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Flying Eye Books
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Books to take your children's eyes on a journey of wonder. Publisher of award winning fiction and non-fiction for children. 📚
🪐 ↪️ Have you ever read a book back to front as well as front to back?? ↩️ 🧑🚀 A flipping great new read, The Spectacular Space Loop by Javi De Castro is coming soon!

Out in the US this Decemeber, and the UK this January, pre-order yours at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-specta...
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Get creative and learn to tell the time with our FREE clock activity sheets! Inspired by Michael Parkin's hilarious book Wrong Time Rooster, now you can help Ronnie wake up Farmer Tony and the other animals at exactly the RIGHT time...

Free activity sheets at flyingeyebooks.com/schools-reso...
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Can you believe we have 15 years of Hilda books to read? Come and celebrate with us at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social!

Hilda creator Luke Pearson (@thatlukeperson) will be signing books at our table from 2-3pm on Saturday the 15th of November in the Bubbleboy Hall.
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Join author Madeleine Finlay for a fantastic solar system explorers workshop at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social !

Explore our cosmic home and find out what it's really like. In this workshop, you will discover just how huge our solar system is, and learn fascinating facts and design your own planet!
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
✨️We're coming to YALC!✨️

👀 Join us at the Young Adult Literature Convention (@yalc_uk) at London Olympia this weekend where we'll have a plethora of fabulous books, plus the Flying Eye Books Tombola of Destiny! 🎉

See you there!
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
👀 THIS WEEKEND! We'll be at the Brighton Illustration Festival with lots of beautiful books for you to peruse and buy, PLUS a Q&A with author and illustrator of The Notted Island, Katherine Child!

Find out more about the festival here!> www.wearebif.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🎧 Want to learn more about the the process behind the creation of the Hilda series? Check out this fascinating conversation between @splturnthepage.bsky.social and creator @thatlukeperson.bsky.social!
IT'S SPECIAL EPISODE TIME! 2025 marks fifteen years of HILDAFOLK. To celebrate, the great Luke Pearson chats about developing Hilda & her newest adventure, HILDA AND TWIG WAKE THE ICE MAN– out today! @thatlukeperson.bsky.social @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social

turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/11/04/t...
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
❄️Hilda and Twig: Wake the Ice Man by @thatlukeperson.bsky.social is out in the US today!❄️

Coming to UK readers this Thursday!

Find your copy here! www.amazon.com/Hilda-Twig-W...
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We're so excited to announce that we have three books nominated for this year's @CarnegieMedals for Illustration! Huge congratulations to illustrators Billy Partridge, Neetols and Wenjia Tang!

#Carnegies2026 #MedalForIllustration #GraphicNovels #IllustratedNonFiction
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Salute your local robin today, gallantly prepping for the start of their busiest season!

🖍️ illustration from Hilda and Twig Hide From the Rain by Luke Pearson (@thatlukeperson.bsky.social)
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We're so excited to announce that Detective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum by Hannah Tunnicliffe and Erica Harrison has been shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year, in the children's category!

Thank you @foylesforbooks.bsky.social !

Find your copy at www.foyles.co.uk/book/detecti...
October 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
✏️We're going to be at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social!🖍️

We'll be at table K11 in the Bubbleboy Hall, 15 & 16 November 2025 | Harrogate Convention Centre, Yorkshire. Come along and say hi, we'd love to see you all!
October 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
'A funny yet realistic glimpse into the lives of young adults struggling with mental illness as they strive towards brighter futures by trying to connect with the world around them and finding understanding friends.' Thanks for reviewing @slj.com!

🍐 Astral Panic by Katie Hicks is out now!
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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@katihicks.bsky.social 's new book from @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social is in stock now at @okcomics.bsky.social, and it looks so good!!

Lovely relatable comic, for fans of Thieves, This One Summer and Heartstopper.

Available here: okcomics.co.uk/products/ast...
October 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I have a book out with @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social as of last week 🍐🌟 I’ve been posting about it a lot more on insta but I figured I’d share it here too. If you hate tech bro-y wellness culture and we’re emo when you were 14 you should check it out!
October 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Get Avery and the Squirrel Delivery for 25% off if you pre-order now! The sequel to Avery and the Fairy Circle is full of mushroom soup, maple leaves, and lots of squirrels 🐿️
👀 Are you looking forwards to 2026 for some great new reads? Waterstones has 25% off lots of great Flying Eye Books titles if you pre-order now! Use code OCTOBER25 on selected books.

www.waterstones.com/books/search...

#WPreorder
October 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🍐 Meet Gale and the Astral Panic gang! Which do you relate to the most? 🍐

📖 Astral Panic by Katie Hicks is out now! Find your copy at goshlondon.com/pre-order-as...
October 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
👀 Are you looking forwards to 2026 for some great new reads? Waterstones has 25% off lots of great Flying Eye Books titles if you pre-order now! Use code OCTOBER25 on selected books.

www.waterstones.com/books/search...

#WPreorder
October 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🍐Astral Panic by Katie Hicks is out now!

The first 100 copies ordered from our friends at Gosh Comics will receive an exclusive limited edition signed bookplate, get yours before they run out!
goshlondon.com/pre-order-as...
October 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
✏️Workshop alert!✏️

Join artist and author Katherine Child for a FREE creative drawing workshop, at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (@morethanadodo) on Wednesday 29th October.
Includes a relaxed session. Find out more and book your place here: www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/colour...
October 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Thanks Nicolette! We're so excited to finally release The Notted Island out into the world!
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Katherine Child, debut author-illustrator of The Notted Island, a fantasy novel about an island in black-and-white which is waiting to be coloured, and about a deity who is in charge of the night sky. Skilled and lovely work. Flying Eye 9 Oct. @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Out Now! Three amazing new reads for you to feast your eyes on!

👶 Today by Mark Wordsworth and Ruby Wright

🍐 Astral Panic by Katie Hicks

🌠 The Notted Island by Katherine Child

Which will you read first?
October 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🍃🍂 Colour has returned! 🍃🍂

The Notted Island by Katherine Child is out now!

📖 Before 1861, the world was black and white. As Colour reached the end of his job, world weary he stopped to rest on Last Island: the last uncoloured place.

Get your copy now at www.waterstones.com/book/the-not...
October 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Praise for Katherine Child's beautiful new illustrated novel The Notted Island, arriving this week!

Pre-order now at www.waterstones.com/book/the-not...
October 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A little sneak peek of what's in store... The Notted Island by Katherine Child arrives this week!

Pre-order now at www.waterstones.com/book/the-not...
October 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM