If you’re a budding BLACK author in any country & you’re wanting to enter your work to CNP, I’m covering 3 entry places. Don’t care what country you live in, if you’re Black American, Caribbean, African, living home or abroad! Form closes Sunday midnight!

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London people: my mum, Robin Rubenstein, is performing with others on April 28 in Angel. Including some great klezmer musicians and some yiddish tango! Get tickets here while you still can: wegottickets.com/event/612820#

Can Alyssa save the magical spell garden with her new - but slightly unreliable - powers?

Alyssa and the Spell Garden by Alexandra Sheppard, a magical middle-grade set in North London, is out now ✨🌸

Find out more: faber.co.uk/product/978057…

Happy Publication Day! 🥳🎉🎉🎉
🌱Alyssa & The Spell Garden Alexandra Sheppard cover Bex Glendining @faberchildrens
🎧Girl on the Fly Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl cover also by Bex Glendining David Fickling Books

Book 2 cover is finally here and it is GORGEOUS! 🤩

The Thread That Connects Us is my upcoming YA about stepsisters Halima & Safiya who are forced to navigate explosive family secrets when their worlds collide

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so proud of my two authors on the waterstones children’s prize shortlist 🥹✨ big congratulations to all the winners & shortlisted authors 🫶🏾 #WCBP

Over the moon that Friendship Never Ends has been longlisted for the Jhalak Prize Children’s & Young Adult Prize 2024! ✨

A huge congratulations to the brilliant Alexandra Sheppard 💕🤗

So unbelievably proud to see #FriendshipNeverEnds on the Jhalak Prize longlist alongside these incredible titles!

Couldn't have done it without my superstar editor Eishar Kaur, who knows exactly how to get the best out of her authors 😘

Join us at Waterstones Kensington on the eve of the winner announcement of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize as Alexandra Sheppard, Bea Fitzgerald, Ayaan Mohamud is away 🍉, Kayvion Lewis and Mel Darbon discuss their nominated books: bit.ly/3T5LQ11

‘Alyssa and the Spell Garden’ by Alexandra Sheppard is funny, heartfelt and packed full of magic. A joyful reminder to kids that magic can be found anywhere - even in a flat just off the North Circular. As I said on the cover, it’s a delight. Out 4th April with Faber Children's

An inclusive and gentle magical story, #AlyssaAndTheSpellGarden by Alexandra Sheppard is a beautiful middle grade telling the story of Alyssa who is sent to spend the summer with her great-aunt and discovers her magical powers. Out 04/04 from Faber Children's

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👀Calling young readers & writers!

Love The Phoenix comic? See Neill Cameron! Magic & spooky tales? Eve Wersocki Morris, Ewa Jozefkowicz & Alexandra Sheppard! Time travel? Patience Agbabi!

Little ones? Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓!

And Lemony Snicket with Jack Meggitt-Phillips!

🎟️ bit.ly/nlbookfest

📚 This March we are hosting the Palace's first Literary Festival! With an amazing line-up of authors plus events for all ages, there is something for the bookworm in all of us... 📖🐛

Explore the whole line-up 🔎 bit.ly/BookFestAP

Go on a magical adventure with Alexandra Sheppard as she introduces us to Alyssa and the Spell Garden ✨ Saturday 13th April, 12.30pm Beckenham Place Park Get your tickets here: ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/becke…

Magic-lovers aged 8-12, come and discover Alyssa and the Spell Garden with Alexandra Sheppard!

🎟️ Book here: buff.ly/3ukiJP6

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