UK Kids Book Chat V3
A third starter pack to help the UK children’s book community to find each other. See my profile for the first two. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
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@mariannedoherty.bsky.social
@rashmiwriting.bsky.social
Neurodivergent (AuDHD). Learner. Dreamer. Award-winning children's author. Musings on books, writing, creativity and ND life. Agent: Lydia Silver
@cressidacowell.bsky.social
Author and illustrator of How to Train Your Dragon, Wizards of Once and Which Way to Anywhere
@justynedwards.bsky.social
Author of the GREAT FOX series. Capable of typing and making things up simultaneously. Agent: morgangreencreatives.com Me: justynedwards.com
@moraghood.bsky.social
📚Children’s book author/illustrator 🏴 Edinburgh www.moraghood.co.uk
@nazimapathan.bsky.social
Author, doctor, researcher and parent. Here for the #kidlitcommunity. My MG novel Dream Hunters came out Aug 2024 Simon and Schuster. #ukkidlit #booksky
@sophieillustrates.bsky.social
Author and illustrator / cicada-catcher /five leaf clover-finder
@alexmorss.bsky.social
Bristol mum, ecologist, author, ghost writer, journalist, NUJ person, sci comms, Oxbridge working class scum. Wokey McWokeface. Into science, misinformation, social & environmental activism, politics, art, music 🦇🐛🌱🦠🇵🇸♾️ 📚: @alexmorssauthor.bsky.social
@suepur.bsky.social
I write books for children, and other things too. Like gardening, museums and art galleries, nature, and looking at things and listening to people…
@kategarnett.bsky.social
School Librarian (Primary and Secondary) formerly Guernsey 🇬🇬 now East London
@vivianji.bsky.social
Writer of children's books, co-founder of Picture Hooks. (www.picturehooks.org.uk) Currently hosting small neurotic dog...
@libthroughthis.bsky.social
School Librarian in South East London, UK. Literacy Co-ordinator + studying for NPQLL. MA LIS. SLA School Librarian of the Year 2020/2021. Trade Unionist @NEULibrarians #JoinAUnion #GreatSchoolLibraries
@cowfishdreams.bsky.social
Children's Author ⭐ MICHAEL THE AMAZING MIND-READING SAUSAGE DOG 1 & 2 out now with Firefly Press, illustrated by @mrtimdraws ⭐ SNAILS OF THE UNEXPECTED also out now! Website: terriechilvers.com
@hilarymhawkes.bsky.social
Children's author. Writing picture books and Middle Grade. Rep'd by Wellread and Boekenreis. Also lover of nature, gardens, mugs of tea and peaceful places. SCBWI GEA SAS
@suewallman.bsky.social
Author of 8 Young Adult thrillers including LYING ABOUT LAST SUMMER, I KNOW YOU DID IT and WATCH YOUR BACK. Does school visits. Often found drinking wine, eating crisps & reading. Agent: Becky Bagnell #theArchers
@mylesmcleod.bsky.social
BAFTA winner. Author, Screenwriter, Voice Actor, Poet. https://linktr.ee/mylesmcleod Author of the Knight Sir Louis series of books (illustrated by my brother Greg) and published by Guppy Books http://knightsirlouis.com
@salomeydraws.bsky.social
Author-illustrator 📚🩷 Brielle & Bear (GN) is my book bb✨ https://linktr.ee/sa.dokuart
@justonesteve.bsky.social
Children’s author. Available to write and talk! www.steveskidmore.net
@rcharlesworth.bsky.social
AHT & Reading lead. Writer - Children’s Literature, Masculinity, Fatherhood. @GoldUnivMACL @the_UKLA regional rep. #OURfP #UKLAchat #LetsTalkGraphicNovels He/Him
@robcrossley4.bsky.social
Primary AHT, Y6, curriculum lead, loves kids books and GNs, Dad. https://latetothepartyreader.blogspot.#lovereadingscrapbooks #TextsOfToday Proud geek.
@guyparkerrees.bsky.social
Illustrator of books including Giraffes Can't Dance - author of Dylan books (now on TV as Dylan's Playtime Adventures). Mycologist🍄🟫. Would rather be an elephant.
@lindsaygalvin.bsky.social
Author 🐙🐉🚢 MG historical adventures: @chickenhsebooks chapter books: @bigcatreading and more! Rep: @litagentclare She/her
@bylaurahoward.bsky.social
Children's Writer | Write Mentor PB Award LL 24, Searchlight Awards PB LL 23, Writing Magazine PB Prize LL 23, Books That Help RU 24 #KidlitUK
@childsplaybooks.bsky.social
Award-winning independent children's book publisher, inspiring a lifelong love of reading for more than 50 years #Bookswithusallin #Learningthroughplay www.childs-play.com https://linktr.ee/childsplaybooks
@fairweatherdr.bsky.social
School Librarian in Scotland (He/Him) Read for Empathy judge. Opinions my own.
@clarasellsbooks.bsky.social
[she/her] Schools Co-ordinator with Scottish Book Trust ✏️📚 Former Bookseller; always a reader 📖 I also enjoy coffee, climbing, mountains and cats! 🧗♀️🏔️🐾 Opinions always my own ✨
@libbyhartwell.bsky.social
Children’s writer. Winner Little Tiger/IAmInPrint Picture Book Prize ‘23. Winner of SCBWI Slushpile Challenge ‘24. Runner-up Write Mentor Chapter Book Award ‘24. SL for Searchlight Awards & LL for Yeovil prize ‘24 #MAWYP
@checkemoutbooks.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Headteacher. NPQH. Children’s book blogger. Passionate about reading for pleasure. Alligator’s Mouth Book Awards 2025 judge. #Neighbours superfan
@jennymclachlan.bsky.social
I write funny books for children and teens and sometimes I illustrate them too. ⭐️The Land of Roar ⭐️Fairy Vs Boy ⭐️Friends Like Us
@dianamayoillo.bsky.social
Illustrator, represented by Andrea Morrison at Writers House. Currently working on picture books with Farrar Straus & Giroux and PenguinRandomHouse.
@sidraansari.bsky.social
Award-winning author!!- AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR!The Week Junior Award ‘23| Alumni Jericho Writers Self-Edit Bursary 2024|@Ladybirdbooks|PenguinWriteNowLive|Writing #WF #R & #PB #MG| ChooseKindness
@luwrites.bsky.social
I write books. Sometimes win awards. Crop circle chaser. Myth lover. Collector of folklore. Here for the magic. https://www.patreon.com/Writingthemagic
@gblackwellbooks.bsky.social
Children's author of The Blitz Bus, The Titanic Tunnel and The Disappearing Diamond. Also hosts History Through Today's Eyes podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6jUOr55S8tCzxMPkh7bubb www.glenblackwell.com
@sophistikitty.bsky.social
Sailor, writer and cat fanatic. High character and sundry merits 🦁 DANDY THE HIGHWAY LION 🦁 out now!
@katewalkerauthor.bsky.social
Children's author Loves reading 📚 writing ✍ editing and plants. Kate-walker.co.uk
@daydreamerdavis.bsky.social
👻 MG writer of horror & fantasy #KidLitUK 📚 Book lover 🐶 Dog lover ☕️ Coffee drinker 🍫 Chocolate fiend
@tygertale.bsky.social
Writer, bookseller, audio describer | Children's books blog tygertale.com | Bath Spa #MAWYP grad | Dr Who | pop music | theatre | #TygertaleVintage books https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/tygertale
@seaglassdraws.bsky.social
Illustrator with a particular love for storytelling, character, colour and texture! Also loves gardening, nature and is a mum to one. www.emmathomasart.co.uk
@msbclarke.bsky.social
⭐️ Bridging the gap between industry and education. ⭐️ Strategic Adviser, Education Consultant, Founder, Speaker, Author, Podcast Host and Trustee. ⭐️Also a Career and Life Coach www.BeverlyClarkeConsulting.co.uk
@techbooks4kids.bsky.social
Tech #books for #children changing perceptions about tech, through encouraging #readingForPleasure on tech topics #techBooks4kids #kidlit www.technologybooksforchildren.org
@helentamblyn.bsky.social
Children's bookshop owner, former lib dem councillor, politics nerd, tenpin bowling fanatic, researching comics, community rail. Based in North Notts. Kidlit is my bag. helentamblynsaville.com.
@storysnug.com
Bookblogger: https://storysnug.com #scbwi #writementor #writemagic SL: '24 Searchlight PBs / '24 #WM #IdeaIdol PB / '23 #WMCNA PB LL: #WMCNA PB & CB / Searchlight PB / Writing Magazine CB Top 100: #CNPKids CB https://www.instagram.com/cjfriess_storysnug
@lyndajgraham.bsky.social
UKLA trustee and Book Awards team UKLA.org . Croydon NEU committee.
@mrsfe77.bsky.social
Headteacher and MG book addict. Also partial to horses and dogs. Views my own.
@wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social
An independent bookshop for children and young adults in Retford, North Notts. Quite possibly the cutest little bookshop in the world... wonderlandbookshop.co.uk
@earevalomelville.bsky.social
Award winning Latin American author illustrator of children’s books in UK. School visits, libraries, festivals. Professional outsider, migrant, loiterer. she/her Los Nombres Secretos Elki is not my dog Umbrella https://linktr.ee/Elena_Arevalo_Melville
@sallynicholls.bsky.social
Author of books such as 'Ways to Live Forever', 'Things a Bright Girl Can Do', 'The Button Book', 'A Chase in Time'. 'Godfather Death' and 'Yours From the Tower' out now. Lives in Liverpool with husband and two kids, Quaker, bridge-player, woolly liberal.
@nicolakent.bsky.social
Author/illustrator of books for young children. Rep'd Jodie Hodges, United Agents Latest: Croc's Cooking Day, Bear's Wash Day, Measuring Me www.nicolakent.co.uk
@eviewriter.bsky.social
Author MG/Teen Horror & Paranormal Fiction #DeloresMackenzie Hiker; Trail Runner; Cute dogs; Not-so-cute-dogs; Gothic Fiction; Cake; Strong Coffee; Often found in dungarees and Docs (yes at my age!)
@louisamacdougall.bsky.social
Children's author based in the Hebrides. Rory and the Snack Dragons, the Highland Cowgirl & the Great Auks Great Escape. Mostly #kidlit books and wildlife. louisamacdougall.co.uk
@emmaperry.bsky.social
▪️ Children's author writing stories & poems filled with giggles & warmth. ▪️Teacher ▪️Shortlisted for Sheffield Children's Book Award 2023. Agent: Jodie Hodges ▪️www.emmaperryauthor.com she/her
@robynnhyde.bsky.social
Children's author of #kidlit #pb Editor - Debut Journeys Author of Mirror Me Member of #12x12PB #SCBWI Canadian living in the UK https://linktr.ee/robynn_hyde
@sflayzell.bsky.social
I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/ Debut novel Cottonopolis out now, a sapphic middle-grade story set in 1840s Manchester https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/cottonopolis-paperback-pre-order Views my own
@sarahconnellwrites.bsky.social
Writing, global affairs, full-time cat-herding ✍️ Rep’d by Steph Thwaites at Curtis Brown 🌊PaperBound 🌊 ✨SL IAmInPrint YA 24 | LL WriteMentor 24 | SL Guppy Books 23 ✨
@alanawashington.bsky.social
Children’s author. Finney’s Story and A Family Christmas out now with UCLan Publishing. (Alana rhymes with Hannah)
@alexmilway.bsky.social
Children’s author and illustrator of Hotel Flamingo, Big Sky Mountain and many other books. Makes things.
@pierstorday.bsky.social
Children’s writer - books include The Last Wild, There May Be A Castle and Midnight Treasure. Plays include Box of Delights (RSC)
@jasbinderbilan.bsky.social
Costa Award winning children’s author ASHA, TAMARIND, AARTI, XANTHE, NUSH and more! agent Kate Shaw I write magical adventures with animals and nature in them mostly @chickenhouse @barringtonstoke @walker www.jasbinderbilan.co.uk
@clairelewiswrites.bsky.social
Hi! I write & illustrate PBs/poems/MG & work for @thebookery.bsky.social 📚 Pub'd: The Toy, PaperBound, The Dirigible Balloon, Little Thoughts Press & Tyger Tyger. Rep:Tyild's Agency. Debut PB:The Go Away Rain Dance, Feb 26 https://linktr.ee/claire_f_lewis
@suchmo83.bsky.social
Experienced primary teacher, school leader and author. Feel free to DM if you are looking for professional development relating to reading or just free advice.
@andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social
Author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ series out now. Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize She/her Rep by @jslwilliamson
@sharnajackson.com
Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber. https://www.sharnajackson.com
@booknookhove.bsky.social
Children's Bookseller of the Year 2018, finalist 2023. Spreading the joy of reading since 2009. We believe there's a book out there for everyone.
@forumbooks.bsky.social
Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick https://www.forumbooksshop.com Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
@lesleyparr.bsky.social
Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW Made of Port Talbot steel lesleyparr.com
@darrellwakelam.bsky.social
Freelance artist and provider of 3D ART workshops & training. Author of the best-selling book Art Shaped. Free ART ideas and projects at www.darrellwakelam.com
@mariannedoherty.bsky.social
Manager of Bookzilla and Bookbug apps for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #UKKidLit 📚🏴