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There's a Tiger on the Train Shortlisted for Children's Book of the Year in The Week Junior Book Awards 2025
Very excited to announce that 'There's a Tiger on the Train', by Mariesa Dulak and Rebecca Cobb, has been shortlisted for Children's Picture Book of the Year, in The Week Junior Book Awards 2025!🐯
03.06.2025 09:00 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Margaret McDonald and Scholastic Schools live promotional poster Glasgow Boys with Margaret McDonald, Thursday 1st May, 10.00am, Age 14+
Margaret McDonald will be live with Scholastic Schools tomorrow morning, discussing her Carnegies shortlisted book, Glasgow Boys! Make sure to catch it at 10!🩵
shop.scholastic.co.uk/the-carnegie...
Illustration of Charley from The Great Theatre Rescue, tap-dancing. Text reads: Dancing was in Charley's actual bones. There was nothing she loved more than dancing. Dad said she could dance practically before she could walk! She knew all the latest dance crazes that had whizzed their way across the Atlantic: the Charleston, the Shimmy, even the Lindy Hop. She genuinely lived to move.
Happy #InternationalDanceDay 💃
Do you have any favourite children's books about dancers? Our reading pick for today is The Great Theatre Rescue by Judith Eagle.
Happy publication day to the authors of Owning It: Our Disabled Childhoods in Our Own Words!
Watch a selection of the contributors reading from their pieces here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ3D...
A little shout out in Josie George's most recent Country Diary Column.
Follow Josie's path and see the world with new eyes with her book, Letters from Wonderland.
Out 5 June!🌸
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Jed Greenleaf by Kieran Larwood: out in paperback 3 July 2025.
🛡️🌳Skin of bark, soul of a hero🌳🛡️
This #EarthDay, we're excited to reveal the new paperback cover of Jed Greenleaf, an astonishing standalone adventure from @kieranlarwood.bsky.social, illustrated by David Wyatt.
Available to pre-order now.
A poster for my new book THE MAGIC IN YOU
My book on display at the Faber booth
Bit of a mind blower being sent pictures of my book at the Bologna children's book fair 🫣
You can preorder it right now at www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-You-Ma...
#kidlit #childrensbook #book #booksky
Fab Prize 2025 Entries open now
Calling all aspiring authors and illustrators of colour... the FAB Prize 2025 is now open for entries ✒️🎨
To enter and find out more: faber.co.uk/journal/faber-launches-2025-fab-prize-with-a-publishing-deal-for-the-winner/
Photograph of book, Letters from Wonderland, standing upright on a garden table.
Wonderland is waiting for you. And it needs you. 🌿
Signed copies of Letters from Wonderland by Josie George are available to pre-order now from @biggreenbooks.bsky.social.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Congratulations as well to second place winner, The Knight Thief by Jonny Davison, and to Chris Watney’s Axel Ström vs The End of the World in third place.
02.04.2025 12:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
Photograph of Faber stand at Bologna, showing Leah Thaxton presenting to a crowd of people.
Last night, we announced the winners of the Action! Prize on the Faber stand at Bologna. Congratulations to Theo Malings, who landed first place for her sensational YA sci-fi fantasy thriller, The Red Twilight 🏆
Read more here: www.faber.co.uk/journal/fabe...
We are so excited to be publishing Max Porter's first book for children, Dogs and Bears, with artwork by Dorothée de Monfreid – coming next summer 🐶🐻
www.thebookseller.com/rights/faber...
Top-down photo of book, Letters from Wonderland, against wooden decking.
Introducing Letters from Wonderland by Josie George, with illustrations by Becky Thorns 🍃
See the world with new eyes and discover the confidence to forge your own path with this gorgeous book that’s part mystery, part guide, and part manifesto for hope.
Out 5 June 2025.
Map of the World of Podkin One-Ear
Ahead of paperback publication of Podkin and the Tentacled Terror this week, join author Kieran Larwood on a tour of key locations in the the World of Podkin One-Ear series 👇
www.faber.co.uk/journal/watc...
Bookseller by day, author by... different day! Ahead of the release of The Notorious Virtues this Thursday, Alwyn Hamilton talks to @unitedbypop.bsky.social about her experience as both an author and @waterstones.bsky.social bookseller! www.unitedbypop.com/books/author...
26.03.2025 09:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To celebrate the publication of addictive new #YAFantasy #TheNotoriousVirtues this week, we are thrilled to share an interview with author Alwyn Hamilton!
You can read the full interview free here: paperboundmag.com/2025/03/24/i...
Thanks to @faberchildrens.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social 💜
Top-down photo of book, My Mum by Laura Dockrill.
‘These poems were originally written as a loving ode to my mum, celebrating her wonderful, fearless and unapologetic nature.’
Read an extract from Laura Dockrill’s new introduction to her book of poems celebrating the wonder of mothers, My Mum:
www.faber.co.uk/journal/extr...
'There are so many books about love and kindness in our market, but are there enough about violence?'
We are delighted to be publishing @juliangough.bsky.social and Ross Collins' hilarious picture book When Tad Kicked Vlad. Coming February 2026!
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...
Last week #Carnegies2025 shortlistee Margaret McDonald joined BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland to talk about her book Glasgow Boys - described by Andrew O'Hagan as "tenderness itself" - and what the shortlisting means to her.
@faberchildrens.bsky.social
🎧 From 2:50:13 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
We are so thrilled to see @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social's Glasgow Boys and @mariesadulak.bsky.social and @rebeccacobb.bsky.social's There's a Tiger on the Train on the UKLA Book Awards 2025 shortlist! 🎉@uklitassociation.bsky.social
18.03.2025 09:56 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Dracula and Daughters cover
This September, prepare to sink your fangs into Dracula & Daughters, the first book in a gloriously gothic new adventure series from million-copy bestselling author Emma Carroll.
Cover Art by Alice Guidi.🦇
@emcarrollauthor.bsky.social
Faber is looking to recruit a Publicity Manager on our Children’s team. Could it be you?
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for children’s books and connecting them to readers.
faber.co.uk/careers/childrens-publicity-manager/
Debut author and #Carnegies2025 shortlistee Margaret McDonald joined Scotland Tonight last night to talk about her book Glasgow Boys and her Carnegie shortlisting.
@faberchildrens.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @cilipscotland.bsky.social
📽️ Watch from 16:32: player.stv.tv/episode/4pju...
Huge congratulations to @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social who has been shortlisted for the #Carnegies2025 for her brilliant debut novel, Glasgow Boys 💙 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
11.03.2025 16:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Are you ready to sink your fangs into something VERY exciting next Monday?
10.03.2025 12:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
me, a white middle aged man in a lovely vintage tweed jacket and cool glasses, holding a copy of my book "the magic in you", with an expression that says that I can't quite believe this is happening
For #worldbookday I have dressed up as an autistic son of two librarians, who, after writing since he was a kid, is getting his first book published by @faberchildrens.bsky.social this year.
Preorder it at www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-You-Ma...
#kidlit #writer #magic #selfhelp #kidsbooks
📚🎉Competition Time🎉📚
Happy World Book Day to all who celebrate!
This year, we’re offering one lucky school or library the chance to win a bundle of Faber Children’s books!
For the chance to win, head on over to our Instagram page via this link:
www.instagram.com/p/DG2v1H9Iiq...
Cover image of The Coming of the Iron Man picture book by Ted Hughes and Mini Grey.
And here's an exclusive preview of The Coming of the Iron Man by award-winning illustrator Mini Grey, the first picture book edition of this beloved story. Out 14 August.
26.02.2025 13:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Top-down photo of various editions of The Iron Man by Ted Hughes, scattered on a wooden floor.
‘A visionary tale.’ Michael Morpurgo
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff.
Where had he come from? Nobody knows.
How was he made? Nobody knows.
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes was first published #OnThisDay in 1968. Which edition is your favourite?
Copy of the book and its press release. The cover shows a complex mixture of flowers, axes and a wolf’s head in grey and green gemstones.
Hugely looking forward to reading #TheNotoriousVirtues by Alwyn Hamilton and joining the upcoming blog tour. Thanks to @thewritereads.bsky.social @faberchildrens.bsky.social for sending this gorgeous romantasy thriller, publishing 27/03.
24.02.2025 14:00 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
