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Carnegie Shortlisted Author. Lives in a House with Chicken Legs. Speaks Bear. Tangles Magic. Sings Storms. ❄️THE SNOW GIRL❄️ Agent: @gemma_cooper
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It's publication day for
#TheSnowGirl
written by me, illustrated by
@mv_castrillon
and published by the lovely folks at
@Usborne
! ❄️How about a
#giveaway
to celebrate? FLW & RT I'll pick a winner tomorrow, sign and stamp a copy with my brand new snowflake stamp! ❄️💙
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Husband built me a library in new house and carried several tonnes of books into it. I now have a writing space with a big bouncy ball, a House with Chicken Legs, and a Moomin in it.
@seenicks
is THE BEST 🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏
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eavesdropping while working
6yo: you can be anything you want to be when you grow up
3yo: I want to be an owl so I can see in the dark
6yo: I will make you an owl robot suit
3yo: I want to be a wolf too
6yo: I will make you a wolf robot suit too
3yo: I will write you a list
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BEAR WON!!! 🎉🐻🎉🐻🎉🐻🎉🐻🎉🐻
And the winner of the inaugural Children’s & Young People category is…..
@sophieinspace
, for The Girl Who Speaks bear, published by
@Usborne
and illustrated by
@kathrinhonestaa
, Congratulations Sophie!
#WBOTY20
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Time for a very special giveaway! Only 100 of these limited edition, numbered, hardback proofs of
#TheSnowGirl
have been made and I have number 100 to sign & giveaway! Follow, RT & drop a comment & I'll pick a winner 01/07❄️Art by Melissa Castrillon, see thread below for more🧵👇
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Okay I have one very special limited edition hand stamped proof of
#TheGirlWhoSpeaksBear
to rehome. FLW & RT to win. Ends 5th Feb midnight 🐻
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I'm delighted to reveal the cover for my new book designed by
@KatharineMilli7
illustrated by Saara Söderlund & animated by Penelope Mazza published
@Usborne
1st October & up for preorder. I can't wait for you to join Olia in a magical fairytale adventure
#TheCastleofTangledMagic
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Teachers! I'm getting so many requests for videos for
#WorldBookDay
... I can't do personalised ones for everyone, sorry, but if I do a short, generic Happy WBD video and upload to YouTube, would that be useful?
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I am bursting with pride and happiness to see The House with Chicken Legs on the CARNEGIE SHORTLIST! Thank you judges & huge congratulations to everyone on this incredible list.
Nothing can stop Marinka! ✨ We’re absolutely thrilled to have
#TheHouseWithChickenLegs
on the
@CILIPCKG
Carnegie Medal shortlist! Star-filled congratulations to
@sophieinspace
, and all the other amazing shortlisted authors 📚
#CKG19
#bestchildrensbooks
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Massive thanks to the teachers, librarians & booksellers who seek out & promote quality children’s literature - books that change lives and change the world for the better. You are these books most powerful champions, and without you they often don't reach readers at all.
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Today is my first day out in a million years ... I'm off to get my vaccine!🙏
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Can anyone help me identify this wild creature? 🤔
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please, please, don't download pirated copies of books (or any other creation), our work, our art, has value, and we need to be paid, you know, to eat and live and stuff 😭
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Some Brambly Hedge for anyone who needs it today 🐀❄️
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🌊🪶BOOK FOUR TITLE AND COVER REVEAL!🪶🌊
💛Cover & interior illustrations
#JoannaLisowiec
💛
💙Cover design by
@KatharineMilli7
💙
🌊Publishing 31.03.22
@Usborne
🌊
🪶Available to preorder now! (links to follow)🪶
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First sighting of the Polish edition of The Girl Who Speaks Bear, titled 'Fairy Tales of the Snowy Forest', with cover design by Ula Gireń: , translated by Przemysław Hejmej, published by Wydawnictwo Kobiece 🐻💙🙏
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I'll do a signed book giveaway because celebrations today are often about remembering the dead & accepting death as a part of life & these themes are important in
#TheHouseWithChickenLegs
RT to enter & I'll pick winner at midnight🧙♀️Cover art & early version by
#MelissaCastrillon
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All authors make their author copies dance when they arrive, right? So sparkly! So gorgeous! Huge thanks to illustrator
#kathrinhonesta
, all the amazing folk at
@Usborne
, and superagent
@gemma_cooper
. I could not be happier 😄🐻💚
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It's very almost Chicken Legs 4th birthday... which means 4 books in 4 years! Can't quite believe all that has happened in that time, still all feels so surreal... 😶🌫️✨Endless thanks to all who helped create these books, supported them, & took them into their hearts 🙏💕
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I have a rather large plumbing bill (literal not metaphorical) so now seems like a really good time to remind the world of my books - they have fab reviews & awards & I've had lovely mesages from readers of all ages who love them. I think they'd make great gifts for everyone😬🙏
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Around about this time next month I should be able to share some news on my next book🤫This makes me both very nervous and very, very excited too😬I do hope my lovely readers are up for another adventure 🤞
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So excited
#TheHousewithChickenLegs
is being adapted for stage by
@LesEnfantsTerr
!🎉They have the PERFECT aesthetic to bring Marinka’s story to life & are planning INCREDIBLE things with music, puppetry, projection & stage design. The show is going to be utterly MAGICAL✨✨✨✨✨
Our FIRST ORIGINAL STAGE SHOW IN 10 YEARS is coming to Manchester this Easter! ✨
👉in co-production with
@HOME_mcr
we're bringing
@sophieinspace
best-selling novel to life through puppetry, live music and just a sprinkle of magic.
Follow the thread for more on the story ⬇️
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More exciting
#TheSnowGirl
news❄️as well as gorgeous hardback proofs, there are gorgeous paperback proofs too! Flying out from
@Usborne
soon, with cover art by the amazing Melissa Castrillon❄️I have one of these to giveaway too, just flw, rt and drop a comment!❄️
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My books on their own shelf in new house 😭 I wrote unpublished for over a decade and still can't quite believe these are real! So grateful to my super agent
@gemma_cooper
and my publishers for taking a chance on me 🙏♥️ Let's see if I can fill another shelf! 🤞
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the lovely folk at
@Usborne
have sent me enough author copies of
#TheSnowGirl
beautifully illustrated
@mv_castrillon
to do a
#giveaway
❄️FLW & RT I'll pick winner 22.10 int'l❄️publishing 26.10 with signed, dedicated copies available to pre-order from
@SReadBooks
&
@BookendsCarl
💙
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A week from today we're heading off grid. No electricity for two weeks. No internet. No twitter. But a log cabin, by the side of a lake, a fireplace, gas lamps, and a notebook and pen to keep my writer's soul happy 😊
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There is something VERY exciting happening ...
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I'm 45 & the books I read when young obvs meant a lot to me, but the vast majority I would not rec to young readers today...there are brilliant, far more relevant texts available that are not problematic & I'm continually confused by constant recs of old, racist & sexist stuff 🤷
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Just been invited for a vaccination on Friday and am now so full of relief and gratitude I'm all 😭😭😭😭😭
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I'm dancing like a weasel to see
#TheGirlWhoSpeaksBear
illustrated by
@kathrinhonestaa
on the incredible shortlist for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2021🎉Huge thanks to
#TeamBear
,
@Usborne
and the wonderful librarian judges
#CKG21
@CILIPCKG
, and congratulations to all here 🎉🙏🐻
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Happy
@bookgivingday
, Twitterverse! To celebrate, I shall give copies of BOTH my books to THREE lucky winners. Just FLW & RT for a chance to win and I'll pick a winner on Monday morning (17th Feb) at 9am.
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our home-educated-for-15-years-eldest-daughter
@BookshelfReader
applied to college today, to study music, her passion, please send her all the good luck gifs 🙏🍀
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husband made cake for our youngest's birthday!😋
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COMPETITION TIME! To win a signed dedicated copy of
#TheThiefWhoSangStorms
& an exceedingly rare & magical handmade coin from the Floating Island of Morovia FLW & RT, for an extra chance tell me an act of kindness that made you smile 🪶 UK only ends 12.03 🪶 Illus
#JoannaLisowiec
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I found my wings and will be wearing them in all future zooms🧚
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Behold the US cover of The Girl who Speaks Bear, created by the amazingly talented
@rednosestudio
Isn't it GORGEOUS? I adore everything about it, and all the characters and little details are just perfect! 😍 It's up for pre-order now!
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TOMORROW I will be sharing some VERY exciting Book Four news! 🪶🌊📙
#JoannaLisowiec
@Usborne
📙 🌊🪶
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It's BEAR! It's BEAR!!!! 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 (although Mousetrap just told me this is ALL his doing, and he is probably right!) THANK YOU, wonderful Indies! 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Winner of the Children's Fiction Award:
The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson (
@sophieinspace
)
#IndieBookAwards
#IndieBookshopWeek
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apologies to everyone my two-year-old restricted, blocked, unfollowed, or DM'ed pictures of cute pigs to last night via my instagram account 🤦♀️
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83p! BOTH my books are a preposterously bargainous 83p on kindle atm if anyone fancies a Russian fairy tale inspired adventure (or two!) ... 🏠🐤🧙♀️✨🐻🐺🏔️📚
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I am OVER THE MOON The House with Chicken Legs is on the Carnegie Longlist! THANK YOU judges & HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to everyone on this GORGEOUS list:
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could schools please stop asking pupils to find out authors' dates of birth for homework🙏
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I'm THRILLED
#TheGirlWhoSpeaksBear
has been nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal 🎉🐻 Huge thanks to the librarians who have supported BEAR, huge congratulations to everyone on this BRILLIANT list, and huge thanks to all at
@Usborne
#TeamBear
@rebeccashill
@Walker_Becky
🙏
We are delighted to announce the nominations for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals! Congratulations to all the incredible authors and illustrators in the running for
#CKG21
! View the full lists here:
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My author copies of the US edition of The House with Chicken Legs have landed 🙌Stunning cover art by
@rednosestudio
, scaly end papers and hidden chicken legs under the jacket! 😍 Design by Maeve Norton. Huge thanks
@Scholastic
🙏❤️ RT& Follow to win one! (Int'l, ends 26.10) ✨
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I'd like to gift a couple more copies to school libraries, so if you drop a comment a below I'll pick at random later in the week🙏💙❄️
It's publication day for
#TheSnowGirl
written by me, illustrated by
@mv_castrillon
and published by the lovely folks at
@Usborne
! ❄️How about a
#giveaway
to celebrate? FLW & RT I'll pick a winner tomorrow, sign and stamp a copy with my brand new snowflake stamp! ❄️💙
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Okay I have a few spare for UK school libraries. Reply below and I'll pick a few of you at random before the end of the week 🍀
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Over EIGHTY school libraries will now be receiving copies of What's the T? HUGE thanks to the thirty people who unexpectedly and generously joined in to make this happen! 🙏❤️
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NINE HUNDRED proofs HAND STAMPED and ready to adventure into the world!!! Eternally gratefully to Stevie, and now feeling slightly nauseous with the adrenaline that comes with a proof mailing. Will readers enjoy Yanka's journey? 🤞🤞🤞
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Happy 3rd birthday to
#TheHousewithChickenLegs
🎉 I can't believe how far this little book has traveled in the last 3 years & how many readers have taken it to their hearts 💙 Love & thanks to all who helped bring it into the world, & to all who have supported it 🙏
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I just recorded a one minute happy wbd message for someone, but it's generic so if any teachers would like a copy just let me know x
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Just look at the gorgeousness 😍
@StevieHopwood
sent me an EMBOSSED GOLD proof of
#TheGirlWhoSpeaksBear
💛 There are only twenty of these beauties in the world! Words fail me! Thank you, Stevie, and for all the other treasures in the parcel too 🙏🙏🙏
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5 years ago I signed with
@gemma_cooper
& I'm bursting with gratitude for all the light & joy she’s brought into my world since then. She's inspired, supported, guided, educated & lifted me; connected me with wondrous people & enabled me to build a career doing what I love🙏❤️🎉
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I am delighted to report, having stamped & signed a whopping 1080 copies of
#TheCastleofTangledMagic
yesterday, ALL 2000 OF THESE BEAUTIFUL SPECIAL EDITIONS are ready to be shipped 🙌✨ You can preorder one from any indie, e.g
@SReadBooks
who will deliver:
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This is draft one of New Thing. It is not very good. In parts, it is truly awful. Large chunks need completely rewriting. There are months of edits ahead. But it exists. And that is enough, for now.
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Teachers! I'm getting lots of requests for letters to promote reading. To save on postage costs, I've made one I can e-mail for you to print yourself. Just contact me through my website with the name of your class/school, and I'll send x
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woke in the night with a (seemingly) brilliant book idea and wrote it down... this morning all is left is these scribbled words:
stroke hobbit
lungs washing
alive
on brink of pit
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Still haven't got my head around this news. How has The House managed to sneak in with this pile of giants? Shortlisted for Children's Fiction Book of the Year in the
#BritishBookAwards
#Nibbies
😲
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unbelievably gorgeous, limited edition hardback proof of
#TheSnowGirl
illus
@mv_castrillon
, only 100 of these beauties have been made & will be flying out soon to early readers in lovely parcels from
@Usborne
... & GUESS WHAT? There will be a chance to win
#100
very soon!!! ❄️💙
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Hooooooooray!!!! 🙌🕺💃🥳🎉
Huge congratulations to the winner of the 2019 Hounslow Junior Book Award - The House with Chicken Legs by
@sophieinspace
🎉🎉🎉
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It IS publication day! Book birthday! Hooray! 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻HUGE thanks to everyone who made
#TheGirlWhoSpeaksBear
possible, and everyone who has supported Yanka and the herd! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Happy publication day to
#TheGirlWhoSpeaksBear
by the incredible
@sophieinspace
(ills by
#KathrinHonesta
). Best book I've read this year - absolutely loved it, and I recommend (no, INSIST) you nab a copy too. Wonderful book, a glorious read! Congrats Sophie!!! Xxx
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TCOTM has been SENT TO PRINT! A momentous occasion, a bittersweet farewell to a world I've lived in for over a year. HUGE THANKS to illustrator
#saarasoderlund
&the amazing
@Usborne
team; editors, designers, marketing, publicity, sales, so many people unravelled this magic!🙏❤️😭
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Absolutely THRILLED to see The Girl Who Speaks Bear shortlisted in my homeland for Wales Book of the Year Children and Young People Award along with these two glorious books! Congrats all and HUGE THANKS to the judges! 🏴🎉🏴🎉🏴🎉🏴🎉🏴🎉🏴🎉🏴🎉🏴🎉🏴🎉🏴🎉🏴🎉
Children and Young People
We introduced a brand-new category this year. Shortlisted titles for the Children & Young People category are:
The Girl Who Speaks Bear – Sophie Anderson
Butterflies for Grandpa Joe- Nicola Davies
Max Kowalski didn’t mean it – Susie Day
#WBOTY20
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I'm THRILLED
#TheCastleofTangledMagic
has been chosen as one of The Times and Sunday Times Children’s Books of the Year 🦊🎉 Yay!
Paywalled article:
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Husband has been making actual MAGICAL coins today inspired by
#TheThiefWhoSangStorms
, only seven exist in the world so far (he may make a few more). There will be chances for readers to win one... I shall reveal more soon! 🪶
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THREAD!!! Three tweetfuls of photos of the GORGEOUS Japanese edition of The House with Chicken Legs, published by Shogakuka, translated by Keiko Nagatomo, and illustrated by Takashi Goto 😍
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The best gift in the world arrived today! My photo doesn't do these beauties justice, they are INCREDIBLE! What's your fav colour? Clockwise from top left: purple, dark blue, grey, red, light blue ... and why do you think I have an unstamped one? THANK YOU
@StevieHopwood
@Usborne
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Who wants an exclusive limited edition A5 postcard of this artwork for
#TheGirlWhoSpeakBear
by
#KathrinHonesta
? RT and I'll pick someone to send it to on Monday at midnight.
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LIBRARIES ARE FREEEEEEEE! (and authors still get paid!!!!)
please, please, don't download pirated copies of books (or any other creation), our work, our art, has value, and we need to be paid, you know, to eat and live and stuff 😭
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Okay, so I received a certificate for
#TheHousewithChickenLegs
shortlisting in the
@CILIPCKG
today & the most beautiful letter of congratulations from
@alisonbrumwell
& they made me cry great big huge fat wet tears of disbelief & joy & I'm not sure I'll ever be the same again.
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Lots of people saying this today (and every year about this time!) but really, how brilliant would it to be to have a Carnegie Children's Book Medal AND a Carnegie Young Adult Book Medal ... I think it would be VERY brilliant ❤️📚
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CONGRATULATIONS
@BookshelfReader
PASSED HER GCSE MATHS TWO YEARS EARLY WITH A GRADE 8 (between an A & A*)!!! 🎉🥳🪅🍾🎉🥳🪅🍾🎉🥳🪅🍾🎉🥳🪅🍾
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If the MC of a book is a girl, this DOES NOT mean the book is 'for girls' (ARGH!)
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Super special stamp of Kathrin Honesta's art for
#TheGirlWhoSpeaksBear
@StevieHopwood
is HANDSTAMPING the covers of unique, limited edition proofs created by
@Usborne
. I can’t wait to hear what colour inks people get, and what they think of the story inside!
#AprilExcitement
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I've just deleted a post which offered free books to schools, because someone RT'ed it attacking the schools who had responded, and I want to try to protect them from such hatred and bigotry. If anyone recieves or is tagged in a hateful tweet, please just block, don't engage🙏
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I'm disappearing from here to focus on book five edits for a while🌔I'm massively excited about this next one...but no clues...will leave you with pic of the four adventures already in the world👇📚Happy reading and take care all, you can reach me through my website if needed🙏💛
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Sneaky peak of 4 of the OVER 100 authors that
@TheGavGav7
is montaging for a
#WorldBookDay
video extravaganza for YouTube! He's doing an AMAZING job & you can help fuel him with coffee here:
@suecheungstory
@jamieillustrate
@kereengetten
@CressidaCowell
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The Happy
#WorldBookDay
video is looking SO GORGEOUS😍
@TheGavGav7
is montaging over 100 authors' messages of book-love and positivity for everyone to enjoy FREE!🙏 No pressure at all, but if you'd like to buy him a thank you coffee, you can do it here: ☕️
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I'd like to buy three copies of this for school staffrooms, where I hope it will be read by many teachers. Schools, reply here if you'd like a copy. And if anyone else would like to buy a copy for a school, let me know and I'll pair you with a school 🙏
Wish We Knew What To Say by
@DrPragyaAgarwal
A vital toolkit for parents from all backgrounds to talk openly and honestly about race to their children between the ages of 2-12 about race.
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Right, I'm off twitter for rest of day. Before I go, I'd like to say one more time, making fun of afro hair is racist & making fun of people's appearance is cruel. There are MANY books that will 'get kids reading' w/o teaching them that cruelty is 'funny'.
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So excited this news is finally out! THE SNOW GIRL - a middle grade reimagining of one of my favourite fairy tales, The Snow Maiden - will publish in October in a gorgeous hardback gift edition with two-colour illustrations by the brilliant
@mv_castrillon
❄️💙🧵👇
We're beyond excited to be publishing THE SNOW GIRL by
@sophieinspace
- a perfect wintry adventure inspired by a classic fairy tale! ❄
Out 26th October, the book will publish in a HB gift edition and reunite Sophie with illustrator
@mv_castrillon
🤩
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Book Birthday! 🎉🎈🎊 The House with Chicken Legs publishes in the US today with
@Scholastic
, and this wonderful cover by
@rednosestudio
! 😊🙌
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
The House with Chicken Legs is on the shortlist for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019 - congratulations
@sophieinspace
!
@Usborne
#CKG19
#BestChildrensBooks
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Magic awaits, all you have to do is believe...
#TheCastleofTangledMagic
is an enchanting fairy-tale adventure about the power of love & courage, illustrated by Saara Söderlund
Read-Along:
Indies:
Waterstones:
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Hugely EXCITING news: The House with Chicken Legs is on the run! The BEST show in the world is on TOUR this Autumn, grab your tickets while you can folks, & any school groups going let me &
@LesEnfantsTerr
know so we can make sure you have the most amazing time possible !🐤🛖🎭🎉
The House with Chicken Legs is on the run 👀
Our co-production (with
@HOME_mcr
) of
@sophieinspace
’s best-seller ‘The House With Chicken Legs’ will be off on a UK tour this Autumn.
Find out more 👇
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Schools! Libraries! Brilliant
@TheGavGav7
is helping me create a compilation video of
#WorldBookDay
greetings from lots of lovely authors. We already have some amazing authors involved, but I just wondered who would be on your wish list? I shall try my best to rope them in 🤞
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Tonight & today I'll be remembering my little brother, dearly loved & deeply missed, on the anniversary of their death aged 32.
If you are struggling to see the light, please be brave enough to ask for help. Call
@samaritans
free 24/7: 116 123 or text SHOUT
@GiveUsAShout
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Discussion is good, but sadly I'm going to have to use the block button more. If you honestly think that making fun of afro hair is not racist, and making fun of people's appearance is jolly good humour, then this just fills me with despair.
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