Fantastic evening celebrating the launch of Tidemagic with super-talented ⁦Clare Harlow⁩! Just LOOK at the grilk monster ⁦PuffinBooks⁩ have created. He & Clare are about to go on tour - coming to a bookshop near you! 😍🌊✨♥️

📝 Tuesday 21st May: Pitching contest judged by Joanna Moult, co-founder of Skylark Literary, a specialist children's & YA literary agency.

🎉 Hurrah! Marvellous to see Tidemagic appearing here, along with Lee Newbery’ The Lost SunLion, because these 2 are very definitely 2 of the best MG books for May! 😍

Hooray! Congratulations everyone! 🥳📚💕

The boys are up to something!!! Fergus has been in the icing sugar and Rory was spotted in a beret earlier…. Better keep an eye on those guinea pigs for a special announcement later today!! 🥐🕵🏻‍♀️🍰

#BakerByDay #SpyByNight

So delighted to see THE FIRST MOVE by Jenny Ireland Jenny Ireland on this shortlist for the excellent #BranfordBoaseAward . Huge congratulations to Ruth Knowles & Sara Jafari too - an editorial dream team! I love how the Branford Boase drags editors out into the light too...💚

Hooray!! The news is out - we have our fabulous shortlistees for the Soaring Stories Competition. Huge congratulations to all of them! 🥳

This was a really excellent episode of my favourite foreign affairs podcast - really helped me understand the situation in the Middle East as it stands right now. Thanks very much to Charlie and to Arthur Snell for walking the line between complexity and clarity so perfectly!

Perfect for middle grade readers in need of a high energy adventure with dinosaurs! Absolutely love this brilliant book by Philip Kavvadias! 🦕

Woohooo! Happy publication day Jenny Ireland! A really gorgeous read, perfect for summer! 🌞💕

Wowser!! 😍

So very well-deserved! Congratulations Simon James Green! What excellent taste those kids have...📚💕

Absolutely over the moon that FINN JONES WAS HERE has won the Alexandra Palace Children's Book Award 🎉Voted for by 800 kids across schools in North London - what an honour! And what a brilliant day at the award ceremony - a theatre full
Of cheering, excited, book-loving young people! Loved it!

3 days, 12 primary schools… and a whole lot of love for Finn Jones!

I’m knackered, but it was so much fun! Thanks for making it happens Hull SLS 📚 😍

Oxford Children’s Classics has relaunched their range with gorgeous new covers and end-matter content for a new generation of readers. I was thrilled to be asked to write the introduction for The Jungle Book!

Here is the brand new edition with beautiful cover by Sarah Green.

Oh and!! Important notes:

- this is a proper tearjerker but the dog DOES NOT DIE. Olivia Wakeford wouldn’t do you like that (but will make you cry)

- David Litchfield has simply battered this out of the park. Next level beauty from a superstar of light and colour. We’re honoured!

This book by the incredibly talented Olivia Wakeford is an absolute DREAM. So, so beautiful; full of emotion of the best kind. And to top it off, David Litchfield has complemented it perfectly with his stunning illustration. Well done, Megan Reid! Honestly, a book of my heart💕

Lovely news for a soggy Friday! Welcome to #TeamSkylark , Natalia! 🥳

Every month on the Hub we host our pitching contest - further guest agents coming up include Joanna Moult & Alice Williams - so, if you have a #kidlit novel you want to start sending out to agents, come & pitch your idea on the Hub!

We are SO excited to announce THE BIG ASK by Simon James Green, publishing June 2024! An uplifting soft romance with vital messages at its heart, it follows sweet but awkward Alfie and the romantic rollercoaster that ensues when he manages to ask the coolest boy in school to prom.