Jamie is such a great example of persistence, and a sign to publishers how important it is to nurture talent they know is great, even if the books take a decade to go big. So pleased to see it happening for him at last! 💛

This Saturday! Oxford! I'll be at Caper on Magdalen Rd, for a: Window Painting! Comics Workshop! and PARTY?!?! (yes) Come along! 🎉🍰💥

This beauty has SMASHED straight into the top 10 at Number 7 in the kids bestsellers. 33% UP on the previous PB despite selling 79,000 copies already in HB. HUGE GROWTH. Not bad eh The Bookseller Jodie Hodges

Presenting the cover of the upcoming fifth book in our series, ‘Adventuremice: The Ghostly Galleon’, which will launch Sept 12th! 👻⚓️ With my co-author Philip Reeve🐭🐭 Publisher: David Fickling Books Designer: Katie Taylor Publicist: Fraser Hutchinson Foreign rights: Bronwen Bennie

Behold, Sarah McIntyre’s cover for the fifth #Adventuremice book, ‘’The Ghostly Galleon’, coming this September from David Fickling Books. Designed by Katie Taylor (Publicist: Fraser Hutchinson Foreign rights: Bronwen Bennie)

🚨WIN tickets to Phoenix Fest!🚨 We're giving away 2 tickets to Phoenix Fest Oxford (20 July) & 5 digital tickets for runners-up! To enter, tell us your favourite thing about The Phoenix comic! Full ticket details in Alt text. Winner will be chosen at random, closes 3pm 15.7.24

What's that? Just Jamie Smart in the top 10 bestselling authors of the year so far. 🙌

🚨🎉💫🤯 It's a BIG day: Bunny vs Monkey* has officially sold over ONE MILLION COPIES!🥳🥳🥳 ✨ A million congratulations to superstar Jamie Smart, & a million thanks to ALL booksellers & book lovers who made this possible. GO COMICS!! *First seen in the epic The Phoenix comic!💥

Thrilled (and a bit nervous) to be giving the final keynote speech of the day at The Bookseller’s Children’s Conference 2024, all about children’s comics and why they’re so important #kidsconf The Bookseller 💅

A Riddle for a King by Mark Forsyth review — puzzles, paradoxes and conundrums thetimes.com/article/53aa54… My new book, A Riddle for a King, is Children’s Book of the Week in the Times today. “It’s absurdly sophisticated but, above all, very good fun.”

Here’s a peek into my studio, painting ‘Adventuremice: The Ghostly Galleon’ 🔈 #Adventuremice 🐭⚓️ Philip Reeve David Fickling Books

there’s SO MUCH comics coming from The Phoenix comic and David Fickling Books, it’s insanely exciting 🤩🤩🤩

Vote for us, by jove! We're SO excited that Badgers Are Go! has been included in the #PrimarySchoolBookClub September 2024 vote this evening. Head to #PrimarySchoolBookClub and vote for it using the pinned tweet! This is not a drill! I repeat, this is not a drill! David Fickling Books

Bunny Vs Monkey book TEN is out in a week 🤩 There are a few different versions depending on where you buy it. For example Waterstones have an exclusive edition featuring some of the Flember comics 👑👑👑

Love & thanks to the brilliant human who nominated NORTHERN SOUL for the The Carnegies . Surprised & delighted. Always believed librarians librarians to be the romantic kind…😘

We're beyond thrilled that Liz Cross is shortlisted for Leader of the Year! Everyone who works with Liz sees her immense wisdom, passion, vision & kindness shine through all parts of the publishing process. She inspires each of us at DFB, every day. HOORAY& congratulations, Liz!

My six year old is making in-roads into comedic writing. Every author and comedian out there should watch their backs. (With a specific shout out to Jamie Smart, my son's undisputed comedy hero). theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

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