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Frances Tosdevin

@francestosdevin.bsky.social

Children's author rep'd by Lucy Irvine at Peters, Fraser and Dunlop. Picture books with UCLan Publishing, Quarto, Rocket Bird Books and Andersen Press. Website: www.francestosdevin.com

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Claire Lewis @clairelewiswrites.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is such a brilliant opportunity! If you're a picture book author looking to develop your craft, don't miss it! (applications close on Friday 11th April)

Frances Tosdevin @francestosdevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to be a Picture Book mentor again in the Summer Mentoring Programme! If you’d like a FREE mentor this summer, go to @write-mentor.bsky.social website for info/t&c. Applications are open from April 7-11; mentoring starts May 1st. Can’t wait to find my next summer mentee! 📚

Ian Eagleton @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social · 2y ago

@francestosdevin.bsky.social joins me in The Reading Realm to chat about her wonderfully silly and fun new picture book DO NOT SAY THESE WORDS, illustrated by Rhian Wright! thereadingrealm.co.uk/2025/03/28/d... #KidLit #BookSky #PrimaryEduSky

DO NOT SAY THESE WORDS: An interview with Frances Tosdevin - The Reading Realm

Picture book author Frances Tosdevin joins us today to talk about her hilarious, chaotic and wonderful new book DO NOT SAY THESE WORDS, which is illustrated by Rhian Wright! Read time: 6 minutes Befor...

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Erin Literary Cool Cat 🐈📚@erinliterary.bsky.social · 2y ago

DO NOT SAY THESE WORDS, @francestosdevin.bsky.social @uclanpublishing.bsky.social IS our HOT KS1 review. Too much giggle-gas produced from saying certain words threatens world safety. The solution: say something less gigglesome. Awesome fun for 6yr+➡️ erinthecatprincess.blogspot.com/2025/03/do-n...

Front cover image. Author & artist names along the top in blue/green. Against a pale blue tiled background is the book title in red which runs from top to nearly the bottom. The Professor in the book stands to the left with her hand point to the title. The frog is on the bottom right pointing upwards. The newt is standing on the word THESE and points to the word 'SAY'. Along a yellow strip at the bottom are the words "WARNING: This book will not make you laugh-out-loud.

Tom Lancaster @tomwriting.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m delighted to share that I’m now represented by Georgia Tournay-Godfrey at The Bright Agency! 🥳🎉🍾 I’m SO excited to join the Bright family and can’t wait to start working with Georgia. #kidlit #picturebooks

Frances Tosdevin @francestosdevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

These plushies are so cute! Huge thanks to @dtreacher.bsky.social for creating Squirrel and Mr Wolf from THE REALLY BEAUTIFUL THING by me and #AliPye, pub by @andersenpress.bsky.social 💎🐿️

Frances Tosdevin @francestosdevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thank you so much, @dtreacher.bsky.social ! 🥰💎🐿️🐺

Dawn Treacher@dtreacher.bsky.social · 2y ago

I had such fun recreating these characters for @francestosdevin.bsky.social from her stunningly beautiful new picture book, The Really Beautiful Thing. #picturebook #kidslit

Amy Sparkes @amysparkes.bsky.social · 2y ago

**Free mentoring opportunity for children's authors** Looking for 4 writers who consider themselves from a working class background & in a financially disadvantaged situation. Mentoring is online, primarily in a group setting with some 1:1. More info: www.storygodmother.co.uk/index.php/op...

Frances Tosdevin @francestosdevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Look what I spotted— my lovely friend’s debut with Jellycat! Congrats @meredithvighauthor.bsky.social !!! 🐻🎒🌏

Stuart White @stuartwhitewm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy Publication Day to me! And Happy New Year to everyone else! I decided to do a 'silent launch' for this book, but now it's launched, I hope people will begin to buy it and enjoy it! Think Frostblood or like a dark, older version of Frozen!

Cover for Storm Rising, a new YA Fantasy from author Stuart White.
The cover has a cold, frosted texture for the background with ice-shards covered in red blood. Beneath the title, the tagline says '…blood will freeze'. There is a snowflake design, with some fantasy runs behind it, and a cloaked, hooded, dark figure striding towards the reader, an ice-shard projecting from her hand.
Back blurb reads:Eighteen-year-old Corena Storm, feared and cast out by her own parents for her Ice-Witch powers, is sent to the merciless Kurikon—an extremist religious order determined to strip her of magic, believing only the gods should wield such power.

But Corena refuses to be broken. Escaping their clutches, she’s thrust into a deadly game of survival, pursued by the relentless Kurikon and the Queen’s elite killing squad. As she fights to stay ahead, she’s forced to rely on unlikely allies—some old enemies, others new friends.

When she falls for someone unexpected, Corena’s quest for vengeance beco

Frances Tosdevin @francestosdevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tired of shopping? Fed up with consumerism? I have just the tonic... 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 (02/01/25 Andersen Press) illust by Ali Pye: Squirrel doesn’t know what The Really Beautiful Thing is, or even what it does, but it’s AMAZING, and he wants it...

Frances Tosdevin @francestosdevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Big thanks to @pippagoodhart.bsky.social for her lovely review… ⭐️🔭 awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.com/2024/12/gran... @rocketbirdbooks.bsky.social

Grandad's Star, written by Frances Tosdevin, illustrated by Rhian Stone, reviewed by Pippa Goodhart

Children's authors writers from the UK share thoughts on books and writing

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Catherine Friess @ Story Snug @storysnug.com · 2y ago

#StorySnugAdvent December 9th #TheTreeThatsMeantToBe by #YuvalZommer This heartwarming #festive story portrays a wonderful #celebration of #Christmas in the natural world & shows the #joy & happiness that #friendship brings to a character that feels different🌲 #UKKidLit #BookSky #amreading #KidLitUK

Marisa Linton @mlinton.bsky.social · 2y ago

So thrilled to announce the publication of my first novel. The Binding Spell is a young adult contemporary fantasy, full of dark academia, folk horror and the supernatural. In 2023 it won the Times/Chicken House competition. It will be published by Chicken House on 8 May 2025

Nicola Kent @nicolakent.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎉I've just received advance copies of Croc's Cooking Day, out with @littletigeruk.bsky.social in January, and it's so lovely to hold and play with the finished novelties! Second in a series of novelty board books about Busy Chores for Little Paws, with two more still to come! 🐊🥞

Frances Tosdevin @francestosdevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

A very SILLY, festive first post from me to say 'Hi' to everyone in the kidlit community! I'm a children's author, mainly writing picture books and I'd love to chat bookish things! My next picture book is out on Jan 2nd... more on that soon!