So excited! I have a story, in the latest edition of The People’s Friend magazine. 🎉
Really chuffed and hope it’s one you can have time to settle down and enjoy with a lovely cuppa. It’s that time of year! ☕️📖
Thank you so much to The People’s Friend!
#shortstories #magazines #shells #sea #reading
Picture shows the front cover of the book The Busiest Beaver by Lu Fraser and Kate Hindley with six beavers sitting together.
The Busiest Beaver by Lu Fraser and Kate Hindley
Guest post by author Lu Fraser today! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Review by @sareenmclay.bsky.social
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An absolute treat!
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#pb#childrensbooks#illustration#childrensbooksillustration#booksforkids#kidlit#booksforchildren #TheBusiestBeaver
Picture shows the front cover of the book Owning It: Our Disabled Childhoods In Our Own Words Edited by Jen Campbell, James and Lucy Catchpole.
Owning It: Our Disabled Childhoods In Our Own Words
Ed by Jen Campbell, James & Lucy Catchpole.
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Review by @sareenmclay.bsky.social
@jenvcampbell.bsky.social
@faberchildrens.bsky.social
#mg#childrensbooks#booksforkids#kidlit#booksforchildren
Illustrations by Sophie Kamlish.
Picture shows the front cover of the book The Girl with Girls by Becca Rogers
The Girl with Gills by Becca Rogers
A wonderful world mixed with folklore, facts and fantasy!
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Review by @sareenmclay.bsky.social
@headofzeus.bsky.social
#mg#childrensbooks#illustration#childrensbooksillustration#booksforkids#kidlit#booksforchildren#youngreaders#readingforpleasure#mudlarking
Picture shows the front cover of the book Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia Edited by Christopher Lloyd
Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia Edited by Christopher Lloyd
A veritable smorgasbord of facts.
What a joy!
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Review by @sareenmclay.bsky.social
#childrensbooks#illustration#childrensbooksillustration#booksforkids#kidlit#booksforchildren
Picture shows the front cover of the book The Moon Rabbit by Eva Wong Nava, illustrated by Jason Chuang and Wednesday is for Wiggling by Eva Wong Nava, Illustrated by Holly Sterling.
Eva Wong Nava’s
The Moon Rabbit, illustrated by Jason Chuang
Wednesday is for Wiggling, Illustrated by Holly Sterling
Review by @sareenmclay.bsky.social
@walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
@evawongnava.bsky.social
@jasonchuangart.bsky.social
#hollysterling#pb#childrensbooks#childrensbooksillustration
All about pink today! 🌸🌸🌸
Loving these Autumn colours and flowers.
#garden #flowers #gardening #autumngardendays #autumngardendays
Delighted to be featured in the latest SCBWI Words and Pictures Writer’s Minds by @sarahbroadley.bsky.social
Discussing everything to do with the fabulous My Book Corner review site in my role as Director.
www.wordsandpics.org/2025/05/writ...
@mybookcorner.reviews
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#childrensbooks#pb#mg#ya
Picture shows the front cover of the book The Secret Life of Bugs, Bees & Trees by Moira Butterfield, Illustrated by Vivian Mineker
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The Secret Life of Bugs, Bees & Trees by Moira Butterfield, Illustrated by Vivian Mineker
One of my favourite books of the year!
Review by @sareenmclay.bsky.social
@moirabutterfield.bsky.social
@quartokids.bsky.social
#vivianmineker#nonfiction#childrensbooks#childrensbooksillustration
Delighted to interview @mybookcorner.bsky.social 's Director, @sareenmclay.bsky.social on her role, processes and vision for the well-known children's book review website.
Find out more on my @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Writers' Minds feature...
www.wordsandpics.org/2025/05/writ...
#WriteCBC task from @abigailj.bsky.social: Secrets are a great way to add intrigue and drama to your story. Write a mini-scene in which a character discovers that someone they know well has been keeping a secret from them. How do they deal with this discovery?
Picture shows the front cover of the book Wildful by Kengo Kurimoto, a girl with her dog in the middle of a wood with creatures all around them.
Loved reviewing this stunning graphic novel!
Wildful by Kengo Kurimoto
Review on MBC by @sareenmclay.bsky.social
@kengokurimoto.bsky.social
@pushkinchildrens.bsky.social
#mg#childrensbooks#illustration#childrensbooksillustration#booksforkids#kidlit#booksforchildren#grief#nature#graphicnovel
Picture shows the front cover of the book The Worry Bee by Nicola Kinnear a bee sitting on top of a toadstool.
Here at MBC we are loving The Worry Bee by Nicola Kinnear!
Look out for our review coming soon!
@scholastic.bsky.social
#nicolakinnear
#pb#childrensbooks#illustration#childrensbooksillustration#booksforkids#kidlit#booksforchildren
Picture shows the front cover of the book Puloma and the Bear by Jasbinder Bilan Illustrated by Skylar White with a bear following a girl along a river path.
Puloma and the Bear by Jasbinder Bilan Illustrated by Skylar White
Superb adventure! 🐻🐻🐻
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@jasbinderbilan.bsky.social
@skyillustrates.bsky.social
@barringtonstoke.bsky.social
#mg#childrensbooks#illustration#childrensbooksillustration#booksforkids#kidlit#booksforchildren
Day out at Dr Neil’s Garden.
And launch of @edbookfest.bsky.social Schools Programme at Holyrood High School. Thanks to Jenny, Rachel, Jodie, librarians; Rachel and Hannah and pupils & Joseph Coehlo!
@sarahbroadley.bsky.social #bookofinstagram#kidlit#poetrycommunity#flowers#childrensbooks #garden
A vacancy has recently opened up at the Big Green Bookshop for a new customer.
The ideal candidate will have a regular urge to buy lots of amazing books.
Please email biggreenbooks@gmail.com with a list of books you'd like to buy.
The position is available straight away.
Picture shows the front cover of the book Bree Boyd is (Trouble) a Legend by Leah Johnson showing a girl levitating amongst a pile of books.
New review over on @mybookcorner.bsky.social
Another book recommendation!
Fascinating.
#dictionary#bookrecommendation#amreading#books#pipwilliams
'You should know and love the people you’re writing about as deeply as you possibly can' 💓
Bestselling romance novelist & tutor of our six-week Writing a Romance course, @jennycolgan.bsky.social talks about her approach to writing & what makes a page-turning love story.
Read the full advice blog:
New blog post!
Fascinating Icons and Patterns.
Fancy a few minutes of calm? Switch the kettle on and head over to my blog!
switchthekettleonlove.com
#flowers#garden #zandrarhodes #textile #fashion #pattern
Loved this book! So interesting and confidence boosting too!
So interesting to read about Georgia O’Keefe,Frieda Lawrence, Daphne Du Maurier and more.
#annabelabbs
#tworoadspublishing#nature#walking#women
Beautiful blossom in our garden today and I had a wee visitor pop in to see me as I was working on the words!
I’m sure, and hope, this ladybird was a bit happier when I returned it the garden.
Definitely a spring day! 🌸🌸🌸🐞🐞🐞
#gardens#flowers#cherryblossom#cherryblossoms #ladybird
A new post on my blog! Meanderings on spring, books and more.
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switchthekettleonlove.com
#nature#flowers#readmorebooks
My new review on @mybookcorner.bsky.social is the excellent School of Doom by @sarahharrison.bsky.social
macro photograph. a very, very, nearly microscopic view of the center of a yellow green hellebore flower. petals. pistils and stamens. filling the frame. intense in the sunlight.
hellebore 14
#photography
#macrophotography
#abstractphotography
#art
#flowers
super, super, extra, way, way, way close up
look at the center of a hellebore flower.
abstraction to the point of wondering what you're looking at—
besides shades of chartreuse.
photograph.
A clump of February Gold daffodils in full bloom on a lovely sunny day.
Today's daily dose of daffodils 🌱
On September 12th 2024, my debut picture book Pandora and the Story Forge, beautifully illustrated by Marie-Alice Harel , was published by Rocket Bird Books .
What a lot can happen in six months! 😍
Valentines hack: books last longer than roses and chocolates.
Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️
Picture shows the front cover of the book, My Mum A little girl and her mum dancing on stepping stones.
My latest review by @sareenmclay.bsky.social link in bio
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My Mum by Susan Quinn, Illustrated by Sarah Mathew
Full of lovely moments, this book shows us what a superstar a parent often is!
#pb#childrensbooks#illustration#childrensbooksillustration#booksforkids#kidlit#booksforchildren#susanquinn
A double bloomed hellebore flower with white petals patterned on the inside with magenta speckles
Hellebore: Helvington double white speckled for #MagentaMonday 🌱📷
#helleboreheaven
#Bloomscrolling
#GardensHour
