Text reads 'Medal for Illustration Longlist 2025' with the Carnegies logo and book covers of the longlisted titles. Full list of titles available at the link in this post.

Announcing the longlist for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2025!🏅🎨 Featuring vibrant colours and innovative mediums, these 16 works delightfully portray themes like caring for nature and the power of reading. 📚🌟 #Carnegies2025 carnegies.co.uk/2025-longlis...

The Carnegies Medal for Illustration Longlist 2025 Grandad's Star picture book!

Exciting day for us - Grandad's Star has been long-listed for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration! Rhian Stone is a self-taught artist and this is her debut project - we're in awe of her. #Carnegies2025

Sobering reading. All publishers should be doing this analysis in-house every year. Here's ours:

Rocket Bird Books 2023
14% racially minoritised lead character
42% presence of racially minoritised character
57% majority characters animals

2023 was our 1st year, so we'll do a comparison next year.

The front cover of Pandora and the Story Forge by Gaynor Andrew’s and Marie-Alice Harel.

The back cover: Discover the magical world of storyteller Pandora, adorer of brave and beautiful words, weaver and forger of tales. Pandora is an explorer, a collector of words (even ones that misbehave). Once she has the words she needs, she watches them flower and then forges them into the most magical stories. Friend to all the story-starved children, Pandora knows a secret: once read, a story unfurls in your heart. Enter her world and you’ll never see words in quite the same way again.

Pandora and the Story Forge by Gaynor Andrews and Marie-Alice Harel. The artwork is exquisite, the story is beautiful, ah this book! It is a breathtaking creation. You can find it here in our 2024 Gift Guide rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/product-cate...
Published by Rocketbird Books

Who doesn't love an advent calendar?! (This book is better than chocolate.)