@Juliepike

Author of #TheLastSpellBreather🦊💫 and #FlameChasers ❤️🔥FanGirl of Fantasy & SciFi 🖖 Day job: climate-change. Made in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

 🌳🌲The Enchanted Forest 🌲🌳
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Joined February 2009
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The flamebirds are SOARING today🔥 Flame Chasers is @thetimes Children’s Book of the week😃🎉 Thank you Lucy Bannerman for your sizzling review. I’m delighted and bowled over ❤️🤗
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I come onto Twitter about once a fortnight. I think perhaps I will delete my account and then I see a tweet like this and am back in my happy place. I don't have access to Messages anymore. I don't know why. If anyone would like to chat, you'll find me on Insta: juliepikewrites
80s Kidz
@80s_KidzJan 25
Which film has this ending?
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WOW! Just found out that #TheBoyWhoGrewDragons was in the Bookseller’s Top 20 Best selling Kids books last week 🤯 Huge thanks to everyone who is part of team growing dragons! @piccadillypress @templarbooks @bonnierbooks_uk
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Christmas Ghosts & Folklore of Wales – FREE talk in Swansea! 👻 Join me for a festive hour of eerie tales, seasonal traditions and a *possible* visit from a certain Mari Lwyd… 📍 Swansea Central Library, Y Storfa 📅 Wed 17 Dec, 5.30–6.30 No booking needed.
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Give the gift of pure magic this Christmas. Discover the bestselling series where dragons grow on trees… and chaos follows! Shop The Boy Who Grew Dragons series by @andyjshepherd now! loom.ly/_dXYBIo 🎁🐉
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Christmas came early tonight at the launch of @andyjshepherd and Sarah Warburton’s glorious picture book A Christmas Delivery. There was such a buzz in the room and so much love for it. 🐉 🎄❤️
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Good news!
Firefly Press@FireflyPress13 Oct 2025
📣 #FireflyPress signs uplifting tale of hope and renewal from former Children’s Laureate Wales Eloise Williams Read more: fireflypress.co.uk/blog/fire… @bouncemarketing @Books_Wales
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And I Hear Dragons, a ground-breaking anthology edited by National Poet of Wales Hanan Issa and illustrated by Eric Heyman is on the poetry shortlist for this year’s The Week Junior Book Awards!⁠ Good luck to @Eric_Heyman who is headed to the awards ceremony today...
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It has been VERY hard to keep quiet about this.🌟 Thrilled to have @chrisriddell50 on board to illustrate FRESH, a debut poetry collection from @rhicatjam coming Spring 26 Find out more: fireflypress.co.uk/blog/top-… @bouncemarketing @Books_Wales

Top Children’s Illustrator Chris Riddell to illustrate debut collection by Cardiff poet | Firefly...

Former UK Children’s Laureate, renowned illustrator and political cartoonist Chris Riddell OBE is to illustrate a collection of children’s poetry by debut Cardiff poet Rhiannon Oliver. The collecti...

fireflypress.co.uk
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Sqeeeee! Beyond excited to have been sent a copy of the 2nd Mallory Vayle and Maggoty Skull book, The Beast From Beneath, by @MJHowardWrites & @PeteCWilliamson. Out 25/09 for 9+ readers,the very hugest of thanks go to Sîan @NosyCrow 💀
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LAST CHANCE! 🌞 Get £1 OFF per book + FREE P&P on our staff picks at fireflypress.co.uk this summer! ⁠ 🛍️ Use SUMMER25 at checkout.⁠ ⁠ 📚️ Buying 3? Email [email protected] and get a 4th book free! (All Firefly books eligible, ends 2 Sept)⁠
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The brilliant @Louiestowell will be visiting us on Monday 15th September to sign the much-loved Loki books! Join us after school, from 4:00-5:00pm, to meet Louie and get your books signed! All tickets include a copy of the brand new Loki book, publishing soon. 🎟️ Tickets via bio
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Julie Pike retweeted
Ruth Irons@RuthIrons28 Aug 2025
PLEASE SHARE! My debut is a Kindle Daily Deal today (28th August) for one day only at 99p! What a bargain! #kindledailydeal #kindledeals #99pkindlebooks #thrillerbooks #thrillerbooksaddict #crimebooks #thrillerreads #thrillerreaders #kindlereads
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We are delighted to be hosting the launch of Sin Bin Island, the debut children’s novel by Red Dwarf co-creator and writer Doug Naylor. Bringing Doug’s trademark humour and narrative wit, Sin Bin Island is a classic adventure story. Tickets ➡️ waterstones.com/events/doug-…
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✨️ICYMI✨️ 📙#TheTreasureSeekers is available to PREORDER NOW! ✍️@Cathy_Faulkner_ 🎨@HarryGoldhawk fireflypress.co.uk/books/tre… (or from your local bookshop 📚️)
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🌟We're excited to share that Ettie and the Midnight Pool by Julia Green (illustrated by Pam Smy) has been SHORTLISTED for the 2025 Children's Wainwright Prize for Fiction!🌟 CONGRATULATIONS @jgreenauthor & @pamsmyillustrator 🎉 #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
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Fab evening celebrating the amazing @KClarkwriter and her brilliant debut Things I learned While I was Dead @FaberBooks @mrbsemporium
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Julie Pike retweeted
SF Said@whatSFSaid15 Jul 2025
This is the kind of commitment that we need. Every single school should have a library - and a librarian!
National Literacy Trust@Literacy_Trust9 Jul 2025
We were thrilled to be at the Treasury yesterday as the Chancellor @RachelReevesMP committed to ensuring every primary school will have a library by the end of this Parliament.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves stood at a lectern giving a speech to an audience

ALT Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves stood at a lectern giving a speech to an audience

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To celebrate #NationalGiveSomethingAwayDay we’re giving 2 lucky people the chance to WIN an early copy of @_lufraser & #KateHindley’s uplifting new picture book #TheBusiestBeaver. To enter, LIKE the post & share a GIF of your fave animal by 12am on Sun 20th July. UK only!
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I'm so happy to see Ettie and the Midnight Pool on the longlist for the 2025 Children's Wainwright Prize for fiction! Thank you! So many wonderful books here.
The Wainwright Prizes@wainwrightprize3 Jul 2025
Replying to @wainwrightprize
We’re excited to reveal the 2025 Children’s #WainwrightPrize for Fiction Longlist! 🌿 These 13 stories transport young readers into wild forests, magical coastlines & hidden worlds, celebrating the power of storytelling to inspire a love for nature. ✨ #StoriesThatConnect
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Thrilled that Shadow Creatures has WON @histassoc Young Quills award in the 11-13 category. Warm thanks to the judges, team @_ZephyrBooks and all the young readers who put the book on the shortlist.
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