👀📚Check out my SEPTEMBER 2024 Children’s Books I’m Most Excited About video on my YouTube channel. Please subscribe! 📖🌟Each month, I put together #ComingSoon videos previewing my most anticipated children’s books releases to bump up your TBRs! ➡️ youtu.be/WF0gsc7taS8?fe…

The Spark! School Book Awards are now OPEN to submissions! Last year 170 schools participated, primary & secondary. We can't get wait to get shortlisting for 2025, but it's the pupils who will choose the winners! Submissions deadline: 18 October. ✨📚🏆 sparkbookawards.co.uk/publishers

I'm delighted to reveal the cover for 🐀Lucy Ann Unwin 🐀 How To Be A Revolutionary 📌🎈 entertaining & empowering How To Be A Revolutionary illustrated by Selom Sunu 🇬🇭🇬🇧 designed by Amy Cooper & published 7th November by uclan publishing Let's find out more...

Lockett & Wilde: The Ghosts of the Manor is my first hardback to be published in the UK, and it is absolutely BEAUTIFUL thanks to the awesome illustrator Pam Smy. RRP is £10.99 but it's on offer at Waterstones for £8.99 if you fancy pre-ordering!! 👻👻👻 waterstones.com/book/lockett-a…

Out one week today! Grab a torch and stock up on those barley sugars … (IYKYK!!!) It’s gonna get dark! #DeloresMackenzie Firefly Press Bounce Sales and Marketing ❤️📗 Bounce Waterstones Original illustrations by Nathan Collins #spookymonth #gothic #teens #kidsbooks #EDINBURGH

Love the cover of #10MarchfieldSquare by Nicola Whyte 😎 It's described as The Maid meets Only Murders in the Building and is set in the smallest residential square in London. Really, what more can you ask from a cosy mystery? Thanks Raven Books 🙏 Out in April

I love how #AlkistiHalikia has taken the phrase “to step into someone’s shoes” and turned it into a charming story that kids can really connect with. Matou’s curiosity and imagination are so relatable. 🎨 #FotiniTikkou 📚 Lantana Publishing Full review here👇 mybookcorner.co.uk/step-into-my-s…

Lovely to see Welcome To Dead Town Raven McKay in this spooktacular list! Thanks Carolyn Ward👻BELLA BRIGHT👻 🖤👻💀🖤 shepherd.com/best-books/spo…

📢#GIVEAWAY! x 3 copies of LOCKETT & WILDE: THE GHOSTS OF THE MANOR Lucy Strange Enter Follow, RT, Like. Ends 13/9👍 Meet Lucy & more for Mr Dilly Meets free online event for #schools this Thurs 12th 11am tinyurl.com/2kaj2mfs #edutwitter #kidlit #giveawayalert #teachers

Written by Hazel Knox #TheNightPixie is a brilliant, heart-warming debut about friendship, stepping outside your comfort zone and being mindful of nature and the world we live in. 🎨…CHRiS WHiTE… 📚 HB Publishing House Review by Sarah Broadley (she/her) 👇 mybookcorner.co.uk/the-night-pixi…

✨👻Happy publication day! 👻✨ ✍️Yvonne Banham #HauntedLifeOfDeloresMackenzie 💀 🎨Nathan Collins 📚 Firefly Press #thehauntedlifeofdeloresmackenzie

My worst Canva work ever, but hugest congrats to my fellow 2024 debuts Rowan Foxwood 🦊🌳 Nicola Baker Gaynor Andrews and Rachel Burge on these four beauties that come out today!

Two bits of news! 1) GHOSTLINES is out today - if you fancy puffins, an island adventure, and a dog who steals root vegetables, then this is for you! 🥕 2) I am so delighted to have won the The Wainwright Prize for FOXLIGHT last night. Truly a surprise, truly an honour. 🏆

Thrilled to share our Q&A with Gaynor Andrews, author of #PandoraAndTheStoryForge - follow the link below for Gaynor's inspirations, the joys and challenges of writing for children, and tips for writing in rhyme! 🎨 #MarieAliceHarel 📚 Rocket Bird Books mybookcorner.co.uk/qa-with-gaynor…

This week's Schools For Nature report suggests that 24% of schools provide daily opportunities to get out in nature & also observes a 'nature gap' between different areas of affluence. 🌳Try our new FOREST SCHOOL book list to inspire outdoor adventures: booksfortopics.com/booklists/topi…

#Writers, got a ticket to WOWCON, our online weekend writing conference? Now you can build-your-own conference by booking workshops & panels, like Developing a Writer's Voice with author Marie Basting - Auntie Medusa and Me out 1st Aug at 6pm on Friday 27th September. Book now ↪️ shorturl.at/so12s

In this week’s Northern Highlight, we interview YA writer Josh Silver from Manchester, who talks about his new book Dead Happy, the sequel to his debut HappyHead. Link in bio for full interview 📚

Any Highland/Island/Argyll primary schools considering an author visit this year, please keep me in mind. My stories have local settings & topics including friendship, endangered species and healthy eating – a fit for P2-5 especially. shorturl.at/VUf4n

Thrilled to be The Times and The Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week with GHOSTLINES! Less thrilled to have my own face loom so large, but what can you do? 👻🌊

🚨New Q&A Alert!🚨 We caught up with Claire Freedman to chat about her hilarious new picture book #DragonsLoveUnderpants 🐉🩲 Don’t miss the inside scoop on what inspired these fiery underpants adventures! 🎨 #BenCort 📚Simon & Schuster Children's Books Read it here👇 mybookcorner.co.uk/qa-with-claire…