Members - please do keep in touch about your good publishing news; forthcoming titles, artwork etc - tag us in or message us and we’ll share!

🥁announcing our first new initiatives of the year - Bookshop of the Month, and Book of the Month. Children's Bookshop is our inaugural Bookshop; owner Nicola chose Phil Earle Northern Soul as the (appropriately titled) first Book of the Month. childrensbooksnorth.blogspot.com/2024/01/booksh…

There's a sneak peek of Wildsmith: The Hidden Sea (book 3) in The Bookseller Buyer's Guide today: Rowan finds herself in enemy territory & makes some surprising discoveries while facing danger. Far from home, is she the one who needs to be rescued this time? Art Joe Todd-Stanton

We are so excited for our YA Book Prize 2023 winner Danielle Jawando’s upcoming novel, If My Words Had Wings 🪽

Head on over to Simon & Schuster Children's Books (@simonschusteruk) to find out more! #YABookPrize

Is your new year's resolution to get published? For the first #DATips of the year, I'm switching it round and you can ask me anything about agenting, publishing, editing - you name it! Until 5pm today I'll answer all your qs as honestly as I can... there are no bad questions!

New blog post alert! Our latest blog is about The Bookseller’s Children’s conference where Tilda Johnson Penny Neville-Lee 🇪🇺 Hiba Noor Khan and 📚Ashley Thorpe📚 were panelists childrensbooksnorth.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-bo…

Sadly Christmas won't be magical for every child. @BookTrust is giving book gifts to community food banks to help families facing challenging circumstances. Join me in in donating to send a book gift to a child & make their Christmas magical. #MagicOfBooks booktrust.org.uk/xmas

Out now #BfK263 , our seasonal special. Authorgraph interview Sophie Anderson; Helen Cooper Windows into #Illustration ; new Beyond the Secret Garden; Realms of the Imagination at the BL; books of the year; #ChildrensBooks gift recommendations. Read & RT!

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🚨We're #hiring !

Pushkin Press is looking for a passionate and highly organised new Editorial Assistant to join our team.

Deadline: 1st Dec 2023

Full details at: pushkinpress.com/were-hiring-pu…

We LOVE the gift cards designed by Jhalak C&YA Prize longlisted illustrator #SophieBass . To celebrate her extraordinary work, we are giving away copies of her glorious book, John Agard's #WindrushChild

To win reply & RT this tweet before 5 pm tomorrow
#GiveawayAlert #giveaway

This is happening *tomorrow* in Edinburgh…

🚀Great Minds book launch
🤗all welcome
🎟️free but ticketed
🎁nibbles, drinks, books!

#booklaunch #nonfictionnovember #BookWeekScotland #bookweekscotland23 #WorldPhilosophyDay #BookBoost

Proud to be part of this new organisation championing children's literature in Scotland - please do follow and check out the site at: kilts.my.canva.site/kilts - Don't forget to sign your school up for the St Andrew's Day Reading Record Attempt!

Yesterday evening, we celebrated the 2023 #FABPrize award and announced this year's brilliant text and illustration winners! 🎉 Photography by Adrian Pope The Bookseller
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Drawn to Change the World by Emma Reynolds features 16 young climate activists from around the world including Dara McAnulty
Each person’s life & work is described in graphic novel style making it fun & accessible to read. Age 9+

Christmas is coming🎄🎁

From November 15th to December 13th, enjoy free festive gift wrapping for all orders placed on Firefly's website!

Shop online now: fireflypress.co.uk/shop/

Looking forward to chatting with Hannah Gold in the Club Golden Egg Academy tonight! We'll be talking about #TheLastBear #FindingBear and #TheLostWhale , and delving into her experiences of writing, editing and being an awardwinning children's author! #writing #writing forchildren

Really pleased to now be an official member of Children’s Books North - a lovely community of authors, illustrators and publishing professionals in the North and Scotland 😊

Thanks to emma layfield, Liz Scott and Tilda Johnson for creating this valuable network!

I’ll be signing books at Waterstones Finchley Road O2 Centre on 19th Nov, as part of their Xmas book fest 👇

The importance of shared reading cannot be over-estimated says Lizzie Catford from @booktrust and the crucial word is 'enjoyment' which has a really positive impact on children's future reading habits #KidsConf23

Creating connections through Children's Books North highlights the importance of bringing people together in the same room and supporting authors and illustrators who, by the nature of their jobs, usually work in isolation. Great initiative! #KidsConf23