Tanja at Good Night To Read

#PariThomson #ElsaPaginelli #Ecofiction

Tiger book mark inside book with orange sprayed edges with tree motif

Inside front pages . Orange background. Jaguar on left & toucan on right. Plants and clouds. Yellow, green, white, black and orange colour palette.

Map of an imagined place. Green, orange and blue. Water, treehouses, macaw with orange chest & blue wings, plants.

#Viewfromabook #GoAllIn with Eco Tastic fiction #NationalYearofReading2026 #GreenwildForestintheSky #Pariathomson @mackidssl.bsky.social #UKKidLit #BookBloggers #Librarians Just as exciting, compelling & imaginative as the first two. 🐆

Congratulations @jacquisydney.bsky.social What an amazing book blogger achievement & a magical book too ❤️📚

Blue & pink sky. Stars. Boy with a unicorn horn.

Green, orange and blue covers. Boy in super hero outfit with iguana.

Orange & black sky with stars. Floating girl in space suit. Carnivorous cakes.

Blue sky. Boy in school uniform with white wings about to crash land.

#KidsBooksFriday Lots of laughs in these heart warming & fun junior reads with quirky illustrations & cool characters. #UKKidLit #Bookbloggers @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social @rikinparekh.bsky.social #DaveRoman #TwoSteves #comics

Book cover for Donut Squad: Take Over the World! by Neill Cameron

Book cover for Mr Wolf’s Class by Aron Nels Steinke

Book cover for Jinks and O’Hare, Funfair Repair by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre

Book cover for Punycorn by Andi Watson

As grown-ups we can often fall into the trap of leaning towards serious or ‘issue heavy’ kid’s books, forgetting that kids also need and deserve books that just bring joy.

So for #KidsBooksFriday this week, what are your top fun / silly / joyful book recommendations?

#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

Some great books in this year’s #ReadForEmpathy collection.

#UKKidLit
#KidLitUK
#KidLit
#EduSky

Do you use Canva?

Love these books. Russell’s sister Lillian’s raccoon story is very funny. #bookbloggers #librarians #UKKidLit #ChildrensBooks #russellhoban #lillianhoban

Currently reading eco tastic adventure #GreenwildForestintheSky by #PariThomson @mackidssl.bsky.social
Just 78 pages in and it is so exciting & imaginative suffused with a vital environmental message. #NationalYearofReading2026 #Bookbloggers #Librarians #GoAllIn2026 #UKKidLit #Rainforests

Book cover for The Restaurant at the Edge of the World by Oliver Gerlach and Kelsi Jo Silva.

Thanks to all who recommended The Restaurant at the Edge of the World by @olliegerlach.bsky.social and @kelsijosilva.bsky.social. I absolutely loved it. A tender story, characters to really care about and utterly gorgeous art. Perfect for fans of Wynd / Bree Paulsen / K. O’Neill. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

Madeline Martin
Last Bookshop in London
#NationalYearofReading2026 #GoAllIn2026 #Historicalfiction 📚

Girl in purple standing in the window of a London bookshop reading. View of Big Ben outside.

“Reading is going somewhere without taking a train or a ship.An unveiling of new, incredible worlds.It’s living a life you weren’t born into & a chance to see everything coloured by someone else’s perspective.It’s learning without having to face consequences of failures & how best to succeed.”
M M

📚 As part of the National Year of Reading, we’re sharing a series of short conversations with people who are passionate about promoting children's reading, about what they do and how you can get involved.
🎉 First up @moohara.bsky.social from Stepping Into Stories Kids’ Lit Fest #UKKidLit #KidLitUK

I love @strangelymagic.bsky.social ✍️ Addresses important social issues and benefits charities too. I’ve posted Spotlight blog tour features about her different books here- goodnighttoread.wordpress.com

Now, who’s envious 😀🤩

Dark blue with black silhouettes of two girls, a fox 🦊, a gazelle and flowers.

Stormy grey sky and back of boy in boat facing into waves.

Light blue cover. Pink ballet shoes.

Orange background. White flowers. Damaged buildings in red. Figure walking up centre in white silhouette.

All wonderfully empathetic books with nuanced characters and absorbing plots. #Bookbloggers #librarians #KidsBooksFriday #NationalYearofReading2026 #GoAllIn2026 #Refugeefiction #Historicalfiction #ArmchairTravel

Blue waves, cog wheels, compass, blue butterfly. Nautical style cover.

Coloured NYR logos- pink, purple, yellow, peppermint, red

Black & white NYR logo.

Goes to the top of my TBR. Thank you @slatterymr.bsky.social #bookbloggers #librarians #NationalYearofReading2026 #GoAllIn2026 #UKKidLit #ScienceFiction #TimeTravel

Yellow, green and black. Cartoon style cover. Boy inside Red star. Movie clapperboard. Musical notes. Other characters at side.

Yellow, green and black. Cartoon style back cover blurb about a boy with a dream.

Will Hari get his lucky break? Can’t wait to find out. Thank you @harpercollins.bsky.social #RashmiSirdeshpande #bookbloggers #librarians #UKKidLit #NationalYearofReading2026 #Goallin2026

@gnofhorror.com

Yellow and black cover. Monster with gaping mouth. Two figures in silhouette facing threat .

Black and white NYR Go All in Card

Yellow, red, purple, green, pink. Go all in logo. Readers pictured.

Going to jump into this. Thank you @barringtonstoke.bsky.social #bookbloggers #librarians #UKKidLit #jenniferkillick #NationalYearofReading2026 #Goallin2026

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #NationalYearofReading #ReadingforPleasure

Looks exciting.

Review: Quill and the Last Generation Written by C.M. LewisCover illustration by Khadijah KhatibInterior Illustrations by Marina VidalPublished by MacMillan Children’s Books Quill and the Last Generation is the first book in a st…

Quill and the Last Generation is the first book in a stunning, epic fantasy adventure series inspired by Welsh mythology bookcraic.blog/2026/01/25/r... Out on 29th Jan. @panmacmillan.bsky.social #UKKidLit

Grey heron (Grey,black and white) on river bank. Gold and green vegetation.

@bbcspringwatch.bsky.social #WinterWatch ❄️River Sentinel- Grey Heron #Ulsterwildlife

Blue background. Various birds pictured including a Lapwing with a distinctive green back & feathery plume.

White cover. Green writing. Robin redbreast, Blue Tit and Gold Crest birds featured.

Two adults with binoculars. Vignettes of water birds including a tufted duck

Dark blue, pink & purple sky. Twinkling silver stars. Badger 🦡 , Fox 🦊, Owl 🦉 and moth among the nocturnal animals pictured. Blue, yellow and green vegetation.

#KidsBooksFriday #BigGardenBirdWatch #BigSchoolBirdWatch 🦅 #BBCWinterWatch

#ukkidlit #kidlituk

#GoAllIn #NationalYearofReading2026
R is for Rebellious
E is for Exciting
A is for Adventurous
D is for Dizzying
I is for Imaginative
N is for Nurturing
G is for Glorious ❤️📚#bookbloggers #librarians #UKKidLit #Acrostic

Thanks so much. Another one for my TBR ❤️📚📚📚

I love timeslip stories! A childhood favourite was ‘Jessamy’ by Barbara Sleigh, also Charlotte Sometimes! ‘The Night I Borrowed Time’ by Iqbal Hussain is a fab recent read.

The Night I Borrowed Time by Iqbal Hussain Cover illustration copyright © Hazem Asif, 2026 In one of those bizarre coincidences that happen from time to time, a review copy of this new title arrived in the post less than an hour after I had…

Out now, middle grade The Night I Borrowed Time by @ihussainwriter.bsky.social is a brilliant time-travel adventure that also looks at the effects of parental separation and Partition.

@puffinbooksuk.bsky.social

#KidlitUK #UKKidlit

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