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louiestowell.bsky.social
Walliams!!!!!!!!! #KidlitUk #UkKidlit
December 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
camillew.bsky.social
Day 16 #inktober2024 #scbwiArtober2024
Prompt #hair
#kidlitart #illustration #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
#childrensbookillustration #Inktober
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October 16, 2024 at 1:00 PM
camillew.bsky.social
Day 6 #noctober2024 #inktober2024
Prompt #wisteria
#kidlitart #illustration #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
#childrensbookillustration #Inktober
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October 6, 2024 at 10:40 AM
camillew.bsky.social
Day 4 #nonsensetober24 #inktober2024
Prompt #totoroandlantern
#kidlitart #illustration #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
#childrensbookillustration #Inktober
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October 4, 2024 at 10:24 AM
louiestowell.bsky.social
This is brilliant! #KidLitUK
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 23
Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award
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...
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
pgbellwriter.bsky.social
The UK children's literature market in one picture. #KidLitUK
nikvenkatesh.bsky.social Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · Apr 4
Ah yes, the two kinds of literature
Two rows of books at a street bookstall. There are two handwritten signs on dividers. One says "Ye Olde Books", the other says "David Walliams"
April 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
#booksky #lgbtq #kidlit #kidlituk #scbwi #canscaip
lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 1d
Copies of the Swedish translation of my 2 new #rainbowfamilies board books with Elīna Brasliņa arrived while I was away dealing with family health stuff!🌈

Sweden published before the original Spanish & Catalan (out in Nov, along with Basque, Flemish, French & Luxembourgish translations).😍

#kidlit
A selfie (I'm a middle-aged white man with close-cropped dark hair and a salt-and-pepper beard) standing in front of a bookcase of books I wrote. The top shelf behind me are all the various translations of the first two books Elina and I created with these same characters. I am holding up copies of JAG VILL SKAPA! ("Let's Paint!" the cover shows a dark-skinned boy holding a paintbrush and a tube of paint and an orange cat against a purple background) and JAG VILL LEKA! ("Let's Play!" featuring a light-skinned girl with long black hair and a small black-and-white dog against a green background, with a darker-skinned hand throwing a red ball from off the side) published by Olika Forlag. The Swedish translations are by Tova Lundin Mulläri. #lgbtq #twomoms #twodads #lgbt #samesexfamilies #booksky #worldkidlit #xl8
October 1, 2026 at 3:34 PM
wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social
Picture book starter pack also underway!

go.bsky.app/KgwsASt

#kidlituk
November 18, 2024 at 9:17 AM
poppybeckyart.bsky.social
Can we pretend it’s still Halloween? 🤭🎃
#art #witch #kidlituk
November 15, 2024 at 11:02 PM
mrtimdraws.bsky.social
Some morning Narnia #kidlit #kidlituk
November 17, 2024 at 7:30 AM
studionib.bsky.social
My first contribution to #KidLitArtPostcard day, here's an old postcard!
#kidlitart #kidlit #kidlitUK
December 5, 2024 at 10:16 PM
littlerebsprize.bsky.social
👊A Creative Revolt Against AI

And of course one of our judges, @chrishaughton.bsky.social , is behind the #WeAreBetterThanThis campaign.
#KidLitUK
#BookSky
thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Jun 19
A group of children’s authors and illustrators have launched the “We Are Better Than This” campaign, described as a “creative uprising” against AI. 👇
Children’s authors and illustrators launch 'We Are Better Than This' campaign against AI
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July 1, 2026 at 12:24 PM
louiestowell.bsky.social
Big brains of #KidLitUK - someone's asking for books that provide authentic disability representation. What are your top recs? Across all spectrums of disability.
March 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
mrtimdraws.bsky.social
Winter 🦊🦊 #kidlituk
January 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
cazapr1.bsky.social
#KidLitUK Love this book
flyingeyebooks.bsky.social Flying Eye Books @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social · 1d
OUT NOW... in paperback! 🎨 The Notted Island by Katherine Child flyingeyebooks.com/book/the-not...

Last Island is struggling. It’s time for Umbertiska Lupp, a young islander with pockets full of cake, to take matters into her own hands... (9+)
October 1, 2026 at 11:06 AM
letterboxlibrary.bsky.social
A gorgeous Throwback Thursday from @sflayzell.bsky.social
#KidLitUK
sflayzell.bsky.social SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social · 1d
Throwback Thursday! One year ago I had the joy of joining fellow Little Rebels shortlistees @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social & Cathy Jenkins to talk radical children's fiction, chaired by @darrenchetty.bsky.social, hosted by @theclpe.bsky.social @littlerebsprize.bsky.social 💙📚🌈
Smiling people holding books in front of a screen displaying the same books. Left to right: Sarah Hagger-Holt, Elle McNicoll, SF Layzell, Cathy Jenkins & Darren Chetty.
October 1, 2026 at 12:18 PM
louiestowell.bsky.social
Illustrators of the uk I am begging you do NOT work with her. Would you illustrate a trump kids' book? A Musk one? #KidLitUK
pettylobster.bsky.social Petty Lobster 🦂🏳️‍⚧️ @pettylobster.bsky.social · Apr 17
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar. She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights. Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards. Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'. @fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial
April 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
jilanne.bsky.social
📚👍I’ve been sucked into this creepy horror-mystery. If you don’t hear from me tomorrow, the monster got me. Perfect for #middlegrade! #kidlit #mystery #horror #teachers #librarians @vikingbooks #kidlitUK
March 1, 2026 at 2:43 AM
mrtimdraws.bsky.social
Thursday #kidlit #kidlituk #illustration
November 21, 2024 at 4:40 PM
louiestowell.bsky.social
Especially lovely to be chosen by children! Hurrah! #KidLitUK
June 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
mrtimdraws.bsky.social
Tuesday #kidlituk #kidlit #illustration
December 10, 2024 at 10:01 AM
lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
#booksky #writingcommunity #kidlituk #kidlit
abielongstaff.bsky.social Abie Longstaff @abielongstaff.bsky.social · Apr 9
My letter to the @theguardian.com on the META theft of our work. Will be in the physical paper tomorrow.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Letter. Please follow the link if this isn't legible
April 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
mrtimdraws.bsky.social
No snow here #kidlitart #kidlituk
November 20, 2024 at 7:44 AM
louiestowell.bsky.social
I asked a child what their fave book from last year was and their answer was a series that was published about a decade ago. A good reminder that a book is always new to a child who hasn't read it. The constant publishing hustle for novelty has nothing to do with what children want. #KidLitUK
January 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
louiestowell.bsky.social
Yup. It's not Coming Here. It's here. #KidlitUK
damianbarr.bsky.social Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · Apr 15
Librarians pressured to remove books by LGBTQ+ writers. Librarians harrassed at work for putting LGBTQ+ stories on their shelves. This is the UK-not Hungary, not USA. It's here and now. What can you do? Invite LGBTQ+ writers to your schools and libraries.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM