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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thanks you, Jill!

Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · Jun 26

COMPETITION TIME for anyone who's purchased or pre-ordered a copy of The Hug Button! 🎉 @naomijones1.bsky.social To enter:

Email proof of purchase/pre-order of The Hug Button to [email protected]
Use subject line 'The Hug Button Competition' in your email
T&Cs www.instagram.com/p/DLWtdxpuyPh

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · Jun 2

✨🐦 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! 😍

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Kate Gettings @kategettings.bsky.social · Mar 9

We have some at Oxford Children’s including Thunderboots by @naomijones1.bsky.social and @familyofbeasts.bsky.social (Dyslexia), Cloud Boy by Greg Stobbs (ADHD), Bear-Shaped by Dawn Coulter-Cruttenden (Autism), & How to Bath a Giraffe by Sarah Horne (boy with cochlear implant, incidental to story)

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · Mar 7

It was fab! 'I've got an elf called Trixie' was one of my favourite quotes of the day. Like you I was too busy to take many pics! 😁

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · Mar 6

I've got my box of tricks ready for #WorldBookDay to celebrate the WONDER OF BOOKS! Have a great World Book Day everyone @naomijones1.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

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Sarah McIntyre @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social · Feb 12

A handwritten letter on my illustration work desk to my local MP, Mel Stride, asking him to help UK children's book illustrators keep our copyright during the current AI policy consultation ✍️

@mrsteveantony.bsky.social
@alcs-uk.bsky.social
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
(Typed out in the alt text)

Dear Mr Stride, can you please help me and other UK children’s book illustrators?

The governing is considering AI policy measures that would make us, as copyright holders, ‘opt out’ if we don’t want tech companies breaching our copyright to train their systems. The big companies then use our own art in competition against us.

The UK ought to be proud of its children’s book tradition. Our artwork is exported all over the world, and by giving it away free, we’re ruining the industry. Children will be poorer: there’ll get dumbed-down, mechanical books that have no real person thinking hard about each aspect of them.

My colleague Steve Antony described it:
“It’s like allowing someone to break into my house and steal my belongings so that they can research, recycle and resell them, unless I stick a label on each and every one of my belongings that says ‘DO NOT STEAL’, even though the objects are clearly not theirs and clearly within someone else’s house. That house bring my copyright. It’s absolutely ridiculous, makes no sense, completely destroys existing copyright laws and insults every single one of us.”

Please, could you stand up for us and out copyright? If you could mention our concerns to Feryal Clark, Minister for AI & Digital Governent, and to Chris Bryant, Minister for Creative Industry, Arts & Tourism, I’d greatly appreciate it.

Warmest wishes, Sarah McIntyre,
Illustrator & Author, Bovey Tracey

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Book Clubs in Schools @bookclubsinschools.bsky.social · Feb 5

Our new blog: https://buff.ly/4hkoCPx
📗 Thunderboots @naomijones1.bsky.social & @familyofbeasts.bsky.social
📘 The Last Boy @evemcdonnell.bsky.social @everywithwords.bsky.social
📙 Feather by Manon Steffan Ros, @fireflypress.bsky.social
📕 Darkly by Marisha Pessl, Walker Books
#ReadingForPleasure

Covers of Thunderboots, The Last Boy, Feather, and Darkly

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · Feb 4

So excited for this, Naomi! 🤗⭐❤️

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Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social · Feb 4

It was so exciting to spot my new book illustrated by @familyofbeasts.bsky.social in the @the-bookseller.bsky.social Children’s guide.

The Hug Button publishes in July - not long to wait now! @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · Jan 26

It was such a pleasure chatting to you both! 🙏🏼

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Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social · Jan 24

It was such a joy talking to my picture book making partner @familyofbeasts.bsky.social about creativity, her inspiration and the teaching work she does.

You can watch the whole chat over at Words and Pictures:

open.substack.com/pub/naomiand...

@oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

Words and Pictures with Rebecca Ashdown

Award winning artist, author, tutor and creative soul

open.substack.com

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · Jan 16

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

Book launch invitation for All The Ways I Love You by Helen Docherty and Daniela Sosa - 29th Jan, 6 - 8 pm, The Alligator's Mouth, Richmond

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · Jan 13

I'm a little bit obsessed with these trees and the way they grow in the winter months. They possess character and life. Potential of what's to come, despite the harsh chop.

#trees #canal #pollard #stroudcanal #stroud #a3 #sketch

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · Jan 10

Sunrise 🧡💙💜

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Jo Clarke @jo-clarke.bsky.social · Dec 26

It's 3 weeks until ##LibbyandtheEgyptianEscapade illustrated by @beckamoor.bsky.social publishes. Thanks to Helen Peters for this fabulous endorsement
Signed & dedicated copies available exclusively via @rshipbshop.bsky.social
#TheTravellingSchoolMysteries
rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/product/libb...

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · Dec 23

Festive greetings fellow travellers 🌲
#merrychristmas #happyholidays #blueskychristmas

A Christmas tree model made out of a variety of green resin shapes and copper wire

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · Dec 24

Lovely Lenny, we shall all miss him ⭐

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · Dec 24

Here's to longer days ☀️

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Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social · Dec 5

The schools events I did with @familyofbeasts.bsky.social at Derby Book Festival really made an impact on me.

This is why...

naomijones.substack.com/p/all-storie...

All stories matter

Why we need diverse voices

naomijones.substack.com

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · Dec 3

I will never, ever get over this.

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Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social · Dec 3

I'm offering 3 hours of free picture book mentoring for a UK based writer whose voice is underrepresented in children's publishing.

Please help me spread the word by sharing this post.

Full details of how to apply are here:

naomiandjamesjones.substack.com/p/free-pictu...

Free picture book mentoring

For an underrepresented writer

naomiandjamesjones.substack.com

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · Dec 3

Being kept waiting - often for months - for contracts and payments to come through is incredibly stressful, especially when you're supporting a family 😟 I'm sure many other #writers, #illustrators, #artists and #creatives feel the same way. But what can we do about it? #selfemployed #stress

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · Dec 4

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · Dec 2

My next #picturebook, All the Ways I Love You ❤️ (beautifully illustrated by Daniela Sosa) is coming out Jan 2025 🎉
We're hoping to hold an evening book launch 📚 🍷
#London people, who'd like to join us? Any #teachers or #librarians? All welcome! 🥰
Thanks for your support & for spreading the word! ❤️

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