Apologies to those who follow me on everything else 😘 This really got me today #inclusivity #neurodivergent #adhd
Jules Aspinall
@julesaspinall.bsky.social
Writer: Rep’d Alice Williams Literary | Spooky supernatural MG | GEA alumni | #SCBWI 22 Pitch Event MG winner | #UV24 LL Honorary Mention
Congratulations 🥂 @kitdewaal.bsky.social and looking forward to your discussion in N Cotswolds on THE BEST OF EVERYTHING (buy ahaed @borzoibookshop.bsky.social ) with @megster.bsky.social 2pm Thursday 8 May Tickets: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Jules Aspinall@julesaspinall.bsky.social · last yr.Great evening celebrating the launch of The Best of Everything by the brilliant @kitdewaal.bsky.social bring on the joy, get ready to ache too #writingcommunity #kindness #forgiveness #love
So good to meet and chat today @elnorrywriter.bsky.social Thank you ☺️ Can’t wait to read the 2nd Fable House: Heart of Fire 🔥 ❤️#writingcommunity #middlegrade #kidlit #middlegradebooks
Great evening celebrating the launch of The Best of Everything by the brilliant @kitdewaal.bsky.social bring on the joy, get ready to ache too #writingcommunity #kindness #forgiveness #love
A monster of a #worldbookday thanks to Jamie Hammond Usborne and Kenilworth Books #kidlit #childrensbooks #writingcommunity
Apologies to all who have seen this elsewhere! Fab time with @scbwi-bi.bsky.social and Golden Egg Academy friends in Edinburgh at the weekend #amwriting #writingcommunity #kidlituk #kidlitchat #ya #childrenswriters #childrensauthors #childrensbooks #kidlit #spooky
@amysparkes.bsky.social great children’s publishing panel last night, thank you! 😊💫
We're delighted to share that we've teamed up with the wonderful Baby Bank Alliance to give out nearly 25,000 resources in almost 100 baby banks across England and Wales. It's never too early to start sharing books and stories with babies - we hope everyone enjoys the resources ❤️
Happy #FamilyDay! We believe every family should be supported to make sharing books a regular part of daily life, helping children to enjoy the benefits of reading. Here's why shared reading has a vital role to play in early education and childcare 👇 www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
We're so excited that the shortlist for the @waterstones.bsky.social Children's Book Prize is here! The Illustrated Books, Younger Readers, and Older Readers categories are looking absolutely fantastic - congrats to all the nominees! Find out more 👇 www.waterstones.com/the-watersto... #WCBP25
Really looking forward to this! For adults and teens… author and historian Philippa Gregory and Kenilworth Books (see insta/fb/X) are celebrating Normal Women and bringing the missing 900 years of women’s history to South Warwickshire on Mar 5. Tickets from Kenilworth Books #writingcommunity #books
Since the entire world has been sending me the news about the Buffy reboot, here's what I would do if I was in charge. Given that SMG = reprising buffy, 20 years on, I'd want her in charge of/involved in an org of slayers and struggling not to replicate the horrors of the watcher's council.
We are thrilled to announce our Read It Forward ambassadors. A huge thanks to Alexander Armstrong, @serenakpatel.bsky.social, Andy Day, Catherine Rayner and Nadine Aisha Jassat. 10% of ALL our children's book sales in Feb go to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social bit.ly/RIFEB25
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This February, we invite you to Read It Forward. 10% of all children's book sales through Bookshop.org go to BookTrust and Scottish Book Trust in February 2025, and EVERY sale supports independent boo...
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For Children's Mental Health Week we have a new factsheet for you - Therapeutic Parenting. It's a way of parenting children who have had traumatic early life experiences that shape how they see and experience the world. Read more here: www.adoptionuk.org/factsheets-f...
#SundayMorningBookChat which books have transported you to another country? Or unlocked a different culture or allowed younger readers to see beyond their own four walls?
Heartstopper meets Shaun of the Dead in #PoppyTPerry's debut #YA Dead Real (written and illustrated too!) Honoured to have read this at an early stage, delighted that @uclanpublishing.bsky.social felt the same. Please pre-order from www.proud-geek.co.uk/product-page... if you can - out July!
I asked a child what their fave book from last year was and their answer was a series that was published about a decade ago. A good reminder that a book is always new to a child who hasn't read it. The constant publishing hustle for novelty has nothing to do with what children want. #KidLitUK
✨PODCAST ROLL CALL✨ Authors, Illustrators, Publishers & Librarians, do you have a spooky, magical, or fantastical tale to share? #AroundTheCauldron my NEW podcast will be brewing up all things eerie & enchanting. DM me if you’d like to stir up some literary magic together! Launching 30.04.25
a cartoon of a witch stirring a cauldron with the words " double double toil and trouble fire burn and caldron bubble "
ALT: a cartoon of a witch stirring a cauldron with the words " double double toil and trouble fire burn and caldron bubble "
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Hi pumpkins! I’m October & I’m… 📚 Children’s Librarian ✨ Chair of CILIP #YLGSE 📚 GLL Literary Foundation #LiteraryChampion ✨ NLT #LiteracyChampion 📚 Judge for #SparkBookAward25 ✨ #FirstChapter 2024 Winner 📚 Spooky Book Blogger ✨ #AroundTheCauldron Podcast Host & I’m SO enchanted to meet you! 🖤
I need a new comfort watch. Finished #gilmoregirls, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, and #geekgirl. Any recommendations for relatable, similar feel-good vibes I can escape into? #writingcommunity
On the set of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A space Odyssey (1968)
It's 3 weeks until ##LibbyandtheEgyptianEscapade illustrated by @beckamoor.bsky.social publishes. Thanks to Helen Peters for this fabulous endorsement Signed & dedicated copies available exclusively via @rshipbshop.bsky.social #TheTravellingSchoolMysteries rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/product/libb...
This interview with Susan Cooper is only from last year & gives us a great insight into her formative years during WW2 (the almost nightly bombing & children collecting shrapnel)as well how she believes the novels are about Time. She's on first. youtu.be/WfsKMvgklpE?...
The Dark is Rising: Susan Cooper, Natalie Haynes, Simon McBurney and Robert MacFarlane.
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“Can’t believe it’s still light at 5 o’clock.” Start rehearsing your lines guys, the light is coming back 🙌💫. Happy shortest day to you all, cosy up ❄️#wintersolstice
My favourite TV of the year: DOCTOR WHO (season 14) - one of the best ever. So good to have Russell T Davies writing & show-running again! & A KIND OF SPARK (season 2) - even better than the first season, if such a thing is possible! Brilliant work from @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social & all involved!
What does 'Home' mean to you? Is it a place or a feeling? Something to cherish or flee, to make or break? A heritage or an institution? Writers of Beds, Bucks or Northants aged 14+, send us your writing by 19 Jan. Details: www.mklitfest.org/mink2025 #writingcompetition #poetry #flashfiction
I would highly recommend REFLECTIONS ON THE MAGIC OF WRITING by Diana Wynne Jones. Not all the essays or talks are about writing for children, but they are all brilliant and full of wisdom. Especially love this quote about the responsibility of writing for children:
Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · 2y agoBook people! There are lots of texts on “how to write a novel” by likes of David Lodge etc but are there equivalents for children’s literature that examine what works and why? @louiestowell.bsky.social ?
And this was the photo that led me to Grandpa’s other previously unseen photos (by me anyway). Proud of you Pops❤️ #stillsphotographer #britishfilms #Movies #WritingCommunity
Thrilled to find another of my grandpa’s stills. More precious as time goes by #WritingCommunity #stillsphotographer #britishfilms #movies
