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Celebrating family and love, One Diwali Day, illustrated by the incredibly talented @_anandaditi, comes out soon with the wonderful team @walkerpicbooks @Candlewick (HB - 02/09; PB - 25/09) 🌟💛🌟
Aditi and I are so grateful for the glowing reviews it has already received🙏🙏
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The countdown to the book awards is on and we are so excited to find out who will take home the 2026 Salford Children's Book Awards.
Watch this space as we announce the winner, voted by students on Tuesday 30th June.
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The @The_UKLA shortlist has been announced! What a privilege it has been to be a teacher judge for the 11-14+ category. Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers on the short list. It’s going to be very hard choosing winners. 🎉
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Thrilled Birdie has been shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards. They're the only national book awards judged entirely by teachers which makes it very special
I'm looking forward to going to the awards in Scotland in July to celebrate the magic of reading
@DA_Childrens
@The_UKLA
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The #BranfordBoase is awarded to author & editor of the year's outstanding debut novel for young people, highlighting the role of editors in nurturing & developing new authors. Congratulations to the talented editors on this year's longlist #editing branfordboaseaward.org.uk/20…
ALT Graphic with photos of the children's books editors on the longlist for this year's Branford Boase Award Rosie Fickling Katie Sinfield Lucy Courtenay Ruth Bennett and Ella Whiddett Cathy Liney Anne Marie Ryan Asmaa Isse Sarah Stewart Ruth Bennett Bella Pearson Asmaa Isse Shalini Vallepur Natalie Doherty Katie Jennings Meggie Degurney Linas Alsenas Mattie Whitehead and Karelle Tobias Gráinne Clear Zoë Griffiths Fiona Kennedy Amina Parchment-Youssef Emma Jones Natasha Brown Megan Reid
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Our nominees are:
🌟The Great Phoenix of London by @LindsayGalvin
📖Bird Boy by @catherinebruton
🌟Bringing Back Kay-Kay by @DevyaniNK
📖I Am Wolf by @alastair_ch
🌟King of Nothing by @NateLessore
📖People Like Stars by Patrice Lawrence
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I’ve been waiting a long time to share this! @PuffinBooks @WaterstonesKids
Thank you @PuffinBooks @ihussainwriter for this gorgeous proof. 🙏🏽🤩I am so very lucky! Beyond excited to go time travelling with Zubair 💛💛
#thenightIborrowedtime
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We are thrilled to have *FOUR BOOKS* from our amazing clients shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2025 across the Children’s category & YA category! 📚🎉
#DiverseBookAwards #DBA2025 #Shortlisting @The_DBAwards
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We are thrilled to see two of our titles make it onto the shortlists for this year's @The_DBAwards !
⭐Olu's Teacher by @JamelCarly, illustrated by Lydia Mba
⭐ Bringing Back Kay-Kay by @DevyaniNK
Huge congratulations to Jamel, Lydia and Dev!
So chuffed to be on this SL in such awesome company and especially alongside my friends - superstars @jprosewriter and Ramzee. 💛💛Congratulations to all 🤩🤩
'[A] joyful celebration of Diwali, from snacks to friendship to explosions of light. Anand’s illustrations are the real star here ...'
- Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books 💫💫
Aditi and I would love for you to meet Ronak, Dida and Rani, the cat.
Please do consider pre-ordering. 🙏🙏walker.co.uk/9781529525830/o…
candlewick.com/.../one-diwal…
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With the recent publication of the conclusion to my YA dystopian fantasy duology, This Shattered Promise, I will be doing this worldbuilding workshop in September. Schools can register on the @scholasticuk website at scholastic.co.uk//worldbuild…
ALT Workshop taking place Sept 24th, 11am with Sharada Keats talking about worldbuilding
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Our Children's book longlist! Don't forget to vote for your favourite to win the Readers' Choice!
Bringing Back Kay-Kay by Dev Kothari
When Lena’s brother goes missing at the end of summer camp and the police dismiss it, Lena is determined to find him
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My book is out today 💙 the sequel and conclusion to the two book series… available from bookstores. Young adult fantasy dystopia for fans of adventure, found family, pirates, and more
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Circus of Shadows comes out a month today! It’s the second Spooksmiths book and this time around Indigo and Rusty catch a ghost train on a trip to die for. Links to pre order are in my bio. Thank you @usborne @LinaLanglee @northlitagency and Miriam Serafin. I’m excited!
