This is out today with the latest Jellycat Christmas drop! Ocean Hughes has outdone herself with these gorgeous, wintry illustrations.

Odell is here at last! Available now on the Jellycat website and official Jellycat stockists

Sometimes I’m asked ‘why do you care?’ ‘Swifts are one of the oldest species on earth. They spend more time airborne than any other bird yet when they come home they come home to us. They’re on the brink. They just need a brick with a hole in it.’

"I hope readers think I have provided Pax with a fitting finale to his adventures" —@bluegold201 looks back on Pax as he gears up for the final part of the trilogy. Pax and the Secret Swarm arrives October 9th 2025. Click here to read more 👉 tinytreebooks.com/2025/05/27/p... #kidlit

Super excited to see this up on the Jellycat website at last! It’s illustrated by the super talented Clair Rossiter and is available to buy from July 15th

Parents/teachers/anyone who's interested in children's books: would you help Marianne out by filling this in?

Spot the bad apple... 🍎

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 5: Much of writing is memory. Memory of places, of feelings, of dreams, of experience, of sensations. Anything you can do to enhance your memory can help you as a writer: keeping notebooks, diaries, being conscious of life as it unfolds; noticing details. Remembering.

Hugely excited to get my hands on a copy of I'M GOING TO MAKE A FRIEND - the debut picture book from the brilliant @darrenchetty.bsky.social, beautifully illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat - coming in May from @littletigeruk.bsky.social! littletiger.co.uk/product/im-g...

It's so amazing, thank you. We love your books. My two year old is a huge fan of the Bear series and Lights on Cotton Rock. The piano is bringing a lot of joy to the shop! Coincidentally I dressed as the Bear for WBD this year. One to repeat next year I think.

This is a goodie!

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on Earth. It conquers all things.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by debut illustrator Scott Wilson. Lively, loosely-drawn caricature from I’m Gonna Eat a Monster! by Kael Tudor. Puffin paperback 6 March. Gruffalo-influenced story about a rabbit outwitting a predatory wolf using the threat of a monster #booksky @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social

Here’s my new book announcement! I didn’t dare to dream I’d be able to write my very own story collection until my dear agent Julia and the brilliant team at Zephyr, Head of Zeus (part of Bloomsbury) suggested it. These timeless stories are unlike anything I’ve written;they’ve stretched my writing/1

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

If the world could just stop sliding into utter dystopian darkness and madness that’d be great

@meredithvighauthor.bsky.social spotted in Tring Garden Centre today!

Also re-sharing this article from a couple of years ago, where I and a few other authors/illustrators inc. @robbiddulph.bsky.social, @dapsdraws.bsky.social shared our views re. AI: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Horrified by news of our friend & fellow bookseller Mahmoud being arrested by Israeli forces alongside his nephew. A tireless campaigner for the power of literature, Mahmoud was in Edinburgh with us just months ago - please join call for their release! #Booksky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this. www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...

Spotted today at Webbs of Tenterden, our favourite bedtime story! Debut picture book by @meredithvighauthor.bsky.social

@kidsstoryworld.bsky.social @attielime.bsky.social @lozzawriting.bsky.social

Message from another Fiverr seller asking me to share my work/clients with them as they aren’t making much money and want to boost their own profile. Ummm… no… Why would I do that?

Ugh, it's the worst 🙄 I've managed to kill it in Word and I think I turned it off in Outlook as well. support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...

76 - A panto dame transforms a young boy’s life and brings colour to his world in this picture book by @mamagstories.bsky.social and Toto!

Love this.

I LOVED this super cute & wonderful #picturebook & i 1 of my fave 2024 releases!! Any guesses from this zoomed in snapshot? 😁 To find out, & to see a list of my top 2024 #PBs, subscribe to my newsletter at www.jessicamilo.com! 📚✨ I also share writing tips, book news & other rec #kidlit reads!!

It’s a small Win but …

FINAL 72 HOURS It appears that Harry #A5667056 is now TBK and down to his final hours, and will likely NOT get an extension in Baldwin Park CA. Please urgently share/repost and email [email protected] if you can help give him a home. Thank you.

Couldn’t agree more…..

Do not engage with trolls. BLOCK them. Certain people thrive on the controversy, the attention. Do not give it to them. Feel free to share with anyone who needs it: How to Block a user on Bluesky (including screenshots of what they'll see, etc): debbieohi.link/how-to-block #BlueSkyTips

Using A.I to ‘write’ your stories is like buying an Olympic medal up at a garage sale and telling people you won it

Today I’ve got @mamagstories.bsky.social joining me in The Reading Realm to talk about OH YES I AM! which is illustrated by Toto! I’ve got a copy to #giveaway too from @graffegbooks.bsky.social! Just share and follow! UK only. Ends 26.1 #KidLitUK #EduSky thereadingrealm.co.uk/2025/01/21/o...

Andersen Press accidentally sent me more than one finished copy of Kwame Alexander's new YA book, 'Black Star', sequel to 'The Door of No Return'. If you're UK based & would like an early copy (publishes in feb) then just share this post by Friday 17th Jan & I'll pick 1 person to send a copy!

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

So they want to ban TikTok now do they? They’re trying to control information. We live in scary times right now. Musk, Trump, Zuckbot - there’s a nefarious agenda here which stinks.

Super excited for this one!

'AI' perfectly encapsulates where we're at as a culture in that, broadly, nobody wants it, it'll make things more shit, it has huge environmental cost, it will make a small number of absolute dipshits astronomically wealthy so we're going all-in on it for that reason

Today I will mostly be thinking and talking about author income and ghostwriting. SoA CWIG committee up first then BBC Front Row tonight (7.15, Radio 4)

Going to pin this – please share! My Art Avenger books are perfect for kids aged 7-11 especially if they’re the kind of child who’d appreciate the highbrow/lowbrow blend of art fact-files and bum-faced snails. You can get a copy here: linktr.ee/Ofalafel