TheBookTrail @thebooktrail.bsky.social Literary Locations and maps of books!
Books set in a location are a great way to travel literary style or in real life. Match your next novel with a destination with The BookTrail - The Literary Travel Agency. www.thebooktrail.com
Spark! School Book Award @sparkbookaward.bsky.social Sparking the imaginations of young readers! Now in our 6th year, we are excited to welcome schools across the country to join our awards & vote for the winners. www.sparkbookawards.co.uk
Children's Books Ireland @childrensbooksireland.ie Children's Books Ireland is the national charity & arts organisation that champions every child's right to develop a love of reading.
Charity Reg. No. 20039822
#EveryChildAReader
Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴
Publishers Association @publishersassoc.bsky.social We are the member organisation for UK publishing.
Kate Heap - Scope for Imagination @kateheap.bsky.social Primary English Consultant, children's book blog, author of the Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series, Chair of Governors, Girlguiding, Canadian in the UK
Helen Jones @hfj0108.bsky.social Upper KS2 TA. Trying to encourage a love of reading and maths.
Rachel Boden @rachel-the-editor.bsky.social 
K.R. / Kate Thompson, Children’s Author @katethompson.bsky.social Author of Werelock & Scratch, Christmas Lights on Mistletoe Street, Yetis Don’t Exist, All I Hope For You, Superheroes Don’t Get Scared
Rep’d by Jo Williamson at Antony Harwood.
More info here: https://www.katethompson.co.uk
Insta: @katethompsonwrites
Chris Mould @chrismould.bsky.social Illustrator Author Manic Scribbler etc 
Scoobiesue2 @scoobiesue2.bsky.social Lover of all things book-ish, making things and nice people!
https://www.throughthebookshelf.com/
Kate Manning @katemanning.bsky.social Originally from the Black Country, now a proud @stokeylitfest.bsky.social and @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social -er. A 'book trade veteran' according to The Bookseller.
Nicki Cleveland @mrscleveland.bsky.social HLTA, primary school librarian, children’s book blogger, spaniel wrangler, tea drinker, cricket watcher. Very easily distra
https://missclevelandsreading.com/
Magic Cat Publishing @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social An award-winning independent Children's publishing house in the East End of London. Winner of the IPG Nick Robinson Newcomer Award 2021.
Jane Etheridge @janesetheridge.bsky.social Vice Chair Federation of Children's Book Groups. All views my own
CILIP Information Literacy Group @infolitgroup.bsky.social The Information Literacy Group provides a cross-sector forum for debate & knowledge exchange in all aspects of information and digital literacy. Come and join the discussion!
💻: https://infolit.org.uk
▶️ Our comms do not represent CILIP policy
Journal of Information Literacy @jinfolit.bsky.social The Journal of Information Literacy is the international, peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal of CILIP’s Information Literacy Group. Our comms do not represent CILIP policy. https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/index #InfoLit #OpenAccess 💎🔓
The Rocketship Bookshop @rshipbshop.bsky.social Children’s Independent Bookshop in Salisbury. Open 9:30-4 Mon-Fri 9:30-5 Sat 11-3 Sun. Visit our website https://rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/online-shop/
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Book Clubs in Schools @bookclubsinschools.bsky.social Our charity helps young people discover a love of reading and book chat. Teachers say our book clubs increase students' well-being and grow their confidence and communication skills.
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TheLondonTeacher @thelondonteacher.bsky.social Primary School Teacher 🌈 / Currently Year 2 🥰 / Previously Year 3,4,5 💖 / Avid reader & English major 📚 / BEd and BA (double hons) 🌟 / Canadian in UK 🇨🇦🇬🇧
School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk
Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social A podcast about children’s and YA books for teachers and librarians. Interviews with authors and also anyone doing interesting reading for pleasure activities, plus lots of book talk. #kidlitUK
www.mostlybooktalk.com
Jo @octavosaurus.bsky.social Special collections / heritage / libraries / archives, education, Wikimedia, art, UCL, GirlGuiding, neurodiversity, geekery. 🌈📚📦✨
https://linktr.ee/octavosaurus
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Neem Tree Press @neemtreepress.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning books that change and broaden perspectives 📚
Nosy Crow | Children's Books @nosycrow.bsky.social Award-winning children's books
📚 Stories for kids, also in ebook and audiobook
🐦 Find us at nosycrow.com or linktr.ee/nosy_crow
Jonny Walker @jonny-walker.bsky.social ⚡️Mythology, Poetry & Nature Teacher.
📚 Children's author.
🏕️ Run creative writing retreats for children/educators worldwide.
🇬🇧East London
🌍 Teaching in UK, US, India and Greece.- E Erin @erinlynhamilton.bsky.social Children’s Librarian for Suffolk Libraries. Book blogger. Reviewer-Armadillo Magazine, Just Imagine, TSL. @FCBGNews Exec Member- NSSM/Blog
Libraries Connected @librariesconnected.org.uk We are an independent charity that supports, promotes and represents public libraries. Our work is driven and led by our membership, which includes almost every library service in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Crown Dependencies.
Authorfy @authorfy.bsky.social Visit authorfy.com for award-winning author videos, classroom resources & book extracts. Perfect for using in the classroom, libraries or at home 📚✍🏻🎥
Adrian Thompson @adeythom.bsky.social Primary school librarian, National Literacy Trust literacy champion and serial volunteer 🙂
What on Earth! @whatonearth.bsky.social Non-fiction books and magazine inspiring children to explore their natural curiosity and passion for learning 💥 💡
Books: https://www.whatonearthbooks.com/
What on Earth! Magazine: https://www.whatonearthmag.com/
Gecko Press @geckopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of internationally award-winning curiously good children's books from around the world.
Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social International celebration of women in science, tech, engineering & maths. Join us on Tues 8 Oct at the Royal Institution! 
Mr B Reads @mrbreads.bsky.social Teacher - Year 4 & English Lead. Big fan of Jesus, my wife, my son, my dog, Billericay Town, board games and books.
Ramble about teaching, books and life at mrbreads.wordpress.com
Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social Author
Hon FRSL
RLF Fellow
Sunday Times Children's Books
#NewIllustrationoftheDay
Blog, biog, gallery, books: on www.nicolettejones.com
Events: phil@showmetherabbit.com.
Art by John Jones: www.johnedwardjones.co.uk
Hilary McKay @hilarymckay.bsky.social Children's author since before the internet was invented.
If I've blocked you it's because Can't Argue With Stupid is a fact.
David Fickling Books @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social ✨Where good stories begin...
📚We're an independent publisher of superb books for readers of all ages. Join the adventure here!
Lesley Watts @ljwattswales.bsky.social Retired librarian with 27 years in the rip-roaring world of libraries (last 13 years in a school library) Books, films, gardens, nature and fretting about climate emergency.
https://mrswatts101.edublogs.org/
Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social Independent press publishing the best new Irish writing for young readers. Supported by Arts Council Ireland. Repped in UK by Bounce Sales & Marketing.
Books create waves.
Book Monster Ally @bookmonsterally.bsky.social Library Worker. Book wrangler. Lego Builder. Thread thrower. Dog bower. 📚🐶🪡💖
BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social 🏆 Award-winning children’s booklisting website 📕 Recommended children’s books sorted by age or topic - visit us at http://www.booksfortopics.com
#EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #BookSky
Mat Tobin @mattobin.bsky.social 📚 Lecturer - Primary English & Children's Lit | Co-Author of "Understanding & Teaching Primary English" 📖
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard
Books read: 89/100
📚 The Wax Child
📺 Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
Anne Booth (@Bridgeanne) @bridgeanne.bsky.social Writer of books for children, represented by Anne Clark https://www.anneclarkliteraryagency.co.uk & for adults, represented by Charlotte Colwill https://www.colwillandpeddle.com. Occasional columnist for 'The Tablet.' website https://anneboothauthor.com
Jo F @jofbooks.bsky.social Children's bookseller, kids' nonfiction writer, wanders off into history a lot.
CILIP School Libraries Group @cilipslg.bsky.social This is the account for the CILIP School Libraries Group, the professional association for school librarians. https://linktr.ee/CILIPSLGUK
Tamsin @laughinglibby.bsky.social School librarian and gardener. Every day is a learning day.
Smriti Halls @smritihallsauthor.bsky.social Reader, writer, dreamer; hopist; mum;
#1 Bestselling, award-winning children’s author; Books in 40+ languages. Agent: Jodie Hodges
www.smriti.co.uk
I’M STICKING WITH YOU series, RAIN BEFORE RAINBOWS, THE LITTLE ISLAND & lots more…
Teresa Cremin @teresacremin.bsky.social Professor of Education (Literacy), The Open University. Fellow EA, RSA and AcSS. Committed to social justice and reading for pleasure.
RfP Website: https://ourfp.org
Own profile: https://www.open.ac.uk/people/tmc242
Ben Harris @one-to-read.bsky.social Teacher of Music and English. Reader. Writer. Composer of the moment: Bela Bartók
Librarimum🇵🇸📕 @librarimum.bsky.social Personal Reflections on life
🕋 🇬🇧 🇧🇩 🧕🏾📚
UKSLYA 2022🏆
Yoto Carnegies Judge 2023/2024 📚
Branford Boase Judge 2025
IG: @blessed_mum_of_five
Fox & Ink Books (formerly UCLan Publishing) @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social Northern indie publisher | Winner of the IPG Nick Robinson Newcomer Award 2019 | Publishing the very best books in all genres | Home to NYALlitFest
Bookwagon Limited @bookwagonuk.bsky.social Independent children’s bookstore sharing the reading joy with you!
www.bookwagon.co.uk
October Jones @octoberjonesco.bsky.social The ‘one stop spot’ for the spooky, kooky, magical, fantastical, weird and wonderful world(s) of Children’s Literature & Illustration!
https://octoberjones.co.uk/
Pushkin Children's Books @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social Pushkin Children’s brings the world’s greatest stories to young readers - to be read and read again. Children's imprint of @PushkinPress
https://linktr.ee/pushkinchildrens
Sweet Cherry Publishing @sweetcherrypub.bsky.social 🏆 Children's Publisher of the Year 2022 📖📚
Our mission is to make books accessible and fun!
Learn more at www.sweetcherrypublishing.com 🍒
Or go to www.everycherry.com to view our accessible, SEN-friendly books!
BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
Find out more: booktrust.org.uk
Philip Ardagh @philipardagh.bsky.social Award-winning children's author, poet, reviewer & commentator. Lifetime Ambassador CILIP School Libraries Group, ambassador Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Northern Children's Book Festival. Co-writer 'High in the Clouds' with Paul McCartney
Georgina Durrant @georginadurrant.bsky.social Author of #1 Best Selling Book ‘SEND Strategies for the Primary Years’ & more
https://amzn.to/3QKZx48
🎙️ Podcaster, Speaker
As seen on Sky News & Ch5 News
National Inclusion Lead at Twinkl
#SEND #SENDSky
https://linktr.ee/Georginadurrant
Read for Good @readforgood.bsky.social Watch 'The Magic of Stories', our new short film capturing the joy of storytelling ✨ link in bio ✨
Read for Good is the UK reading for fun charity.
Andrew Moffat @andrewmoffat.bsky.social Teacher 30 yrs, AHT Primary; he/him; PD Lead for Excelsior MAT in Birmingham, LGBTQ+/ Diversity trainer; picture books! No Outsiders www.no-outsiders.com
Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social An independent bookshop for children and young adults in Retford, North Notts. Quite possibly the cutest little bookshop in the world. British Book Awards Children's Bookseller of the Year 2025.
wonderlandbookshop.co.uk
Emily Baldwin @ebaldwin.bsky.social Secondary English teacher and Literacy & EAL Lead. Primary background in both teaching and SLT. All views my own.
Polari Press @polari.press Queer publishing and design studio. Not affiliated with any other Polari-named things.
polari.press | polari.com
Pan Macmillan @panmacmillan.bsky.social We publish a broad and vibrant range of books for audiences of all ages.
HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social Publishing great authors since 1817. 📚
Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
https://www.sharnajackson.com
Rebecca Cobb @rebeccacobb.bsky.social Children’s book illustrator and author.
Catherine Cawthorne @catcawthorne.bsky.social Children's author and secondary school librarian.
🐺Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales
🦣We Went To Find A Woolly Mammoth
🦖We Went To Find A T Rex
Damyanti Patel @damyantipatel.bsky.social Librarian working in HE while eating all the chocolate. I mainly work with subscriptions, dabble in discovery, enthuse about eresources & meddle with metadata
Chris Haughton @chrishaughton.bsky.social Author / illustrator
Mikka editor Everything with Words Books @everywithwords.bsky.social All things books! Everything with Words, prizewinning indie publisher of children's, YA and adult literary fiction. For a browse of our books :
https://www.everythingwithwords.com/ #KidLitUk #Fiction #books #illustrators #art
Abbie Headon (she/her) @abbieheadon.bsky.social 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Free-range editor and writer. Editor-at-Large, Calon Books. Campus Community Manager, BookMachine. Bookseller Rising Star. FRSA. #TransLivesMatter
Scallywag Press @scallywagpress.bsky.social UK children's books publisher. We publish entertaining & memorable books to a worldwide audience, reprinting old classics and discovering new ones, from fiction to narrative nonfiction and illustrated poetry. 📚 💙
http://scallywagpress.com
Whonextmary @whonextmary.bsky.social Librarian and Swimmer
Online help to find author suggestions you might like to read
https://www.whoelsewriteslike.com/
Online ideas on what to read next for children and young people
https://www.whonextguide.com/
Karenwallee @karenwallee.bsky.social Book nerd, book blogger & teacher.
Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social Past Carnegie Medals Judge for NI (2016,2017,2022,2023)& Kids’ Lit Quiz NI heat Co-ord (2006-2019) & Creative Book Blogger at https://goodnighttoread.wordpress.com/ Book Reviewer,Interviewer & Sch Librarian.YLG Nat Comm.Love writing book & nature haikus.
Jenny Jones @jennysarahjones.bsky.social School librarian, writer & reading enthusiast. Past Carnegie Award Judge, YLG South West Committee, Somerset FCBG, Golden Egg Academy Egg ‘21, WriteMentor Summer Mentee ‘23. Guppy Books LL ‘25. ND. jonestheschoollibrarian.com
HeatherGrrr @heathergrrr.bsky.social School Librarian (Wallasey, UK).
SLA School Librarian of the Year 2024.
Lover of books, dogs, chocolate and very cheesy films 😊
Louise Corcoran @louisecorcoran.bsky.social Professional Northerner (MCR via Teesside). Books, gigs, saxophone, slow running and sport-spectating. Happiest by the sea.
Key Accounts Manager and northern rep for @bouncemarketing. All views my own. (she/her)
Mr Ripley’s Enchanted Books @mrripleysbooks.bsky.social Children’s Books and Illustration Website. mrripleysenchantedbooks.com
Little Tiger @littletigeruk.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning and best-selling children's books, from birth to young adult. Sign up to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/LittleTigerNewsletter
Tom Griffiths @checkemoutbooks.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Headteacher. NPQH. Children’s book blogger. Passionate about reading for pleasure. Children’s Book Awards 2025 judge. #Neighbours superfan
Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social Est. 1983. Not-for-profit children’s booksellers celebrating equality, inclusion & diversity. Schools/EY supplier. Co-runs Little Rebels Award. Workers’ Cooperative. www.letterboxlibrary.com
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
Head of Zeus @headofzeus.bsky.social 📚 Home to great stories and bestselling authors
📚 Award-winning independent division of Bloomsbury Publishing
Graffeg @graffegbooks.bsky.social 📚 Indie publisher producing illustrated non-fiction and beautiful children’s books
📍 Wales, UK
https://linktr.ee/graffegbooks
Header - Fletcher and the Caterpillar © Tiphanie Beeke
Firefly Press @fireflypress.bsky.social Independent publisher of quality fiction for children & teens. WINNER Branford Boase first children’s novel Award, Yoto Carnegie Medal, Wales Book of the Year
www.fireflypress.co.uk
Bounce Sales and Marketing @bouncemarketing.bsky.social The Sales and Marketing Agency for Children's Publishers. We represent 30 children's book publishers from the UK and overseas. 
The Book Lady @bookladykaty.bsky.social 📚 Mammy. Librarian. Book Lady. Anxious. 📚
✨ Carnegie Medals Judge 2023/2024 ✨
All views are my own.
Alice Oseman @aliceoseman.bsky.social author, illustrator, screenwriter, creator of HEARTSTOPPER 🍂
Primary Nonfiction Book Club @primarynonfiction.bsky.social Championing high-quality writing, illustration and design of children's nonfiction.
If you have a passion for children's nonfiction, join the conversation.
Exciting news to come.
Tash Hyde @tash-hyde.bsky.social Passionate about getting kids reading, work at Read for Good, was a Children's Librarian
North West Library Lady @nwlibrarylady.bsky.social Secondary School Librarian - Sharing my love of books, genealogy, history, and cute pets - all views my own 📖 ✝️🌳
The Book Sniffer @thebooksniffer.bsky.social Reviewer, working in publishing, illustrator, PR and Marketing - picture books, graphic novels, comics and illustrated fiction. Rocket Bird Books, WRD Magazine, SHELF magazine