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Hero the Highway Girl by Penny Chrimes September 2025 Hero the Highway Girl is the kind of book that wraps around you, drawing you deep into the story and its unforgettable characters. From the very first page, I was completely captivat…

This is such a great review! Thank you! @kateheap.bsky.social
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Huge congratulations to Chloë Heuch for her Wales Book of the Year shortlisting with marvellous middle-grade A History of My Weird 🎉

The book and its press release. The book’s cover shows the silhouetted head of a wolf in profile against a red background.

Set in a Georgian world filled with highwaymen and tricksters, swashbuckling middle grade Hero the Highway Girl by Penny Chrimes sounds just like my kind of read. Out 04/08, huge thanks go to Grace @fireflypress.bsky.social for my gifted proof copy.

This is such a fun book, brilliant 🤩😂

Book: Grimstink

This bad boy (and he is a very bad boy) comes out two months today. The absolute best way of getting a copy is to preorder from your local bookshop, which in my neck of the woods means the brilliant @bforbutterflybooks.bsky.social or sensational @serenitybookshop.bsky.social

Amazing surprise #bookmail!!!

Hero the Highway Girl by Penny Chrimes

This sounds so good and the author's name is very apt for the book 😄

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Welcome, Monty Mini Fest Join us for our first Monty Mini Fest for fun and stories with some brilliant writers and illustrators for children of all ages

Prize-winner @clairefayers.bsky.social and Mid Wales' own Beatrice Wallbank join broadcaster Lucy Owen and illustrator Rebecca Harry in our NEW children's Minifest. 2 min blog on a legacy for young readers

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Chuffed and grateful that the very first response to Grimstink is as generous as this

The book and its press release. The book’s cover shows a group of 4 children, one of whom is wearing a glowing pink crystal pendant around their neck, with alien heads floating above them on the right and slices of cheese, tomato and pickle on the left.

Well, this looks like the most enormous fun! Huge thanks to @fireflypress.bsky.social for sending me a proof of hilarious sci-fi comedy #Grimstink by @idanielpeak.bsky.social. Out 10/07 for middle grade readers 😀 #KidlitUK #UKKidlit

I 💖 surprise #bookpost and this one looks absolutely hilarious!

Grimstink by Daniel Peak 👽

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2025 Mini Fest Sunday - 11.45am Beatrice Wallbank Adventure and magic on small island full of legends, off the Welsh coast.

What's the allure of that line of rocks reaching out into the sea?

Find out with #beatricewallbank at Monty Minifest on Sunday 8th June. Let her "The Sleeping Stones" inspire your children to write their own magic!

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2025 Mini Fest Sunday - 10.45am Lucy Owen and Rebecca Harry Lucy Owen reads from The Sea House and shares interesting facts about the different sea creatures in the book - while illustrator Rebecca Harry shows you how to draw them.

Meet BBC broadcaster Lucy Owen at Monty Minifest, together with the illustrator of her new book, Rebecca Harry.

"The Sea House", about loss and friendship, is also a cunning introduction to sea creatures 🤫

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Hero the Highway Girl NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

Delighted that NetGalley has my new book HERO THE HIGHWAY GIRL - it's galloping towards publication date on Thursday September 4 with the amazing @fireflypress.bsky.social. Do have a look!

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Exploring climate change from a new perspective, Fishfolk is a tale of loss, hope, magic and truth. Set in an ancient world where the sea is taking over the land, a family tries to make sense of darkness and find their way out of extinction.
Steven Quincey-Jones
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Writer interview: Daniel Peak — Children's Books North This week's Northern Highlight, Daniel Peak, tells us about his new book Grimstink to be published in July by Firefly Press.

Thank you to @cbnnetwork.bsky.social for having me as this week’s Northern Highlight. If you’d like to read the interview, it’s here. If you wouldn’t like to read it it’s still here:

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Illustration of characters Michael the sausage dog and Stanley Big Dog running towards the viewer with hiking bags and Michael holding a map. They are running on the earth with skyscrapers, palm trees and mountains behind them.

Taking part in this year's race are friends Michael and Stanley! ⁠
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Cover image of Kate Mallinder’s upcoming YA novel, Summer Under the Stars. The cover features a background of light blue at the top and royal blue at the bottom. In the centre is a red car viewed from the rear with four girls inside, three with arms out the windows in a joyous manner. The title is mostly blue and white and placed over the whole cover, ending with “stars” in red cursive. Little white stars litter the cover.

CALLING ALL:
🚘️ booksellers
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🚘️ school staff
🚘️ reviewers

🌞 Fancying a summery YA read for the weekend? 🌞
#SummerUndertheStars is available to request on Netgalley now!

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Project Pony is a lovely story of family. Natalie doesn't like the idea of her mum having a boyfriend - she's worried she'll be left out. Maybe taking Mum to an "Own Your Own Pony Week" will remind her that horses and Natalie are all she needs.
Coming 1 May
Camilla Chester
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Graphic with books: Flame Chasers by Julie Pike and Whatever Happened to Rick Astley by Bryony Rheam

Join Firefly Press and Parthian at the lovely North Books in Hay on Wye on Wednesday, April 23rd from 5pm to 7.30pm with authors Bryony Rheam and Julie Pike to find out more about our summer books, flame birds and whatever happened to Rick Astley. With wine and Welsh cakes 📚🍷

This month’s #KindleMonthlyDeals in Australia include...
#TheDollTwin, #MichaelTheAmazingMindReadingSausageDog, #SummerOfNoRegrets & #TheTenRiddlesOfEarthaQuicksmith

Ends 30th April: www.amazon.com.au/s?k=firefly+...

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Image of 12 longlisted books for the Jhalak Prize Children’s and YA category on a blue background. They are: Bringing Back Kay-Kay, Dev Kothari (Walker) Flower Block, Lanisha Butterfield & Hoang Giang (Puffin) It's Time to Hush and Say Goodnight, Chitra Soundar, ill Sandhya Prabhat (Walker) King of Nothing, Nathanael Lessore (Hot Key) Little Dinosaurs Big Feelings, Swapna Haddow & Yiting Lee (Magic Cat) Mayowa and the Sea of Words, Chibundu Onuzo (Bloomsbury) Red Sky at Night, Poet's Delight, Alex Wharton, ill Ian Morris (Firefly Press) The Boy to Beat the Gods, Ashley Thorpe (Usborne) The Gift, Jii and Nikos Parkes Trepkas (Tate Publishing) The Hidden Story of Estie Noor, Nadine Aisha Jassat, ill Sandhya Prabhat (Orion) The Thread That Connects Us, Ayaan Mohamud (Usborne) These Stolen Lives, Sharada Keats (Scholastic)

Thrilled to see #RedSkyatNightPoetsDelight by the sensational #AlexWharton on the #JhalakPrize25 C&YA longlist 🥳📕

Screenshot from Sort Your Life Out on BBC One, episode 5:7, timestamp 44:53 showing Dilly organising a book caddy full of favourite books, including Major and Mynah by Karen Owen and Louise Forshaw

#MajorandMynah spotted on #BBCOne #SortYourLifeOut last night! A favourite book of a girl with deaf parents, it’s so heartwarming to see our books in the hands of readers who love them 📚♥️

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Thanks so much for your wonderful words @jacquisydney.bsky.social 🥰🐌

A picture of activity sheets for new chapter book “snails of the unexpected” including a maze, word search and snails quiz

CALLING ALL:⁠
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SNAILS OF THE UNEXPECTED Feline fun and adventures in the not so everyday life of a stray cat turned Princess, and the world as she sees it...

SNAILS OF THE UNEXPECTED by @cowfishdreams.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social is our No1 READ Join the Fun & Adventure as the Blog Tour reaches Upper Much-Mousing, I swear you'll never look at snails or lemon drizzle cake in the same way EVER again! erinthecatprincess.blogspot.com/2025/04/snai...

Blog Tour: Snails of the Unexpected — Through the Bookshelf I am delighted to be taking part in the Blog Tour for ‘Snails of the Unexpected’, the hilarious new book from Terrie Chilvers. Apart from some jealousy about the mud jacuzzi for the slugs in next do...

It's my turn today on the Blog Tour for the laugh-a minute treat which is 'Snails of the Unexpected' @cowfishdreams.bsky.social illustrated by Brenda Figueroa
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I'm ending the blog tour for #SnailsoftheUnexpected with a two-winner giveaway!
Check out my review ⬇️

To enter:
🐌FW @cowfishdreams.bsky.social , @brendafigueroa.bsky.social & @kateheap.bsky.social
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Belated happy book birthday to the brilliant @cowfishdreams.bsky.social and the equally brilliant #SnailsoftheUnexpected 🎉🎉
Can’t express how much I love this title and concept!
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A graphic with the covers of the 20 books on the longlist for the 2025 Branford Boase Award. Established in 2000, the Branford Boase is awarded to the author and - uniquely - the editor of the year's outstanding debut book for children and young people. It highlights the best new writers for children and puts the editor's skill in the spotlight too.

Set up in memory of award-winning author Henrietta Branford & her editor Wendy Boase, the #BranfordBoaseAward is given annually to author and editor of the year’s outstanding debut novel for children. Discover the books up for this year's award #KidLit branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2025-longlist/

The shortlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing & Carnegie Medal for Illustration are here! 16 books, 8 in each category. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors & illustrators and explore the lists now 📚 🏆 #Carnegies2025 #UKKidLit
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