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Imogen Russell Williams

@imogenrw.bsky.social

Kids’ book critic, esp for The Guardian

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Dammit

06.01.2026 19:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LOUIE WHY

05.01.2026 11:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

SO MATURE

02.11.2025 19:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Omg I hear this

27.09.2025 07:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Gita! ❤️

21.06.2025 16:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now From dazzling debuts to unmissable memoirs, prize-winning novels to page-turning histories … Plus our pick of paperbacks and children’s fiction

I feel today it should he the coolest books to read now 😮‍💨 www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

21.06.2025 15:43 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Will keep thinking!

20.06.2025 11:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ultrawild by Steve Mushin? Not funny throughout (though there is poo aplenty) but mind-expandingly thrilling ideas of how we might engineer a future!

20.06.2025 11:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

OH MY GOD THIS IS NOT A DRILL

24.05.2025 08:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Review in Graun today (also the NUMBER OF PEOPLE TO WHOM I HAVE HANDSOLD)

24.05.2025 08:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh thank you for spotting Gita! 🙏🏽

23.05.2025 14:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mwhahaha

12.05.2025 16:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels A gosling grows up; a campaign to save trees; the impact of partition; thorny dilemmas; wearing a hijab in Essex and more

New column went up! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

25.04.2025 13:11 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

YES I just reread The Little Broomstick and had exactly this

23.03.2025 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Super happy to be returning as a #BritishBookAwards judge for Children’s Non-Fiction! What a stellar line-up of judges for all the awards - www.thebookseller.com/nibbies @the-bookseller.bsky.social

29.01.2025 10:10 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels Animal magic, little dinosaurs, dangerous strangers, death-flies and zombies, four lost girls who live wild in the woods and more

Jan roundup! Glorious books from @swapnahaddow.bluesky.social @mglnrd.bluesky.social @lawrencepatrice.bluesky.social @alicenuttallbooks.bluesky.social @whusseyauthor.bluesky.social @madelineclaire.bluesky.social and many more
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

25.01.2025 11:19 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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.

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/

23.01.2025 08:11 — 👍 22    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 3
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She is enjoying!

02.01.2025 19:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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What my 98yo grandma is reading
@patricknessbooks.bsky.social. (It’s true what they say, YA readers are getting older…)

02.01.2025 18:57 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

🥳🥳🥳

28.12.2024 10:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just a glorious book!

28.12.2024 10:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels Sibling rivalry, a massive shark, anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, a brilliant romcom, and a tale of power and betrayal

Last kids roundup of 2024 - gorgeous 📚 from @karlnewson.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @martinimpey.bsky.social @hilarymckay.bsky.social @anjasusanj.bsky.social @chrisvickwrites.bsky.social @andy-p.bsky.social and more ✨ www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

28.12.2024 10:03 — 👍 28    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 8

Let’s have that walk in the new year! 🎄

21.12.2024 18:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

❤️❤️❤️
“WHY ARE YOUR HANDS ON BITS OF STRING, CHILD?”

“Glubs.”
That is utterly terrifying, I quite want it!

20.12.2024 18:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

😂😂😂

20.12.2024 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m starting the yearly reread of TDIR tomorrow with this one, the edition closest to my heart. 70s Puffin cover designers did NOT fuck about - has haunted me since I was about 8!

20.12.2024 16:23 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

DON’T THINK I HAVEN’T DOODLED

19.12.2024 13:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

19.12.2024 12:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Noooo take it AWAY I don’t need any further inspiration 😍

19.12.2024 12:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🥰🥰🥰 Did I tell you I was desperate for a Fire and Hemlock tattoo? That may have to happen in 2025…

19.12.2024 12:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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