Some picture books reach beyond their target audience, and Dylan’s Park by Dylan Thomas, edited by @helendocherty.bsky.social and illustrated by @thomasdocherty.bsky.social, is certainly one!
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Author, Illustrator, tea drinker, biscuit dunker, Welsh and Spanish speaker, loves being outdoors.
A lyrical text @johndougherty.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social's expressive illustrations #ItWontBeForEver @quartokids.bsky.social show young children that absence and loss are different. It’s #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dMe
It Won’t Be Forever
It Won’t Be ForeverJohn Dougherty and Thomas DochertyFrances Lincoln Children’s Books At the edge of the forest lives a loving family of eight little fox cubs and their parents, Kit (the mother) an…
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Thomas Docherty from Dylan’s Park, Graffeg 14 May. The text is Dylan Thomas’s memory of Cwmdonkin Park, Swansea, where he played as a boy. Docherty blends make-believe and real places, and young Thomas sits in a tree. @graffegbooks.bsky.social @thomasdocherty.bsky.social
Very excited to reveal the cover of It Won't Be Forever, my latest collaboration with @thomasdocherty.bsky.social, coming in May from @QuartoKids
I love finding out what titles my foreign editions have been given! It turns out that #TheBearShapedHole is published as The Shape of the Void in Greek, and What Will Remain When You Leave, Bear? in German @thomasdocherty.bsky.social @quartokids.bsky.social
Thanks so much for sharing, and for all the good work you do. @thomasdocherty.bsky.social
Irish Hospice Foundation@irishhospice.bsky.social · 9mo ago📚 Continuing this year’s BCAW focus on books, we’re sharing a message from author John Dougherty. 💛 His book, A Hare-Shaped Hole, beautifully explores emotional expression and continuing bonds for bereaved children. 👉 More reads: childhoodbereavement.ie/bookshelf #ChildrenGrieveToo #BCAW2025
Today's #BookTrustStorytime spotlight is on the wonderful #Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social! Head to our website to find Helen reading the story plus additional activities and resources to use in your library: https://bit.ly/4nY61vi
We're delighted that #Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social has been shortlisted for #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026! 🥳 Huge congrats and thank you to @booktrust.org.uk for all their important work in engaging children across the country through the prize!
BookTrust@booktrust.org.uk · last yr.✨ We are delighted to unveil the #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 shortlist! ✨ Here, this year's winner Lucy Rowland introduces the five brilliant titles that will be part of our BookTrust Storytime programme in libraries. Find out more: www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/new...
This week’s #PictureBookFriday review is for the beautiful Follow the Swallow by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by @thomasdocherty.bsky.social. Out 05/06 from @farshorebooks.bsky.social worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/f...
Follow the Swallow by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Thomas Docherty
Cover illustration copyright © Thomas Docherty 2025 The enduring popularity of The Gruffalo and the BBC’s adaptations of some of Julia Donaldson’s picture books that are now a big part …
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Thrilled to have two fabulous books on the #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 longlist! ✨One Goose, Two Moose by @kaeltudor.bsky.social & Nicola Slater ✨Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social Huge congrats!
BookTrust@booktrust.org.uk · last yr.✨ Our #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 longlist is here! ✨ The BookTrust Storytime Prize - part of our BookTrust Storytime programme with libraries - celebrates reads that are great for sharing with 0–5s. Enter to win all 23 longlisted books 👇 www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/new...
In advance of publication this week of #TheBearShapedHole, thanks to @thomasdocherty.bsky.social and @quartokids.bsky.social for my lovely new t-shirt!
Who doesn’t love a Julia Donaldson story? Excited to receive a copy of her latest title, Follow the Swallow, illustrated by @thomasdocherty.bsky.social Out 05/06 for 3-6 readers, huge thanks go to @sarahreadsandruns.bsky.social @farshorebooks.bsky.social 🥰 #KidlitUK #UKKidlit
A skilfully written moving rhyming story of loss and love @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social beautifully illustrated by @thomasdocherty.bsky.social #TheBearShapedHole @quartokids.bsky.social #FrancesLincolnChildrensBooks is #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-d8f
The Bear-Shaped Hole
The Bear-Shaped HoleJohn Dougherty and Thomas DochertyFrances Lincoln Children’s Books Loss , especially death is always difficult to deal with even when you know it’s coming. So it is with this co…
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Thomas Docherty from his picturebook Moon Girl about Leila who is afraid of the dark but is helped by the girl in the moon who has a paintbrush full of moonlight. Spot the cat, the fox, the owl. From OUP 3 April. @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social @thomasdocherty.bsky.social
The Bear-Shaped Hole is publishing this May! 🐻✨ "The Bear-Shaped Hole is going to be one of the most important picturebooks of 2025." @jonnybid.bsky.social "powerful, sad and joyous in equal measure." @smithsmm.bsky.social By @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social 🩵
Absolutely lovely bookpost today “The Bear-Shaped Hole” by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social is a truly wonderful book for supporting young people in preparing for loss. It’s powerful, sad and joyous in equal measure. Beautiful @quartokids.bsky.social #PicturebookPage
Unboxing video!!! "The Bear-Shaped Hole is going to be one of the most important picturebooks of 2025." - Jon Biddle #BearShapedHole #HareShapedHole #kidlit #loss #grief @thomasdocherty.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social
Got to see @thomasdocherty.bsky.social's roughs for our next collaboration and they are GORGEOUS.
Thank you to the lovely people at @rshipbshop.bsky.social in #Salisbury for getting lots of copies of our books in for us to sign! 📚 😍 @thomasdocherty.bsky.social grew up in Salisbury, so this is a special bookshop for us ❤️ and it has such a brilliantly curated selection of children's books! 📚
My new book Moon Girl with OUP is out in April and available to pre-order now. It's also being published in The Netherlands and in Finland. I had so much fun painting the moonlight glow and all the creatures hugging in the dark and the lovely, trusting relationship between the girls.
If you look carefully in the last photo, you'll see a signed copy of The Hare-Shaped Hole by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social on display 😊
This beautiful, heartfelt book by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social will be coming out in 2025 💗✨ Another deeply emotional and important book (following on from The Hare-Shaped Hole) which will help to comfort anyone facing the death of a loved one 💜 #thebearshapedhole
So proud of our new book The Bear-Shaped Hole by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and myself . I know that this book is going to help so many people, young and old, to talk about and discuss something that can be so hard to put into words. It has been a wonderful experience to work on this book.
I'm so proud to have had FOUR picture books published in 2024! 📚 🥰 Illustrated by four equally amazing #illustrators: #DavidRoberts, @brizidamagro.bsky.social, @thomasdocherty.bsky.social & @stevenlenton.bsky.social ✨✨✨✨ These would all make great #Christmas #gifts, just saying 😉💖 #picturebooks
