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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now!

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · Jun 15

Amazing to see Nate Yu’s Blast From the Past as one of The Observer’s ‘The Best Children’s Chapter Books of the Summer’ 😳🤩 thanks to critic Kitty Empire for the review! #booksky #ukkidlit #kidlituk #middlegrade #blueskybooks

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Inclusive Books for Children @ibc-reads.bsky.social · 8d

This September’s inclusive children’s books celebrate culture, identity & community 🍲✨ From sharing wonton soup to exploring Diwali, embracing who we are & tracing humanity’s roots back to Africa — these stories uplift, unite & inspire. 📚🌍

www.inclusivebooksforchildren.org/collections/...

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 1d

It’s always great to have some stats to back up what you already feel.

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 1d

FREE author events at Holborn Library in London. Sat 18th October for the Bloomsbury Festival. There isn't a bookshop on site but I will happily sign any editions of my books if you bring them along! There are lots of events happening!
bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/2025_events/

Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Storm Amy…take care peeps! I’m gonna go get some food in and then will hunker down! Waterproof trousers are on!

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Storm Amy eh…

Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Oh I’ve manifested some weird stuff like a free sofa (when I needed one) and one day I was like ‘I wish someone would approach me about making my novel into a screen project’ and that day I had an email about that very thing (it didn’t go anywhere)!

Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Not sure I’m very good at manifesting book projects atm! Nothing is working!

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 6d

We all want to write for them! I’ve pitched a few things but no bites yet!

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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote an article for work about reading with dyslexia. This includes a list of kids books of various formats that I’ve personally found super-readable for different reasons.

www.scottishbooktrust.com/articles/rea...

#DyslexiaAwarenessWeek
#KidsBooksFriday

Reading with dyslexia

Read our article about reading with dyslexia, including a book list of dyslexia-friendly titles.

www.scottishbooktrust.com

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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 6d

A special shout out to the phenomenal @barringtonstoke.bsky.social for everything they’re doing to ensure dyslexic readers have access to high quality texts that readers of all different abilities can enjoy on an equal basis.
#KidsBooksFriday #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek

Book cover for Blitzers by Alastair Chisholm

Book cover for Owen and the Soldier by Lisa Thompson

Book cover for My Perfect Cousin by Karen McCombie

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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 6d

It’s #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek in Scotland this week and in the rest of the UK next week. As a dyslexic reader myself I wanted to use #KidsBooksFriday this week to celebrate brilliant, accessible and super-readable texts of all kinds.
#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

Book cover for Reek by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by George Caltsoudas showing a young person with a helmet and rocket books swinging through a futuristic Edinburgh via a rope.

Book cover for Wonderfully Wired Brains by Louise Gooding showing a young person with short hair and glasses wearing a green hoodie. Around their head are a myriad of different things from animals to basketballs, pencils, paint brushes and games controllers.

Book cover for Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp and Sylvia Bi showing three girls with papers in their hand as if passing our leaflets, hovering over a medieval European style city.

Book cover for The Horse Dreamer by Holly Surplice showing a sketch style drawing of a girl riding a galloping horse.

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Mayo Agard-Olubo @mayowrites.bsky.social · 16d

Delighted to announce that my debut picture book "Kid Rex To The Rescue", illustrated by the fantastic Diane Ewen will be released on the 26th of March 2026
t.co/ohez7oPTcZ (£)(screenshots below)

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats to you and Di!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 19d

I hate unboxing videos. HOWEVER, I am a CARTOONIST. So.

A cartoon of myself against a photographed background. I’m approaching a big box from Penguin Random House placed on my dining room table.

I’m now kneeling over the box on the floor on top of a rug in front of my couch, preparing to open the box

I’m now jubilantly hopping around with a copy of my book in my hand, a slightly crazed look on my face.

My cartoon hand holds a copy of Angelica and the Bear Prince, cartoon stars and sparkles around it

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 19d

The latest email from JANE TACTICS who is promising me big things for my book Nate Yu’s Blast From the Past #BOT

Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 19d

You got one with a fun film reference. The Haunting of Emily Rose.

Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks Alan

Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 19d

I wonder how I can stop them…

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 19d

Hilarious 😆 you are a more patient person than I am.

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 19d

It’s people from all over getting them. I was surprised to find one in my uni email inbox though and also they’re emailing my publishers and agent too. Which is also weird!

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 19d

Ooh, it's been a while, but we've got a scammer trying to fiddle people's credit cards again.

They keep trying to buy Mr Bump over and over again with made up names and addresses. Poor Mr Bump.

a blue and white cartoon character with a striped shirt on

Alt: a blue and white cartoon character with a striped shirt on

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 19d

Each one has a women’s email address - usually a gmail and it’s annoying me. It all looks AI generated to me. Things feel weird lately with getting wrongly billed or getting receipts for things I didn’t buy.

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 19d

Nearly every day this week I’ve had an email via my contact form, sent to my agency or my uni email telling me how wonderful my books are and it goes on for paragraphs. My head swells with the praise and then there is a line at the end asking me to contact them to see the ways they can help promote

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 20d

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 19d

Please do check out the Story Feast website and the authors and illustrators taking part

www.storyfeast.co.uk

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ESEA Authors discuss diaspora, inclusion and culture at SOAS during ESEA Heritage Month

www.storyfeast.co.uk

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