I do love a series.
Having said that, I would also add anything by Frances Hardinge, Deeplight and A Skinful of Shadows in particular.

Books…Scythe, Thunderhead, The Toll by Neal Shusterman

Book covers for Pike, Brock, Lark and Rook by Anthony McGowan

Book covers The Beast Player and The Beast Warrior by Nahoko Uehashi

Book covers for Railhead, Blacklight Express and Station Zero by Philip Reeve

Railhead series by Philip Reeve
The Beast Player/The Beast Warrior by Nahoko Uehashi
Arc of a Scythe trilogy by Neal Shusterman
Rook, Pike, Brock and Lark by Anthony McGowan.
#KidsBooksFriday

A taxidermy squirrel with huge brown eyes (one bigger than the other), wearing Columbo’s beige raincoat. It is standing on a shelf, surrounded by vases and covered in cobwebs.

April brings us a squirrel off to a fancy dress party as either a flasher or Columbo…just one more thing…
@natty008.bsky.social

Absolutely agree.

Talking with @f33lthesun.bsky.social about my dresses with pockets collection.

I would like to make it obligatory for dresses to have pockets. They make me happy!

A startled looking seagull with googly eyes, wings flapping, standing on a dusty sideboard. It is wearing red shorts! A bronze bust admires the wing span. There’s a mirror on the wall behind the gull, but no reflection. A vampire gull? There are cream floral curtains, with tie backs, hung like the mirror is a window.

Mad March is an apt description for this month’s bad taxidermy.
Startled, shorts wearing seagull! @natty008.bsky.social

A dapper ferret/yoda fruit bat like creature with wide dark eyes and a toothy grimace, in a red bow tie, black top hat with blue band round it, taking tea with unknown company, from a white china tea cup with a gold rim and pink roses on it. Mad Hatter’s tea party springs to mind, for some reason.

February’s bad taxidermy! Looks like it belongs to the JRM family. 😂
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Hope your op goes well. Wishing you a speedy recovery. These will definitely distract you.

A grid of black & white illustrations I made for the book The Woman in Black.

Life is short. A cliché perhaps but one I’ve come to accept & understand over the past year.

I’d like to travel a bit more before I pop my clogs, to visit family in Australia & many other places. I’ll need to earn some money, so in February I’m going to make my original available to purchase…

Instead of everybody making the same joke about the FIFA Peace Prize, maybe we could boycott the World Cup?

Fiona is gorgeous 🥰

At least I know it’s not me who is the weird friend we all have! 😂

Yep. Hugo is not best pleased.

It is his superpower.

Jack.

Sepia photo of a happy couple.

Photo to accompany newspaper article…

Yep. She would obviously have totally deserved it and be the one who was ostracised for “making him do it”.

@natty008.bsky.social

Europe wishes you would give them gifts like you give to me.

Gorgeous 🥰

Picture of the front of Bad Taxidermy Calendar 2026.

January 2026 calendar picture from Bad Taxidermy Calendar. A mouse wearing a flat cap and front paws resting on a white tea cup. It has a hideous toothy grimace and wide, round, black eyes.

Not sure the world is ready for this but here we go. 2026 calendar, gifted to me by @natty008.bsky.social
Thanks…I think! 😂
January giving Yorkshire vibes, for some reason. 😂

A white Jack Russell sleeping, croissant shaped, on a blue and cream rug.

Happy New Year 🥳

It is. It is almost tradition for me to have it for Boxing Day breakfast.

Yes!

It was certainly unexpected. I saw it pecking at something and it suddenly picked it up. Luckily I had the camera on it at the time.

Seagull with a starfish in its beak.

Herring Gull with a starfish.

@happyheadteacher.bsky.social

Grey heron facing left, standing in a rock pool.

Grey sky, clouds, sun trying to shine through, sea, sand and a white Jack Russell in a red coat.

A group silhouetted against the sea on a beach. Cloudy sky, crepuscular rays.

Cloudy sky, wind turbines, sea, sand and a wind surfer on the sand.

Boxing Day beach walk.

Thank you. It has definitely been a different make for me, and I have enjoyed it.
I am in awe of the process and imagination to come up with these projects.