So happy to book sell during Kirsty Applebaum’s school visit today. What a writer! What a lovely school! What lucky #booksellers!

The book lists that we build for schools are bespoke and include books we’ve researched, know and recommend. Here’s the first box of four being packed ahead of delivery to a Somerset primary school. #reading #childrensbooks #readingforschools #supportsmallbusiness #readingmatters

It’s a joy to share children’s books we know and love at our school popup book fairs.

We welcome the news that the Government is committing to ensure all primary schools have libraries by 2029. Please don't forget librarians. To build a school reading culture you need trained staff. @sla.org.uk #GreatSchoolLibraries www.thebookseller.com/news/governm...

From @thebookseller.com:- The government is committed to ensuring libraries for all primary schools by 2029’

Our customers know the other bookseller’s devotion to Princess Minna- he reads each one first. Thid forthcoming #middlegrade novel from #KirstyApplebaum is all mine! So looking forward to introducing this wonderful writer and The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good in the new school year!

Our school #popuo is with a favourite, phenomenally busy, like all schools, but with a REAL reading joy, interest and determination, it walks the walk!

We were so relieved to escape the traffic hitches to join @eyesab2.bsky.social and @hannahprutton.bsky.social during Abena’s author visit to Paxton Academy. Thank you so much! @nosycrow.bsky.social

Aren’t books the best gift of all? The other bookseller’s at the post office dispatching the latest thank you bundle we’ve curated. It includes this meaningful message from a grateful family to a hardworking school.

Thank you @jamierussell.bsky.social The astonished joy of readers discovering your encouraging messages within mighty Mech Brigade cannot be qualified. Thank you for your kindness.

I could not recommend this witter more highly. (Only Stevie Wonder could hold me back from being there!)

We are so proud to sell Running My Own Race. What a truly triumphant book, rich with meaning, experience, determination and feeling. Thank you @eyesab2.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social

Amazing to see Nate Yu’s Blast From the Past as one of The Observer’s ‘The Best Children’s Chapter Books of the Summer’ 😳🤩 thanks to critic Kitty Empire for the review! #booksky #ukkidlit #kidlituk #middlegrade #blueskybooks

#StPatricksDay though any day, we #recommend #After:- tinyurl.com/4wk8svdy a magnificent story of an aftermath, a new beginning and humanity @padraigkenny.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

IT'S PUBLICATION DAY! School of Doom has been unleashed. 🖤💀🖤 Published by @chickenhousebooks Cover illustration by Isabelle Follath

George and I had an energising, busy #londonbookfair2025 seeing lots of familiar faces. Colleagues from @booktrust.org.uk are there today too, supporting the Laureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social who is Author of the Day! The more public conversations about children’s books, the better.

If you know any budding 11-14-year-old writers living in the UK, they might be interested in submitting up to 500 words of their finest prose to this year's MARTHA MILLS YOUNG WRITERS’ PRIZE. Winners receive £200, a selection of books and a special souvenir.

There’s a lot of preparation ahead of a #school #popuo #bookfair

The bookseller couldn’t wait to get started on this #childrensbook Thank you @nosycrow.bsky.social We are rich with books to read, review, recommend and sell!

After arranging the selected #childrensbooks at a #popup #school #bookfair there’s a moment to consider which title will kickstart the presentations.

Happy #WorldBookDay everyone! The books we love when we're young are the ones that make us readers, and change our lives FOREVER. So whatever else you do, please never stop reading books with kids, and encouraging them to read. There is nothing more important! #WorldBookDay2025

We’ve 7 crates of #childrensbooks selected for today’s #popup #bookfair. Every choice is one we’ve read, reviewed, recommend and feel proud to share. Happy #WBD Thank you to all the #writers and #illustrators who create the #readingjoy

Sending our best wishes to all the writers and illustrators stepping into schools for #WBD celebrations. May you be welcomed warmly and celebrated for the joy you bring,

Loveliest school visit this week from Jennifer Killick. Pupils bursting with excitement from start to finish! Big thank you to @bookwagonuk.bsky.social for facilitating book sales. Highly recommended for ease, customer service and for just clearly being book people! ##readingforpleasure #edusky

According to @penamerica.bsky.social, 64% of banned picture books feature #LGBTQ characters and stories, so receiving a Kirkus Star for our gay fairy tale feels pretty radical and special. @mrjamesmayhew.bsky.social @owletpress.bsky.social #KidLit #BookSky #EduSky

Authors, poets, illustrators and storytellers are happy to visit schools at any time of the year, not just on World Book Day (which is often fully booked months in advance). Celebrate reading on WBD and then arrange an author visit a few weeks later to build on it.

This is thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple. They are bullying the brave true patriot Zelensky into accepting a deal which effectively hands victory to Russia. Unless the UK and Europe step up, we are facing a betrayal of Ukraine.

While I fully understand the anxiety some authors have about school visits, as a Black children’s book creator, I definitely underestimated the impact me showing up at a school visit has on a child and their worldview of who gets to do what for a living…especially on the Black children present.

Tomorrow! AND today a schedule for my next novel has been agreed, so I might read a short extract from that. 😁 (Hope to see some of your friendly faces in the morning.)

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

Last few tickets for my show at @FavershamLit on Saturday 👉 www.favershamliteraryfestival.org/whats-on/chi...

I am trying to start a movement on my own around #WorldBookDay I’d like to see kids try and make their own costumes from waste and scrap. Expensive supermarket costumes rarely have the latest book characters anyway. This is my start. #BunnyVsMonkey ears using paper and a stapler. #kidlituk

🗝️Find the Keys. Unlock the World! 🔐 Here's the cover reveal for ESCAPE ROOM: GAME ZERO, a brand new Escape Room adventure! Pre-order your copy NOW to support #ReaditForward @booktrust.org.uk @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social ow.ly/LEY950V5Xys Please share! Cover art @daviddean-illus.bsky.social

Wishing the redoubtable #JenniferKillick a warm welcome on her #schoolvisit today. Thank you @mrbreads.bsky.social for inviting us to be your #bookseller Thank you for sharing your #readingjoy so evidently with such proud book sales!

Greeting you on Bluesky with this reminder They are living, thinking, feeling beings And they deserve our respect, even if we haven't earned theirs. One love

Heart. Hair. Hands. #bhm days 4,5 and 6. Black History Month might need to last all year for me to do these posts, but I’m ok w/that. We’re gonna need some timeline cleanses over the next couple months. Take a break from doomscrolling and look at these cuties inspired by my recent school visits.

We are so proud to be booksellers. Today, we were on site with the exceptional @emcarrollauthor.bsky.social who entranced her school audience. Thank you! @faberchildrens.bsky.social

The other bookseller has been counting out #WBD books for delivery and ahead of next week’s #school visits

Winner, winner, wheelie bin dinner. Read, reviewed and recommended. School of Doom @sarahharrison.bsky.social @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social

We aim to read every #childrensbook we sell directly, and describe each in our own words. Today I’ve been catching up with some recently published #picturebooks we love!

We took delivery of #signedcopies of The Forbidden Atlas @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #SamSedgman That’s it… silence, bliss, #reading

#TheNotwitches comes out tomorrow (hooray!) so I thought I'd give this a go tonight. Hit me up with any questions you'd like to ask about the book or anything else, and I'll pop back on later to answer anything that gets sent in. ngl.link/garypanton

Showing and talking about #childrensbooks in #schools is what we do some of the time. We’ve read every book we choose to show. It’s a privilege. Here’s our first event of 2025!

Look, obviously I’m chuffed to bits to have four BVM books in the Irish libraries most borrowed books list (FLIP!), but can we take a moment to recognise the absolute domination of comics here. This top ten is of ALL genres. And children’s comics are smashing it! 🤩🤩🤩 www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...

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-...

We've established a Publishing Centre of Excellence with @uclanpublishing.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/news/uclans-... Marvellous!

✨ Ready to feel more confident with school visits? Join @lizflanagan.bsky.social and @hobslantern.bsky.social for an engaging online event ✨ Don’t miss out on insider tips and expert advice. 📅 Get your tickets: bit.ly/419cI5l #SchoolVisits #PublishingCentreofExcellence

Matching books to readers, especially emergent readers, is a privilege. However one reader’s preference for coconut themed picture books has ‘bowled’ us over! 🥥🥥🥥

The weather outside is frightful, but there’s abundant joy as @faberbooks.bsky.social celebrates with its Spring 2025 party at #Wiltons Musuc Hall, a library of literary- ness!