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Andrea Reece
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Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
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Some wonderful poems to learn by heart!
booksforkeeps.bsky.social Books for Keeps, the online children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 21h
Poetry By Heart @poetrybyheart.bsky.social has opened its annual Festive Showcase, an advent calendar of seasonal poems perfect to learn by heart, share and perform aloud. This year’s list features not the usual 24, but 31 poems, one for each day of December #Poetry

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November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Guy Parker-Rees from a new board book edition of Giraffes Can’t Dance: Jingle Bells, with text by Giles Andreae. Anthropomorphic drawing that looks casual but convincingly gives animals unlikely moves. Orchard Books. @hachetteuk.bsky.social @guyparkerrees.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.

We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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⭐Discount Spotlight: Citizen Poet by Eavan Boland, edited by Jody Allen Randolph📘

Carcanet's monthly discount has launched! This month, enjoy 20% off a selection of books from our Lives and Letters collection by using the code LETTERS20 at our website checkout:⬇️
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November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The new #BfK Book of the Week is ROAD TO TRUE NORTH by Sarah Holding #KidLit #BookSky

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Graphit to advertise the new Books for Keeps Book of the Week with a cover of the books, Road to True North by Sarah Holding. Illustration is of a young person walking down a road. There are no buildings or other people and it looks bleak. Quote from the review for the new BfK Book of the Week: Holding gives us a mix of hope and uncertainty, bringing to the end of the novel the subtlety and drama which she threaded so successfully throughout the rest of its pages.
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Congratulations to Jamila Gavin, Patrice Lawrence, Struan Murray and Jenny Pearson, shortlisted in the Children's Fiction category of the still new but already prestigious Nero Book Awards 🎉 👏 🎆 🎉 #KidLitUK #bookawards

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November 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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I Am Wishing Every Minute for Christmas also graces the cover of our new issue and don't miss the interview with Lauren Child by @nicolettejones.bsky.social #KidLitUK #BookSky
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November 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Good Morning!

We’ve got wonderful news for you!

Absolutely delighted that Horatio Clare’s We Came by Sea has been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwrds. It’s a very impressive shortlist.

The paperback is now at the printers and is available for pre order!

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November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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"Science books offer strong narratives aimed at explaining the world around us and can be a fantastic way to draw in young readers"

Discover the shortlist for the 2025 @royalsociety.org Young People’s Book Prize, the year's best #science books for under 14s.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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London is a place that truly values diversity, inclusion, equality and opportunity – and is a shining success because of it.

I can only imagine that some political commentators don’t like our city because it’s an engine of social progress.
London proves progressive cities work. No wonder some politicians hate that, writes Sadiq Khan | LBC
We must stand up and defend our liberal, progressive, caring capital
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November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Kate Hindley from The Night Before Christmas In Neverland with text by Carys Bexington in which even Captain Hook learns the joy of giving. Crisp cartoon of Hook writing his Christmas list with the crocodile at his feet. Macmillan paperback. @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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The @booksforkeeps.bsky.social Books of the Year 2025 has our regular round up of selected primary aged texts with lgbtq+ stars🤩

Books by @tommydoyle.bsky.social Sarah Tagholm& @manumontoya.bsky.social @peterbently.bsky.social & Claire Powell @catwrote.bsky.social @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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"This is about how you manage a massive festival when you’re so little and can’t possibly know what it all means."
My Books for Keeps interview with Lauren Child about her Charlie and Lola Christmas book. booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/the-... @booksforkeeps.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The 8th Annual Reflecting Realities Report is out now, showing progress in ethnic representation in children’s books and urging publishers to keep inclusion as a standard practice. https://clpe.org.uk/research/clpe-reflecting-realities-survey-ethnic-representation-within-uk-childrens-literature-3
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Tony Meeuwissen (digression from Christmas books) from a reissue of his Remarkable Animals, out from Otter-Barry Books on 13 Nov. One of 1000 permutations using 10 animals. In this case, Ruby-Topaz hummingbird with trunkfish and caterpillar. @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Essential reading: the new @theclpe.bsky.social Reflecting Realities Survey is published today & offers much food for thought. The vital work of ensuring all readers can access a breadth of quality inclusive & representative literature is far from done. Read more booksforkeeps.co.uk/8th-annual-c...
The cover of the new Reflecting Realities Survey of Ethnic Representation in UK Children's Literature 2024. Cover image of young children sitting at a table by Yasmeen Ismail. Graphic with illustration by Yasmeen Ismail demonstrating the percentage of Children's Books Published featuring Racially Minoritised Characters. From CLPE's invaluable Reflecting Realities Survey.
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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#KidLit #KidLitUK #BookSky
booksforkeeps.bsky.social Books for Keeps, the online children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 12d
Out now! #BfK275, our seasonal special & it's a bumper issue: Books of the Year, unmissable gift guides incl #poetry & non-fiction. Authorgraph interview with Christopher Edge, Petr Horacek Windows into #Illustration, Nicolette Jones interviews Lauren Child 🎁🎁🎁

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Cover of the November issue of Books for Keeps featuring artwork by Lauren Child from her new book I am Wishing Every Minute for Christmas, listing the contents including Authorgraph interview with Christopher Edge, Windows into Illustration with Petr Horacek, and our unmissable Christmas gift guides.
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Mei Matsuoka, Pragya Agarwal & Phyllis Ramage are judges for the 2026 IBC Awards. Worth £30,000 @ibc-reads.bsky.social Awards recognise UK children’s book authors & illustrators whose books authentically reflect the diverse backgrounds & experiences of readers.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jane Ray from Anya‘s Quest, the story, based on Hindu mythology, of a girl trying to save the planet. By Jasbinder Bilan, Walker Books 6 Nov. Ravishing and magical use of colour and decoration and fantastical Hindu imagery. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @janeray.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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ICYMI, our new Book of the Week is perfect for Non Fiction November: WHAT IF EVERY VOLCANO ERUPTED AT ONCE? Don't miss for the answer to this and 32 other all-important questions @dkbooks.bsky.social #Booksky

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The cover of What if Every Volcano Erupted at Once and other amazing Earth questions by Emma Young, illustrated by Super Freak. BfK Book of the Week logo
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Dermot Flynn from Fia and the Last Snow Deer. Verse novel set in prehistoric Ireland, by Eilish Fisher. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration. Reindeer, “Deer Mother“ & magic feast, in a room as “bright as the sun“. Puffin pb 6 Nov @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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The 2026 #KlausFluggePrize is underway: submissions are open (publishers have until 14 January to get their entries in) and look at this stellar panel of judges 👀
#illustration #picturebooks #KidLit
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Graphic with photos of the judges for the 2026 Klaus Flugge Prize, awarded to the most promising and exciting newcomer to picture book illustration. The 2026 judges are 2025 Klaus Flugge Prize winner Emma Farrarons; award-winning and hugely popular illustrator Rob Biddulph; Shelley Jackson, course director for the internationally renowned MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University; and Vanessa Lewis, co-owner of independent children’s bookshop The Book Nook in Hove.
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Start of the process but the winners are on these lists... congratulations to everyone nominated #writing #illustration
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Nominations have been announced for the 2026 Carnegie Medals @carnegiemedals.bsky.social. This year 62 books are in contention for the Carnegie Medal for Writing and 65 for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration. Are your favourites here? #Carnegies2026 #KidLit

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November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM