Rashmi Sirdeshpande

Super Uma Meet Uma - Uma the amazing, the adventurous, the seriously awesome superhero! Together with her Nani, and Chip, her unicorn side-kick, she goes on rescue missions, standing up for what is right and g...

Available to preorder from your favourite independent bookshop and all the usual places: www.penguin.co.uk/books/447196...

Cover of picture book Super Uma. Features a little South Asian girl, a small unicorn doing a flying kick and a South Asian grandma figure with a helmet and motorbike with fire motifs, all set against the sparkly colourful background of a magical world.

Cover reveal - So proud to be paired with the amazing Nakul P for our new picture book SUPER UMA, a story about sensory overload, teamwork and empathy. Out in April 2026 with @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social

The kids are with my parents and I can't tell if me wanting to use my free day to catch up on @write-mentor.bsky.social Wowcon keynotes/panels is an enrichment thing or another way of procrastinating and delaying doing my edits.

Got the go-ahead for a cover reveal. Just doing some scheming with the lovely illustrator. Then almost all my book-related secrets will be out in the open. 🎉☀️

You’d be brilliant and I bet they’d love you to!

Her latest IS excellent!

Hooray for Barrington Stoke, as you rightly say! Many of my dyslexic pupils found way in with verse novels (shout-out to the incredible Sarah Crossan) & interactive fiction.

Guinness World Records universally popular (topic for every taste!)
Yay for illustrated fiction - Pie In the Sky, Loki, etc

Yes!

Reading with dyslexia Read our article about reading with dyslexia, including a book list of dyslexia-friendly titles.

I wrote an article for work about reading with dyslexia. This includes a list of kids books of various formats that I’ve personally found super-readable for different reasons.

www.scottishbooktrust.com/articles/rea...

#DyslexiaAwarenessWeek
#KidsBooksFriday

Book cover for Reek by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by George Caltsoudas showing a young person with a helmet and rocket books swinging through a futuristic Edinburgh via a rope.

Book cover for Wonderfully Wired Brains by Louise Gooding showing a young person with short hair and glasses wearing a green hoodie. Around their head are a myriad of different things from animals to basketballs, pencils, paint brushes and games controllers.

Book cover for Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp and Sylvia Bi showing three girls with papers in their hand as if passing our leaflets, hovering over a medieval European style city.

Book cover for The Horse Dreamer by Holly Surplice showing a sketch style drawing of a girl riding a galloping horse.

It’s #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek in Scotland this week and in the rest of the UK next week. As a dyslexic reader myself I wanted to use #KidsBooksFriday this week to celebrate brilliant, accessible and super-readable texts of all kinds.
#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

So true. I don’t write every day or all the time either(!) So lovely and refreshing to hear your very honest thoughts on publishing, Alom.

100%. Otherwise why do I need to write? There are plentyyyy of other writers. Incredible ones.

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I mean I always say YOU, Louie. 😁 Works for meeee…

How to get more kidlit content in media? Short slots before the news where someone reads a children's book? #CBICONF25

Thank you xx

The struggle is reeeeal.

Haha!

Aww I get it. I so get it.

🥰

*by everyone

Haha love it.

💛 thank you

I’m always nice to him. I smile etc. Say hi if I’m nearby. I’d have to put in extra effort and yeah… I just think he might have made up his mind tbh. I also want to ask him whyyy he hates me. I’m so curious. Truth I think I need to learn is that no one can be liked be everyone.

Follow-up thought. Parenting when you’re AuDHD (autistic + adhd) is a minefield and the school run is so much WORK. Someone write a manual.

Extra info in case anyone sees this - he knows our kids are in the same year. I have felt what I think is his total disdain for me for years. It is so bizarre. I can’t imagine hating someone I know nothing about.

Mini vent. So there’s this one dad at one of my kids’ schools who always blanks me on the school run. Won’t even smile. Talks to EVERYONE else. Do I take the challenge and be extra nice or do I ignore him? Kind of know the answer to be honest.

Treasure trove of comics right here. #kidlituk #kidscomics

Glad I’m not the only one who is massively overthinking this! 😂

My current thoughts are thank god I did not go into academia. Yikes.