At Westminster today celebrating 25 years of the #SummerReadingChallenge! Here’s to many more years of empowering children’s futures 📚Karen Napier Alex Wharton

Our online Reading for Pleasure - Live workshop, with the brilliant Children’s Laureate Wales Alex Wharton, explored reading and words, with some art thrown in! Over 300 schools registered, and 220 teachers joined the event from 118 schools from nine different countries.

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Lucie Bryon has won the inaugural Entente Littéraire Prize for her YA graphic novel Thieves (Nobrow), alongside Manon Steffan Ros, who was awarded the prize for The Blue Book of Nebo, translated by Lise Garond (Firefly Press) 👇 thebookseller.com/news/lucie-bry…

The children of the travelling school have one last mystery to solve... Libby and the Egyptian Escapade by Jo Clarke and Becka Moor lands in bookshops TODAY 🔍 We hope you love it as much as we do!

Happy publication day to Red Sky in the Morning, Poet's Warning by Alex Wharton and Ian Morris📚 Now available from your local bookshop!

It's #giveaway time!📚 To celebrate #TheTraitorsUK finale, we're giving away three copies of Lie or Die, a pacy reality TV based YA thriller perfect for fans of the show To be in with a chance of winning, be sure to follow us, like and RT this post by 11:59pm 31/01 (UK only)

Honoured to be guest poet on Brian Moses's blog!

Our Author of the Month is Karen Owen! Her fourth Major and Mynah adventure is Project Puffin and perfect for readers aged 6+ What suggestions does Karen have to encourage children & young people to read more? Read our interview with the author! 👉 libraries.wales/aotm/karen-owe…

This heartfelt verse novel will be being added to our year 6 read aloud spine next week thanks to our Reading for Pleasure 🧶 TRG. It’s so wonderful to be introduced to brilliant texts that I wouldn’t have ordinarily read myself. Such a beautiful book. Firefly Press

Our new blog: buff.ly/4hkoCPx 📗Thunderboots Naomi Jones Rebecca Ashdown 📘The Last Boy Eve McDonnell 💫 See you on Instagram 😀 Mikka @ Everything With Words 📙Feather by Manon Steffan Ros @fireflypress 📕Darkly by Marisha Pessl Walker Books #ReadingForPleasure

Yesterday in Oxford book shops. WHSmith: Monster Max, Waterstones: Cracking Cricket and Blackwells: Fantastic Football. Hooray! Firefly Press Firefly for Schools WHSmith Waterstones Waterstones Kids Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop #stupendoussports #monstermax

Huge congratulations to Luke Palmer who has been longlisted for The Carnegie Medal for Writing with his second novel, Play #Carnegies25 Play is an intensely gripping & masterly YA novel of boyhood, modern-day masculinity and innocence lost Available from your local bookshop!

We’re so delighted And I Hear Dragons edited by Hanan Issa and illustrated by Eric Heyman has been chosen by EmpathyLabUK for the #ReadForEmpathy collection 2025. Download the collection guides here: empathylab.uk/RFE

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ Camilla Chester returns this Spring with gorgeous galloping middle grade, Project Pony, for horse lovers everywhere. Cover by the wonderful Irina Avgustinovich🐎 Pre-order here: fireflypress.co.uk/books/project-…

Demonstrating the art of literary crowd surfing to Year 3: Mold Library, Flintshire ... diolch am fy nghael i! #bookswales #WorldBookDay Firefly Press #worldbookday2025 #bookstagram Books Council of Wales

When Grimstink the alien and Layla the thirteen-year-old girl swap planets, they must face down warriors, deathbots, vicars and traffic wardens in their battle for the fate of planet Earth. Grimstink by Daniel Peak lands in bookshops 10/07! Superb cover by Jack Brougham

It was my pleasure! Firefly Press Leaf Trust

So proud to share that Play has been shortlisted for the UK’s longest running children’s book awards, the The Carnegies – congratulations Luke Palmer! #Carnegies2025 🌟 Available from your local bookshop!

✨GIVEAWAY✨ To celebrate the publication of Live, Luke Palmer's third YA novel, we're giving away a full set of Luke's books to one lucky winner. To be in with a chance of winning, be sure to follow us, like and RT this post by 11:59pm 04/06 UK only. Good luck!