COMPETITION TIME for anyone who's purchased or pre-ordered a copy of The Hug Button! 🎉 @naomijones1.bsky.social To enter: Email proof of purchase/pre-order of The Hug Button to [email protected] Use subject line 'The Hug Button Competition' in your email T&Cs www.instagram.com/p/DLWtdxpuyPh

✨🐦 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! 😍

We have some at Oxford Children’s including Thunderboots by @naomijones1.bsky.social and @familyofbeasts.bsky.social (Dyslexia), Cloud Boy by Greg Stobbs (ADHD), Bear-Shaped by Dawn Coulter-Cruttenden (Autism), & How to Bath a Giraffe by Sarah Horne (boy with cochlear implant, incidental to story)

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

A handwritten letter on my illustration work desk to my local MP, Mel Stride, asking him to help UK children's book illustrators keep our copyright during the current AI policy consultation ✍️ @mrsteveantony.bsky.social @alcs-uk.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social (Typed out in the alt text)

Our new blog: https://buff.ly/4hkoCPx 📗 Thunderboots @naomijones1.bsky.social & @familyofbeasts.bsky.social 📘 The Last Boy @evemcdonnell.bsky.social @everywithwords.bsky.social 📙 Feather by Manon Steffan Ros, @fireflypress.bsky.social 📕 Darkly by Marisha Pessl, Walker Books #ReadingForPleasure

It was so exciting to spot my new book illustrated by @familyofbeasts.bsky.social in the @the-bookseller.bsky.social Children’s guide. The Hug Button publishes in July - not long to wait now! @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

It was such a joy talking to my picture book making partner @familyofbeasts.bsky.social about creativity, her inspiration and the teaching work she does. You can watch the whole chat over at Words and Pictures: open.substack.com/pub/naomiand... @oxfordchildrens.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

I'm a little bit obsessed with these trees and the way they grow in the winter months. They possess character and life. Potential of what's to come, despite the harsh chop. #trees #canal #pollard #stroudcanal #stroud #a3 #sketch

Sunrise 🧡💙💜

It's 3 weeks until ##LibbyandtheEgyptianEscapade illustrated by @beckamoor.bsky.social publishes. Thanks to Helen Peters for this fabulous endorsement Signed & dedicated copies available exclusively via @rshipbshop.bsky.social #TheTravellingSchoolMysteries rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/product/libb...

Festive greetings fellow travellers 🌲 #merrychristmas #happyholidays #blueskychristmas

Here's to longer days ☀️

The schools events I did with @familyofbeasts.bsky.social at Derby Book Festival really made an impact on me. This is why... naomijones.substack.com/p/all-storie...

I will never, ever get over this.

I'm offering 3 hours of free picture book mentoring for a UK based writer whose voice is underrepresented in children's publishing. Please help me spread the word by sharing this post. Full details of how to apply are here: naomiandjamesjones.substack.com/p/free-pictu...

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

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! ❤️

Hello there #kidlitartpostcard day! I am Children’s Book Illustrator. This illustration from Let Me Call You Sweetheart written by Mary Lee Donovan and published by @greenwillowbooks . . . #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #writershouse #childrenillustration #childrensbookillustration

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

If you’re a developing writer you might like my newsletter and free ‘Getting Published’ guide full of generous tips from some awesome publishing insiders. Pls share with any interested bods! isabelashdown.eo.page/get-writing #AmWriting #BookSky

Looking for bargain stocking fillers or small odd things or original art or prints? I have a shop on Etsy. Have a look here: etsy.com/uk/shop/Mini...

I had so much fun at the Derby Book Festival last weekend with @familyofbeasts.bsky.social We did a family event on Sunday followed by a day of school events on Monday where we met 300 kids!

Episode 15 is now available - interviews with @naomijones1.bsky.social and @familyofbeasts.bsky.social who won the Diverse Book Award Readers' Choice Picture Book Award for Thunder Boots and with @erikadraws.bsky.social who won the overall Picture Book Category with To the Other Side #kidlitUK

Hello Bluesky 👋 📒 My debut children’s book, ALL BRAINS ARE WONDERFUL, is publishing in February 2025! 🧠 🌟Huge thanks to Dr Rachel Williams, The Boy Fitz Hammond and b small publishing for bringing it to life so beautifully! 🔗 Pre-order it here: bsmall.co.uk/product/all-... #AllBrainsAreWonderful

Hello. I'm Rob. Nice to meet you.

Here’s a starter pack for picture book and young fiction book creators in the UK - please ask to be added 😄 go.bsky.app/Eopnbgm

Clickable map of UK & Irish independent bookshops! 📚 childrenreadingforpleasure.blogspot.com/2020/07/inde...

I'm compiling a ‘Books and Dogs’ Starter Pack of writers and readers who also love dogs. Pls nominate good bods or add your dog’s pic to this thread to be added 🐾 go.bsky.app/Tpw1Zej

Thanks again for the lovely messages of support for the Bedtime Story on Children in Need - it was a privilege to supply the illustrations for such a special story ❤️ #childreninneed full story in the link youtu.be/rsdHefxXDaQ?...

👋I am busy meeting a deadline (a day late) but wanted to pop up to say thanks so much for all the new follows on here. Here are my five latest books plus the next one - Croc's Cooking Day - out in January. More book and other news when I'm less buried in work!