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Funny Pages Festival: 2025 (Halifax Public Library) Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators

Young readers in #Halifax area, register for Funny Pages Festival in April. Presentations by @authorytm.bsky.social @andytolson.bsky.social @annahumphrey.bsky.social @lesliegentile.bsky.social @micherobinson.bsky.social @paulgilligan.bsky.social canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/03/funn...

Graphic reads: read it forward. 10% of all children’s book sales go to BookTrust and Scottish BookTrust in February 2025. An illustration shows an open book with swirling stars around it, the paper is an ocean with a girl in a boat and a leaping dolphin.

Graphic reads: read it forward. 10% of all children’s book sales go to BookTrust and Scottish BookTrust in February 2025. Front cover of When Fish Finger Froze is shown, a nervous and cute illustrated fish finger gazed out as peas cheer him on.

Graphic reads: read it forward. 10% of all children’s book sales go to BookTrust and Scottish BookTrust in February 2025. Front cover of Mummy’s Promise is shown. A mother and cub smilodon frolic in jungle growth.

Graphic reads: read it forward. 10% of all children’s book sales go to BookTrust and Scottish BookTrust in February 2025. Front covers of the Wondermere chapter book series are shown: Do Not Disturb The Dragons; Do Not Mess With the Mermaids; Do Not Panic The Pixies.

Buy any children’s book at @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social during Feb 2025 and 10% will go to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social to fund early years reading support for disadvantaged and vulnerable families across the UK. #readitforward 😊

Shop: uk.bookshop.org/shop/booktrust

Dreaming, waking, saying hello. 😽 #cats

Thank you so much, Jill! 😊

Helpful kitty. #cats

I am very much looking forward to doing events for this one… 😁🕺

Thank you, Jacqui!

I will — bear with me! ☺️

Yay! Shiny new books! MUMMY’S PROMISE publishes Feb 6th with @andersenpress.bsky.social 🦕🦣🎉 Illustrated by Paddy Donnelly, who is a total smasher. 😊

Thanks so much! I’m excited for this addition to me and @tomknightdraws.bsky.social’s ‘food with feelings’ series. 😃

A tiny red squirrel sits in a tree, which is bare apart from a few red berries.Gazing directly at the camera, the squirrel holds a berry and nibbles on it.

Spot the cutie. 🐿️
#walking #secretsquirrel

And to you!

And still getting back in the habit of using social media… the other place put me right off it for a good while!

It’s a whole foot long and she’s not even a grown up yet. 😆

Two cats, one white and one tabby, snuggle together on a rug.

Ridiculous pair of heart-bummed cuties. My home and my clothing will continue to be a hairy mess in 2025. #cats

A white Christmas — and a Boxing Day bald eagle. 🦅

So do I… 😂

Hoe hoe hoe! Got to love a local parade.

I can imagine!

Gorgeous!

Ha! Remember when it was good?!

I have been delaying…!

Thanks, Grace! It's going to take me a while to get up to speed. I've been shying away from social media as they've all gone so ad-centric, I never see the content I'm there for. I hear this place is different... fingers crossed!

Author Michelle Robinson -- a middle aged woman with mid length blonde hair -- smiles and holds up her picture boo, Mummy's Promise. Its front cover features a cute illustration of mother and child sabre-toothed tigers, playfully rolling in a prehistoric meadow with a mountain range as a backdrop.

I love this time of year because I get to wear cosy sweaters in an attempt to not actually freeze solid at my desk. 🥶 Here's something even warmer and cosier than my rainbow sherpa: 'MUMMY'S PROMISE' is publishing early Feb with Andersen Press, featuring adorable art by Paddy Donnelly. 🥰

'Bean filled soft body'. 😬

Finding everyone is going to take me a while, isn't it? I'll put the kettle on and settle in.