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Author, Illustrator, tea drinker, biscuit dunker, Welsh and Spanish speaker, loves being outdoors.
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writerpoetjohn.bsky.social
Thanks so much for sharing, and for all the good work you do. @thomasdocherty.bsky.social
irishhospice.bsky.social Irish Hospice Foundation @irishhospice.bsky.social · 28d
📚 Continuing this year’s BCAW focus on books, we’re sharing a message from author John Dougherty.

💛 His book, A Hare-Shaped Hole, beautifully explores emotional expression and continuing bonds for bereaved children.

👉 More reads: childhoodbereavement.ie/bookshelf
#ChildrenGrieveToo #BCAW2025
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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booktrust.org.uk
Today's #BookTrustStorytime spotlight is on the wonderful #Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social!

Head to our website to find Helen reading the story plus additional activities and resources to use in your library:

https://bit.ly/4nY61vi
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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scholasticuk.bsky.social
We're delighted that #Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social has been shortlisted for #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026! 🥳

Huge congrats and thank you to @booktrust.org.uk for all their important work in engaging children across the country through the prize!
booktrust.org.uk BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · Jun 17
✨ We are delighted to unveil the #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 shortlist! ✨

Here, this year's winner Lucy Rowland introduces the five brilliant titles that will be part of our BookTrust Storytime programme in libraries.

Find out more:

www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/new...
June 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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jacquisydney.bsky.social
This week’s #PictureBookFriday review is for the beautiful Follow the Swallow by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by @thomasdocherty.bsky.social. Out 05/06 from @farshorebooks.bsky.social

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Follow the Swallow by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Thomas Docherty
Cover illustration copyright © Thomas Docherty 2025 The enduring popularity of The Gruffalo and the BBC’s adaptations of some of Julia Donaldson’s picture books that are now a big part …
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May 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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scholasticuk.bsky.social
Thrilled to have two fabulous books on the #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 longlist!

✨One Goose, Two Moose by @kaeltudor.bsky.social & Nicola Slater

✨Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social

Huge congrats!
booktrust.org.uk BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · May 28
✨ Our #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 longlist is here! ✨

The BookTrust Storytime Prize - part of our BookTrust Storytime programme with libraries - celebrates reads that are great for sharing with 0–5s.

Enter to win all 23 longlisted books 👇

www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/new...
The BookTrust Storytime logo and word "Longlist" alongside the books nominated for the BookTrust Storytime Prize 2026: Bear's Lost Glasses, Bothered By Bugs, Dance Just Like So, Detective Catz, Don't Think of Tigers, Five Enormous Dinosaurs, Hank Goes Honk, Kitten Kitten Peekaboo, Maya and Marley and the Great Big Tidy Up, I Spot a Duck, Nee Naw Nee Naw, One Goose Two Moose, Panda and Penguin Find a Thing, Suki Cat Astronaut, Superwolf, The Camel Who Had the Hump, The Jellyfish Jiggle, There's A Gorilla at the Door, Tiger It's Snowing, Uh Oh Niko, Until You Find The Sun, Who Ate Steve, Wow! What a Day
May 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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writerpoetjohn.bsky.social
In advance of publication this week of #TheBearShapedHole, thanks to @thomasdocherty.bsky.social and @quartokids.bsky.social for my lovely new t-shirt!
May 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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jacquisydney.bsky.social
Who doesn’t love a Julia Donaldson story? Excited to receive a copy of her latest title, Follow the Swallow, illustrated by @thomasdocherty.bsky.social Out 05/06 for 3-6 readers, huge thanks go to @sarahreadsandruns.bsky.social @farshorebooks.bsky.social 🥰 #KidlitUK #UKKidlit
The book and its press release. The foiled cover shows a swallow flying across a large sun, followed by an assortment of other animals.
May 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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jillshanti.bsky.social
A skilfully written moving rhyming story of loss and love
@writerpoetjohn.bsky.social beautifully illustrated by @thomasdocherty.bsky.social #TheBearShapedHole @quartokids.bsky.social #FrancesLincolnChildrensBooks is #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-d8f
The Bear-Shaped Hole
The Bear-Shaped HoleJohn Dougherty and Thomas DochertyFrances Lincoln Children’s Books Loss , especially death is always difficult to deal with even when you know it’s coming. So it is with this co…
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April 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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nicolettejones.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Thomas Docherty from his picturebook Moon Girl about Leila who is afraid of the dark but is helped by the girl in the moon who has a paintbrush full of moonlight. Spot the cat, the fox, the owl. From OUP 3 April. @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social @thomasdocherty.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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quartokids.bsky.social
The Bear-Shaped Hole is publishing this May! 🐻✨

"The Bear-Shaped Hole is going to be one of the most important picturebooks of 2025." @jonnybid.bsky.social

"powerful, sad and joyous in equal measure." @smithsmm.bsky.social

By @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social 🩵
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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smithsmm.bsky.social
Absolutely lovely bookpost today

“The Bear-Shaped Hole” by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social is a truly wonderful book for supporting young people in preparing for loss. It’s powerful, sad and joyous in equal measure. Beautiful
@quartokids.bsky.social
#PicturebookPage
April 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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writerpoetjohn.bsky.social
Unboxing video!!!

"The Bear-Shaped Hole is going to be one of the most important picturebooks of 2025." - Jon Biddle

#BearShapedHole #HareShapedHole #kidlit #loss #grief @thomasdocherty.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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johndougherty.bsky.social
Got to see @thomasdocherty.bsky.social's roughs for our next collaboration and they are GORGEOUS.
February 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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marymorrow.bsky.social
Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺

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February 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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helendocherty.bsky.social
Thank you to the lovely people at @rshipbshop.bsky.social in #Salisbury for getting lots of copies of our books in for us to sign! 📚 😍
@thomasdocherty.bsky.social grew up in Salisbury, so this is a special bookshop for us ❤️ and it has such a brilliantly curated selection of children's books! 📚
Helen and Thomas Docherty in the Rocketship Bookshop in Salisbury, with signed copies of their books: Someone Just like You, All The Ways I Love You, All The Things We Carry, Superwolf, Into The Wild and The Hare-Shaped Hole
February 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
thomasdocherty.bsky.social
My new book Moon Girl with OUP is out in April and available to pre-order now. It's also being published in The Netherlands and in Finland. I had so much fun painting the moonlight glow and all the creatures hugging in the dark and the lovely, trusting relationship between the girls.
February 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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helendocherty.bsky.social
If you look carefully in the last photo, you'll see a signed copy of The Hare-Shaped Hole by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social on display 😊
January 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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helendocherty.bsky.social
This beautiful, heartfelt book by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social will be coming out in 2025 💗✨
Another deeply emotional and important book (following on from The Hare-Shaped Hole) which will help to comfort anyone facing the death of a loved one 💜
#thebearshapedhole
The Bear-Shaped hole, a new picture book by John Dougherty and Thomas Docherty
December 18, 2024 at 2:53 PM
thomasdocherty.bsky.social
So proud of our new book The Bear-Shaped Hole by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and myself . I know that this book is going to help so many people, young and old, to talk about and discuss something that can be so hard to put into words. It has been a wonderful experience to work on this book.
December 17, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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helendocherty.bsky.social
I'm so proud to have had FOUR picture books published in 2024! 📚 🥰 Illustrated by four equally amazing #illustrators: #DavidRoberts, @brizidamagro.bsky.social, @thomasdocherty.bsky.social & @stevenlenton.bsky.social ✨✨✨✨
These would all make great #Christmas #gifts, just saying 😉💖 #picturebooks
Me with my four picture books published in 2024: Superwolf, The Green-Fingered Witch, Someone Just Like You (paperback edition) and All The Things We Carry
November 28, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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writerpoetjohn.bsky.social
Book news!!!
November 21, 2024 at 4:35 PM