Maud is Moving is one of my favourite children’s books of recent years. It’s human and mysterious and full of real emotion. I hope there’ll be more about Maud in future!

Ooh it might be - I’m just going by the physical editions but it’s HarperCollins children’s edition.

😮

I think there’s the children’s edition and then the updated version is in the collected adult edition. Is there more than one version than that?

Darkness
Is putting on its cloak
More slowly than it did
As the year’s revolving door
Revolves

A black and white cartoon drawing captioned a puffin party illustrated by a puffin playing pin the beak on the puffin with its own beak, two puffins complaining about the host expecting a gift and a group of humans in party hats with one saying I am now going to discourse on the mysterious universe

Going to throw myself a puffin party like this Jill McDonald dream and until I do, I’m going to discourse on the mysterious universe

Allan Ahlberg, celebrated children's author, dies aged 87 He wrote more than 150 books, including The Jolly Postman and Each Peach Pear Plum.

This is the passing of an utter genius. A poet and innovator whose work, funny and clever and unsentimentally sweet, is a blessing on all the kids who have experienced it.

Just to say, for Winchester I hope you’re aware of this cloistered and slightly secret secondhand bookstall: www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/welcome/dean...

Solidarity with all the trans folk in our brilliant, irreducible, irrepressible LGBTQueer+ community. There are better days up ahead.

📣Ssh, would you like to listen to one of the My Words, My Book children author interviews before World Book Day?!

✅Like, share and follow @mywordsmybook

🤩Then we might, just might share one or even two!

#MyWordsMyBook #WorldBookDay #WBD

Let 100 ghost-lions roar. 🦁
Let 100 voyaging turtles swim out to sea. 🐢
Let 100 lovesick owls tap-dance in the light of a rainy taxi cab. 🦉
Let 100 clockwork mice set out on a dangerous journey to find their heart’s desire. 🐭
Happy 100th birthday, Russell Hoban! 🎈📚
#Hoban100

Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban - Episode 1 - BBC Sounds William visits the turtles at London Zoo. Neaera acquires a water-beetle and an aquarium.

I look forward to celebrating Russell Hoban’s centenary all 2025 but the day itself has snuck up on me. If you’re yet to discover his wry, melancholy, surreal, philosophical and magic work, try this reading of (maybe) my favourite book of his #Hoban100

Thanks - glad to know you on here! My brain was never quite at home with the Twitter format, but am glad to have somewhere to go for people stuff online. I do need some of that. People are good.

Would you like a cup of tea while we’re getting our bearings?

Thank you so much! Still counting my cardigan buttons and figuring things out but very glad to know of #kidslituk

Thank you and hello! I’m reeling slightly after many years away from Twitter style interaction. But I’m glad to be dipping a toe!

Pfffh, it’s all a bit overwhelming at first, isn’t it? Or is it just me?