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Jennifer Claessen
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Children’s author & theatremaker.
NETTA BECKER AND THE TIMELINE CRIME out now!
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The brilliant Liz Flanagan has a new book coming out - always a treat. The new thing about this is that it’s her debut book for adults

www.thebookseller.com/rights/fox-i...
Fox & Ink Books acquires Liz Flanagan’s adult historical fiction debut
Fox & Ink Books has acquired When We Were Divided, an “expertly crafted,” and “beautifully sensitive” adult historical fiction debut novel by award-winning author Liz Flanagan.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026!

🐒💍🐍✨✨
October 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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In case you are wondering what Jennifer
@jenniferclaessen.bsky.social is trying to promote 👇
jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

All proceeds are in aid of B.B.C. Children in Need
October 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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gabliotecaria.bsky.social
My 4 (so far) are:

😈 Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos by @louiestowell.bsky.social (peerless)
🍩 Donut Squad by @neillcameron.bsky.social (perfection)
🌌 Boss of the Underworld by Tor Freeman (sui generis)
⏳ Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime by @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social (superb)
louiestowell.bsky.social Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Sep 22
My children's books of the year so far since you didn't ask are Boss of the Underword by Tor Freeman, Donut Squad by @neillcameron.bsky.social and Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson and @dansantat.bsky.social. The latter is a picture book so those recs cover 3-12 year olds, you're welcome.
September 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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As we work our way into autumn, transport yourself to sunnier weather by checking out our book recommendations from over August! We had quite the reading haul last month, so there really is something for everyone 👀
www.libraries4schools.com/2025/09/05/b...
#BookSky #ChildrensBooks #BookReview
Monthly Book Recommendations: August 2025 | Libraries 4 Schools
Book Recommendations: August 2025 | With fiction, non-fiction and picture books galore, check out what we were reading last month!
www.libraries4schools.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Boosting!
finnlongman.com Finn Longman @finnlongman.com · Aug 27
THE WOLF AND HIS KING comes out in the UK in 3 months today, so I'm giving away one paperback ARC!

To enter: follow me and reskeet this. Bonus: add TWAHK on GR/Storygraph & drop a screenshot in the comments. Extra bonus: tell me your favourite medieval story.

UK only (sorry). Closes midday 29/08.
An ARC of THE WOLF AND HIS KING by Finn Longman.
August 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I am for trans people, unreservedly

I am also for Gaza and arts funding and healthcare and solar energy and the post office and unions and abortion and raising the minimum wage and thriving public schools and freedom of speech and abolishing ICE and defunding the police

that’s just being a person
August 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Here is this week's BRILLIANT VIDEO AND DOWNLOADABLE CLASSROOM RESOURCE from the lovely @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social : timetunnellers.com/2025/08/20/a...
Visit ancient Crete with Jennifer Claessen!
Life in Ancient Crete Join author Jennifer Claessen on a magical journey to the Greek island of Crete in her new book, Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime. This book follows siblings Neta and Remy …
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August 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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This makes me so sad. I read Peepo to Travers, my oldest son, every night for two years. He had other stories, but the last one before a kiss goodnight always had to be Peepo.
I loved his books…Each Peach, Pear, Plum…oh don’t get me started I’ll cry.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87
Working first with his wife Jane, and later with illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, he wrote more than 150 books
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Are you aged 5-10? This free creative writing workshop with children’s author Jennifer Claessen will inspire you to enter the mythical world of words this summer! Places limited: please pre-book.

www.mklitfest.org/summerfun

#thecentremk
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July 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime by Jennifer Claessen

📚📚📚

Delve into an ancient world in this time travelling mystery!

Review by @sareenmclay.bsky.social
@jenniferclaessen.bsky.social
@foxandinkbooks.bsky.social

#mg#childrensbooks#illustration#booksforkids#kidlit#booksforchildren#egypt#myths
Picture shows the front cover of the book Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime by Jennifer Claessen, gold with images of children, a bull, a crown and Daedalus and Icarus.
July 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Delighted to share the cover of my new book, Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School! Art by @unawoods.bsky.social, pub Gill Books, Sept 4th. Ellora's just started at a new school, and it's hard to keep her budding banshee powers secret. But what if they're about to save the day? 📚🇮🇪💫
Cover of a children's book, white and green background colours. Foreground shows an illustrated child with long dark braids wearing a grey hoodie, black and white dotted leggings, with wings on her back. In the background is a tall, wobbly, tumbledown building. Title Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School appears above her head. Author's name Sinéad O'Hart appears beneath her feet, and beneath that again is the illustrator's name, Úna Woods.
July 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The very shiny time travel adventures of Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social is definitely one to seek out. #kidlitUK
June 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Last night at @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social's launch for Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime! Giddy times (and the book has me HOOKED already)!
Me and Jennifer. I'm grinning so hard, and she's smiling in her beautiful warm way. I'm holding a copy of her newest book, Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime, which is gold and lovely. She's killing it in a gold lamé dress and I'm wearing my Popsy green book dress and carrying my rainbow tote bag from work.
June 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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I'm looking to KickFlip by @ldlapinski.bsky.social and Nate Yu--my copies are waiting at the library but I'm away this weekend, aghhhh!

And am tearing through this perfect summer holiday read by @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social -- it's making me want to board the next flight to Crete! (alt for deets)
The shiny GOLD with black outline of a maze cover to Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime by Jennifer Claessen, which gives all the excitement of time travel in a summer holiday to Crete while not shying away from the crimes and horror that often gets airbrushed out of time travel novels. Cannot recommend enough!
June 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Thank you for having me and Alex of Four Bears Bookshops in today @thamesidesch.bsky.social to talk to your wonderfully engaged Year 5s & 6s about Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime!
June 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Super excited to be at the Northern YA & Kids Lit Fest on Saturday July 19th with Liz Flanagan and @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social. Check out the absolutely stacked schedule here! www.lancashire.ac.uk/events/listi...
June 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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If you’ve got a young person in your life who might like a beautifully illustrated book about the history and science of time, you can order a signed and dedicated copy of “About Time” here: www.bookabookshop.co.uk/shop/about-t...
About Time – Signed and Dedicated Copy
Signed hardback copy of About Time by Rebecca Struthers and Alom Shaha, illustrated by Lucy Rose First Edition, First Printing Hand signed by Rebecca Struthers and Alom Shaha to the title page. We ...
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June 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Ooh! this is my weekend read - just getting started. It has a very shiny gold cover 💛 #kidlitUK @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I’m so excited to share the cover of 🧠 #InsideYourBrain 🧠 - a lighthearted gallop through the history of neuroscience co-written with @caswell.bsky.social, stunningly illustrated by María Jesús Contreras and published by @thamesandhudson.bsky.social

Pre-order links here >> linktr.ee/lucyannunwin
May 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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We are SO back! Deadly spirits. Ancient magic. Pure chaos. Join Evie, Arthur and young shaman Cai on a race to stop Blackheart Man and La Diablesse from destroying the barrier between the worlds of the living and the dead.
Spirit Warriors is out w/ Usborne, 14th August #Booksky #KidLitUK #UKKidLit
May 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Today's the final day to make our voices heard against the government's proposed plans to allow AI developers to steal our work for use in training their AI systems. It's theft, plain and simple, but you can object by filling out the IPO consultation.

Guidance here: theaoi.com/news/the-cop...
graphic with a turquoise background with black text reading 'MAKE IT FAIR' - the 'AI' of 'FAIR' is highlighted in white. Subtitle reads 'the government is siding with big tech over British creativity'
February 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Don't be intimidated by the number of questions - you do NOT have to answer them all. You can answer as many or as few as you like, and the ALCS has nice, simple guidance and advice for answering the important ones.
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
Your rights are under threat from AI. It’s time to have your say!
The Government recently launched a consultation on AI and copyright. Now is the time to have your say and make sure that legislators hear the concerns of creators.
www.alcs.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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It's here! Thrilled to reveal 'The Scream of the Whistle' cover by the incredible Micaela Alcaino. It's May Eve, and the veil between worlds is thin. Join Ruby Darke on the ghost ride of her life...

Out 5th June.

Pre-order: shorturl.at/E5aXz
shorturl.at/oLTwA
January 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM