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Writing a Children's Picture Book course with Curtis Brown Creative Turn your ideas into fully-fledged storybook texts for 2-6-year-olds with advice from children's author, David O'Connell.

Turn your ideas into fully-fledged storybook texts for 2-6-year-olds with advice from children’s book author & illustrator @davidoconnell.bsky.social! 🖼️

Our six-week online course will teach you the fundamentals behind writing a picture book.

Course starts next Thurs:

Writing & Illustrating a Children's Picture Book with Curtis Brown Creative Our 10-week writing and illustrating a picture book course helps you learn how to bring new worlds to life on the page as you create stories and characters that capture the imaginations and hearts of…

⏰ Time is running out to join our Writing & Illustrating a Children’s Picture Book course!

You'll learn from prolific children’s book author-illustrators @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social and @davidoconnell.bsky.social as they share insights into their work.

Course starts next Thurs:

Create brilliant stories for young readers! 📖🖌️

Our ten-week Writing & Illustrating a Children’s Picture Book course includes advice from children’s author-illustrators, @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social and @davidoconnell.bsky.social!

Course starts 9 Oct: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/writi...

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Monthly Book Recommendations: August 2025 | Libraries 4 Schools Book Recommendations: August 2025 | With fiction, non-fiction and picture books galore, check out what we were reading last month!

As we work our way into autumn, transport yourself to sunnier weather by checking out our book recommendations from over August! We had quite the reading haul last month, so there really is something for everyone 👀
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Thank you so much! 🐌

Lovely review for Beastie Bros 2! #ukkidlit #kidlituk

Thank you so much!😊

BEASTIE BROS: DUNGEONS AND DRAGONFLIES is out today!

Dash and Dribble are back and they're heading to the local ant nest. But someone's stolen the queen ant's crown jewels... and they're the prime suspects!

Don't miss the next hilarious instalment from @davidoconnell.bsky.social – out now.

The cover of Beastie Bros: Dungeons and Dragonflies, showing Dribble the snail and Dash the firefly being chased by a monster dragonfly.

Happy publication day to Beastie Bros: Dungeons & Dragonflies!

Thank you to the team at @scholasticuk.bsky.social for making the creation of this so much fun!

I'm spending the morning at Bag of Books in Lewes, doing a window painting, if you'd like to come along & say hello! #ukkidlit #kidlituk

An illustration of a tour bus filled with bugs. A slug called Reg Scribble leads the party.

An illustration of a bunch of bugs watching a ladybird give a poetry reading on stage in a juice bar.

An infographic comparing the appeal of kittens versus maggots. The result is fairly even.

The cover of Beastie Bros: Dungeons and Dragonflies, featuring Dribble the snail and Dash the firefly.

Beastie Bros: Dungeons and Dragonflies is out this week! It has daring deeds, a choose-your-own-adventure chapter, maggots, a sword called Jennifer Richards, and open mic poetry! I had a heap of fun making it with lovely @scholasticuk.bsky.social. #kidlituk ##ukkidlit

Lovely review for Beastie Bros: Dungeons & Dragonflies! Out on August 15th. 🐌🐉#kidlituk

Thank you, Jacqui! Much appreciated. 🐌

Cool!

This has crept up quickly! New Beastie Bros out in August.

Start the new school year by inspiring reading in your class!

From 15th – 19th September, we're hosting a full week of exciting author events to help you promote reading for pleasure, including story-times, draw-alongs and Q&As with beloved authors and illustrators.

a cartoon of a snail holding a bag that says books are my bug Alt: An animated gif of a snail and a firefly holding a bag that says books are my bug.

Pre-orders are very welcome, especially as it's Independent Bookshop Week! Give your local indie bookshop some love.

The book cover of Beastie Bros: Dungeons & Dragonflies, featuring Dribble the snail and Dash the firefly being chased by a fierce giant dragonfly.

Hello! BEASTIE BROS: DUNGEONS & DRAGONFLIES is out in August! Dribble & Dash are on a quest to find the Gumdrop of Destiny, but perils await in the maze of tunnels beneath the ant hill...

Fantasy fun featuring fake beards, custard lakes & a trusty sword called Jennifer Richards! #ukkidlit #kidlituk

Last call for our picture book-making course!

Writing & Illustrating a Children's Picture Book with Curtis Brown Creative Our 10-week writing and illustrating a picture book course helps you learn how to bring new worlds to life on the page as you create stories and characters that capture the imaginations and hearts of…

Want to illustrate picture books? 🖍️

Children's author-illustrators @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social & @davidoconnell.bsky.social will help you to bring your stories for children to life on our six-week Writing & Illustrating a Children's Picture Book course!

📆 Course starts 15 May, enrol now:

Writing & Illustrating a Children's Picture Book with Curtis Brown Creative Our 10-week writing and illustrating a picture book course helps you learn how to bring new worlds to life on the page as you create stories and characters that capture the imaginations and hearts of…

Create brilliant stories for young readers! 📖🖌️

Our ten-week online Writing & Illustrating a Children’s Picture Book course includes expert advice from children’s author-illustrators, @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social and @davidoconnell.bsky.social

Course starts 15 May:

Picture book writing course written by me - starts soon! #ukkidlit #kidlituk

Thank you!

Hercules Hero to Zero Hercules Hero to ZeroTom Vaughan, illustrated by David O’ConnellScholastic Hercules Braver returns for a third set of adventures presented in the usual diary form and taking place during the school…

Hercules Braver presents his 3rd set of adventures diary form in #HerculesHerotoZero wherein he tries to get rich @storyandplot.bsky.social ills. @davidoconnell.bsky.social scholasticuk -it’s #RedReadingHub’s #fiction #kidlit book of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-d8v

Beastie Bros cover with a Dribble the snail and Dash the firefly on the cover.

A blueprint of Roboslug, Dribble's invention, showing how it makes cabbage juice out of cabbage leaves.

The naughty slugs, Reg Scribble and Flattened Dominic, doing karaoke.

A map of Bugtown.

BEASTIE BROS is out today, squishing everything I've learned about books & story making into something that's absorbing, informative & engaging, & visually dynamic too!

Huge thanks to Scholastic, particularly brilliant editor Julia Sanderson & fab designer Sarah Baldwin! shorturl.at/l2XBi #ukkidlit

I've created an activity pack to go with my Beastie Bros book (out on Thursday!). Including wordsearch, colouring sheet, and story-making ideas - might keep young ones busy for a bit during half-term. Download for free from here: shop.scholastic.co.uk/resources/48... ##ukkidlit #kidlituk

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3 comics

Lets have a comics sale. Till the end of the month I'm selling three different bundles of comics, as pictured below, £10 each, free postage. UK only sorry. Why not have a look? Cheers robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/2025/02/febr...

Last one of these - I saved the best until last (debatable)!

Possibly my favourite characters in Beastie Bros.