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Independent Bookshop Week takes place 15 - 22 June 2024.

Participating bookshops: booksaremybag.com/bookshopsearch

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What a joyful way to spend an afternoon - celebrating OUT OF THE BLUE with Stef Murphy, Spark! School Book Awards and schools up and down the country!

Let YOUR colours SHINE and love whatever makes you YOU!
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Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK

Have just spent a giggle-filled morning at The Book Nook installing a bright and bouncy Brighton Festival window - be sure to book your festival tickets asap! A great selection by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and team 🌈⭐️brightonfestival.org

It's only TWO rootin'-tootin' weeks until The Legend Of The Wild West Twins hits the shelves!

Children will love this rip-roaring adventure about a pair of cowgirl twins who are very different 🤠

🖋 Jodie Lancet-Grant aka Jodie Mullish
🎨 katie cottle

#ChildrensBooks #PictureBooks

Really looking forward to this virtual event today! Stef Murphy and I will be celebrating Out of the Blue and our Spark! School Book Awards shortlisting! Can’t wait to meet everyone and to answer your questions!
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Thank you so much for having me Barnes Primary! It was so wonderful to meet everyone, to see imaginations in action and to spot your wonderful displays celebrating the Spark! School Book Awards! I saw so many of my favourite books around the school!
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It’s wonderful to see all the love for the US edition of The Dress in the Window by Pippa Curnick and me! 🇺🇸

It’s so exciting to think our joyous tale of boy meets dress is reaching new readers!
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I got ahead of the re-print Ian Eagleton and added Mariah Carey ‘s amazing message myself to #GlitterBoy today, ready for pupils returning tomorrow to Library | RPPS ! #kidlit #CelebrationOfMimi #readingforpleasure #RepresentationMatters

I adored this picture book about A Fairy called Fred, a dressmaker who grants wishes and designs a dress for Joshua when he is invited to a princess party. Told in rhyme, children will love it.
Thanks NetGalleyUK Robert Tregoning (he/him) 🌈 Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK

Would anyone mind frightfully if I used this opportunity to direct you to some #LGBTQ bookshops like Gay Pride Shop Queer Lit and Gay's The Word Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop who can sort you out copies of Glitter Boy? 💓🦋🐑🌈🦄

After four hundred years of fading powers, Magic is Back. And with great power… comes great adventure! ✨
Artezans: The Forgotten Magic, the first in a brand-new trilogy, is out now! 🧵

Oh wow! OUT OF THE BLUE, by Stef Murphy and me, has been included in the Florida SSYRA Sunshine State Young Reader Awards List! To everyone who made the selection, thank you for choosing our hope filled book, that celebrates living life in every colour of the rainbow!
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Oh wow! Fred is flying his way to readers already! Thank you NicholaJ for your lovely review. I’m so glad you enjoyed this fairytale, in which dresses and dreams are for everyone and wishes really do come true!
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Stef Murphy
Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK

So wonderful to see THE DRESS IN THE WINDOW by Pippa Curnick and me sparkling on the table alongside brilliant books by some of my favourite creators! Thank you Waterstones Brighton and thank you to my lovely friend mariesa dulak 🐯 who spotted and sent a pic 📸
Oxford Children's Books 👗❤️✨

I feel so fortunate to be working with some incredible artists, including the super talented Greg Stobbs Illustration! Greg’s exhibition ‘Drawing Lots’ CCCU Arts & Culture is amazing and includes some beautiful artwork from our upcoming book ‘What the Crow Saw Below’. Definitely check it out!

✨🌟THE CITY BEYOND THE STARS🌟✨ is out in the UK today!! Thank you so much to my brilliant agent Julia Churchill and the incredible team Simon & Schuster Children's Books - especially Arub and Ali Dougal ,who made working on this sequel such a joy.✨✨