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We've given away over 54,000 children's books so far this year, and need your help to get even more beautiful, diverse, free books into the hands of the children who need them! Run a #ChildrensBookDrive this summer online or in person!

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June 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Bank Holiday, halfterm, too hot to move... catch up on the NEW issue of #BooksforKeeps. Brian Moses, Michael Rosen, Alexis Deacon, Natasha Bowen interviewed, articles by Charlotte Hacking, Pam Dix, Letterbox Library & more, 70+ NEW children's book reviews #BookSky
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Graphic advertising the new issue of online children's books review journal Books for Keeps with a list of contents and image of the cover (using cover art from Brian Moses' new verse novel I Am Ray's Imaginary Friend, illustrated by Bethan Welby).
May 23, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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Delighted to be featured in
BooksForKeeps as this month's Authorgraph. Congratulations to
Bethan Welby
whose cover illustration for 'I Am Ray's Imaginary Friend' is this issue's front cover. Thanks BFK &
Scallywagpress.bsky.social
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Bfk 278 May 2026 – Books For Keeps
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May 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Congratulations! New review via #BooksforKeeps and a link to @nicolettejones.bsky.social Authorgraph interview here booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/auth...
Authorgraph no 277: Patrick Ness – Books For Keeps
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April 7, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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Our NEW Book of the Week is by a real #BooksforKeeps favourite, Paddy Donnelly. Go adventuring again with Meara and Grandad as they discover the magic of looking at things differently in THE UPSIDE-DOWN LIGHTHOUSE @theobrienpress.bsky.social
#kidlit #booksky

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The cover of the new Books for Keeps Book of the Week: The Upside-Down Lighthouse by Paddy Donnelly published by the O'Brien Press. It features Meara and Grandad in a smally rowing boat as they head towards an island with an updside down lighthouse. There are puffins and a gannet under the waves.
February 27, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Looking forward to this! We're delighted that @gntread24.bsky.social reviews for #BooksforKeeps and interviews authors on our behalf 🔖
mostlybooktalk.bsky.social Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social · Feb 17
📚 For the National Year of Reading, we’re joined by
@gntread24.bsky.social from the @youthlibrarygroup.bsky.social to talk about youth librarians, the Carnegie Awards & building reading communities for young people.

February 18, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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The NEW #BooksforKeeps Book of the Week comes highly recommended. Don't miss THE MISADVENTURES OF MINA MAHMOOD SCHOOL INSPECTORS - highly entertaining & lots that young readers and their teachers will recognise #booksky #KidLitUK @farshorebooks.bsky.social

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Graphic with the cover of The Misadventures of Mina Mahmood School Inspectors by Farhana Islam, illustration by Simran Diamond Singh, published by Farshore. It is the new Books for Keeps Book of the Week.
January 25, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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🐇"Pat the bunny........gently."🐇

~Pat The Bunny, 1940

#DorothyKunhardt #vintagebooks #oldbooks #BookCollecting #BooksForKeeps #Readaloud #Kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustration #kidsbooks #kidlit #picturebooks #books #BookSky #ArtSky #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookCommunity #KidSky #art
July 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Have you shared WOLF IN THE CITY from @scallywagpress.bsky.social with the kids in your reading life? Now discover the author Rachel Tilda Wolf in this interview published by #BooksForKeeps booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/a-qa...
A Q&A Interview with Rachel Tilda Wolf – Books For Keeps
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June 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The NEW #BooksforKeeps Book of the Week is Once I Was a Tree by Eoin McLaughlin and Guilherme Karsten @nosycrow.bsky.social 5 stars from our reviewer, 'Clever, informative, funny and inspiring – a good use of a tree.' 🌲 #KidLitUK
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May 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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ICYMI, the NEW issue of #BooksforKeeps is out now. Packed with interviews, features, comment & children's book reviews. Huge thanks to @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social for this issue's cover, to our contributors & the publishers who support us. #kidlit #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...
Graphic advertising the latest issue of children's literature journal Books for Keeps with a list of the contents and image of the cover, which features the Joe Todd-Stanton illustration from THE FIRST YEAR, written by Matt Goodfellow.
May 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Don't miss: in her new Picture This column for #BooksforKeeps, @nicolettejones.bsky.social looks at three picturebooks illuminating dark events. #Illustration #KidLit
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March 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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3. Stock
Through recommendations from Inclusive Books for Children @The_DBAwards @jhalakprize @imaginecentre @toppsta @BooksForKeeps @clpe1 & involving families with stock ordering, centering their choices & promoting #ReadforPleasure our shelves represent Roe in every way 🥰 #LibraryOfTheYear
February 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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New week, NEW #BooksforKeeps Book of the Week! Enjoy STOCKINGOPOLIS by Tatyana Feeney whose scribbly style is perfect for a story that is delightfully silly but also a celebration of colour, creativity and children’s agency for change. @childrensbooksireland.ie
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The cover of Stockingopolis by Tatyana Feeney published by the O'Brien Press showing an illustration of a town with two children splashing paint around in the foreground.
February 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Wow! Absolutely blown away to see All Brains Are Wonderful as the NEW #BooksforKeeps Book of the Week!

Thank you so much, @booksforkeeps.bsky.social

This book means the world to me and I’m thrilled it’s being celebrated like this 💛🧠

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February 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The NEW #BooksforKeeps Book of the Week is a wonderful one: ALL BRAINS ARE WONDERFUL by Scott Evans @thereaderteacher.bsky.social published by the excellent @bsmallpublishing.bsky.social Give your grey matter a work out 🧠

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February 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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It's the launch tonight of @darrenchetty.bsky.social & @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social book BEYOND THE SECRET GARDEN published by @engmediacentre.bsky.social. Explore their #BTSG columns in #BooksForKeeps & don't miss @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social interview #KidLit
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graphic showing the cover of Books for Keeps, the online children's books review journal, plus the cover of Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O'Connor's new book Beyond the Secret Garden. The book began as articles published in Books for Keeps over the last five years. You'll find them all on the BfK website, which is open to all.
January 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Out this week, the new #BooksForKeeps featuring Jamie Smart, Caroline Magerl, MG Leonard, our regular features inc Beyond the Secret Garden PLUS #ChildrensBooks editors reveal the books they're most excited to be publishing 2025. Sign up for our newsletter so you don't miss out booksforkeeps.co.uk
The cover of the forthcoming Books for Keeps children's journal with a flash reading Coming Soon. This is the 270th issue and contents include Authorgraph interview with Bunny Vs Monkey creator Jamie Smart, Windows into Illustration from Caroline Magerl, an interview with MG Leonard and a look ahead to what 2025 will bring, from new books to new initiatives. It's free to read and can be downloaded and printed at no cost too.
January 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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ICYI - read interviews with each of the four authors on the shortlist for the #NeroBookAwards Children's Category now via #BooksForKeeps. Winner announced 14 January 25. Which is your pick? #Awards #KidLit
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Photographs of the four authors shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Children's Category: Catherine Bruton, Scarlett Dunsmore, Liz Hyder and Patrick Ness Graphic with the four books - spine on - shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Children's Category: Bird Boy by Catherine Bruton, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness, How to Survive a Horror Movie by Scarlett Dunsmore and The Twelve by Liz Hyder.
December 29, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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It’s always a pleasure and a challenge to compile the #BooksforKeeps annual #Christmas Gift Guide. Our focus in 2024 is on reading for pleasure. We were sent several sleigh-loads of new books to choose from, find out what passed the elf test! 🎁🎄 #Hohoho booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/book...
Graphic advertising the Books for Keeps Christmas Gift Guide 2024. The must-give books of the year. With the cover of Books for Keeps November issue (Seasonal special) and covers of Jonty Gentoo, One Christmas Eve, The Christmas Mouse, King Winter's Birthday, Grimm's Fairytales, Shakespeare's Folio for Children, Beanie the Bansheenie, Welsh Giants, Ghosts and Goblins, The Forest of a Thousand Eyes, Lockett and Wilde's Dreadfully Haunting Mysteries, One Wise Sheelp, Cobweb and Fox Goes North.
December 1, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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Such a pleasure to interview Catherine Fisher about her rich retelling of Welsh classic Culhwch ac Olwen & her wonderful fantasy worlds #booksforkeeps
Welsh Treasures An interview with Catherine Fisher – Books For Keeps
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November 20, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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Am reading the wonderful #booksforkeeps magazine and making a long list of books to buy, both for the library and for children I love. If you don't yet subscribe, you are missing out!
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November 15, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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November 5, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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✨ Excited to share my interview with #ClotildePerrin for @BooksforKeeps! We dive into her latest wonderful addition with @geckopress.bsky.social , #TheRemarkables booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/an-i...

Explore how she innovatively champions uniqueness 🎨📚 #ChildrensBooks #Illustration #PictureBooks
An interview with the remarkable Clotilde Perrin – Books For Keeps
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September 12, 2024 at 7:37 AM
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Next week will be Joan Aiken's Centenary, Born 4 Sept 1924 so it's time to celebrate her over 100 books too!
Neil Philip, longtime Aiken fan chose his Top Ten favourites for BooksForKeeps, a lovely read - Click the link...do you agree? What's your favourite?
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August 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM