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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘Santa vs The NaughtListers’ out TODAY! 🎉🎁🎉🎄 When three mischievous brothers are put on the Naughty List the decide they need to catch Santa & pinch some pressies! Full of festive giggles & twists from Sam Caldwell and Oxford Children’s! 🎄🎄🎄🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎁🎁🎁🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎄🎄🎄

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Christmas is coming! Delighted that Santa vs The NaughtyListers is on offer with @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social! It’s a hilarious fun-filled Christmas romp that’s certain to create some Christmas giggles! From me, Sam Caldwell and the lovely folks at @oxfordunipress.bsky.social!

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Anyone have experience of Faber Academy writing courses? Specifically the novel writing one? Thank you!

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Thanks so much for including Trick or Treat with these lovely spooky books!

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Ok can someone please just come to my house and tidy it, sort me some lunch, make tea for the electricians and make sure everyone leaves me alone to write please? Is that too much to ask? Really?!

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Kit Butler (Author) @kitbutlermagster.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🚨👇👇👇👇👇🚨 Halloween is upon us. Time to get this BOO!...tiful book. 🧙‍♀️👻

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It’s getting towards that time of year! If you’re after the perfect Halloween picture book with a spectacular spooky twist, then look no further! ‘Trick or Treat’ is out! The perfect TREAT for Halloween! Delightfully spooky illustrations from the wonderful Laura Brenlla

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Virtual Authors UK @virtualauthorsuk.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

And Catherine is available for virtual visits!

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Wooohooo!!!! DELIGHTED to see The Lionesses do it again!!!! If your little ones enjoyed watching the game then they will LOVE Sammy Striker! As endorsed by The Lionesses themselves! #Lionesses #Euros #Euros2025 #Champions 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Kirsten Allen (@kidsstoryworld) @kidsstoryworld.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Let’s have some lovely children’s book suggestions to cheer up a grey day! What’s your feel good read read? What makes you smile? Here are a few to get started…

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Ian Eagleton @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Thank you @catherineemmett.bsky.social for this lovely review of Millie’s Big Decision! wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/mill... #KidLit #BookSky #PrimaryEduSky #LGBTQ

A lovely heartwarming book about how to overcome loss and move forward. It’s full of heart and love - fabulous!

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I think that having a child choose one of your characters for @WorldBookDayUK is a HUGE author goal! And this year I was spoilt rotten! Just LOOK at all these gorgeous Flamingos, Dodos and a Sammy! 🥰🥰🥰 Feeling like a very lucky author!

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

There really is nothing like World Book Day and a school full of lovely kids to get the writing juices flowing! And just look how brilliant the teachers were!

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Delighted to see Jill Scott reading Sammy Striker!! She’s the third Lioness legend to read it now! A hat trick for Sammy! She shoots! She scores! ⚽️⚽️⚽️

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Delighted that The Rainbow Flamingo has been shortlisted for the Calderdale Picture Book of the Year! 🎉 Go Adele! Show those feathers with pride!

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Back to writing picture books for the first time in a while - and it always surprises me how happy it makes me.

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Ooh we love Loki! I wish we were closer. People of Lincoln, check it out!

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Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival @burylitfest.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Thanks to @catherineemmett.bsky.social for this lovely feedback on our 2024 Bury Lit Fest - it's buoying us up on this grey Monday morning! "I really enjoyed being part of Bury St Edmund's Literature Festival! It was very friendly, well organised and also well attended. I had a great day!"

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Playing around with Lino printing. Lots of fun and a great way to pass a rainy ‘no-rugby’ Sunday!

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Nice to be here and see stuff about books again. My eyes need a rest from the bin fire that is Twitter 😬

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David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This is such a horrible message. Do better, Bookbub. Take away coffees are routinely more expensive than ebooks. Setting a culture of $1/£1 books is undervaluing art and telling us it's disposable. Do better.

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

If you listen very carefully… …you can hear the sound of a weekend without a single sports fixture!! 🎉🎉🎉 God bless you everyone! 😂

carefully.you

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My favourite children's book of the year: SAFIYYAH'S WAR by Hiba Noor Khan. Absolutely beautiful & brilliant; every school & library should have a copy. To which end, I am giving away FREE COPIES TO SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES! Repost & follow to enter; closes 25th Jan 2025! #BooksOfTheYear #books #giveaway

Cover of Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan, showing two children running through the Paris night, over the roof of a moque

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Kirsten Allen (@kidsstoryworld) @kidsstoryworld.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Soooooooooooo excited to read this! Absolutely LOVE @catherineemmett.bsky.social Dodo Who Dreamed She Could Fly Makes for a great storytime 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Delighted to hear that ‘The Dodo Who Dreamed She Could Fly’ by me and Claire Powell was featured on CBeebies today as the lunchtime story! I would love to be able to watch it! Anyone know if there is a way to watch? I can’t find it on Iplayer! @simonkids.bsky.social @cbeebies.bsky.social

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I bet that you'd look good in my bookstore, I don't know if you're looking for a romance I don't know what you're looking for. I said, I bet that you look good in my bookstore, looking for a book like I Robot, or 1984. Or 1984.

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I might become an author illustrator… … there’s a market for picture books illustrated with a sharpie right??😂 On a more serious note, I do love creating characters with classrooms full of kids! The best bit is seeing the characters they create afterwards!

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Clare Helen Welsh @clarehelenwelsh.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Wooohoo! I have a new picture book publishing in February with Andersen Press and the INCREDIBLE Fiona Lumbers . It's truly beautiful and it's in the Bookseller 's Children's Preview! #kidlit #picturebooks #thespacebetween

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Last night my eldest had a sleepover for 6 of his mates. Now I feel like the little old lady in 'A Squash and a Squeeze' after she 'took out her hen'. The house feels blissfully large and peaceful 😂😂

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This is a great resource if you’re new here!

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Two stories sent to a publisher which I am VERY excited about! fingers and toes are firmly crossed. Let the inbox refreshing begin!

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Guys you know those two lines? I think I might just have found them. 😘

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Ok so despite starting a new social media platform I still can't write the two lines i need to finish this picture book 🙄

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

ok I have no clue how this place works - how do I find a Starter Pack of nice booky people?

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Catherine Emmett Author @catherineemmett.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Ok I made the change! Hello fellow Blue Sky folk! I’m here for books and writing :-)

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