Starting tomorrow: my Top 40 #FavePicturebooks25, a handpicked, parade of the funniest, boldest, weirdest, and most brilliant picturebooks of 2025. Just pure love for the power of picturebooks Don’t miss it! #PicturebookPage. Some are in the pics below some will be a surprise!

Bit late but here are some amazing #Halloween picturebooks and novels. #PicturebookPage

Here is my favourite #Halloween picturebook. “Poultrygeist”

The best first 3 pages of any picturebooks I own

#PicturebookPage

A beautiful book 📖

So thrilled to discover that ESCAPE ROOM: GAME ZERO has been longlisted for the Peters Children's Book of the Year! Huge thanks @peters-books.bsky.social and congratulations to all the longlisted authors!

One of my very favourite books to use 👻👻 #readingforpleasure @readingrocks.bsky.social @thereaderteacher.bsky.social @openuni-rfp.bsky.social

Loved these from my @readingrocks.bsky.social subscriptions KS2 and KS3 #readingforpleasure @sophiemckenziebook.bsky.social @thereaderteacher.bsky.social @openuni-rfp.bsky.social

This is amazing! I will be sharing it with our parents 📚

Finished reading Running my Own Race by @eyesab2.bsky.social with my Y5/6 class last week. They absolutely loved it, and it gave us lots of chances to talk about issues relevant to their own lives. Highly recommended.

Recent reads. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 @coralrumble.bsky.social @philearle.bsky.social #emmacarroll #elizabethacevado @readingrocks.bsky.social @thereaderteacher.bsky.social #readingforpleasure 📚🩵

Lots of British Values posters going out to schools this week along with books to registered schools and pin badges. Have a great Saturday, everyone #NoOutsiders #inclusion no-outsiders.com/shop-1

Thank you so much @vocabularyninja.bsky.social 🩵 I'm really looking forward to this 🥰📚 #lovereading

Screenshot of text from a newspaper article. Part of the text is highlighted in blue with two large dark blue arrows, hand-drawn, pointing to it. The text is: 'Fans of the Mirabelle and Emerald series will love Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School, by Sinéad O'Hart and Úna Woods.'

Massively grateful to @elainaryan.bsky.social, @childrensbooksireland.ie and @irishtimes.com for including Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School (by me and @unawoods.bsky.social) on this Best New Children's Books roundup!

#GillBooks

The Night Before Diwali by me and #DarshikaVarma and @scholasticuk.bsky.social is out TODAY! And just in time for #Diwali next month 🪔
Available from your local indie bookshop or wherever you buy books 📚

Guest blog by Museum Studies Student Tiffany (3/3) — Worcester Medical Museums My eight-week placement officially wraps up this week, and I'm glad to have finished all the projects I was working on. It's a bit sentimental, though, as my time with these amazing people has come to...

A last blog by Tiffany about her placement with us and The Infirmary Museum. medicalmuseum.org.uk/newsletters/...

Very proud mum 👏🏻 ❤️

It has been an absolute pleasure (with a hint of sadness) to read the finale of this incredible series. I have loved every single page, chapter, and book.
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#sundaymorningbookchat comes all the way from Mauritius this morning. Had a wonderful safari in SA and was completely inspired by the animals. Let’s celebrate animal books! What is the appeal of a great animal book or authors who write them? Here are some of my favourites @whatsfsaid.bsky.social

We're preparing for a mini private view to say 'thank you' in person to all those who have been involved in our 'Outside the Asylum' project. On Wednesday this week the webpages and display will go live! In the meantime? A sneaky peek of some of the objects: asylum keys, knife and patient gown.

#NateLessore has written an absolute belter! I've devoured it whilst being on an emotional rollercoaster. Just wow! A very important book. I will be sharing it far and wide 😭👑 @openuni-rfp.bsky.social @readingrocks.bsky.social @thereaderteacher.bsky.social @bookwagonuk.bsky.social

Robinson snaps up Kat Brown's No One Talks About This Stuff following Unbound's closure Robinson Psychology has acquired No One Talks About This Stuff: Twenty-Two Stories of Almost Parenthood edited by Kat Brown following the closure of Boundless.

Some lovely official news about No One Talks About This Stuff – now a Robinson/Little Brown acquisition www.thebookseller.com/rights/robin...

Casual reminder that if you’re looking for some Magical Kidlit as an alternative to the bin-fire that famous property has become, Strangeworlds Travel Agency is about two kids who use magical suitcases to travel to other worlds… & it’s inclusive and diverse and fun & available in sixteen languages.

It’s been great seeing all the DW conversations lately on Insta so after last summer’s posters, I’ve been inspired to start creating more so instead of Demon Dentist, here are some incredible reads which feature young carers #kidlituk

Huge fan of #RossMackenzie delighted to find a copy “The Uninvited” in @bookcornershop.bsky.social

It’s cracking magical read, starting with a refugee crisis from a magical world into ours, it takes an a thrilling adventure where you can’t be sure who is good or bad, to get the Faerae home.

Fun and laughter in just the right amount 🤣 #lovepoetry #jackprelutsky #ruthchan @bookwagonuk.bsky.social

Sending the biggest thank you to Bronnie and Bob @bookwagonuk.bsky.social for their generous donation of books! We are so lucky to have these to spread the love of books at school @albrightcentre.bsky.social Thank you both so so much ✨️🥰

I'm repeating my online 'Building a Classroom Reading Culture' session on Monday 11th August at 10:00am. There's no fixed price for tickets as all donations will go directly to Medical Aid for Palestinians (www.map.org.uk). Please share!

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Small Wonder by Ross Montgomery Cover illustration © 2025 Keith Robinson I don’t think there can be anyone who loves children’s books that can be unfamiliar with the name of Ross Montgomery. Having discovered his…

An epic middle grade adventure from master storyteller @mossmontmomery.bsky.social, Small Wonder blew me away. One to preorder now ahead of publication on 28/08 from @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

#KidlitUK #UKKidlit

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#SundayMorningBookChat

Also, if you buy books from supermarkets, the celeb ones take over the shelves. This does bug me!