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With #EncourageAYoungWriterDay converging alongside #LibraryWeek, it’s the ideal time to cheer on the youthful readers and writers out there in order to help shape a better future for all.

Do you have any budding scribes you want to highlight and shout out to? 🖋🌟

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April 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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A turquoise card which has the quote: “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
April 8, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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A turquoise card which has the quote: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." – Thomas A. Edison
May 27, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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This week we’ve been celebrating Reading is Funny Day and Children’s Book Day, so enjoy a little highlight page from My Mummy is a Firefighter!

#ReadingisFunnyDay #ReadingisFunny #Funday #FunatWorkDay #ChildrensBookDay #MyMummyisaFirefighter #butterflybooks
A group of young kids are playing and dancing while a member of the Fire Brigade cheers and claps. 
April 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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When we last left Skye, she was talking about installing a solar powered watering system during National Children’s Gardening Week – well guess what’s now fully ready and working? 🌞🥬

(Also a guest appearance by our co-founder/author, Kerrine Bryan!👋🏿)

#NationalChildrensGardeningWeek #butterflybooks
A close up of the solar powered watering system working over the leafy green crops. The girls are in their garden showing off their solar powered watering system, with Kerrine watching over them.
June 11, 2024 at 8:01 AM
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We’ve giving this month a 💦splash💦 of much needed colour via #InspireYourHeartWithArtDay – so here’s some lovely artwork from our talented illustrator Marissa Peguinho, from My Mummy is a Plumber!

#kidlit #butterflybooks #MyMummyisaPlumber #ArtDay
An image from My Mummy is a Plumber, showing a young, blonde-haired boy holding up a spanner, standing next to a toolbox, surrounded by pipes.
January 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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We’re raising a book (or nine) to celebrate a triple whammy of #NationalLibraryWorkersDay, #LibraryWeek, and next week’s #LibrarianDay (16th)!
 
Join us by telling us what you love about your local library, to share some springtime sun! 🌞

#MyLibrary #kidlit #ReadingisFun #butterflybooks
A colourful image where five multicultural kids are enjoying a book which is spiking their imagination, shown via elements like rockets, hot air balloons and robots coming being imagined above their heads. They are flanked by two stacks of multicoloured books on either side of them.
April 9, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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From Physician’s week to Doctor’s Day, we’re giving thanks to the dedicated, compassionate and inspirational healthcare heroes who save lives and make a difference every day.
 
#NationalPhysiciansWeek #NationalDoctorsDay #butterflybooks #kidlit #MyDaddysaNurse
A page from My Daddy's a Nurse, showing the titular character with his daughter at a hospital, as he and other nurses help patients
March 29, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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It’s Paperback Book Day on the 30th, and we’re never shy about our book recommendations – but what are you reading right now and what are your favourite books that you’d suggest everyone should read? 📚

#PaperbackBookDay #kidsbooks #butterflybooks #children #childrensbook #ReadingisFun #books
An image where two people are sitting on a pile of books, reading, with a green background. The text says: Paperback book day What are your favourite books?
July 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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#OverseasNHSWorkersDay gives us all the chance to recognise and thank the incredible dedication of NHS staff working abroad – as well as note the vital inspiration they provided for My Daddy is a Nurse!

#NHS #ONHS2025 #butterflybooks #kidlit #MyDaddyisaNurse
A colourful page from My Daddy is a Nurse, showing the titular Dad with his daughter, standing under a palm tree, watching another overseas nurse sail, a plane fly and a kangaroo jump. The text says: ‘My daddy is a nurse, his work takes him near and far. Working with children and adults, from Australia to Zanzibar.
March 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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A blue background with the quote: “Genuine confidence is not the absence of the absence of fear; it’s a transformed relationship with fear.” – Russ Harris
April 29, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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If you’re looking for a way to get your little ones to eat more greens, tell them about Eat Your Veggies Day (during Fruit and Veg Month, of course!) to give them a little encouragement… and to add a little more healthy colour to their plate! 🥦🥕🌽

#FreshVeggiesDay #butterflybooks
A page from My Mummy is a Farmer, showing a girl wearing a straw hat and dungarees, carrying a basket of freshly picked strawberries, while three chicks run around her feet.
June 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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On #FrankensteinDay we give thanks and celebrate the mother of science fiction and literary pioneer Mary Shelley – her words changed the world.

Do you have a favourite quote from this classic book?

#inspiring #empowering #positive #butterflybooks #kids #stem
A dark spooky background overlaid with a cartoony image of Frankenstein's monster with the quote: “Beware; for I am fearless and therefore powerful.” from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
August 30, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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The power, importance and authenticity of books have rarely been as important as they are right now, so join us in the celebration of #BookLoversDay – and tell us which books are essential to your lives!

#NationalBookLoversDay #kidlit #positivebooks #inspiring #empowering #positive #butterflybooks
A heart made of books, with a stack of books in the middle of it, and the multi-coloured Butterfly Books logo at the top of the image.
August 9, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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Want to treat your little ones for #NationalYoungReadersWeek (and ahead of #childrensday)? Open up our award-winning aspirational and educational kids’ books – the perfect gift no matter the season!

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November 12, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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When things in the world are as difficult as they are right now, it’s even more important to talk about events like #HappinessHappensMonth, which help us practice gratitude. What makes you happy, and how are you sharing that joy with others?

#butterflybooks #kidlit #positivebooks
An image of the main characters from My Mummy is a Train Driver (a mummy and her child), happily sitting on a green couch and reading a book, with their pet crow sleeping.
August 20, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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Fancy a lovey new guest reading? We’ve been very lucky to have Northern Trains driver from Manchester, Anna Shadlock, perform My Mummy is a Train Driver – enjoy her wonderful reading right here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4e5...

#MyMummyisTrainDriver #kidlit #ButterflyBooks
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May 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Did you know that today is National Agriculture Day? So this one goes out to all the amazing, hard-working and essential farmers keeping us fed – like the Michelo family who live in Lusaka, Zambia:

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#NationalAgricultureDay #AgricultureDay #butterflybooks #MyMummyisaFarmer
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March 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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A red background with the text: “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
April 22, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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A yellow background with the quote: “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
May 6, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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#Wednesday #WednesdayWisdom #WednesdayQuotes #WednesdayInspiration #WednesdayThoughts #WednesdayMotivation #pride #pride2024 #pridemonth #butterflybooks
A blue background with the quote: “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
June 12, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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The Butterfly Books family has just become a little bigger – join us in wishing our talented illustrator Marissa Peguinho and her partner a massive congrats on the arrival of their incredibly cute baby daughter Sara! 😍👼

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A cute picture of baby Sara, wearing a 'My Mummy is an Illustrator' babygrow
January 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Did you know that September is officially the International Month of Black Women in the Arts? The perfect time to give an always well deserved shout out to our co-founder/co-author Kerrine Bryan – why not join us!

#WomenInSTEM #DiversityInTech #FemaleRoleModels #butterflybooks
Co-founder / co-author Kerrine behind a table full of Butterfly Books' titles, flanked by blue balloons
September 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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A turquoise card which has the quote: "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
March 20, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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June might be #SportAmericaKidsMonth, but let’s be honest, any time is great to get kids moving and active! Are you doing anything special with your kids to encourage their sporting passions? ⚽⚾🏀🏈🎾🥋

#butterflybooks #kids #stem #children #childrensbook #kidsbooks #ReadingisFun #MyMummyisaFootballer
An image from My Mummy is a Footballer showing the mummy with her son playing with a football
June 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM