy Chores for Little Paws, with two more still to come! 🐊🥞

Book news!!!

Bristol / Cornwall wall art 💙 My friend John and his dad painted this Cornish scene together

Last week @marcelafwrites.bsky.social and I presented our new picture books (out next year!) at the OUP Sales conference in #Oxford. It was a real joy to share the stage with Marcela & to talk about the inspiration behind our stories. My Kerfuffle Bird is beautifully illustrated by #GwenMillward ✨

This looks glorious! 🔥🌙 @mrjamesmayhew.bsky.social creates the most beautiful, magical books