The book and its press release. The cover shows the silhouetted figures of 4 girls holding various weapons against a backdrop of fireworks.
K-Pop Academy: The Cursed Spotlight by Mina Finch is the 3rd title in the popular series for fans of K-Pop Demon Hunters.
Out now for 8+ readers, huge thanks go to @simonkidsuk.bsky.social
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The book and its press release. The cover shows protagonist Valentine wearing a purple beret and jacket, black glasses and long braids in front of a cityscape and surrounded by floating blobs of colour.
Combining magical fantasy, sci-fi and dystopian adventure, The Genie Game by Jordan Ifueko sounds like my kind of read.
Out 21/04 for 9+ readers, huge thanks go to Hiromi @piccadilly-press.bsky.social
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4 picture books laid on the floor in a square: Chitra Soundar & Sandhya Prabhat's It's Time To Hush and Say Goodnight (a flowing, dreamlike cover featuring an Indian dad and his son cuddling.) The Worst Princess by Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie (with a princess riding on a mid-air dragon, who is smiling at her.) Look Up by Dapo Adeola and Nathan Bryon, showing a small Black girl wearing a bright orange space suit looking up and smiling widely at the night sky. And Beegu by the sublime Alexis Deacon, showing a painterly cityscape with a small orange alien creature at the front, with long ears that trail to the floor. The atmosphere of the piece is a little mournful.
I have tried to pick a few that haven't already been shouted out! Here are 4 I really love:
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Today's review...'Wide Eye' by Jennifer Liss
@pushkinpress.com #KidLitUK
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This week’s #PictureBookFriday is the wonderfully fun Tigers Don’t Eat Jelly by Genevieve Aspinall 🐯
Out 04/06 for 4+ readers from @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
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Júlia Sardà! She's excellent everywhere but her Mary and Frankenstein is breathtaking and if you don't know it, then you should. @andersenpress.bsky.social didyoueverstoptothink.com/2018/09/21/m... #kidsbookfriday #kidlituk #kidlit
The @neunion.bsky.social on recent #Bookbans , referencing school librarians reporting "internal and external censorship".
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1/2 UK Comics Laureate @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social on graphic novels as a conduit for engaging children with literacy- and his Graphic Novel Library List which “celebrates the rich tapestry of…
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“Book banning in schools uses young people as an excuse to silence certain voices&ignore difficult realities while calling it child protection, which is completely reprehensible.”Kelly McCaughrain
@walkerbooksuk.bsky.social & Little, Brown #bookbans
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Book cover for The Lost Robot by Joe Todd-Stanton. Image shows a broken robot standing by a rubbish dump looking into a puddle. In the puddle he sees a happy, colourful version of himself surrounded by a luscious green landscape.
Book cover for AdventureMice: Mermouse Mystery by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. Image shows a yellow submarine being driven by a brown mouse with glasses. A white mouse with a brown patch round his eye, wear in a yellow mac, pops his head out of the top. Around them swim mermice (half mermaid, half mice).
Book cover for Crazy About Cats by Owen Davey. Image shows stylised illustrations of various cat species including a striking looking tiger, accompanied by a pair of binoculars and a safari car driving along a road.
Book cover of The Arrival by Shaun Tan. Cover appears in the style of a battered old notebook. Image in sepia tones shows a man in a suit with a hat and a briefcase bending down to speak to an unusual looking creature with a large mouth, pointy ears, a short body and a long tail.
Last week I treated myself to Joe Todd Stanton’s newest picture book which is just gorgeous. 😍
It got me thinking we need a #KidsBooksFriday celebrating illustrators.
Which illustrators do you love? And which of their books show of the best of their style?
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It's stuff like this that helps keep me going as a children's author. I met Allen's daughter seven or eight years ago, not long after The Train to Impossible Places was published, so I'm over the moon the learn that she still carries the book and its characters with her. #KidLit #KidLitUK
…deal with Japanese American “Internment” camps (WWII) and contemporary “Kids in Cages” detention centers, through the medium of picture books. (Mia does so through a reverso poem!)
@publisherswkly.bsky.social
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“We were prisoners of our own country, though we were not guilty of any crime, just our ancestry”(Minoru Tonai)
Bringing ‘difficult’topics to picture books-something close to our #littlerebelsaward hearts.
Mia Wenjen& @writerjolene.bsky.social ..
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From left to right: comic book Mighty Mega Pets: Freaky Food Fiasco by Gary Northfields; Greek Boy by Tony Bradman; Toby Alone by Timothée de Fombelle.
Bumper book post today from @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social.
Excited to read comic book Mighty Mega Pets: Freaky Food Fiasco by Gary Northfields, Greek Boy by @tonybradman.bsky.social and Toby Alone by Timothée de Fombelle, all out 09/04.
Enormous thanks go to Lola for sending 🥰
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Front cover of Demon Hunters: Soul Feeder by Jennifer Killick showing a huge creature snaking through the air with its mouth wide open above the silhouettes of two boys. Illustrated by Marina Vidal.
Big thanks to @barringtonstoke.bsky.social for sending me a proof copy of Soul Feeder as part of their giveaway. As you’d expect from #JenniferKillick, it’s a thrilling middle grade horror. As a dyslexia-friendly book, it’s kept short and very SNAPPY!
Out 4th June 2026 💙📚👍
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Check this space tomorrow for the incredible trailer to #WeAreDragon, the final chapter in the #IAmWolf trilogy!
I'm SO excited about this book. The whole series has been so much fun and everyone working on it has been amazing. Not long to go now!
@nosycrow.bsky.social #bcemercer #kidlituk
Today's review... 'Pieces of Us'
@stewfoster.bsky.social A brilliant read! #KidLitUK
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If you’re in Belfast Sunday, check out the wares from this super children’s illustrator:
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Perfect, hopeful, welcoming displays for schools to get in ahead of #RefugeeWeek 15-21 June
💜Includes posters and flyers from Quentin Blake!💜
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1/2 “Librarians could start to self-censor by not ordering certain titles or removing books from their shelves through fear, and publishers could be more prone to pre-publication censorship, which often means that representation within children’s literature drops”.
V Dilly @sla.org.uk
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Whisky the dog, a young cocker spaniel, lying asleep under a desk.
My writing companion at @argonautbooks.bsky.social this morning ❤️
#WhiskyTheDog #writing #KidLitUk
A fabulous adventure full of magic and excitement, Relic Hamilton, Genie Hunter: The Door of the Dead by Joseph Coelho is out now for middle grade readers from @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social 🧞♀️
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Trees lining the Chesterfield Canal
Trail path running alongside Chesterfield Canal
Feeling good as 11 miles run today before opening the shop! Just £35 off hitting £2300 for @Booktrust as part of my London Marathon fundraising. Less than four weeks to go! #kidlituk
An update on the Greater Manchester school library #bookban ⬇️
Stay in touch with the UK ripples arriving from across the pond by following @indexoncensorship.org
-and look to #BannedBooksWeek UK 4-10 October.
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Visual asset from Usborne. Background is split vertically with light blue to left and pink to right. Book cover of A Sister Like You. Two girls with their back to us with arms around each other, one with long brown pigtail wears pale pink shirt, pink-purple skirt and carries a pink-purple rucksack. She has her arm around girl with shoulder length black hair who wears blue trousers and a pale blue shirt with a tie flipped over her right shoulder. Text, white font, to right of this reads "Ella and Ari always knew they had a sister...they just didn't know it was each other". Beneath this is release date announced in white font against purple circle: "7th May 2026". Beneath this, in white font, "NEW FROM SARAH HAGGER-HOLT, TWO-TIME WINNER OF THE LITTLE REBELS AWARD". Beneath this are the covers of Sarah's four other books published by Usborne: Nothing Ever Happens Here, Proud of Me, Just Like Everyone Else and The Fights That Make Us. Bottom left corner is the Usborne logo, a rainbow hot air balloon against a yellow corned background.
We are loving the #LittleRebelsAward “branding” in Usborne’s latest release announcement…
Which, by the way, is news of:
@sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social NEW BOOK!!! Out this May.
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Today's review...'Entangled' by Emma Rea An adventure set in Venice- what's not to love?! #KidLitUK
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Feather Vane by Beth O’Brien, the cover of which shows a girl in a long blue dress with long red hair and a boy covered in black feathers standing either side of a cauldron into which they are dropping things.
Very windy walk to the bookshop this afternoon but delighted to come back clutching this fab new middle grade in my sticky mitts by Beth O’Brien 🪶
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The book, its press release and matching bookmarks. The cover shows the 3 SuperQuesters travelling across the desert in a buggy in front of a pyramid with a crocodile to the side of them.
Love the SuperQuesters and cannot wait to join them on their third adventure, Mission: Desert Danger, by @pauliancross.bsky.social, illustrated by Katarina Gasko.
Out 07/05 for 6-9 readers, huge thanks go to @questfriendz.bsky.social 🐊
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Thank you for this lovely review – I can't wait to see We Are Dragon out in the world!
#WeAreDragon @nosycrow.bsky.social #KidLitUk #IAmWolf
