🚨I'm off to the Cheltenham Lit Fest, yay!🚨 Here's Whisky to tell you about my event THIS SATURDAY, featuring my books I AM WOLF and I AM RAVEN. Join me for some action-packed fun! 🐺🐦‍⬛ 👉 alastairc.com/events/20251... @nosycrow.bsky.social #CheltLitFest #KidLitUk #IAmWolf #IAmRaven

So looking forward to the @cheltfestivals this month and you can get your tickets for my ESCAPE ROOM: GAME ZERO event on Sunday 19th October here: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/escap... Excitement and fun guaranteed for all the family and I hope to see you there!

Is anyone going to the Durham Book Festival next Saturday? There's a fantastic line up of children's authors and illustrators @jamesharris.bsky.social @dapsdraws.bsky.social SaraOgilvie and me! newwritingnorth.com/durham-book-...

Scary stuff!!!

Voting is open for this year's Lollies. Grown ups can vote on behalf of children, or because they love kids books. I'm so happy to have The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat shortlisted! shop.scholastic.co.uk/lollies #kidlituk #picturebooks #primaryteachers #reception #nursery

This looks awesome!

Reminder: I'll be doing a signing at the Alligator's Mouth bookshop after school on Sept 15th! Come join me! www.thealligatorsmouth.co.uk/event-detail... @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social #UKKidlit #Edusky

This looks so scary!

You might run out of facts, Louie!

I'm guessing EVERYTHING could go wrong! This looks amazing!

This looks like FUN! Congratulations!

Some Loki news: I'll be at The Paper Cat bookshop to do school events on sept 16th and, while there, will be signing/personalising/doodling/stamping etc copies of Loki book 5. If you would like one of these, order here! www.papercatbookshop.co.uk/products/lok... @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social #UKKidlit

🚨EVENT ALERT – THIS SATURDAY 9th AUGUST!🚨 Join at the #EdBookFest for an early look at my new book #BLITZERS. I'll be chatting about the book and daring you to survive THE BATTLE OF THE BLITZERS…! 🤖 👉 alastairc.com/events/20250... #KidLitUk @barringtonstoke.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social

Thank you so much! I'm so proud to be a UV winner! It was a highlight in my long journey to publication and encouraged me to keep going, keep submitting and to now be shortlisted for the LOLLIES is a dream come true. If you have a story, if you are an eligible SCBWI member submit! Deadline 8th Sep

No one is too old for a picture book!

Thank you so much! The SCBWI BI volunteers were with me every step of the way!

This looks so cool!

We welcome today’s publication from the Department for Education of the Best Start in Life strategy, and strongly support proposals to improve provision and support for children and families, and to increase investment in early education and the early years workforce. 🧵 (1/4)

I wish I could go to this!

Submissions open today for the 10th Undiscovered Voices! If you are an unagented and unpublished SCBWI member in the UK or EU you should check it. The anthology has launched the writing careers of hundreds of writers. Can’t wait to see who we will discover! @uvcompetition.bsky.social

Have you booked your tickets yet? This is going to be so good!!!

What a lovely way to start the day 😂 @nosycrow.bsky.social @nosycrowus.bsky.social @ambercaraveo.bsky.social

Long thread alert🧵 I’ve been sitting on thoughts about this, but feel a need to post after the all too predictable parent bashing comments in the underbelly of social media. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Happy May Day from Saltburn UK! #KidLitUk @scbwi-bi.bsky.social #knitting

Sometimes a picture book that's been waiting patiently just won't wait anymore and suddenly your fingers are flying and the characters are talking and you're having to research sloth pooping habits.

Last chance to join in! Ignore the registration not available message and scroll down for the ticket button.

One week only! To celebrate our SECRET LIVES OF PICTURE BOOKS event tonight @candygourlay.bsky.social and I are getting the pens out and supporting our local UK indies. You can order signed & dedicated copies of Bear and Hare from bookcornershop.co.uk/product/9781... Still time to sign up...

This Fantastic FREE online event is happening tomorrow! 2 authors, 2 agents, 2 editors, 2 art/creative directors, 2 illustrators all talking about picture book creation! #kidlit #kidlitUK #illustrators #picturebooks #scbwi @nosycrow.bsky.social www.scbwi.org/events/secre...

I'm now on substack to share some silly poems! substack.com/@emlynas/not... #KidLitUK #Kidlit #primary

Sometimes people tell me that they bought a picturebook because of #NewIllustrationOfTheDay. I love to hear when this happens. If you have bought a picturebook as a result of seeing an image on my social media, do please respond here with the name of the book. Thanks. (Also helpful to share this.)

RFK Jr says that your autistic child will never write a poem. That their existence is a tragedy. I’m autistic. I wrote and illustrated this picture book to show that your autistic child is a celebration. Which message do you want your child to hear? www.steveasbell.com#/flap-your-h...

My girls are officially out in the world! So I hope the world is ready for these strong-minded females (even the cat has sass). Thank you, @barringtonstoke.bsky.social and Richard Johnson!

Book birthday! The Bear and the Hare and the Fair launches today! Hare wants to go to the Fair but Bear doesn't. Will they go? Of course they will! #KidLitUK #pb #primary @ambercaraveo.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social Illustrated by the amazing Matt Hunt!

Exciting book news from @alastairc.com !!!

Question for illustrators - Intertextuality is a term that means 'the relationship between texts, especially literary ones.' Is there a similar term for illustrations that reference other illustrations? Or do you just use that term? #illustrators #KidLitUk #pbillustrators #SCBWI

You have fifteen minutes on a live SCBWI event to ask a picture book editor ANYTHING! What would you ask? #pb #KidLitUk #KidLit #picturebooks #illustrators @nosycrow.bsky.social @nosycrowus.bsky.social @scbwi-bi.bsky.social @scbwi.bsky.social @candygourlay.bsky.social www.scbwi.org/events/secre...

FREE PICTURE BOOK TALK! @candygourlay.bsky.social and I have basically coerced our illustrators, agents, editors and art directors to do this FREE EVENT to celebrate our new books, LITTLE RHINO LOST illustrated by Jamie Bauza, and THE BEAR THE HARE AND THE FAIR illustrated by Matt Hunt.

Please sign! Thank you! chng.it/DD7PMLD2g9

I can't get to London for the protest but I wish I could! How dare you steal our work Meta!!! Thank you to the @societyofauthors.bsky.social and to my publisher @nosycrow.bsky.social who are doing everything they can to protect our copyright.

Be in it to win it! #primary #teachers #KidLitUk #librarians

Writers of Bluesky! I'm on the lookout for some fresh new voices for middle grade readers. I love contemporary realistic stories but am happy to be swept away with something with fantasy elements too. All submission details are on our website www.skylark-literary.com/submission-guidelines 📚💕#MSWL

Teachers need to know books really well so they know when to get lost in them, knowing the perfect places to stop and leave children waiting for more. Let the questions be theirs, leave them full of questions but without answers. There is an art to reading a class book…

Thank you! #PictureBooks

This is such a beautiful book ❤️

This is awesome! Book of the Month! Enter to win! www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-of-the-...

Quick repost about our bedtime library, its made a huge difference to how our youngest children see books and reading. There is a link to a list of fab books at the end. smithsmm.wordpress.com/2020/01/11/t...

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

1/ If the Government goes ahead with its proposals on AI, it will give tech companies the ability "to take what they like, when they like, without informing or compensating the writers of the work they use to train their models," says WGGB President Sandi Toksvig writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/