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

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Gwen Millward from Kerfuffle Bird by Helen Docherty, a picturebook about expressing bottled-up feelings. Neon tones, a scribbly line and an exuberant sense of fun. Paperback from Oxford Children’s Books 5 June. @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social @helendocherty.bsky.social

✨🐦 KERFUFFLE BIRD is out this week!!! 🐦✨ Illustrated by Gwen Millward @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social Huge thanks to Gerry Smith for the FAB Kerfuffle Bird song 🎵 & to @imogencarter.bsky.social @familyofbeasts.bsky.social @marcelafwrites.bsky.social for the reviews 💗💛💚 Available to pre-order now! 😍

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!

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✨ 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...

"Millward’s scratchy, wild drawings [are the] perfect accompaniment to this fabulous exploration of feelings and freedom" 🐣💛 Kerfuffle Bird featured in The Observer, ahead of pub day next week! 🎉 observer.co.uk/culture/book... @helendocherty.bsky.social @imogencarter.bsky.social

✨ Delighted to share that I'll be opening the @canterburykidslit.bsky.social on Fri 11 July, with 2 public events at 10 am & 4 pm 📚😍 Join me for a fun and interactive storytelling session! ✨ Learn to sing the Kerfuffle Bird Song 🐦🎵🎵 & draw Superwolf! 🐺🎨🖌 www.canterburykidslitfest.co.uk/programme

Cover reveal! ✨📗🌈💖 I'm so excited to share the cover of Make It All Go Away, my upcoming book about sensory overload. It's beautifully illustrated by @taylorbarron.bsky.social and published by Moon + Bird in the UK and the US. Available to pre-order now!

Exciting news in @the-bookseller.bsky.social today about my forthcoming book with Moon+Bird, with stunning illustrations by @taylorbarron.bsky.social 📗🌈💛 Make It All Go Away is a story about sensory overload, drawing on personal experience. It's the book I wish we'd had on our shelves years ago 💛

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! 📚

Thank you, Kim! 💗🧡

Kim Campbell@pblove.bsky.social · 2y ago

“On the outside you look different, but your feelings are the same.”💗💗💗 One of my favorite lines from Someone Just Like You, written by @helendocherty.bsky.social & illustrated by David Roberts. The story is beautiful & the illustrations feel like sunshine! Buy/borrow/share it! #KidLit #SimonKids

✨ Indie bookshops, who would like some signed bookplates for my latest books published by Alison Green Books @scholastic.bsky.social ? DM me if you'd like some! 📚✨ @booknookhove.bsky.social @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social @telltales.bsky.social @maxminervas.bsky.social @portybooks.bsky.social

Parenting Expert UK are giving away a copy of 💗ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU 💗 by me and Daniela Sosa 💗 "The best bedtime story EVER! We gave this toddler book a well deserved 10 out of 10 stars. All the adults and children we shared it with loved it!" 💗 parentingexpert.co.uk/book-review-...

Book Review : "All the Ways I Love You" by Helen Docherty

Discover the heartwarming picture book 'All the Ways I Love You' that celebrates the unique bond between parent and child.

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Huge thanks to @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social for hosting the book launch for 💗ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU💗 by me and Daniela Sosa! We had a brilliant evening - thanks so much to everyone who joined us, and to everyone who's bought a copy of our book! 🙏🏼💗 @scholastic.bsky.social #picturebook #love 💗

The Alligator's Mouth@alligatorsmouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

We were thrilled to host the book launch for All the Ways I Love You! Huge congratulations to @helendocherty.bsky.social and Daniela Sosa. It was wonderful to share the delights of the book and a draw-along with their family and friends. Thank you to Scholastic and everyone that came!

Lovely @helendocherty.bsky.social has sent us some bookplates! Order a copy and you'll receive one fitted with a signed bookplate 💕

Wonderland Bookshop@wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our friend is running The Leeds Marathon raising money for the Jo Cox Foundation (which he leads). To support him, we're going to donate £1.50 from every sale of Someone Just Like You by @helendocherty.bsky.social to his fundraiser 💕 wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/some...

Look what arrived in the post today! These beautiful Italian and German co-editions of All The Things We Carry by me and @brizidamagro.bsky.social 🌻🧡💛 #lecosecheportonelcuore #alleswaswirtragenkonnen #allthethingswecarry @scholastic.bsky.social

✨ You can help raise money for the Jo Cox Foundation by buying a (signed) copy of SOMEONE JUST LIKE YOU by me and David Roberts from @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social ✨ Our book was inspired by the words of Jo Cox: "We have far more in common with each other than things that divide us" 💗🧡

Wonderland Bookshop@wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our friend is running The Leeds Marathon raising money for the Jo Cox Foundation (which he leads). To support him, we're going to donate £1.50 from every sale of Someone Just Like You by @helendocherty.bsky.social to his fundraiser 💕 wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/some...

Our friend is running The Leeds Marathon raising money for the Jo Cox Foundation (which he leads). To support him, we're going to donate £1.50 from every sale of Someone Just Like You by @helendocherty.bsky.social to his fundraiser 💕 wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/some...

Hello #writingcommunity. My reach here is so very low. If anyone sees this, would love a little support. I want to reach out to the amazing #librarians and #teachers out there fighting for diversity in publishing. Pre-orders and ARC requests now available. #Weneeddiversebooks #debut #barefootbooks

Sabrina Shah #kidlit author@sabrinashahauthor.bsky.social · 2y ago

Some of you may know that since leaving the business side of publishing, I've focused on my writing and I'm blessed today to reveal the cover of my debut picture book MUSIC OF THE MOUNTAINS, out with Barefoot Books in May 2025, illustrations by Manal Mirza.

These two brothers are SUPER fans of all my books with @thomasdocherty.bsky.social 📚 Here they are enjoying our latest book together, SUPERWOLF! 🐺❤️ With thanks to their lovely mum for allowing me to share this photo 🥰 @scholastic.bsky.social #alisongreenbooks #superwolf #picturebooks #boysreading

Came across these three in Swansea Museum today. #TheTraitors mission eat your heart out. @thetraitors.bsky.social

Join me and Daniela Sosa on 29th Jan at the wonderful @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social for a celebration of our new book 💗All The Ways I Love You💗 and the chance to buy a signed & dedicated copy for the little ones in your life! 💗 @scholastic.bsky.social #booklaunch #picturebook #love

Signed copies of my new book with Daniela Sosa 💗 ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU 💗 at our local indie bookshop in #Mumbles #Swansea, Cover to Cover 💗 #allthewaysiloveyou #picturebook #love

Happy New Year to you all 🎉 and Happy Book Birthday to All the Ways I Love You! 🥳 My new picture book, beautifully illustrated by Daniela Sosa and published by Alison Green Books for Scholastic UK, is out today! ❤️ We hope you will love it 🤗 💕 #AllTheWaysILoveYou

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

Great to see my book with David Roberts 🧡Someone Just Like You💗 on the shortlist for the @booksfortopics.bsky.social Books of the Year 2024 ✨ in fantastic company! ✨ You can vote for 🧡Someone Just Like You💗 by following this link. Thanks for your support! 🥰 www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/be...

Over the years, I've visited so many primary schools as an author - one of the best bits of my job! 🥰 I'm looking for more school work in 2025, so please recommend me! 🙏🏼 Schools in #Wales can apply for funding from Literature Wales ✨ Diolch! ❤️ Thank you! #authorvisit #primaryschool #worldbookday

My mum gave a copy of The Green-Fingered Witch to a friend's granddaughter, and this was the wonderful thank you card she received 💚💜🎃 Somebody REALLY loves our book @stevenlenton.bsky.social, and look at Mia's amazing illustration! 💚💜✨ #thegreenfingeredwitch #picturebook #gift #thankyou

A poem came to me this morning. Not in rhyme, and not for children, so a bit of a departure for me. Here it is anyway. #stormwarning

Watched a phenomenal one man performance of A Christmas Carol by Andrew Margerison / Dyad Productions at the #Taliesin Theatre in #Swansea tonight. So worth going to see if you can catch this on tour before #Christmas 🕯 www.dyadproductions.com/theatre-prod...

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com JOIN US - there's cake!