What a joy for #LostonGibbonIsland to win the Shropshire Bookfest Big Book Award! I can't stop beaming! Thanks to all the schools involved in reading and voting and everyone in the team for all your hard work. And to patrons and fab interviewers Piers Torday and Martin Brown. 🥰💙

My author copies of #BerthaAndBlink are here, so I made a little video! It's out on the 6th June. Special thanks to Mattie Whitehead & Pip Johnson for working their magic & all the wonderful team Little Tiger Books Thanks, as always to my brilliant agent Sallyanne Sweeney

So happy that my book is out in the world today. Thanks to Lume Books JOFFE BOOKS Sallyanne Sweeney

Happy publication to Jane McLoughlin and THE PERFECT COUPLE! 🩷

My little podcast passed 26K listens today 😳

Thank you to all my guests and supporters - lots more episodes coming throughout 2024 🥳

And catch the latest with Nadia Shireen right NOW!

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.Sphere Books has teamed up with Hachette Ireland to sign Moving On, a new novel by Roisin Meaney 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇸🇾🇦🇫 #nofadas

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A tentacular thank you to #PLR and all the families who have borrowed our Octotastic book from libraries up and down the country - over 26,000 loans this year Peter Bently, ink-redible!

@sarahgbooks 📚 Ennis Book Club Festival | March 7-9 2025 📚 See you there!

Amazed and delighted to be included in this round up, thanks so much Imogen Russell Williams 🐧🐧
Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK Sallyanne Sweeney

I'm so excited to finally share the cover for the first book in a new series with the fab team @littletigerbooks !

🐻🪛Meet Bertha and Blink!🦩🤖

It's also #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience so the perfect day to share!

#BerthaAndBlink

Ich bin ein Berliner ! Very excited to have Service published in German Feb 29 Sallyanne Sweeney Pushkin Press 💚

Thank you so much Pet Uí Chonaill for this lovely, lengthy review in Irish Examiner
#pabloandsplash
Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK Sallyanne Sweeney

Great event for STRONG LIKE ME at British Library this morning - congrats Kelechi and Michaela Dias-Hayes! 💜💛💜

Nice shoutouts for Service in 2023 round ups Irish Times Culture Irish Independent TheGlossMag Marie Claire, thanks to Aoife Barry John Boyne Joseph O’Connor and Catherine Jarvie 💙

So lovely to round off a brilliant year with The Night Animals on Waterstones Kids Best Books of 2023 list, next to some of my absolute faves. Huge thanks to Simon & Schuster Children's Books for these graphics 😍 Here's to an excellent 2024!

Heartbroken to hear Shane McGowan has passed.
I really hope he and Sinead will be serenading the stars tonight. Rest in love and thanks for all you have left.

Hear me read the opening to #LostonGibbonIsland , an adventure about 12-year-old Lark who is stranded on a desert island with only a baby gibbon for company. Sallyanne Sweeney Hachette Children's Group #hullchildrensbookaward

#LostonGibbonIsland has been longlisted for a #JamesReckitt #HullChildrensBookAward 2024! Thrilled to be there with alongside such brilliant books. Thank you, JRLT Hull! Hachette Children's Group Sallyanne Sweeney

Chuffed that 'seriously fun' PLEASE! by me & brilliant Nathan Reed was in @_thebookseller this week, in their Children’s Previews for Jan 2024!
(Thanks Pari Thomson & Sallyanne Sweeney for bringing to my attention)
Out 18.01.2024 with @bloomsburychildrens
Why not pre-order NOW?!