Emma Reynolds

@emmaillustrate.bsky.social

Children's book author-illustrator #kidlit MG Graphic Novel #DrawnToChangeTheWorld Picture book #AmaraAndTheBats 🦇📚🏳️‍🌈♾ AuDHD Loves #Bats .She/Her. Rep'd by Thao Le Website: emmareynoldsillustration.com Links: linktree.com/emmaillustrate

Thank you so much @mariannedoherty.bsky.social for sharing our graphic anthology ‘Drawn to Change the World’ among this amazing list!

Marianne Doherty@mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Over David Attenborough’s lifetime the natural world has become ever more eroded. On his 100th birthday let’s use #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate children’s books that carry on his environmental legacy, help us delight in nature and encourage us to protect its future. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

Book cover for Drawn To Change The World: 16 Climate Activists, 16 Artists by Emma Reynolds

📢 Polling stations are now open! 📢 Want to replace the failing Labour Party and defeat the hateful message of Reform? Get yourself down to your local polling station and vote Green today! Every vote counts. Make sure your voice is heard 💚 Don’t forget your Photo ID for voting in England!

Vote Green Poster by Artist Raissa Pardini - Vote Green - Join for a real change, real hope.

THE CROW PRINCESS, coming to shelves April 20th, 2027 from First Second!! With loose inspiration from Chinese mythology, THE CROW PRINCESS is a summery modern fairytale about what happens when you rescue an injured crow who turns out to be a princess from the mountains.

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This is indeed a great read below. To add to this - Mac Barnett is speaking from a position of extreme privilege. Yes ideally less books would be published so the market is less saturated, but the rest of us need to be paid more then. Overall, a very callous and harmful thing for him to say.

Bert the Bookseller@booksellerbert.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you’re seeing the Mac Barnett quote floating around, here’s the best break down I’ve seen that addresses the book as a whole in addition to the quote

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

For Autism Acceptance Month, I and a few friends organised our 4th annual all-autistic Game Jam and I'm so excited to say the games are releasing NOW as a charity bundle to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. itch.io/b/3659/ach-g... Everyone's worked so hard, please check it out & share!

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“The interim report commissioned by Wes Streeting, the health secretary,found there were incentives to seek a diagnosis because it is the “gateway” to unlock access to special adjustments at school and work" Getting a cancer diagnosis as a gateway to unlock chemotherapy

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 4mo ago

"Children and young adults are “incentivised” to get an ADHD or autism diagnosis and there has been a “medicalisation of distress”, a government inquiry has concluded." [Times front page]

Children ‘incentivised’ to get ADHD and autism diagnoses
Eleanor Hayward - Health Editor , Max Kendix - Political Correspondent
Children and young adults are “incentivised” to get an ADHD or autism diagnosis and there has been a “medicalisation of distress”, a government inquiry has concluded.

The interim report commissioned by Wes Streeting, the health secretary,found there were incentives to seek a diagnosis because it is the “gateway” to unlock access to special adjustments at school and work. There was “credible evidence of increasing psychological distress” behind a rise in mental health diagnoses, it said, but normal difficulties may also “increasingly be interpreted primarily through a medical lens”.

Nearly one in ten young adults “self-identify” as autistic and there has been a particular increase in diagnoses among girls when they move to secondary school. The report said common childhood behaviours such as restlessness were being medicalised.

“Historical analyses show that behaviours in children once regarded as within the range of normal variation, or even as something to be welcomed in some contexts, are now more often interpreted as requiring intervention or treatment,” it said.

Applications for the Living Alongside Bats in Churches Grant is still open ⛪️🦇👥 If your church would benefit from a small grant to help manage bat roost-related issues, please apply! Find out more about the grant and how to apply here: shorturl.at/ArALw Applications close: 10am, 27th April 2026.

Living Alongside Bats in Churches Grant - Bats and Churches - Bat Conservation Trust

Bats have always been in churches and places of worship – there are records of this dating back many hundreds of years. Even churches built in a non-tra...

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Hey everyone! Cloud Puppy book 3: The Pup Days of Summer is coming out in a few weeks (April 7th) and if you haven’t pre-ordered yet, Barnes & Noble is doing a pre-order promotion from March 24th - March 26th! Just use the code PREORDER25!

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