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Attie Lime
@attielime.bsky.social
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Children's Poet.
Blue Jelly and Strawberries out now!
A Welly Full of Christmas pre-orders open!
Mum. Ex-teacher. Notebooks. Tea.
East Midlands now, Northumberland then.
Schools. Events. Festivals.
www.attielime.co.uk
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Post Office today. Anyone else for a signed copy of A Welly Full of Christmas? £8.50 Inc p&p. Festive sticker to boot (sorry! 🤪) 🎄🎁🎅🏼 UK
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Job done! Thank you Northumberland ❤️ Four days, six schools, lots of wonderful children and staff, many poetry memories and lots of books into children's hands. What a week. Loved it.
A collage photo of Attie, showing her poetry visits to 6 schools this week.
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The only thing to do on #PublicationDay for a Christmas book, is to visit Father Christmas! A Welly Full of Christmas is out today and is Santa-approved! I hope you enjoy it - I had a lot of fun writing it ❤️🎄🎅🏼 #ChristmasPoems #UkKidLit #KidLitUk
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A standing Father Christmas decoration, holding a copy of A Welly Full of Christmas by Attie Lime and illustrated by Nadine Licence.
October 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I'll take that, thanks! My festive poetry collection for all the family, is out TOMORROW! 🎉🎄🍾
@tinytreebooks.bsky.social
Love your new book. Poems delightful + fun, illustrations brilliant. Hope a best seller this Christmas. It's smashing! It really is fabulous. Reckon you've got an adult audience out there too. A Welly Full of Christmas, Poems for Festive Fun by Attie Lime, illustrated by Nadine Licence. Out 30.10.25.
October 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Poems at bedtime tonight for Little Lime. We 'performed' Too Many Cats together and he got the hiccups from laughing so much - especially as our cat walked in, halfway through! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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One of my favourite illustrations from A Welly Full of Christmas. I'm lucky to have my friend Nadine Licence as illustrator - we met more than 20 years ago in a library, which is fitting. Our Christmassy book is out next week. Pre-orders open, or ask re. signed copies ❄️ @tinytreebooks.bsky.social
A beautiful greyscale book illustration of a snow globe containing a gingerbread house.
October 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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In case you were wondering how X is getting on... #UKKidLit #KidLitUk #KidLit
A promotional post for Attie Lime's new book, A Welly Full of Christmas, with a reply on X, saying "I'll try it out, am hoping it's worth it"
October 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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I have neglected BlueSky! I've been busy being busy, poorly, and losing a chunk of tooth 🤦🏻‍♀️ Anyway...A Welly Full of Christmas is out in 2 weeks & you can pre-order now! This poem is about the realisation that something magical has happened...❄️ @tinytreebooks.bsky.social
#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #Books
October 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Today is #WorldAnimalDay
What would they tell us, if they could?
Poem from Blue Jelly and Strawberries, published by @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social and illustrated by Kate Sheppard.
#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #Books
What Are They Trying to Tell Us? What does the mouse tell us with his squeak? What secrets hide in the eagle's beak? What does the elephant sign with her trunk? What can we learn from the stinky skunk? What does Miaow mean? What about Moo? What is Hello in Kangaroo? What tales are curled in a monkey's tail? Or held in the jaws of a great blue whale? What is the joke in a parakeet's squawk? If only animals could talk! Attie Lime
October 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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My festive poetry book, A Welly Full of Christmas is out 6 weeks today with @tinytreebooks.bsky.social! 🎉🎄 The most splendiferous @afharrold.com said some lovely things about it. And here's a sneak peek of the contents! Pre-orders available now from all the usual places ❤️🎄#UKKidLit #KidLitUK
Contents Quick! Outside Wonderful Word Here Comes Winter Things I Looked up Online to Put on My Christmas List Grandma's Poinsettia The First Message from the Elf on the Shelf Dear Santa, Love Sam 8 Alternatives to a Christmas Stocking “Perfect poems, rhythmically rambunctious and lyrically lively." A.F. Harrold
September 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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It's that time of year again! Here's one of my favourite poems from #bluejellyandstrawberries to share with younger children on school visits (a calm one, unusually!!). Answer in 2nd image, plus gorgeous illustration by Kate Sheppard @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social #autumnpoems #ks1 #ukkidlit #kidlituk
Autumn Secret In my hand is a secret a smooth, shiny secret. In my hand is a secret a hard, round, brown secret. In my hand is a secret a secret something I found. In my hand is a secret a secret which fell to the ground. In my hand is a secret. What's in my hand? Attie Lime
September 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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#prompt #wordoftheweek #ukkidlit #kidlituk
September 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Huge thanks to poetry's King of Nonsense, Colin West @colinwest.bsky.social, for giving my Christmas collection a festive thumbs up! ✨❄️🎄
**7 weeks until publication!**
@tinytreebooks.bsky.social #PreordersOpen
Cover of A Welly Full of Christmas by Attie Lime. Poet Colin West calls it "Wonderfully varied. A delight to read." Out on 30th October with Tiny Tree Books
September 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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New review just in!
#UkKidLit #KidLitUK #PoetryForKids #ReadingForPleasure
A 7yo girl reading aloud from Blue Jelly and Strawberries by Attie Lime and Kate Sheppard. She calls the book "Ridiculously funny!".
September 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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It's all about the 🍩🍩 in our house this week! @neillcameron.bsky.social's Donut Squad for the 8yo, and The Doughnut Club by @krahim.bsky.social for me (50 😁).
September 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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8 weeks to go 😃 (Just 12 & a bit until December!) Thank you for all the support and pre-orders so far, and to Joshua Seigal for the seal of approval🎄
#ChristmasPoems #UkKidLit #KifLitUK
@tinytreebooks.bsky.social
An image of the cover of A Welly Full of Christmas, Poems for Festive Fun, by Attie Lime and Nadine Licence. A quote by Joshua Seigal says "This really is a fabulous festive feast of poetry!". Pre-orders open now.
September 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Lovely to post copies of Blue Jelly and Strawberries to teachers, today. I really appreciate every sale, especially in the summer holidays when I have no new income, 3 children to entertain & school shoes to buy 😂❤️🍓 Signed copies available from me & if you say please, I might give you a discount!
August 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Congratulations to MrsP512 on X, who won my Blue Jelly and Strawberries book giveaway! 🎉🍓
August 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Hello #ukkidlit #kidlituk pals 👋🏼. With my 2nd book just over 2 months away, I'd love some more reviews for Blue Jelly & Strawberries. It's nerve racking hoping The Next Book will do well, but hopefully, reading good reviews for The First Book might help to get it into readers' hands. Thank you! ❤️
August 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Last Chance! #bookgiveaway for teachers!
WIN a copy of BLUE JELLY AND STRAWBERRIES 💙🍓
Winner chosen tomorrow!
A blue seashell is hidden on my website. For a chance to win a book:
🐚Follow me & repost
🐚DM with the location of the shell & school name (keep it 🤫)
(Also on X)
August 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Book post is the best post, especially when it's a contributor copy of a bold, bright and beautiful anthology like this. Proud to have written the opening poem in You're Never Too Much (14+), compiled by Charlie Castelletti, out 4/9/25 with @panmacmillan.bsky.social Available to pre-order now 💜🧡💜
Cover of You're Never Too Much: Poems for Every Emotion, compiled by Charlie Castelletti, Pan Macmillan
August 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Loved 🧡
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
August 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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#Teachers! Summer #book #Giveaway! (UK)
WIN a copy of BLUE JELLY AND STRAWBERRIES for your school.
There's a tiny seashell hidden somewhere on my website...For a chance to win a book:
🐚Follow me and repost this post!
🐚DM with the location of the shell & school name (keep it 🤫)
Winner chosen 26/8
August 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Ooh, Hello America! 👋🏻
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Screenshot from Barnes & Noble, of A Welly Full of Christmas, Attie Lime's upcoming poetry book. Available to preorder now $9.99
August 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM