Good Night To Read

Gothic style painting with monster and victim. Dark trees. Grey sky. The stories behind classic Gothic Tales 🧛‍♂️What 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 🔥 . Fir 🌲 trees in background. Whete there’s smoke there’s a liar.

Face with pink glasses , dark hair and nails 💅 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
🎃 is coming #bookbloggers #librarians #spookyreads #booksforhalloween #GothicTales

YouTube video by The Booker Prizes Announcing the Children's Booker Prize | The Booker Prize

FABULOUS news!
The Children’s 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
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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 🕸 in background . Eerie effect.

Hands with feathers 🪶, owls 🦉 bears 🐻, snake, key at top, two fire 🔥 balls. Twisted branches & leaves.

Sea creatures, Jellyfish holding sea craft, squid 🦑, 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.

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 🌊🎨🎮☀️about secrets & lies while a teen searches for her father.

I love Frances Hardinge’s writing ✍️ It’s full of mystery, gothic menace , historical detail, the fantastical, highly imaginative storyscapes, startling imagery & lyrical language. ❤️📚

Exciting! #kidlituk #ukkidlit #ukya

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 🕵️‍♂️🗻💶🥼🔬🎶🎭🎨🌊🎮 #bookbloggers #librarians

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

I’ve been in a right reading slump lately. I’m conscious it’s 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
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Thanks @jacquisydney.bsky.social More to add to the TBR 🤣📚📚📚📚📚

I loved Goldfish Boy

The Magpie Riddle (The Goldfish Boy 2) by Lisa Thompson Cover illustration © Mike Lowery, 2021, 2025 I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’m a reader who tends to start series with Book 1 and then – depending on how much I’ve…

A fabulous middle grade mystery, that looks at friendship and how we treat one another, here’s the link to my review of The Magpie Riddle by Lisa Thompson.

@scholasticuk.bsky.social

#KidlitUK #UKKidlit

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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 🦌@eilishfisher.bsky.social bookbloggers #librarians

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 👁 in cameo at top, house below. Gothic style cover.

Blue background. Troubled girl in white with flowing hair. Black writing.

More Book 📚 recommendations for 🎃the Spooky Season #UKKidLit #Librarians #BookBloggers #ReadingRecommendations 📚💀👻🎃 #SpookyBooks @michellepaver.bsky.social @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social @spookypurcell.bsky.social

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 🩸 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 📚 recommendations for 🎃the Spooky Season on @bookamore23 www.instagram.com/reel/DP7KjIq...
Including Frozen 🥶 Charlotte by Alex Bell, Gloam by Jack MacKay, witchcraft @strangelymagic.bsky.social & stories from Anthony Horowitz #bookbloggers #UKKidLit #Librarians

Sky Song is my favourite too.Wonderful world building

Set of 4. Green, blue, white, orange. Characters travelling in different ways- tight rope, hot air balloon, boat, dragon 🐉 Jungle scape, snow scape, sea scape.

I’d recommend Abi Elphinstone. Fun, imaginative adventures.

Orange sky. Soldier in historic battle dress. Dog sitting on mound.

I’ve got Rebel & Cobweb on my TBR. 📚

Mountain 🏔, dragon 🐉 & 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 📚 set in range of colours- Blue, green, red, yellow, orange, turquoise, brown, purple, grey

More mysteries to solve #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

Hotel 🏨 with arched windows & a story in each. Green mice 🐁 running riot. Follow different characters around the hotel.

This is a visual adventure but who caused the disaster? #KidsBooksFriday #UKKidLit

Blue & yellow. Game squared with dice. Running boy followed by girl travelling on playing piece followed by child running from vault across playing squares.

Girl’s face with bee clip in hair. Divided cover. Green background.

Sepia & red. Portraits. Faces.

Two children standing with box. Campsite 🏕 in background.

#KidsBooksFriday Solve the mystery. Also #TheLondonEyeMystery by Siobhan Dowd & #TheGuggenheimMystery @redbreastedbird.bsky.social

Brilliant. Such a twist. ❤️📚 Have you read this one too? Those Sinclairs are troubled.

A compulsive read full of secrets, tangled relationships, creative dreams & art 🎨🕹as a girl takes an odyssey in search of her father during a long, hot summer. #YA #UKKidLit @netgalley.bsky.social #BookBloggers #Librarians #Mythology
#FairyTales

Deep blues, dark silhouettes of boy, tree & ravens. Gold writing.

Child silhouetted in window. Blue sky & stars outside ⭐️

Dark blue & sky blue. Twirling pink stars. Silhouettes of birds. Spiralling 🌀 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

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And Wild Wood by Jan Needle illustrated by Willie Rushton, which is a class satire of The Wind in the Willows

Umbrella ☂ Mouse 🐁 is the coolest but Fire Cats is out of the stratosphere. It’s set during the Great Fire of London. It’s full of danger, excitement & historical details.

Will have to check that out. Here’s another fantastic cat 🐈 adventure

My Life as a Cat by Carlie Sorosiak Cover artwork by Ben Mantle As a teacher, I try not to compare children who are related to one another but treat them as individuals; likewise, as a reader, I try not to compare book ‘sibling…

My Life as a Cat by Carlie Sorosiak, off the top of my head. It’s a few years since I read it but it’s absolutely gorgeous x

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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.

Orange & black with animal silhouettes integrated into shape of feather 🪶

Frozen blue & white snowscape with 3 young rabbits 🐇 , 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 🦜 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