I’m so happy to share this great review of AT THE COOKOUT from Kirkus! I wanted to write a book that was full of joy & love, & I’m so happy that I get to share it with you when it releases this April. See below for preorder options #kidlit @jemiscoe.bsky.social @starlingliterary.bsky.social

Writers and illustrators in Scotland, don't miss the chance to enter this year's #KelpiesPrize! We're especially interested in entries from people who are historically under-represented in children's books. @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social Sounds like you? Full details: discoverkelpies.co.u...

The Year of Reading 2026 has commenced so I’ve added my voice to the chat with a monthly blog. Recommendations, teacher ideas and resources. Probably nothing groundbreaking but hopefully there’s something useful tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/t...

Submissions for the CBNN Prize close 26th February and our judges can’t wait to meet up in Manchester and look at the entries together! If you are an unpublished illustrator living in the North, please do enter! For all the info, go to: childrensbooksnorth.co.uk/cbnn-prize 📚

just fantastic news. several staff members booking annual leave as we speak.

I had intended to take this week off #KidsBooksFriday, but somehow I feel a sudden urge to celebrate funny, readable books by folk who are not despicable humans. Please do join me with your recommendations. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

So here they my favourite 40 picturebooks of 2025 (actually there are 42). Merry Christmas! #FavePicturebooks25 #PicturebookPage

I really feel like I'm shouting into the void on here, but my debut is available for pre0rder for just 0.99. If you like slow burn romance and a ton of yearning, you might love it. 💜

Just published a book. Think it's good. People say it is. But really need to sell more copies. Please grab one. Cheap! davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...

My cozy fantasy novel inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons, will be out next July!!

This is really well done: www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...

I’m thrilled to share the cover reveal of my debut picture book #MusicPlantsHope by my sweet friend @viviakirkfield.bsky.social ! You can find out more and see the cover here: viviankirkfield.com/2025/10/06/c...

I’m very excited to reveal the cover of my debut novel A MILLION TINY MISSILES ALL AT ONCE. Out with @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social on April, it’s the story of a 14 year old teen struggling issues at home and beyond, I hope you enjoy it. You can pre order here! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191717139...

We are thrilled to help reveal the cover for The Lustrous Dark by Loretta Chefchaouni! A lush YA fantasy inspired by Moroccan folklore, The Lustrous Dark is for fans of haunted forests, sweet romance, and stories that are "beautiful and a little gross." reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

Big news in book land today!!! ✨ 📚 My debut—THE A-TO-Z TEACHING TOOLKIT—a modern, practical guide to the ECE/elementary classroom—is available for pre-order! Tag an educator friend in the comments! 🥳🤩 rb.gy/yafs72

I was happy to see @thebookseller.com feature a podcast that @grainneobrien.bsky.social & I are launching in Sept to highlight great Children’s and YA books! The idea is very simple - each episode is 10 minutes long and will discuss the book - we’ll also have author chats and giveaways!

It’s a ✨COVER REVEAL✨ for Jeong Is Jeong, releasing 2/3/26 from @randomhousekids.bsky.social Pre-order link in bio! “What is Jeong?” a little girl asks her grandma, and so begins a lyrical journey of discovery, kindness, and understanding in this ode to Korean American language and culture.

I reckon we could use some more kids’ book chat on BlueSky, so I thought I might attempt a #KidsBooksFriday chat. Let’s start with… What is one book you’d love every child to get the chance to read? Mine would be @markbradley.bsky.social’s Bumble & Snug and the Angry Pirates. #KidLitUK #KidLit

We're 🤩🤩 to offer a BIG prize for #KidlitZombieWeek 💙🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️ We're giving a 'Pitch Packet Critique' that includes a critique of one of your query letters plus 5-7 of your additional picture book pitches! Hooray! And BRAINS! #kidlit #picturebooks #authors #illustrators #critique #pb

If you have a spare quid or twenty, and you love Christmas, this very special book is crowdfunding NOW. Black santa, gorgeous hardback gift, lush art by Shahab Shamshirsaz! #KidLitUK @storymix.bsky.social @priscillamante.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/982...

We're thrilled to announce the launch of the CBNN Prize 🎉 In partnership with New Writing North and funded by Arts Council England and Man Met Uni the prize is the first for aspiring picture book writers and illustrators based in the North of England 📚 www.thebookseller.com/news/childre...

Happy publication day to me! Nate Yu’s Blast From the Padt is out today! It’s my third novel for kids! I had a lovely London launch at Papercat Bookshop in Herne Hill organised by my publishers Piccadilly Press.

Get your #kidlit zombie walk on! Arms up and lean into your #amwriting super-power with help from @byaliciameyers.bsky.social ‬and all of the amazingly non dead (and did we mention non parasitic) hosts of #kidlitzombieweek 2025: sites.google.com/view/kidlit-... #WriterSky #WritingCommunity

While waiting for delivery of my new book (Rory & the Balloon Bicycles) we heard a rumour that a strange-looking giant egg (perhaps even a DRAGON EGG) had washed up on the beach. Of course we set out to investigate... And look at what hatched out when we did! #roryandtheballoonbicycles #outnow

So excited to share the beautiful cover of my debut fantasy, #ThePoetEmpress, which I am absolutely floored by! 🥰 It's comes out from Bramble 01.20.26 next year! (Credits to artist Kelly Chong & designer Esther S. Kim!) bit.ly/ThePoetEmpress

I work for Scottish Book Trust and we’re running a survey for parents/teachers/kids book enthusiasts about how they find books for kids. I’d be enormously grateful if anyone can spare 5-10 mins to share their thoughts. #KidLitUK forms.office.com/e/EdVhWA0T0n

Here we go again! Who would you like to see in 2026? Authors, get in touch if you’re interested in joining us at next year’s festival!

A reminder that applications are now open for the CBNN 2025 Mentorship Scheme! Open to anyone interested in working in publishing based in the North of England, or Scotland. No prior experience needed. Link in bio to apply 📚🩷

So excited to share the cover for the new Rory the dragon book: Rory and the Balloon Bicycles. A tale of airborne adventure, firm friendship & giant veg...plus recycled bicycles & bad balloons. Fangtastic illustrations are by Giulia Cregut. You can pre-order now! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/rory...

Free Events in Glasgow. Saturday 12th April. For youngsters age 3 to 6. Though anyone can come along. 11am and 2pm. My dog Max.

Just a reminder we close on Friday at 11.59pm, so do pop over and get your applications in! Good luck!

If you want an EXTRAORDINARY book for kids I must push this at you - think Alice in Wonderland meets Fear and Loathing in Las vegas for children. Laugh out loud funny, weird, layered, beautifully drawn, charming, warm and full of perfect panel transitions #KidLItUK tobebookfair.org/product/boss...

Flora's her mother in a Safeways bag. She's going to take the ashes to Skye where her mother wanted to be from, & she's going to take her dad too cos he's got nothing to live for. Set in 1980s Scotland; strikes, Thatcher & Now That's What I Call Music. Morvern Callar+Paper Moon #scotwriterpitch2025

A God-fearing boy and his atheist auntie travel north to the 1869 gold rush in the Scottish Highlands, striking up an unlikely bond en route. Faith is tested when it becomes clear some men will kill for their fortune. Scottish 'True Grit' #scotwriterpitch2025

Kára, a selkie exiled to the realm of the Unseen, survives the end of our world as she outlives the old gods & their decrees to become something the world has never seen before—a changeling on the edge of time. A THIMBLE FULL OF DUST is an adult, speculative, literary novel 1/4 #scotwriterpitch2025

I know it’s early but this is a contender for my #FavePicbook25. “We are Definitely Human” by #XFang is joyously farcical. Three visitors who are “definitely human” possibly “from Europe” crash land and are helped by the kindness of a village. Beautiful fun. #PicturebookPage @pushkinpress.com

National Book Tokens has named Daydreams Bookshop – small, independent bookshop in Milngavie, just outside Glasgow – as Newcomer of the Year 2025 👇 #BookSky www.thebookseller.com/news/nationa...

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels #kidlituk www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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It's publication day for My dog Max. Hopefully, if you know any young children age 1 to 6, you might consider supporting an author (me) and your fab equally local bookshop. Max will thank you for it. Available to order in all good bookshops & online. www.waterstones.com/book/my-dog-...

It's my book!!!! #kidlituk Available to order NOW if you like hilarious mystery, mayhem and more cats than strictly necessary... 🤷‍♀️🐈🤔 #MG #tween #undercoverangel #EduSkyPrimary

STILL TIME TO FILL THIS IN - deadline is midnight tonight!

Help Scottish Book Trust & BookTrust AND pre-order our upcoming Adventuremice book at the same time- Bookshop_Org will donate 10%! 🐭 You can buy from @theceltichouse.bsky.social on Islay: uk.bookshop.org/lists/advent... First Draft Books in Devon: uk.bookshop.org/lists/reeve-... #ReadItForward

Closing date for this competition, set & judged by @losbennett.bsky.social of Liverpool Literary Agency is tomorrow - 2/2/2025 - 23.59 GMT. The manuscript doesn't have to be complete before submitting your entry. @scbwi-bi.bsky.social @scbwiireland.bsky.social www.wordsandpics.org/2025/01/slus...

📣 HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 🐍 It's COVER REVEAL TIME! I'm proud to present my new novel 🏮NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST 💥 out June 12th. The wonderful cover art is by Simone Douglas @SimsDougie Published by @PiccadillyPress

Under Your Feet, the story I wrote and narrated for BBC Scotland's Time For A Story, is now live and I am VERY happy. The whole experience was a joy, the production on it is fabulous, and it has a gorgeous illustration by Will Hughes. Happy days! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Great to see Wrong Tracks featured among all these fabulous new releases! Thanks to The Reader Teacher for including it in the January round up. #railway200 Published January 9th by UCLan Publishing Signed copies from Ebb and Flo Bookshop, Chorley, Lancashire. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mDN2...

Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄