Government of Mexico: Save Vaquitas Vaquitas are cute tiny porpoises that live only in the Mexican part of the Gulf of California. There are less than ten left in the wild and these shy and skittish mini-whales could be completely wiped

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Cover of picture book ‘Bartholomew Bear and the Snow Giants’ by Jellycat Books

This is out today with the latest Jellycat Christmas drop! Ocean Hughes has outdone herself with these gorgeous, wintry illustrations.

Book cover for ‘Odell’s Amazing Arms’ by Meredith Vigh and Clair Rossiter for Jellycat Books

Odell is here at last! Available now on the Jellycat website and official Jellycat stockists

Sometimes I’m asked ‘why do you care?’
‘Swifts are one of the oldest species on earth. They spend more time airborne than any other bird yet when they come home they come home to us. They’re on the brink. They just need a brick with a hole in it.’

Photo of David Barker holding a copy of Pax and the Missing Head

Title treatment for Pax and the Secret Swarm on a purple background.

"I hope readers think I have provided Pax with a fitting finale to his adventures" —@bluegold201 looks back on Pax as he gears up for the final part of the trilogy.

Pax and the Secret Swarm arrives October 9th 2025. Click here to read more 👉 tinytreebooks.com/2025/05/27/p...
#kidlit

Cover for the picture book ‘Odell’s Amazing Arms’

Super excited to see this up on the Jellycat website at last! It’s illustrated by the super talented Clair Rossiter and is available to buy from July 15th

Parents/teachers/anyone who's interested in children's books: would you help Marianne out by filling this in?

Spot the bad apple... 🍎

It’s not burnout. It’s grief. Grief for a world that forgot how to care. For truth that keeps slipping. For a moral centre that no longer holds.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 5:
Much of writing is memory. Memory of places, of feelings, of dreams, of experience, of sensations. Anything you can do to enhance your memory can help you as a writer: keeping notebooks, diaries, being conscious of life as it unfolds; noticing details. Remembering.

Eurovision: united by…war crimes? People worldwide are speaking out – join this urgent call.

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Cover of the picture book I'm Going To Make A Friend by Darren Chetty, illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat, showing a child, a cat, and the makings of a friend!

Hugely excited to get my hands on a copy of I'M GOING TO MAKE A FRIEND - the debut picture book from the brilliant @darrenchetty.bsky.social, beautifully illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat - coming in May from @littletigeruk.bsky.social!
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Photos of cave paintings and text saying ‘even when humans didn’t have paper, pencils or a decent sized cerebellum, they were painting cave walls and creating art. AI bros have less creativity and skill than Neanderthals’

It's so amazing, thank you. We love your books. My two year old is a huge fan of the Bear series and Lights on Cotton Rock.

The piano is bringing a lot of joy to the shop!

Coincidentally I dressed as the Bear for WBD this year. One to repeat next year I think.

This is a goodie!

A meme about self care

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by debut illustrator Scott Wilson. Lively, loosely-drawn caricature from I’m Gonna Eat a Monster! by Kael Tudor. Puffin paperback 6 March. Gruffalo-influenced story about a rabbit outwitting a predatory wolf using the threat of a monster #booksky @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social

Just a quote by someone

Absolutely. This was what Brexit was all about - simply to weaken the UK by getting it to severe its ties with Europe. It’s a disgusting cesspool of 💩. Farage should be arrested for treason

I doubt they’ll cancel it. It’s all about pandering to that monsters astronomical ego. But I’m so damn tired of our politicians and leaders not listening to us! The public does not want this and as usual our voices are being ignored

Huge congratulations!!!!

Here’s my new book announcement! I didn’t dare to dream I’d be able to write my very own story collection until my dear agent Julia and the brilliant team at Zephyr, Head of Zeus (part of Bloomsbury) suggested it. These timeless stories are unlike anything I’ve written;they’ve stretched my writing/1

Yep

Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit Stop Trump Coalition

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Graphic with the Carnegies logo, with pictures of longlistee authors and illustrators next to the covers of their books. Text reads: 'Book Town Takeover in Sedbergh, England's Book Town with Joseph Coelho.

Revealing the 2025 Carnegie Medal longlistees joining Joseph Coelho for a FREE event celebrating storytelling! 📖🌟
Featuring Mariajo Ilustrajo, Yuval Zommer, Danielle Jawando, C. G. Moore and Margaret McDonald! 📚🎨 #Carnegies2025 #BookTownTakeover
Secure your group's spot here: https://buff.ly/4i4Fo4Z

If the world could just stop sliding into utter dystopian darkness and madness that’d be great

@meredithvighauthor.bsky.social spotted in Tring Garden Centre today!

Thank you so much for sharing Lou!

‘It’s the opposite of art’: why illustrators are furious about AI AI art generators may provide five minutes of fun for most users, but the blurring of creative and ethical boundaries is leaving many artists raging against the machine

Also re-sharing this article from a couple of years ago, where I and a few other authors/illustrators inc. @robbiddulph.bsky.social, @dapsdraws.bsky.social shared our views re. AI: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...