Tigers Don’t Eat Jelly! by Genevieve Aspinall Cover illustration copyright © Genevieve Aspinall, 2026 While my daughter was prepared to try anything that we put in front of her, my son was – and still is – an incredibly fussy eater…

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

Teachers vow to 'fight censorship' after school book row The UK's largest education union says librarians have reported

The @neunion.bsky.social on recent #Bookbans , referencing school librarians reporting "internal and external censorship".
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A portal to a love of literature: drawing readers in with graphic novels The National Year of Reading is a perfect time to showcase this ‘gateway’ to greater literacy, says the UK Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph.

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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Petition: Make school libraries statutory in all secondary schools We think all secondary schools should have a school library with a dedicated full-time librarian, and that this needs to be compulsory for all secondary schools and not simply an optional "bolt-on" de...

Please sign #booksky #kidlituk #authors #illustrators
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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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In Conversation: Mia Wenjen and Jolene Gutiérrez Mia Wenjen and Jolene Gutiérrez both grapple with the cruelty of internment and family separation in their new picture books 'Barbed Wire Between Us' and 'Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an...

“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

Pieces of Us — Through the Bookshelf Jonas is hiding a secret. Anxiety about his weight and his body have led to his suffering with bulimia. However, when he meets Louis at college, a friendship develops which means that gradually he fee...

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

Relic Hamilton, Genie Hunter: The Door of the Dead (RH 2) by Joseph Coelho, illuatrated by Hyun Song We Cover illustration © 2026 Hyun Song We It’s funny how one story can change how you see something. Having been brought up on I Dream of Jeannie and various versions of Aladdin, genies were som…

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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Entangled — Through the Bookshelf When Tia wins a trip to Venice as first prize for an art competition, her brother, Thomas, is initially relieved as he thinks this will mean that she is unable to go. Since his sister lost her sight, ...

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

Two is a Crowd by Cath Howe, illustrated by Miguel Bustos Cover illustration copyright © Miguel Bustos, 2026 It’s not when we set foot in school for the first time, but from the moment we are born that we start to learn. Much of what we pick up is i…

A fabulously-written contemporary middle grade that looks at the impact of jealousy and the transition to high school, Two is a Crowd by @cathhowe.bsky.social is out 09/04 from @nosycrow.bsky.social

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Continuing the Story: Welcoming the 2026 GLL Literary Foundation Authors – Books For Keeps

Books 4 Keeps have been following this project’s journey. Here, @bexlibrarian.bsky.social outlines the work so far and looks forward to the year ahead (and introduces us to the 2nd cohort of 23 creatives! 😍) @booksforkeeps.bsky.social
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Remember how we mentioned this last week…?
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2/2 to appreciate our appreciation of KID REX TO THE RESCUE see-
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⭐️Our online review: www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page... where you can also buy the book while supporting a not-for-profit workers’ #coop !
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