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- A powerful novel about 2nd chances, friendship and finding the courage to rewrite your story, Always Angel by Kimberly Whittam publishes 12/02 for 9+ readers. Huge thanks to @frithal.bsky.social #UsborneBooks #KidlitUK #UKKidlit
- 📚 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
- I've not posted this personally till now but with 5 weeks to go I'm VERY excited to be welcoming @ldlapinski.bsky.social to #Orkney for #WorldBookDay to visit my school as well as a few others that week 🤩 What an opportunity for our pupils! #WBD #ScoEdu #EduSky #ReadingSchools #UKKidLit #BookSky
- 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
- 'Leaf Journal' is a scholarly journal that publishes insights and observations on the act of creative writing for young people. We are currently welcoming submissions of articles for Volume 4. ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/about/sub... #UKkidLit #academicsky
- Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for brilliant middle grade fantasy Royal Institute of Magic: The Shadowseeker by Victor Kloss. Out today from #VinciBooks @edpr.bsky.social #KidlitUK #UKKidlit worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/b...
- We’re only just started the year and already things feel even more grim than they already were. So for #KidsBooksFriday this week, what books can we put in the hands of kids to encourage them question, challenge and think for themselves? #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
- 📙 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
- Really delighted to be sent a review of #MurderatChristmas in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social It's alongside @alexcotter.bsky.social 's brilliant Ice Dancer - so if you're looking for a couple of Christmas reads for the 8-12s in your lives, look no further. #Ukkidlit #Kidlituk
- Children's/YA writers in need of feedback, you can bid for a (min) 2k editorial report on the first 15k of a novel. Written by me, an award-winning author with 15 years experience and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. I am kind but thorough. #UKKidLit #kidlit app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
- apparently it is #NonFictionNovember and i write non-fiction kids books so that seemed like a good excuse to share the EIGHTEEN books i have written over the past eight years. look at them all. #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
- More of our #LittleRebelsAward 2025 Shortlistee Catchup… The creatives behind the wonderful Kende! Kende! Kende! couldn’t attend our award night but Kirsten Cappy sent such a lovely message, packed with rebelliousness! Extract below. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit @childsplayusa.bsky.social
- We're so excited to be joined by the wonderful @clarefurniss.bsky.social and @sambeckbessinger.bsky.social for 'Practical Process' as part of On Writing for Young People, the online conference, 20-21 Nov. Last few tickets left: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing... #ukkidlit #academicsky #booksky
- 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 blush proudly whenever we see our name in #LittleRebelsAward winners’ subsequent works. Here we are, listed in @amdassu.bsky.social ‘s brand new illustrated middle grade: Wild Journey.😊 @headofzeus.bsky.social #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
- Continuing our #LittleRebelsAward 2025 Shortlistee Catchup… Chibundu Onuzo’s Mayowa & the Sea of Words was chosen for Waterstones’ Paperback list for 2025.👏👏👏 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #KidLitUK #UKKidLit
- FABULOUS news! The Children’s Booker Prize supported by AKO Foundation will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged 8-12 years old, written in or translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland #worldkidlit #UkKidLit #irishkidlit #xl8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayTw...
- It's sunday so I am finally reading the links I opened during the week. Or possibly last week. Anyway, this one is worth your time (should be a free link, it was for me at least). Katherine Rundell on reading for pleasure. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
- 'On Writing for Young People' conference has panels - and workshops! Like 'Writing in No-Person's Land' with Ruth Moore, looking at practical ways to age-up or age-down a work-in-progress. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing... #UKKidLit #AcademicSky
- 📙 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
- Lovely to see @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social @katherinerundell.bsky.social @acaseforbooks.bsky.social on the Orcadian #bookshop clock this week! #IndieBookshops #UKKidLit #BookSky #Orkney
- Woo hoo 🎉Our ambassador Sita Brahmachari won The Malorie Blackman Impact Award at #TheDiverseBookAwards last night. Congrats to all the other winners, and thank you to Abiola Bello and Helen Lewis for hosting another wonderful and important Awards. #TheDBAwards @malorieblackman.bsky.social
- With the IBC Excluded Voices report making for sober reading this week, let’s use #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate brilliant books from global majority writers. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit www.inclusivebooksforchildren.org/excluded-voi...
- Thank you @nosycrow.bsky.social for delightful #BookPost which arrived just before I set off for #BookLaunch #MurderAtChristmas by @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social & #IceDancer by @alexcotter.bsky.social 😍😍 #UkKidLit #KidLitUK
- #kidlitUK #UKKidLit Children’ Books People! You might find this report on “Own Voice representation in the creation of UK children’s books” interesting / enraging. HT @clairelinney.bsky.social
- 📙 Episode 35: Dr Julie Blake on Poetry By Heart and Ross Montgomery’s Latest Books 🔗 Listen here: loom.ly/73Rh2H4 #ChildrensBooks #ChildrensPoetry #Teachers #Schools
- We also review the latest two books in @rossmontgomery.bsky.social ‘s prodigious output. A big thumbs up for Small Wonder - pacey adventure with wide appeal - and for his first book for adults, The Murder at World’s End - a devour in one gulp mystery @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social #kidlituk #UKkidlit
- *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
- 1/4 🥳CONGRATULATIONS to the first ever double prize winner of The Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social #KidLitUK #UKKidLit …a little thread on why this book matters so much ⬇️
- Huge congratulations to Sarah Hagger-Holt who has won the #LittleRebelsAward for an unprecedented second time, this time with THE FIGHTS THAT MAKE US. 🎉👏 @littlerebsprize.bsky.social #UKKidLit booksforkeeps.co.uk/sarah-hagger...
