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Kate Heap - Scope for Imagination @kateheap.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My most personal post of the blog tour is being hosted by the lovely @booksuperhero2.bsky.social today. I always try and pack my books with humour. But the loss in my latest story is real too. #booksky librarygirlandbookboy.com/2026/06/10/b...

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It's my stop on the Aliens Made Me Do It! blog tour with a brilliant guest post from author David Macphail! Discover why writing with humour is such a powerful tool. Illustrated by Rory Walker @everywithwords.bsky.social scopeforimagination.co.uk/2025/10/08/a...

Aliens Made Me Do It by David Macphail, illustrated by Rory Walker ~ Blog Tour

Aliens Made Me Do It is a hilarious story of bizarre aliens, everyday kids and saving the world! I’m delighted to welcome author David Macphail to Scope for Imagination with a guest post abou…

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Margaret Pemberton @booklib61.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Looking forward to my turn on the tour for his hilarious and heartwarming story, join me on Friday to see some of Hannah`s suggestions for some other great reads. Thank you @everywithwords.bsky.social @missdeplume.bsky.social for this opportunity.

Mary Rees@bookcraic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

No book launch is complete without a blog tour! If you want to know what my favourite cheese is, you’d better head over to Mary’s blog to find out! #EssentialInfo bookcraic.blog Thanks so much for hosting @bookcraic.bsky.social 💕🧀

Cover of HELP! ALIENS STOLE MY GRANDAD followed by Blog Tour’ and list of Bluesky accounts the blog will appear on 8-12 June

Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for Help! Aliens Stole my Grandad and today I’m welcoming the author, Hannah Moffatt, to share five of her favourite things related to the story. @everywithwords.bsky.social @missdeplume.bsky.social bookcraic.blog/2026/06/08/b... #KidLitUK

www.instagram.com/p/DZRa2pQFuT3/ Some rather lovely book news! Help! Aliens Stole My Grandad is Book of the Week in The Week Junior! (And readers can win one of five copies!) #booksky

theweekjunior on Instagram: "👽 Our #BookoftheWeek is Help! Aliens Stole My Grandad, written by Hannah Moffatt and published by Everything With Words @missdeplu…"

👽 Our #BookoftheWeek is Help! Aliens Stole My Grandad, written by Hannah Moffatt and published by Everything With Words @missdeplume @everythingwithwordsbooks🫖 In our Q&A, Moffatt talks about going for afternoon tea with an alien.📚 Elsewhere on our #BookClub pages, discover five books about football in time for the 2026 men's World Cup, and a Week Junior reader reviews Horrible Geography: Odious Oceans. 📷 © Rory Walker and © Holly Ovenden #Kidsmagazine #ChildrensPublishing #ChildrensLiteratureView all comments

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Mikka editor Everything with Words Books @everywithwords.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fancy winning a signed copy of my latest book? My local radio station has a great competition on this month! www.maritimeradio.co.uk/deals-and-co... #win #booksky #kidlit

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Happy Publication day Help Aliens Stole My Grandad! @missdeplume.bsky.social @waterstoneskids.bsky.social @bookcraic.bsky.social One signed copy available— Follow RT by June first!

Mikka editor Everything with Words Books @everywithwords.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy Dracula Day from the vampire dentists in Small Bites Back! #booksky #vampires #draculaday

Text: The vampire dentist will see you now….
Image: black and white illustration of a vampire dentist flapping their cloak and holding a toothbrush. The vampire is next to the blue cover of Small Bites Back

Help Aliens Stole My Grandad @missdeplume.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @lib4sch.bsky.social @emmapullar.bsky.social A whimsical tale about space pirates and moon flowing with rivers of cheese!

A ship floating in the air next to a house

The surface of the moon , full of craters. A boy with an alien with one eye and hair that looks like snakes

Mikka editor Everything with Words Books @everywithwords.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great to see Help Aliens Stole My Grandad out in the world A fun intergalactic adventure , complete with pirates, their parrot and a moon made of cheese! @missdeplume.bsky.social @booklib61.bsky.social

Help Aliens Stole My Grandad Cover showing a rocket going into space, three bright green aliens, a pink parrot and Harrison, our ten year old hero

I was lucky enough to bookishly burble about my stories on @maritimeradio.bsky.social on Duncan’s Greenwich Breakfast show! You can catch up here: (02:30) www.maritimeradio.co.uk/listen/liste...

Me (woman in 40s with bob cut hair and black jacket) holding a copy of Help! Aliens Stole My Grandad in front of of the fancy black doorway of Shrewsbury House (home of Maritime Radio station)

Finally framed the Chris Riddell Little Prince sketch that came with my copy of this gorgeous hardback. I love it! 😍 #booksky

Framed sketch of a boy with curly hair, wearing a scarf and jacket. Chris Riddell’s signature is in the corner

Front cover of blue and gold hardback book called The Little Prince. There’s an illustration of a small, blonde-haired boy dressed in yellow in the middle, sitting on a rock against a backdrop of golden stars

And so I’m not only clogging the feed with variations of ‘please buy my book’ posts, here’s a ‘please buy my friends’ book’ post! Koalas in Capes is the first in a fast, funny, highly illustrated series. Written by @cowfishdreams.bsky.social and illustrated by @davidoconnell.bsky.social. #booksky

Cover of Koalas in Capes, featuring two dashing young koalas in superhero green and red capes

youtube.com/watch?v=g6CJ... Fancy hearing the first chapter of Help! Aliens Stole My Grandad? Here I am reading it! I’ve also now loaded a full pack of chapter-by-chapter class activities on my website! #booksky #authors #kidlit

Hear the first chapter of Help! Aliens Stole My Grandad

YouTube video by Hannah Moffatt

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My third book - Help! Aliens Stole My Grandad is out in May. By now, you’d think I’d know what I was doing, but I still make lots of mistakes when I’m writing. I’ve blogged about three of the biggies: #authorlife #writingcommunity #kidlit hannahmoffatt.com/2026/04/26/t...

Me - woman in her 40s -
holding her 3 books in one hand: Help! Aliens Stole My Grandad; Small Bites Back and Small

Authors, what can’t you judge about your books from their covers? I LOVE my covers (all designed by Holly Ovenden and illustrated by Rory Walker). They capture the madcap energy of the books perfectly. But there are some things you can’t see… #kidlit #books #authors

Three book covers in an L-shape against a light yellow background. SMALL! (Bright orange cover featuring a boy looking up at a giant) is top left. SMALL BITES BACK (Light blue, featuring a zombie skeleton-elephant holding a boy in his trunk) is below it. HELP! Aliens Stole My Grandad (purple, with a green, many-tentacled alien pirate captain and yellow, cratered moon) is bottom right.
Twxt on the yellow background says: I love my book covers. All three do the best job at capturing the fun, madcap energy behind every story. But here’s what you can’t see…

Same orange cover of SMALL against a light orange background. Text below it: In SMALL! you can’t see that Harvey blames himself for his parents’ divorce. He carries the belief that he’s bad news everywhere he goes, including to Madame Bogbrush’s School for Gifted Giants.

Same bright blue cover of SMALL BITES BACK against a light blue background. Text below it: In SMALL BITES BACK you can't see the pressure of other people's expectations weighing on Harvey's shoulders as he attempts to save his friends from a zombie circus in the way only a 'chosen one' can.

Same purple cover of HELP! ALIENS STOLE MY GRANDAD against light purple background. Text below:
And in HELP! ALIENS STOLE MY GRANDAD you can't see how powerless Harrison felt when his grandpa got ill, and how that motivates him to pretend to be the Earthling Prime Minister when a band of alien pirates come calling ...

Aside from the actual writing, daft crafting has to be my favourite part of being a children’s author. This flappy friend is a prototype for the ‘speak-like-an-alien-pirate-and-make-a-lucky-parrot’ workshops I’m hoping to run when Help! Aliens Stole my Grandad comes out! #kidlit #craft

A cardboard ‘parrot’ with a tube-shaped green body and yellow breast. Orange pipe cleaner les, one red feather wing, one green feather wing. Orange head, googly eyes, yellow beak and green feather at top of head. Very much homemade looking. Sitting on green sofa against bright yellow wallpaper with spikey green plant designs

My bookish news is out! (Details on LinkedIn and coming to my website soon.) My new book, Help! Aliens Stole My Grandad publishes on 28th May with Everything With Words. I utterly adore the cover - designed by Holly Ovenden and illustrated by Rory Walker 💕 www.linkedin.com/posts/gll-li...

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🚀✨ COVER REVEAL! ✨🚀 We are over the moon to share the cover of #GLLLiteraryFoundation author Hannah Moffat’s latest laugh-out-loud adventure: 🌕 HELP! ALIENS STOLE MY GRANDAD! 👽 Published by Everything...

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Happy World Book Day one and all! Feel a bit sorry to be spending the day in an office and not a costume-filled classroom, but I’m celebrating in spirit. *And* I should be ending this week with some nice news that I’m finally allowed to share tomorrow!

Me - but mostly the top of my head - holding my books: Small (with bright orange cover) and Small Bites Back (with bright blue cover)