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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce • ‘The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce The Booker prize foundation has launched a major new literary award, the Children’s Booker prize, offering £50,000 for the best fiction written for readers aged eight to 12. The new award will launch in 2026, with the first winner announced in early 2027. It will be decided by a mixed panel of adult and child judges, a first for a Booker award. The inaugural chair of judges will be Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the children’s author and current children’s laureate. He will be joined by two other adult judges, who will help select a shortlist of eight books before three child judges are recruited to help decide the winner. Continue reading...

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 6d

You just answered yourself. Your home is too humid. Open the windows when cooking (esp if there is steam) and after showering. Basic physics.

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 8d

Please, drop the recipe!

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 8d

That AI video must be the most unhinged meta thing I've ever seen: sh*t depicting a giant sh*t sh*thing sh*t.

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 10d

Well, all the roads leading to Rome were clearly one-way...right? 😂

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Linda Dalpé @dalpe.bsky.social · 12d

So many jokes going around all my social media things right now about the prez' neck and what bothers me the most about it? They compare it to a vagina.

People! It looks like a vulva!

A vulva!

Get your anatomy right, please.

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 12d

Roughs for my next picture book...Currently waiting for feedback.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14d

gene kelly is antifa

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 17d

And have you seen the new picture book by author-illustrator Keira Knightley? 👀

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 18d

I think there should be an imprint called Star Fucker Books that only signs celebrities and social media stars. I mostly think the purpose is for big 5 publishers to have the odd famous person at their events and for their corporate promos.

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 17d

No work for months and then ALL the work AT ONCE. Thankful to past me for all the afternoon naps I've taken.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 18d

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books

A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023

www.theguardian.com

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 19d

Went to see Éiru, Cartoon Saloon's latest short, last night. So so good. 13 minutes of beautiful entertainment packed with meaning, from fellow compatriot Giovanna Ferrari. #éiru

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Sarah McIntyre @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social · 19d

'Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth', the seventh in our highly-illustrated series, is out now!
Available at all good bookshops!
🐭🐭✍️✍️
@philipreeve.bsky.social
@dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

Cover with Pedro, Fledermaus & Ptiny the Pterodactyl

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 21d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 23d

My next picture book is ready to pre-order!
It's a rompus of a book. Expect prehistoric small humans, dodos, and dinosaurs!

Dinosaur Playtime is out in February in the UK with KumushaBooks (HarperCollins).

#kidlituk #kidlit

Cover of the picture book Dinosaur Playtime, illustrated by Alberta Torres. Tagline: A whole day of prehistoric fun!

Interior spread of Dinosaur Playtime, depicting a Dinosaur playground, with children sliding down Brontosaurus.

Interior spread of Dinosaur Playtime, depicting art activities with T-Rex!

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 24d

I've also delivered the roughs for my next picture book this morning, almost a whole week ahead of deadline. And today was supposed to be a day off as I did I live event yesterday. Relax is my second name...not.

Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 24d

Today I made a whole new section on my website which is basically an entirely new website. Because my creative career has taken a new route yet again... and so now I probably should add website design to my skills and services. No, I won't, I'm joking. I'm a creative octopus, though 🐙

Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · 24d

Today I made a whole new section on my website which is basically an entirely new website. Because my creative career has taken a new route yet again... and so now I probably should add website design to my skills and services. No, I won't, I'm joking. I'm a creative octopus, though 🐙

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Lennie Brisco County Jr @mburchett.bsky.social · 25d

Tilly Norwood sounds like a junction gap north of London where the chips are shit

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 26d

For the love of all that is good in the book world, please work with real-life illustrators, cover designers and other creatives. In the UK, they are absolutely the best in the world.

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · Sep 28

One that was called "The Young Naturalist", highly illustrated kids' guide, it was divided in habitat sections (alpine, countryside, river, seaside) and it covered everything from animal poos to clouds. I was also a huge fan of flowers and trees pocket guides to identify them during hikes.

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Alberta Torres @albertatorres.bsky.social · Sep 26

I'm working on the roughs of my next picture book and I'm just looooooving it so much. Pencils are my favourite part of making a children's book: the research, the layouts, the problem solving, the potential of expanding the narrative...✨️💫 it's magical 💫✨️
#kidlitUK #kidlitart #kidlit

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Sep 25

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 25

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Sep 23

An important counter narrative to the recent headlines — actual journalism about the daily lives of asylum seekers in the UK
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Behind the doors of asylum hotels - what I found when I went inside

A BBC reporter goes into four hotels and speaks to asylum seekers and staff about what daily life is like.

www.bbc.co.uk

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