Philip Reeve

Thank you, E.C! Unbelievably, it’s 25 years since the first one next year.

Covers of seven Adventuremice books: Otter Chaos, Mermouse Mystery, Mice on the Ice, Mice on the Moon, The Ghostly Galleon, Mice Camera Action!, and the new book, Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth. Don’t worry, you don’t need to read the books in order, you can start with the new one or anywhere else! If you’re wondering what age the books are aimed at, they’re popular with kids ages 5-8, but younger children enjoy the books being read to them, and older children (such as 12-year-olds) enjoy the artwork and the sense of a cosy comfort read. Often I find adults buying the books for themselves, and even pieces of the original book ink & watercolour artwork, which I sell on the Adventuremice website.

Nothing makes a fabulous stocking stuffer like a highly-illustrated Adventuremice book... or a big ribbon around the whole series!

My co-author & I recently launched book 7; it's backed up with lots of fun, free activities at Adventuremice.com!

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You publish all the best people!

🎥 LIGHTS, CAMERA, DARTMOOR! Get ready for film night at The Bookery!

🎬 Did you know that @philipreeve.bsky.social, bestselling author of Mortal Engines, Utterly Dark and Adventuremice, also directs FILMS with his wife Sarah Reeve? 🧵 ⬇️

Cover with Pedro, Fledermaus & Ptiny the Pterodactyl

'Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth', the seventh in our highly-illustrated series, is out now!
Available at all good bookshops!
🐭🐭✍️✍️
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The cover of Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth - two mice aboard a friendly pterosaur.

‘Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth’ is out today. Our 7th Adventuremice book features ptiny pterodactyls, the fearsome Hamstersaurus rex, miniature Doug McClure-type shenanigans, and lots & lots of lovely @jabberworks illustrations! 🐭🦖🐭🦖

Sarah, gaping at books, next to Philip, looking slightly more composed

BOOKS

Bath Kids Lit Fest managed to get early copies of our new book, ‘Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth’!

I’ve only had my one author copy and it’s SO NICE to see a bunch of them all together ☺️

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Playing Spot-the-Famous-Children’s-Book-Creator at Bath Kids Lit Fest:

So far, it’s @philipreeve.bsky.social , AF Steadman & @huwaaron.bsky.social … wahey! ✨✨✨

Event today at The Guildhall at 1:00!

⬇️Today!⬇️

Ticket website screengrab

Bath & Bristol people!📢

Join my co-author Philip Reeve and me THIS SUNDAY, 28 Sept, for Adventuremice story and drawing shenanigans at The Guildhall!

Bring along your sketchbook if you'd like us to have a peek! 🐭🐭

Tickets: bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/bfc...

#BathKidsLitFest

4 pencil sketches of sea cliffs near Tenby.

Quick drawings from Pembrokeshire.

Painting of the Adventuremice - and a few other mystery characters - having a sunny breakfast along the branch of a tree. The book's title mentions the 'centre of the earth', so why is there sunlight, and a tree...?

Breakfast in the treehouse!
Artwork from my upcoming 7th Adventuremice book with @philipreeve.bsky.social & @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

The original ink & watercolour paintings from the book will go on sale on the evening of launch day, UK 9pm, Thurs 9 Oct…

If you're interested, mark your diary!

Thank you !

Your 2026 UKLA Book Awards Longlists are here - the only national children’s book awards judged by teachers!

This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.

Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...

I’m glad it’s someone’s favourite, thank you!

You like trains? You like Stargate? How about a galactic civilization connected by sentient trains running on railways that travel through Stargates?

Seriously, go read Railhead. It's great.

Thank you!

I know! Where does it GO?

YouTube video by Philip Reeve Railhead reading (higher res)

A Railhead reading… www.youtube.com/watch?v=0InW...

The cover of the UK paperback edition of Railhead, published by Oxford University Press.

Celebrating a decade of trainsong, Hive Monks, pocket universes hidden in refreshment trolleys, etc. RAILHEAD is ten years old.
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Cover art by @ianmcque.bsky.social

Japanese covers for Otter Chaos and Mermouse Mystery

Sarah’s picture of a mouse’s suitcase and it contents, re-used on the inner flap of Otter Chaos. The inner cover has a scroll reading ‘Adventuremice’ in English.

Close up of the inner flap illustration

Half title page, Otter Chaos

Beautiful Japanese editions of the first two Adventuremice books by me and @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social.
Translated by Shino Watatani, published by Tokuma Shoten in Tokyo

Have a good time!

Oh my god. I know I talk about it every 10 seconds, but Donut Squad. Those pages at the end made my hands itch for a pencil.

@sarahmcintyre.bsky.social has sooooooo many drawing resources on her website tied to all her and her and @philipreeve.bsky.social's books, it's immense fun.

For #TolkienTuesday/#TolkienTrewsday, as a follow up to my piece from last week, here’s

“The Gardens of the Merking's palace”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, for his children’s story Roverandom.

At least this story is finished. Even getting three books is a small miracle nowadays. (And I can keep writing things in that world for my own amusement…)

I think that sort of answers itself! 🫤

I’m glad to hear it! I do think they were the best things I did.

My new painting exhibition - Brave New Worlds: A Century of Science Fiction Cinema - opens a week today. If you're in the area, do pop along. And please share with interested (and interesting) friends. Today's poster is the first to feature an actor I've worked with: the glorious David Warner.

.@sarahmcintyre.bsky.social and I love this show, which is why there’s a character called Scoot McHairy in ‘Mice, Camera, Action!’.

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