Sorry I missed this. I really love The Whisperwicks series and The Chronicles of Whetherwhy. Aside from these A Darkness of Dragons and a few older Garth Nix ones from when I was young! - Old Kingdom series. You also can’t go wrong with some of Diana Wynne Jones books! #Sundaymorningbookchat
Turquoise background. Magical compass with girl and companions standing on top of it. Aura of magic. Lightning sparks in gold.
Purple, orange and gd visual bubbles of characters/ scenes. Magical girl in black in doorway.
Blue background. White and gold border. Boy with two adults. Idea of magic.
Red, green, blue and purple. Running figures racing through forest. Girl at front holding purple & gold book shining with magic.
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Magical travel, magical talents & books bursting with imagination & fantastical world building.
Fantasy is my favourite genre! My current favourite series are 2 to which I am huge looking forward to Book 3 being published early next year - Ice Apprentices by Jacob North and Inkbound by Philippa Leathley x
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Morning all and time for a #SundayMorningBookChat in honour of #TheYearOfReading I am writing a monthly blog with recommendations, teacher tips and genre spotlight. This month its fantasy… what are your favourites? Heres the blog to check out. tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/t...
Chess board with spots of blood & character silhouettes.
Blue, orange & white background. Child on reindeer sled 🛷 racing alongside train.
Red, violet, gold and turquoise covers. Girl with dark hair wearing a scarlet ribbon. Black dog.
Blue & green background. Two children (boy in dark blue sailor suit & blond haired girl in dress holding a book) with a dog discovering two feet sticking out. Plants at left and right.
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Book cover for The Swifts by Beth Lincoln
Book cover for The Murderer’s Ape by Jakob Wegelius
Great choices already. I’d add The Swifts by Beth Lincoln which is great fun and The Murderer’s Ape by Jakob Wegelius which is beyond excellent. (Possibly counts more as adventure but any excuse to shout about it.)
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As it’s Half Term - let’s do a #SundayMorningBookChat in honour of #TheYearOfReading I am writing a monthly blog with recommendations, teacher tips and genre spotlight. This month its murder mystery… what are your favourites? Heres the blog to check out. tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/t...
Gold and silver and russet colours. Girl in silhouette beside water. Barn Owl in silvery fawn colours swooping in from the top left.
“I can feel a little spark of something start to fizz inside me for the first time since the crack and the suddenly empty sky and the whistle of Dad falling” @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #SundayMorningBookChat #UKKidLit
I am missing #SundayMorningBookChat from @slatterymr.bsky.social but I also have a question for the #KidLit community arising from the last book I read. It seems hard to write a really strong children’s book told fully in first person (from a single character). Hit me up with any stellar examples!
Absolutely. Although, it’s getting late for it, I am still hoping for a #SundayMorningBookChat from @slatterymr.bsky.social!
Pale blue sky & sea 🌊 Stripy lighthouse. Girl dressed in red & blue with seagull.
Surfing pig. Tree, beach & waves. Italian illustrator.
Girl in white with red scarf watering sapling 🌱surrounded by trees & flowers.
Yellow background. Red & blue writing. Young eco activists on cover. Rubbish heap at bottom.
#SundayMorningBookChat Also so many lovely books at the moment teaching children about making a difference by helping the #environment #Ecoactivism #Recycling #bookbloggers #librarians @nosycrow.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social #robgreenfield #jeantoridesignbooks
Yellow & red. Blue & white turtles 🐢 with yellow eyes standing on each other’s backs. Tufts of grass.
Pink polka dot background. Sugar pink baby elephant 🐘 in pram.
Grey square & Green triangle . Blue lettering.
Orange, pink, blue & green crayons 🖍 holding up strike signs. White background.
#SundayMorningBookChat Dr Suess on dictators, equality & feminism, celebrating diversity & promoting mutual understanding, treating art materials with respect. #shapes #bookbloggers #librarians
Book cover for It Might Be an Apple by Shinsuke Yoshitake
Book cover for Can I Build Another Me? by Shinsuke Yoshitake
Book cover for What Happens Next by Shinsuke Yoshitake
Book cover for Why Do I Feel Like This? by Shinsuke Yoshitake
Shinsuke Yoshitake’s books are both great fun and excellent tools to help kids look at things from different perspectives and consider their own thoughts and opinions. #SundayMorningBookChat
#SundayMorningBookChat this week is celebrating PictureBooks! Tok percivals new book ‘This Way Up’ shows how people can see things from others views and learn to compromise. What other picturebooks are your go-tos for teaching children important concepts tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/p...
Sky blue cover. Pair of pink 🩰 ballet shoes.
Blue background. Dots representing molecules . Yellow writing.
Red cover . Yellow & purple Wrestler’s mask. Yellow writing.
Teen sitting on top of camper van. Washing line hanging from back. Gnome figure in window. Muted blue background. Skyscrapers & fence behind van.
Would recommend these books by Catherine Bruton #refugees #dreams 🩰& by Canadian author #SusinNeilsen @andersenpress.bsky.social #Mentalillness #Homelessness #Trauma #Blendedfamilies #Identity #MG #Empathy #Diversity #sundaymorningbookchat
#SundaymorningBookChat this week is about difficult subject matter. Yesterday I blogged about the new book by #onjaliqRauf who tackles dementia in a grandparent with authenticity and warmth. What would you recommend? tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/t...
These (+ Clockwork by Philip Pullman) are the books in our year five curriculum that I always particularly look forward to teaching #SundayMorningBookChat
Book cover for Fake by Elle Fountain
Book cover for The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle by Victoria Williams
Book cover for Reek by Alastair Chisholm
Book cover for Another Kind by Cait May and Trevor Bream
I’m not a teacher (though I did work as a TA for a few years). Right now I think we need to be getting kids reading texts that help build empathy and kindness, and texts that encourage kids to question and think for themselves. #SundayMorningBookChat #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit
Not a teacher but if I was, I'd teach KS2/early KS3 this book, as a way to explore how fantasy stories intersect with politics, and how magic systems reflect the real world of politics. (Look, I'd be an ambitious-for-my-students KS2 teachers) www.penguin.co.uk/books/448380... #SundayMorningBookChat
#SundayMorningBookChat this week is a back to school theme. What are your favourite books to teach at school and why and if you’re not a teacher, what were your favourite books to study or the most memorable. Here’s three of mine.
#SundayMorningBookChat Have to agree with @hfj0108.bsky.social and nominate the #UtterlyDark trilogy by @philipreeve.bsky.social They are beautifully written and deserve far more attention than they’ve received.
This was my review of final book: vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2023/09/04/m...
Cover of Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep by Paddy Donnelly
Cover of Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild by Paddy Donnelly
Cover of Utterly Dark and the Tides of Time by Paddy Donnelly
I loved the Utterly Dark books by @philipreeve.bsky.social but don’t see them mentioned as often as I would expect. #SundayMorningBookChat
6 covers. Purple, violet, red, pink, turquoise & green. Protagonists & recognisable Children’s Book 📚 characters & swirling books in centre panels.
Orange, blue & lime green covers. Girl with large round glasses in centre. Birds, flowers & facades of painted & pointed gables.
Blue, green & orange covers. Protagonists in centre surrounded by eco magic. Fantastical creatures.
Dr D with assistant discovers the Giant Pink Sea Snail 🐌 Flowers, blue sky, pale sand, blooming flowers
#sundaymorningbookchat Also libraries & book 📚 magic, a mysterious town, eco tastic fiction & animal adventures with an unusual Dr & musn’t forget 🐈⬛🐉☂️🏨 “Step boldly” #MorriganCrow #bookbloggers
Dark green background. Six covers- Green, red, purple, olive, gold, silver. Gold symbols. White writing.
Trilogy- 3 covers- Green sparkles with blue sky, red with blue background & purple & green, three children with a magical book, flying creatures.
Cats in warrior mode with crackles of gold lightning. 6 covers- Green, orange, purple & brown. Lots of cats 🐈 🐈🐈🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
🐉 Dragons 🐉 galore. Blue, gold, pink, green, purple, black & red
#sundaymorningbookchat An exciting series packed with Mythology, history, action & magic @flamelauthor.bsky.social, orphans on a magical quest📚, brave cats, rivalry & conflicted clans & wonderful dragons.🐉 Spellbinding reads 📚#Middlegradefiction #UKKidLit
The Clockwork Crow by Catherine Fisher
The Velvet Fox by Catherine Fisher
The Midnight Swan by Catherine Fisher
I really loved Catherine Fisher's The Clockwork Crow series. I felt that didn't quite get the attention it deserved
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#sundaymorningbookchat this week is celebrating great series w/great endings that perhaps aren’t on many people’s radar. recently finished& blogged about this superb trilogy by Jamie Littler &I know lots of people haven’t read. Lets celebrate unsung heros tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...
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Piers Torday’s ‘The Last Wild’ is the greatest of all I feel. I recently read Dave Eggers’ ‘The Eyes and the Impossible’ and that was brilliant.
Front cover of Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne illustrations of the main characters by E Sheppard
Front cover of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame illustrations of main characters by E Sheppard
Front cover of Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, all blue, googly eyes and orange triangle looking like owl’s face, title in bright yellow lettering at the bottom.
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Great question as always Tom. My two childhood favourites: #WinnieThePooh & #TheWindInTheWillows then was put off animal stories after reading #WatershipDown as a kid, until reading #Hoot by @carlhiaasen.com as a bedtime story, many years later! #AnimalStories
#Sundaymorningbookchat #animalstories #adventures #middlegradefiction 🦡🐇🐭🐀🐈🐈☂️🐭🦇Also 🐈⬛🐈 🐓🐾 All Wonderful stories giving animals a voice. #bookbloggers
Book cover for The Wolves of Currumpaw by William Grill
Book cover for Sky Dancer by Gill Lewis
Book cover for Paws by Kate Foster
Book cover for Crazy About Cats by Owen Davey
Hope you’re having a great holiday! Some books that have inspired me and my family with a love of animals: The Wolves of Currumpaw by William Grill; Sky Dancer by Gill Lewis; Paws by Kate Foster; Crazy About Cats by Owen Davey. All excellent books. #SundayMorningBookChat #KidLitUK
