Bookaholic Bex @bexbookaholic.bsky.social Book-obsessed, theatre-loving feminist with a liberal outlook on life. Mental health champion. Award winning book blogger.
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Frances Lievens @franceslievens.bsky.social parent, partner, teacher, singer, cyclist, city-dweller, she/her.
Helen Jones @hfj0108.bsky.social Upper KS2 TA. Trying to encourage a love of reading and maths.
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Claire @thechesilbeach.bsky.social Love visiting Chesil Beach and reading books. In fact, I’ve probably got my head in a book while you’re reading this.
⬆️And yes, this is my Backlisted bookshelf. ⬆️
🧟♀️ Liza Frank @lilithepunk.bsky.social Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore is out now! Learn the secrets of your dark corners and how best to use a potato... 🧌 https://linktr.ee/lizafrank
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Emma Finlayson-Palmer @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social Author ✍️ Artist 🎨 Editor 📝 AuDHD 🏳️🌈
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Writing strange stories from strange places 🖤
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com Nature comics (Bird and Moon). Books about nature. Talks. Bird facts. rosemarymosco.com She/her.
Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA
24th/25th October, Circle & Star Theatre Hampstead
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/circleandstar/2409942
Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com Five Books is a book recommendation website where experts pick the five best books in their subject (as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases) http://fivebooks.com
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Pfadi @d-irgendwo.bsky.social Bin wahrscheinlich gerade im Wald und versuche die Ruhe mit dem Smartphone festzuhalten. 🌳🌿
Manfred Herrmann @fotografix.bsky.social Photography/Landscape Lover/Naturefreak
https://instagram.com/fotografieherrmann
Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Sometimes funny. Author of WINTERSET HOLLOW (1st edition out of print, 2nd edition coming October 2026!) HOLLYWOODLAND coming 2027!
https://www.jonathanedwarddurham.com
https://jonathanedwarddurham.substack.com
Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB
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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social Proud Canadian🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦♥️
Happiest outdoors with my pup.
Kindness welcome & appreciated🧘♀️
*Apologies - I don't follow politically heavy accounts
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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
George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social Author of funny books, cultural omnivore. I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order. I inhale deeply when first stepping in to bookshops and libraries. 🌈
https://linktr.ee/Georgepenney
David Litchfield @dc-litchfield.bsky.social Scruffy Illustrator and author
https://www.davidlitchfieldillustration.com
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Jack Monroe @jackmonroe.bsky.social I have opinions and bylines and plenty of snacks.
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Katharine Orton @katharineorton.bsky.social Author, human, quite sleepy.
www.katharineorton.com
Claire Barker @clairebarker.bsky.social Words, pictures and plants. Author of Knitbone Pepper series, Picklewitch and Jack series. Hettie Nettle’s Handbook for Hedgewitches out now. Rep’d by Julia Churchill at AM Heath. https://linktr.ee/clairebarker
Andy Shepherd @andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social Author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ series out now. Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize She/her Rep by @jslwilliamson
Sara Krohl @pineapple1.bsky.social Child and Ed Psych, nurture, love, attachment 🥰
Annie McGowan @epannie.bsky.social EdPsych, mummy, and Grey’s Anatomy enthusiast. Hoping to find new ways to help all children, families and schools, and to support positive systemic change. 
trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social Captain of the Good Team. Artist, Visionary, None of your Businessman, and paperback writer for kids.
WRDaboutbooks @wrdmag.bsky.social Hello we're WRDmag - The STUFFED-FULL-OF-BOOKS, BOOKY magazine all about new titles, authors & booky bits for 8-14 yr olds, since 2003. To read the latest magazine online: http://www.wrdmag.co.uk
Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
Jo Cummins @booksuperhero2.bsky.social ⭐️Primary advisory teacher
⭐️Children's book blogger
⭐️Former English lead
⭐️Workshop provider
⭐️Awards judge
⭐️Resource creator
😀Children's mental health advocate
www.LibraryGirlAndBookBoy.com
Tamsin Rosewell @hobslantern.bsky.social Illustrator: creations in ink and natural pigments. Posting about illustration, great children's books, and folklore. Former bookseller. Trustee at The Blake Society. She/Her
Piers Torday @pierstorday.bsky.social Children’s writer - books include The Last Wild, Midnight Treasure and Tree Thing. Plays include Box of Delights (RSC)
Heather @hedzie.bsky.social Children's books working. Interested in reading for pleasure, creative learning, Gaelic, motherhood, craft, knitting, cooking, cats. Children's Panel. Socialist. Opinions mine. Edinburgh via N.E England, proud northerner. She/Her.
Attie Lime @attielime.bsky.social Poet. 99% Children's Poetry.
Schools. Events. Festivals.
Poems on Toast Sept 2026 🎉
Blue Jelly and Strawberries
A Welly Full of Christmas
Mum. Ex-teacher. Notebooks. Tea.
East Midlands now, Northumberland then.
www.attielime.co.uk
Stew foster author @stewfoster.bsky.social Writer of writerly things
Cycler of cycles
Jamie Littler @jamieillustrate.bsky.social Author illustrator. Creator of the FROSTHEART and ARKSPIRE middle grade series. ARKSPIRE 2: THE ORDER OF MISFITS is out now! Represented by Jodie Hodges at United Agents.
Ben Harris @one-to-read.bsky.social Teacher of Music and English. Reader. Writer. Composer of the moment: Bela Bartók
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
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
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
Librarimum🇵🇸📕 @librarimum.bsky.social Personal Reflections on life
🕋 🇬🇧 🇧🇩 🧕🏾📚
UKSLYA 2022🏆
Yoto Carnegies Judge 2023/2024 📚
Branford Boase Judge 2025
IG: @blessed_mum_of_five
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/
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
CILIP @cilip.bsky.social We are the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. Our purpose is to unite, support and empower information professionals across all sectors. cilip.org.uk
Sheena Dempsey @sheenadempsey.bsky.social Children's books, illustrations, comics.
Pablo and Splash Books 1 and 2 out now (Bloomsbury)
Agent: Sallyanne Sweeney
sheenadempsey.com
Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social Funniest Joke Edinburgh Fringe 2019-2022. Comedian, kids book author, illustrator, Art person. All my stuff is here: https://linktr.ee/Ofalafel
Bookwagon Limited @bookwagonuk.bsky.social Independent children’s bookstore sharing the reading joy with you!
www.bookwagon.co.uk
Kieran Larwood @kieranlarwood.bsky.social Bestselling children’s author: Podkin, Dungeon Runners, Jed Greenleaf 📚
https://linktr.ee/kieranlarwood?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Robin Stevens @redbreastedbird.bsky.social Author of the Murder Most Unladylike series and the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. 🏳️🌈
Mini Grey @mini3grey.bsky.social Help! I haven't time for this!
My shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MiniGreyShop
Peadar Ó Guilín @thecallya.bsky.social Award-winning author of The Call and The Invasion. Pubbed by
@dfb_storyhouse and @scholastic. Repped by @mollykh
Also wrote The Inferior ❤️Gaeilge. Eats plants.
Annaliese Avery @annalieseavery.bsky.social Children’s and YA Author
The Celestial Mechanism Cycle & The Immortal Games out now!
The Wycherleys - coming 22nd May 2025
Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social Writer, children's poet, anthologist, percussionist.
website www. brianmoses.co.uk
Blog for teachers/children brian-moses.blogspot.com
Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social Author/Academic “…movingly explores the interconnectedness of our minds, bodies, spirituality and physical environment…”
MA, PhD, SFHEA, RLF / Multi-Carnegie nominee
(LFG, Chiefs)
Rob Biddulph @robbiddulph.bsky.social Children's book author and Illustrator of the Year 2025. #DrawWithRob, Peanut Jones, I Follow the Fox, Gigantic, Odd Dog Out, Show and Tell, Blown Away, GRRRRR! & more.
Agent: @jodiehodges.bsky.social
www.robbiddulph.com
www.youtube.com/@DrawWithRob
Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social Geordie in Essex. Children’s Author.'The Pet' Oscar’s shortlisted - Winner Coventry Book Award. 'King of the Swamp' Winner BASH'22. @MandySuhrAgent @WriteMentor Rhyming PB Course Lead.
Tamsin Crook @tamsincrook.bsky.social Career Coach | Assoc. Lecturer | ADHD Research | MSc Career Mgt & Coaching | MSc Psychology | PG Cert Neurodiversity Coaching
Research: ADHD career strengths & successes
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JWAM-05-2023-0048/full/html
Charlotte Guillain @cguillain.bsky.social Children's author (picture books and non-fiction)
www.adamandcharlotteguillain.co.uk
Artwork in banner by Tony Neal
Camilla Chester @camcauthor.bsky.social Dog walking Children’s Writer and author of Call Me Lion. #KidLitUK she/her
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…
Zoë Armstrong @zoearmstrong.bsky.social Writer of the CURIOUS CREATURES series (Flying Eye Books), FIND THE SPY (Puffin Books) and more. Working on an exciting new thing for 2025 🌱
Rep’d by @agentalicewilliams.bsky.social
Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social Former politico, now professor of writing books. Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl, autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons.
https://joannanadin.com/
https://instagram.com/jonadin
Hannah Moffatt @missdeplume.bsky.social Hello, I’m a children’s author from London. SMALL! & SMALL BITES BACK out now.
HELP! ALIENS STOLE MY GRANDAD out 28 May
Publisher: Everything With Words
https://hannahmoffatt.com/
Liz Hyder @londonbessie.bsky.social Writer type. Making it up as I go. 📖. #TheTwelve out now. Other books #TheIllusions #TheGifts & #Bearmouth. Fond of wanders. Lover of books, films, art & wildlife. Nerd.
Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com Artist Author Illustrator
Magical tales in wool and words from the Shed in Wales. Seasonal joyful felted animals and picture books for all ages published by Graffeg.
💛🤍💜🖤🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 https://www.celestineandthehare.com/links
Ann Sei Lin @annseilin1.bsky.social Author of REBEL SKIES & REBEL FIRE Published by Walker Books. Agent: Lina Langlee
William Hussey @whusseyauthor.bsky.social Award-winning author of the SCOTT JERICHO thrillers (KILLING JERICHO; JERICHO’S DEAD; BURYING JERICHO) and YA novels, including THE BOY I LOVE, BROKEN HEARTS AND ZOMBIE PARTS, and THE OUTRAGE among others
https://linktr.ee/williamhusseyauthor
Finbar Hawkins @finbarhawkins.bsky.social Writer, Director, Illustrator
'WITCH', Branford-Boase shortlist, CLIP Carnegie nom'd.
'STONE' pub'd by Zephyr/Bloomsbury https://t.co/uHV6Gtoeni
'GHOST' publishing November 6th!
Lis Jardine @lisjardine.bsky.social Children’s novelist. ‘The Detention Detectives 3: Talent for Trouble’ out Jan 25! MAWYP. Rep @lucyirvine93
Chronic. School librarian. Vegan. Tired.
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social Children's writer and KDrama geekery
Elen Caldecott @elencaldecott.bsky.social I write children's fiction. I puppy-wrangle. Hoffi coffi. If there's dancing, I'm in. Senior Lecture, Creative Writing at Lancaster. Published Bloomsbury, OUP, Andersen Press. All jokes my own. She/her
Penny W @pennywpennyw.bsky.social Primary Teacher/Assistant Head/SLE/SENCO/ELSA. Schools Linking lead for @LutonSchLinking.bsky.social. one of the cohosts of @newtosltchat.bsky.social.
Opinions my own.
Catherine Bruton @catherinebruton.bsky.social Award winning children's author. 'No Ballet Shoes in Syria' 'Bird Boy'. Also writing as Cate Shearwater! Teacher too! Rep'd by Rupert Crew
Sam Creighton @samcreighton.bsky.social Teacher, reader, talker, writer. Literacy lead. Faith, family, fiction, films. Catholic ✝️ Joshua 1:9, Isaiah 43:1. Need me? I’ll be in a book 📚
Emma Carroll @emcarrollauthor.bsky.social Author, dog lover, book lover, tea fiend
Literacy Tree @literacytree.bsky.social We #TeachThroughaText📚
🌐 https://literacytree.com/
Sarah Merchant @smerchant13.bsky.social Teacher in Y6, AHT, Curriculum Lead, NESTT trainer, lover of books and words.
Rebecca Erwin @rebeccae.bsky.social Middle School Media Specialist | Avid Reader
Book Creator by Kami @bookcreator.com Book Creator is now part of the Kami family of digital products that make learning visible, accessible, and meaningful.
Learn more: https://www.kamiapp.com/
Claire Lomas @clairelomas.bsky.social Books (reading and writing) *Winner WriteMentorAwards 25 | Highly Commended Yeovil 24 | SL Wells 24 | SL Guppy 2023 | Honorary Mention UV2024* @TheGEAcademy alumni. Ex-lawyer. Music teacher 🎶
Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social Bird loving nature photographer from Somerset, UK. 🐦
Here are all my links;
https://linktr.ee/carlbovis 😊
LJ @coffeecurls.bsky.social Probably talking to animals. Or reading a book 💙📚 Book blogger - fan of crime thrillers and psychological thrillers, the grittier the better! On 🐦 as @CoffeeCurls and @ReadandRated book reviews at www.readandrated.com
Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com Author/illustrator of humorous stories for kids.
https://briankirbystudio.com
SCBWI Ohio: North | #pbparty Finalist ‘24 & ‘25 | #kidlit booster
Represented by @KaitlynLeann17.bsky.social at
@Bradfordagents.bsky.social
ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social Your partners in professional learning. Bespoke research-informed support that has a lasting impact on learning.
Melissa B @drboyd.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Head of English. Voracious reader. Searching for an inclusive and representative curriculum. Melanoma:3b. Cat Rescue. TeachFirst'15.
Simone Greenwood @simonegreenwood.bsky.social 📚Children’s fiction writer
🎬Award-winning screenwriter
🐧Penguin WriteNow 2026
🏴Literature Wales’s Representing Wales 2022 (she/her)
📍South Wales, via Cumbria
Kate Messner @katemessner.com NYT bestselling author of 80+ books for kids. Educator. Speaker. Adirondack 46er. Passionately curious. Coming soon: KEEP THE GHOST LIGHT ON
www.katemessner.com
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
Anna James @acaseforbooks.bsky.social Author of Pages & Co. Sometimes theatre journalist. Host of Lush Book Club. 
Mat Tobin @mattobin.bsky.social 📚 Lecturer - Primary English & Children's Lit | Co-Author of "Understanding & Teaching Primary English" 📖
Richard Ruddick @richardruddick.bsky.social Convinced your classroom needs more graphic novels. 
Victoria Williamson @strangelymagic.bsky.social Author Victoria Williamson - The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle, The Boy with the Butterfly Mind, Hag Storm, War of the Wind, The Pawnshop of Stolen Dreams, Norah's Ark, The Whistlers in the Dark & Feast of Ashes. Patron of Reading - CharChar Literacy.
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
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