Gothic style painting with monster and victim. Dark trees. Grey sky. The stories behind classic Gothic Tales ๐งโโ๏ธWhat inspired Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker , Mary Shelley & RL Stevenson to write their tales of horror?
Two children silhouetted in a clearing in an eerie wood. Towering trees. Dark and gloomy. Murky blues and blacks.
Dark background. 3 Figures silhouetted within flames ๐ฅ . Fir ๐ฒ trees in background. Whete thereโs smoke thereโs a liar.
Face with pink glasses , dark hair and nails ๐
emerging from box.
Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
A Skinful of Shadows
Long Lankin
Lies Like Wildfire
Oxford Blood
Wakenhyrst
Empty Heaven
Eerie Indiana
Nightmare- The Birth of Horror
๐ is coming #bookbloggers #librarians #spookyreads #booksforhalloween #GothicTales
26.10.2025 13:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
Announcing the Children's Booker Prize | The Booker Prize
FABULOUS news!
The Childrenโs Booker Prize supported by AKO Foundation will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged 8-12 years old, written in or translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland
#worldkidlit #UkKidLit #irishkidlit #xl8
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26.10.2025 09:33 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Girl in the distance beside a twisted tree. Green writing. Gothic style cover.
Haunted face side profile shadowed by cobwebs. Black and white close up. Orange writing. Cobwebs ๐ธ in background . Eerie effect.
Hands with feathers ๐ชถ, owls ๐ฆ bears ๐ป, snake, key at top, two fire ๐ฅ balls. Twisted branches
& leaves.
Sea creatures, Jellyfish holding sea craft, squid ๐ฆ, star fish, hybrids. Deep dark blue sea.
What are your favourites? I love. Such imaginative world building & wonderful character dilemmas.Exciting language like susurration & vivid imagery. @carnegiemedals.bsky.social short lists.
25.10.2025 10:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Depending on what genres you like, ST is a high octane spy quest adventure set in an unusual school. Think Count of Monte Cristo meets Oliver Twist. MQ is a wacky, hilarious delight, Solo is an emotive YA verse novel & WFA is ๐๐จ๐ฎโ๏ธabout secrets & lies while a teen searches for her father.
25.10.2025 09:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I love Frances Hardingeโs writing โ๏ธ Itโs full of mystery, gothic menace , historical detail, the fantastical, highly imaginative storyscapes, startling imagery & lyrical language. โค๏ธ๐
25.10.2025 09:30 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Exciting! #kidlituk #ukkidlit #ukya
25.10.2025 07:05 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Blue & gold. Figures on rooftop.
Blue & yellow. Figures in lab coats standing on top of a long worm with lots of teeth.
Peach background. Girl hanging off a recorder.
Flicker effect of blue & white. Figure in shadow with back to the sun.
Not so much reading slump - more compulsive reads. #KidsBooksFriday #UKKidLit #MG #YA ๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ๐ป๐ถ๐ฅผ๐ฌ๐ถ๐ญ๐จ๐๐ฎ #bookbloggers #librarians
24.10.2025 12:51 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Book cover for The Spick and the Span by Pil Van Martin
Book cover for A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
Book cover for The Wall Between Us by Dan Smith
Book cover for Squished by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter
Iโve been in a right reading slump lately. Iโm conscious itโs often just the right book coming along at the right time that does the trick, but what books have helped you or the kids in your life get out of a reading slump?
#KidsBooksFriday
#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
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Thanks @jacquisydney.bsky.social More to add to the TBR ๐คฃ๐๐๐๐๐
22.10.2025 19:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I loved Goldfish Boy
22.10.2025 18:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Book challenge poster. White background. Blue writing. Book characters as decoration.
Red panda atop a green leafy tree overlooking Cave Hill
Backs of 4 boys dressed in jackets & jeans facing towards an arch way topped by a cross & an oncoming light resembling a portal/ vortex. Street lamp. Overcast dark blue sky.
Peach background. Girl hanging off white recorder.
#IrishBookWeek #IrishBookaDay catch up 18th @bookspapersciss.bsky.social 19th An Panda Rua 20th Doomsday @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social 21st Solo #versenovel @littleislandbooks.bsky.social 22nd Fia ๐ฆ@eilishfisher.bsky.social bookbloggers #librarians
22.10.2025 00:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Dark blue background with flowers, creatures & symbols. Churchyard with graves & house in grey at top of cover.
Green & yellow. Black rose, lake with spooky cowled figure rising from whirlpool, creepy house in background & full moon in top right hand corner. Darkening sky. Green leaves.
Black background, gold edging of flowers , single eye ๐ in cameo at top, house below. Gothic style cover.
Blue background. Troubled girl in white with flowing hair. Black writing.
More Book ๐ recommendations for ๐the Spooky Season #UKKidLit #Librarians #BookBloggers #ReadingRecommendations ๐๐๐ป๐ #SpookyBooks @michellepaver.bsky.social @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social @spookypurcell.bsky.social
21.10.2025 20:13 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Frozen blue background. Line of creepy dolls
Skeleton writing at desk with a quill. Background of bookcases & portrait. Sepia, yellow & red.
White background, black raven with a bleeding ๐ฉธ drop of red blood & unspooled red thread. Border of feathers. Spooky.
Girl on roots of tree facing murky blue whirlpool hovering over house with lit windows. Skeletal hand at top of dripping tree. Watching eye. Not all monsters come out at night.
Book ๐ recommendations for ๐the Spooky Season on @bookamore23 www.instagram.com/reel/DP7KjIq...
Including Frozen ๐ฅถ Charlotte by Alex Bell, Gloam by Jack MacKay, witchcraft @strangelymagic.bsky.social & stories from Anthony Horowitz #bookbloggers #UKKidLit #Librarians
20.10.2025 17:26 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Sky Song is my favourite too.Wonderful world building
20.10.2025 15:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Set of 4. Green, blue, white, orange. Characters travelling in different ways- tight rope, hot air balloon, boat, dragon ๐ Jungle scape, snow scape, sea scape.
Iโd recommend Abi Elphinstone. Fun, imaginative adventures.
18.10.2025 15:58 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Orange sky. Soldier in historic battle dress. Dog sitting on mound.
Iโve got Rebel & Cobweb on my TBR. ๐
18.10.2025 15:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Mountain ๐, dragon ๐ & children above village spires. Grey, blue & green palette.
Green background. Pinned Photos. Monster with a magnifying glass.
Grey, orange & yellow. Lit windows behind gates.
Skeleton on front of book ๐ set in range of colours- Blue, green, red, yellow, orange, turquoise, brown, purple, grey
More mysteries to solve #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
17.10.2025 09:18 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Hotel ๐จ with arched windows & a story in each. Green mice ๐ running riot. Follow different characters around the hotel.
This is a visual adventure but who caused the disaster? #KidsBooksFriday #UKKidLit
17.10.2025 08:15 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Blue & yellow. Game squared with dice. Running boy followed by girl travelling on playing piece followed by child running from vault across playing squares.
Girlโs face with bee clip in hair. Divided cover. Green background.
Sepia & red. Portraits. Faces.
Two children standing with box. Campsite ๐ in background.
#KidsBooksFriday Solve the mystery. Also #TheLondonEyeMystery by Siobhan Dowd & #TheGuggenheimMystery @redbreastedbird.bsky.social
17.10.2025 08:10 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Brilliant. Such a twist. โค๏ธ๐ Have you read this one too? Those Sinclairs are troubled.
16.10.2025 20:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
A compulsive read full of secrets, tangled relationships, creative dreams & art ๐จ๐นas a girl takes an odyssey in search of her father during a long, hot summer. #YA #UKKidLit @netgalley.bsky.social #BookBloggers #Librarians #Mythology
#FairyTales
16.10.2025 10:42 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Deep blues, dark silhouettes of boy, tree & ravens. Gold writing.
Child silhouetted in window. Blue sky & stars outside โญ๏ธ
Dark blue & sky blue. Twirling pink stars. Silhouettes of birds. Spiralling ๐ water.
Leaving the dust bowl in search of greener pastures. View of a train of migrants travelling towards blue mountains in the distance. Child (seated) man in work dungarees & bare feet (standing) & woman (seated) in foreground . Car in dusty grey. A dream of a better future.
When characters live on a page they live in your hearts & teach you lessons. #BookBloggers #Librarians #Literature
14.10.2025 09:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
14.10.2025 07:19 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
And Wild Wood by Jan Needle illustrated by Willie Rushton, which is a class satire of The Wind in the Willows
13.10.2025 19:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Umbrella โ Mouse ๐ is the coolest but Fire Cats is out of the stratosphere. Itโs set during the Great Fire of London. Itโs full of danger, excitement & historical details.
13.10.2025 19:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Will have to check that out. Hereโs another fantastic cat ๐ adventure
13.10.2025 15:59 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Love The Wind in the Willows, Deptford & Redwall are on my TBR & my mum read The Mouse & His Child to me when I was small but another favourite has to be Mrs Frisby & the Rats of Nimh.
13.10.2025 15:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Orange & black with animal silhouettes integrated into shape of feather ๐ชถ
Frozen blue & white snowscape with 3 young rabbits ๐ , one of whom is missing an ear.
Violet & pink sunset . 3 cats in foreground with 2 facing in & 1 side profile. Silhouette of child in background. Silvery Glow of water.
Orange & blue feathers surrounding parrot ๐ฆ sitting on T of title in centre.
Sharing some of my favourite animal adventures @charlienutbrown.bsky.social @kieranlarwood.bsky.social What are yours?
#UKKidLit #BookBloggers @jacquisydney.bsky.social @bookcraic.bsky.social @slatterymr.bsky.social @hookablebooks.bsky.social @stpaulslibraryni.bsky.social #Librarians
13.10.2025 13:58 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1
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