Alberta Torres

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Reminder to any authors thinking of starting a Substack www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

The front cover of The Big Bus and Us on a yellow background. The cover show the front of a green double decker: the driver is a woman wearing a blue shirt and a green tie, and on the top deck a little girl wearing a red coat, her arms stretch out enthusiastically. The title is written in chuncky black letters.

The front cover of Dinosaur Playtime on a blue background. The cover show three cave kids riding colourful dinosaurs. The also a dodo! In the background there are prehistoric palms and a volcano in the distance. The title is written in the middle in blue letters, and a tag line says "a whole day of prehistoric fun!"

Two books published in two days! 🤩 The Big Bus and Us, and Dinosaur Playtime are available now! Both published by HarperCollins (Collins and KumushaBook repectively). Written and illustrated by yours truly.

#kidlitUK

This has me crying in real life 😂😂😂

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The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners.

Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.

The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today

🎶 I don’t want a lot for Christmas
I just want one thing from you.
For that A.I. bubble to burst,
And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶

🎄

Please add ChocoLit children's bookshop in Clapham Old Town!

Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman back proposal to give newborns automatic library cards Authors including Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman have backed plans to give newborn babies automatic library cards, following a proposal by think tank the Cultural Policy Unit.

Authors including Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman have backed plans to give newborn babies automatic library cards, following a proposal by think tank the Cultural Policy Unit.

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I usually listen to true crime podcasts to keep my other half of the brain occupied when colouring final artworks. Otherwise I'd get bored and tired within 20 minutes. For creative brianstorming stage I need silence.

Wait...WHAT

Ok. So, if OpenAi can buy a 3-year licence from Disney, then all AI companies can afford to buy licenses from all artists worldwide and stop stealing people's work.
FFS.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Aaaaah yes the name is slightly misleading... well, now you know and everyone knows!

ChocoLit on Old Town, near Clapham Common station. Only children's books and chocolate.

I often think I don't know sh*t because I didn't go to art school...but I've got over 10 books under my belt, and over a decade of work in the design industry too (which helped a lot in making my illustration practice eddicient).. However, I never know *how* to share my knowledge..

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

Informative, beautiful and deeply human: it’s time to cheer the underrated art of illustration | Oliver Jeffers We do judge books by their covers. Illustrations spark young imaginations, solve problems, present information - and shape our world, says the children’s author on National Illustration Day

It's #NationalIllustrationDay in the UK!

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A pile of Carousel magazine issues.

London #kidlitUK folks! I'm giving away my small collection of the last 9 issues of Carousel magazine (from Winter 2016 to Winter 2019). Pick up from E3 or can meet in Central. Any takers?

Yes! The Children's Book Project charity, in West London. childrensbookproject.co.uk

Two days of not being able to work because Photoshop isn't able to open a single JPG. @adobe.com I'm this much away from ditching you forever.
(Yes, I did update my graphics driver, yes I did update the app).
#photoshop

Watched it and forgot it as soon as it ended. Pierce Brosnan absolutely wrong casting choice.

Stunning illustration. Thank you for sharing it!

Got my Irish PLR. My books were borrowed over 800 times!

That's a little over £50, but you know what, it's a huge increase from last year!! Thank you so much Irish librarians and little Irish readers 🇮🇪 💕✨️

#PLR #kidlitUK #IrishPLR

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce • ‘The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce The Booker prize foundation has launched a major new literary award, the Children’s Booker prize, offering £50,000 for the best fiction written for readers aged eight to 12. The new award will launch in 2026, with the first winner announced in early 2027. It will be decided by a mixed panel of adult and child judges, a first for a Booker award. The inaugural chair of judges will be Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the children’s author and current children’s laureate. He will be joined by two other adult judges, who will help select a shortlist of eight books before three child judges are recruited to help decide the winner. Continue reading...

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

You just answered yourself. Your home is too humid. Open the windows when cooking (esp if there is steam) and after showering. Basic physics.

Please, drop the recipe!

That AI video must be the most unhinged meta thing I've ever seen: sh*t depicting a giant sh*t sh*thing sh*t.

Well, all the roads leading to Rome were clearly one-way...right? 😂

So many jokes going around all my social media things right now about the prez' neck and what bothers me the most about it? They compare it to a vagina.

People! It looks like a vulva!

A vulva!

Get your anatomy right, please.

Roughs for my next picture book...Currently waiting for feedback.

gene kelly is antifa