I did indeed have a fantastic time reading these. Children are so lucky to have such funny books written for them. Thank you for asking me to be a longlist judge, Scholastic UK #Lollies24

There are just five days left to apply for the Children's Books North Mentoring Scheme! If you are based in the North of England or Scotland and interested in a career in publishing and would benefit from advice from industry professionals, you should apply!

What a pleasure to talk about books and BookTrust’s campaigns and programmes with publishers. Love the buzzy vibe at #BCBF24 Bologna Children's Book Fair

Lovely launch party for The Whisperwicks by Jordan Lees - thank you PuffinBooks for my poppet!

And it’s always fantastic to see Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate Joseph Coelho is laureating!!

We’re so proud to work with Waterstones on the Laureateship, helping to inspire children to get reading! #WCBP24

What a brilliant evening. Thanks Waterstones Kids for all you do. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and illustrators - and to the winners!

Great day chatting to publishers at #LBF2024 yesterday, crowned by the brilliant Reflecting Disabilities seminar. Much thought and care will be put into tracking children’s books that reflect our actual society - disabilities, neurodivergence et al. Fantastic steering group. 👏

Just getting ready for The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 event Thurs on building tomorrow's readers with Steve Antony Camilla Reid Alex from Sevenoaks Bookshop and Sanchita from Children's Bookshop - londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/whats-on… - I love talking about baby books, we all do BookTrust! See you there?

Wow, what lovely books! Congratulations to all the shortlisted talents. 🎉

Congratulations to all the shortlisted talents here. 🎉

We're at the Childcare & Education Expo today and tomorrow!

If you're there, come and visit us at stand E26 for a chat... we'd love to meet you!

#ChildEdExpo #ConnectLearnDiscover

Great to be at the Childcare & Education Expo #ChildEdExpo today, to talk to visitors about #ReadingTogether and #TheGreatBooksGuide .

I am enjoying listening to this dad reading You Choose by ⁦Pippa Goodhart⁩ and⁦⁩ Nick Sharratt with his two children on the tube this morning. Lots of vigorous debate going on! Laughter too. 🥰 #readingtogether ⁦BookTrust⁩ ⁦PuffinBooks⁩

I'm so excited to be part of a fabulous event at The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 on 14 March - I'll be chatting to Camilla Reid Steve Antony Sanchita Basu De Sarkar from Children's Bookshop & Alex Jones from Sevenoaks Bookshop on tomorrow's readers - the all important littlest ones londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/whats-on…

Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural Inclusive Books for Children Awards! Authors pictured - congrats to illustrators too. Great event, Inclusive Books for Children. Brilliant hosting by Jeffrey Boakye, who thanked the longlisters as well as judges. (Rare!) All shortlist fantastic.

Fabulous event at ⁦The Cartoon Museum⁩ for ⁦adam stower⁩’s new young fiction series Murray and Bun with ⁦HarperCollins Children's Books⁩. 🐱 🐰 Took a sneaky peek at the Wrong Trousers models and many classic cartoonists’ work while there. 😍

⁦Emily Drabble⁩ and I have just been to the brilliant ⁦Auntie Malorie⁩ exhibition at ⁦British Library⁩. She is such an amazing author - do go if you’re in the vicinity. And share her books with the children in your life!

Lovely online book launch for Aliya to the Infinite City. Brilliant to hear about Laila Rifaat’s inspiration for her Egyptian time-travelling adventure. Thank you, ⁦Chicken House⁩ and ⁦Authors Aloud UK⁩

Read it Forward is GO! 10% of EVERY children's book on Bookshop.org goes to the leading children’s reading charity BookTrust in February #ReadItForward 📚
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Lovely launch party for Marnie Midnight by the hugely talented ⁦⁦Laura Ellen Anderson⁩ . Thank you, ⁦Farshore⁩.