Mostly Book Talk
A podcast about children’s and YA books for teachers and librarians. Interviews with authors and also anyone doing interesting reading for pleasure activities, plus lots of book talk. #kidlitUK
www.mostlybooktalk.com
- Who decides which children’s books get published, promoted, and put into young readers’ hands? We explore publishing power, access, and why children’s books get so little media coverage.| 🎧 Listen now: loom.ly/ORdgY7U #ReadingCrisis #ReadingForPleasure #ChildrensBooks
- 📚 As part of the National Year of Reading, we’re sharing a series of short conversations with people who are passionate about promoting children's reading, about what they do and how you can get involved. 🎉 First up @moohara.bsky.social from Stepping Into Stories Kids’ Lit Fest #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
- How do testing, technology & access to books affect children’s reading for pleasure? We hear from authors, teachers & librarians on the pressures shaping reading today and why it matters. 🎧 Listen now: loom.ly/Czich7o #ReadingCrisis #ReadingForPleasure
- How do testing, technology & access to books affect children’s reading for pleasure? We hear from authors, teachers & librarians on the pressures shaping reading today and why it matters. 🎧 Listen now: loom.ly/Czich7o #ReadingCrisis #ReadingForPleasure
- Why aren’t children reading for pleasure and what can we do about it? We look at the data, explore key barriers, and hear from authors, teachers & literacy experts working to change the story. 🎧 Listen now: loom.ly/7Zut6PU #ReadingCrisis #ReadingForPleasure #teachers
- Why aren’t children reading for pleasure and what can we do about it? We look at the data, explore key barriers, and hear from authors, teachers & literacy experts working to change the story. 🎧 Listen now: loom.ly/7Zut6PU #ReadingCrisis #ReadingForPleasure #teachers
- 📙 We chat with AM Dassu about her stunning new book Wild Journey — five interlinked stories about children around the world, connected by a murmuration of starlings and illustrated by Joe Lillington. 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
- Get ready for an exciting new series from Mostly Book Talk: The Reading Crisis. Launching soon!
- 📙 Episode 37: Libraries Are a Very Good Thing 📚 We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library. 🎧 Listen: loom.ly/-2JfVI4
- 📙 Episode 37: Libraries Are a Very Good Thing 📚 We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library. 🎧 Listen: loom.ly/-2JfVI4
- Out today - @rossmontgomery.bsky.social ‘s first adult book and it’s great. Sweary octogenarian, twisty plot and intriguing historical facts. But most importantly, very fun. Probably not one to recommend to pupils, but totally recommend for grown up reading pleasure. #UKKidsLit author
- Out today - @rossmontgomery.bsky.social ‘s first adult book and it’s great. Sweary octogenarian, twisty plot and intriguing historical facts. But most importantly, very fun. Probably not one to recommend to pupils, but totally recommend for grown up reading pleasure. #UKKidsLit author
- 🎉 We’re finalists at the Independent Podcast Awards 2025! 📚 Mostly Book Talk celebrates teachers, librarians & parents who champion children’s & YA reading for pleasure! #PodcastAwards #ReadingForPleasure #MostlyBookTalk
- 🎉 We’re finalists at the Independent Podcast Awards 2025! 📚 Mostly Book Talk celebrates teachers, librarians & parents who champion children’s & YA reading for pleasure! #PodcastAwards #ReadingForPleasure #MostlyBookTalk
- 📙 Episode 36: We chat with Nathanael Lessore, author of Steady for This & King of Nothing, about writing for teens, the power of humour, and his hilarious Superpower series. 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! #NathanaelLessore #YAfiction #MiddleGrade #MostlyBookTalk
- 📙 Episode 36: We chat with Nathanael Lessore, author of Steady for This & King of Nothing, about writing for teens, the power of humour, and his hilarious Superpower series. 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! #NathanaelLessore #YAfiction #MiddleGrade #MostlyBookTalk
- 🌍 Fantastic news! @TomPercivalSays our guest from Episode 25 of Mostly Book Talk, has won Children’s Book of the Year: Older Fiction (9–12) at The Week Junior Book Awards for his moving novel The Wrong Shoes. 🎧 Catch up: loom.ly/sKiZHe4 #TomPercival #TheWrongShoes
- 📙 Episode 35: Dr Julie Blake on Poetry By Heart and Ross Montgomery’s Latest Books 🔗 Listen here: loom.ly/73Rh2H4 #ChildrensBooks #ChildrensPoetry #Teachers #Schools
- 📙 Episode 35: Dr Julie Blake on Poetry By Heart and Ross Montgomery’s Latest Books 🔗 Listen here: loom.ly/73Rh2H4 #ChildrensBooks #ChildrensPoetry #Teachers #Schools
- *Just* in time to still be National Poetry Day we bring you our latest episode of Mostly Book Talk where we talk to Dr Julie Blake, founder and co-director of Poetry by Heart with lots of information about how schools can get involved #KidLitUK #UKkidLit @poetrybyheart.bsky.social
- Great day at Sailfest - really interesting discussions about South Asian children’s books in the UK - their success and wider potential but also the barriers authors face. So nice to put faces to the authors of lots of amazing books too. #kidlitUK #UKkidlit 🌏📚
- 📙 Episode 34: @Ashley__Thorpe on 'The Boy to Beat the Gods' and 'Spirit Warriors' 🔗 Listen here: loom.ly/Yu9NQ70 or wherever you get your podcasts!
- 📙 Episode 34: @Ashley__Thorpe on 'The Boy to Beat the Gods' and 'Spirit Warriors' 🔗 Listen here: loom.ly/Yu9NQ70 or wherever you get your podcasts!
- Very excited to have been shortlisted for The Independent Podcast Awards! Thank you to everyone who listens to us. We will be back from our summer break very soon with some great interviews. independentpodcastawards.com/IPA25/en/pag... #kidlitUK #UKkidlit #readingforpleasure
- We really enjoyed our chat with Maisie - find it wherever you get your podcasts. Info about the British Library event she mentions below. #UKkidlit #kidlitUK 🌏📚 events.bl.uk/events/famil...
- 📙 Episode 33: In this episode of our podcast, award-winning author Maisie Chan joins us to talk about her brand-new children’s novel, Nate Yu’s Blast From the Past. Listen here: loom.ly/iXDJhu0 #MaisieChan #ChildrensBooks #Podcast
- 👀 this looks interesting www.eseaauthors.co.uk #kidlituk 🌏📚
- So where do you stand in the cats vs dogs debate? At Mostly, Ali is definitely team dog and Katy is team cat. Clearly Alan is King of the Universe, but here are some more team cat book recommendations. Any you would add? #teamcat #readingforpleasure #kidlituk #ukkidlit
- 😹What does a cat with thumbs do? He takes over the world! 📙In episode 31 of Mostly Book Talk, author and illustrator Tom McLaughlin discusses his latest work: Alan, King of the Universe 🎧Listen to the full episode with Tom, wherever you get your podcasts! 🔗loom.ly/iXDJhu0
- For our followers in #australia 🇦🇺 Justin Somper’s Pirate Academy books launch next week. Have a listen to find out more. #kidlit #eduskyau @justinsomper.bsky.social
- 📙🏴☠️Episode 32: Justin Somper - Pirate Academy. In this episode we talk with Justin Somper about the latest book in his Pirate Academy series, Sword Echoes. 🎧Available wherever you get your podcasts! #PirateAcademy #SwordEchoes #readingforpleasure
- 📙🏴☠️Episode 32: Justin Somper - Pirate Academy. In this episode we talk with Justin Somper about the latest book in his Pirate Academy series, Sword Echoes. 🎧Available wherever you get your podcasts! #PirateAcademy #SwordEchoes #readingforpleasure
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- 😹What does a cat with thumbs do? He takes over the world! 📙In episode 31 of Mostly Book Talk, author and illustrator Tom McLaughlin discusses his latest work: Alan, King of the Universe 🎧Listen to the full episode with Tom, wherever you get your podcasts! 🔗loom.ly/iXDJhu0
- @islandofbrilliant.bsky.social we would like to get in touch to chat about a special feature we are doing - pls could you message us thank you
