Sally Doherty

Thank you lovely!!

Bag a bargain and a totally brilliant book by @sallywrites.bsky.social on Amazon.
A pound, for heaven's sake! What have you got to lose?!

Link to the first book here:

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A screenshot which shows 44 ebook orders

Super excited to be lucky enough to get a Kindle Daily Deal today (which basically means that Amazon boosts your ebook) 🥳

After a very barren sales month, this was much needed

All three Toby Bean ebooks are 99p for TODAY ONLY

Seven hours more to go to hopefully get more sales🤞🏻

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Book cover for Donut Squad: Take Over the World! by Neill Cameron

Book cover for Mr Wolf’s Class by Aron Nels Steinke

Book cover for Jinks and O’Hare, Funfair Repair by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre

Book cover for Punycorn by Andi Watson

As grown-ups we can often fall into the trap of leaning towards serious or ‘issue heavy’ kid’s books, forgetting that kids also need and deserve books that just bring joy.

So for #KidsBooksFriday this week, what are your top fun / silly / joyful book recommendations?

#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

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Welcome one and all to this special 10 year celebration of #ukteenchat with the 1st guests the chat ever had, the fabulous @ambercaraveo.bsky.social and @joannamoult.bsky.social of Skylark Literary 🎉 Remember to use the # so your tweets are seen and give us a wave if you're here 👋
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I’m a couple of chapters in and already gripped 😃

Darley Anderson launches Illustration Mentorship Prize 2026 to champion under-represented talent

The Darley Anderson Illustration Agency has launched the Darley Anderson Illustration Mentorship Prize 2026, a new opportunity designed to support and spotlight emerging illustrators from under-represented backgrounds 👇 #BookSky

This topic could not be more important at the moment

Highly recommend Boy Everywhere by @amdassu.bsky.social

It reply helps depict a refugee’s journey in a very human light

#ukkidlit

Book cover for When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

Book cover for The Desperate Journey by Kathleen Fidler

Book cover for The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Book cover for One-Button and the Sea by Sara Stanley and Vivian Schwarz

My son is doing a refugees topic at school, which led to a great discussion round the dinner table about the books we’ve all read, at home and at school, that taught us about the refugee experience. What books would you add to the list?
#KidsBooksFriday
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A photo of the hardback book, Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Shadow Compass by Philippa Leathley. The title is set in a gold compass against a turquoise sky and a cityscape below. The small figure of Metty, the main character, stands on top of the compress in an orange dress.

Exciting delivery this week! Look at this beauty 😍

I LOVED the first book in this series - one of my top reads from last year - so this sequel has soared to the top of my reading pile

When the tattoo on your hand signals your fate!

@prleathley.bsky.social

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Sorry to hear that! Hope you make a speedy recovery 💙 Will have a think for my recommendations 😃

If this was a story, the editor would say it was too unbelievable 😩

Thanks so much for sharing ☺️

📣 PLEASE BID 📣
Not only are these great books for kids (-and not-kids like me!) but you'd be donating to a really good cause.
What's not to like??

Some of my favourite WW2 middle grade books. All have a slightly different slant to some of the commonly read class texts and would be good for a teacher wanting to switch it up this term.

The gift package is worth over £30 and the lowest bid is currently £17.50! So you could nab yourself a bargain

Signed **All 3 books from the

Bid here:

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Or check out all the other fab books on offer and bid for one of them! 😃

A giftset of my trilogy plus bookmark & soft toy bat is currently in an auction if anyone would like to bid for it

(Donated by one of my lovely friends)

The auction is raising funds to publish a picture book by Anne Roache who sadly passed away in 2025

Link in next post 👇🏻

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Now you mention it, it was quite a long book! But I didn’t feel it dragged at all

I want to reread it already to savour the poetry and writing because I gobbled it up 🫣😅

Ooh and there’s the Alice Eclair series too

Loved Murder by Narwhal!

Murder by Narwhal is brilliant! An intriguing setting with fabulous characters and lots of humour

2026 is the National Year of Reading and here is the first in my ONE MINUTE INTERVIEW series to introduce books through their creators, and give a flavour for each book and its interesting creation process!

This week you’ll meet incomparable author and illustrator @louiestowell.bsky.social ❤️

The Night I Borrowed Time by Iqbal Hussain Cover illustration copyright © Hazem Asif, 2026 In one of those bizarre coincidences that happen from time to time, a review copy of this new title arrived in the post less than an hour after I had…

Out now, middle grade The Night I Borrowed Time by @ihussainwriter.bsky.social is a brilliant time-travel adventure that also looks at the effects of parental separation and Partition.

@puffinbooksuk.bsky.social

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Cover of The Middler by Matt Saunders showing the silhouettes of Maggie and two siblings in the woods with an orange light behind them.

Just finished The Middler by Kirsty Applebaum. Maggie is fantastic narrator whose struggles to accept her place in the world are very relatable. The dystopian setting is brilliantly imagined with thought-provoking themes of misinformation and abuse of power @nosycrow.bsky.social #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

This may well be my book of the year - and it’s only January!

Beautiful illustrations too which complement the writing and story perfectly

@otterbarrybooks.bsky.social