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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I've just updated my Etsy shop with cards for the festive season! ➡️ www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4... NEW! A Dorset trio featuring views of Colmer's Hill, a Frost Fair scene & a set of 10 semi-abstract Cotswold landscapes featuring places I love. Do have a browse & share if you have a moment. Thank you!

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

COMPETITION TIME for anyone who's purchased or pre-ordered a copy of The Hug Button! 🎉 @naomijones1.bsky.social To enter: Email proof of purchase/pre-order of The Hug Button to tradepublicity.uk@oup.com Use subject line 'The Hug Button Competition' in your email T&Cs www.instagram.com/p/DLWtdxpuyPh

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

✨🐦 KERFUFFLE BIRD is out this week!!! 🐦✨ Illustrated by Gwen Millward @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social Huge thanks to Gerry Smith for the FAB Kerfuffle Bird song 🎵 & to @imogencarter.bsky.social @familyofbeasts.bsky.social @marcelafwrites.bsky.social for the reviews 💗💛💚 Available to pre-order now! 😍

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Kate Gettings @kategettings.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

We have some at Oxford Children’s including Thunderboots by @naomijones1.bsky.social and @familyofbeasts.bsky.social (Dyslexia), Cloud Boy by Greg Stobbs (ADHD), Bear-Shaped by Dawn Coulter-Cruttenden (Autism), & How to Bath a Giraffe by Sarah Horne (boy with cochlear implant, incidental to story)

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I've got my box of tricks ready for #WorldBookDay to celebrate the WONDER OF BOOKS! Have a great World Book Day everyone @naomijones1.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

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Sarah McIntyre @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A handwritten letter on my illustration work desk to my local MP, Mel Stride, asking him to help UK children's book illustrators keep our copyright during the current AI policy consultation ✍️ @mrsteveantony.bsky.social @alcs-uk.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social (Typed out in the alt text)

Dear Mr Stride, can you please help me and other UK children’s book illustrators?

The governing is considering AI policy measures that would make us, as copyright holders, ‘opt out’ if we don’t want tech companies breaching our copyright to train their systems. The big companies then use our own art in competition against us.

The UK ought to be proud of its children’s book tradition. Our artwork is exported all over the world, and by giving it away free, we’re ruining the industry. Children will be poorer: there’ll get dumbed-down, mechanical books that have no real person thinking hard about each aspect of them.

My colleague Steve Antony described it:
“It’s like allowing someone to break into my house and steal my belongings so that they can research, recycle and resell them, unless I stick a label on each and every one of my belongings that says ‘DO NOT STEAL’, even though the objects are clearly not theirs and clearly within someone else’s house. That house bring my copyright. It’s absolutely ridiculous, makes no sense, completely destroys existing copyright laws and insults every single one of us.”

Please, could you stand up for us and out copyright? If you could mention our concerns to Feryal Clark, Minister for AI & Digital Governent, and to Chris Bryant, Minister for Creative Industry, Arts & Tourism, I’d greatly appreciate it.

Warmest wishes, Sarah McIntyre,
Illustrator & Author, Bovey Tracey

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Book Clubs in Schools @bookclubsinschools.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Our new blog: buff.ly/4hkoCPx 📗 Thunderboots @naomijones1.bsky.social & @familyofbeasts.bsky.social 📘 The Last Boy @evemcdonnell.bsky.social @everywithwords.bsky.social 📙 Feather by Manon Steffan Ros, @fireflypress.bsky.social 📕 Darkly by Marisha Pessl, Walker Books #ReadingForPleasure

Covers of Thunderboots, The Last Boy, Feather, and Darkly

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Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It was so exciting to spot my new book illustrated by @familyofbeasts.bsky.social in the @the-bookseller.bsky.social Children’s guide. The Hug Button publishes in July - not long to wait now! @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

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Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It was such a joy talking to my picture book making partner @familyofbeasts.bsky.social about creativity, her inspiration and the teaching work she does. You can watch the whole chat over at Words and Pictures: open.substack.com/pub/naomiand... @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

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Words and Pictures with Rebecca Ashdown

Award winning artist, author, tutor and creative soul

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Join me and Daniela Sosa on 29th Jan at the wonderful @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social for a celebration of our new book 💗All The Ways I Love You💗 and the chance to buy a signed & dedicated copy for the little ones in your life! 💗 @scholastic.bsky.social #booklaunch #picturebook #love

Book launch invitation for All The Ways I Love You by Helen Docherty and Daniela Sosa - 29th Jan, 6 - 8 pm, The Alligator's Mouth, Richmond

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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I'm a little bit obsessed with these trees and the way they grow in the winter months. They possess character and life. Potential of what's to come, despite the harsh chop. #trees #canal #pollard #stroudcanal #stroud #a3 #sketch

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Jo Clarke @jo-clarke.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

It's 3 weeks until ##LibbyandtheEgyptianEscapade illustrated by @beckamoor.bsky.social publishes. Thanks to Helen Peters for this fabulous endorsement Signed & dedicated copies available exclusively via @rshipbshop.bsky.social #TheTravellingSchoolMysteries rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/product/libb...

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Festive greetings fellow travellers 🌲 #merrychristmas #happyholidays #blueskychristmas

A Christmas tree model made out of a variety of green resin shapes and copper wire

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Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The schools events I did with @familyofbeasts.bsky.social at Derby Book Festival really made an impact on me. This is why... naomijones.substack.com/p/all-storie...

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All stories matter

Why we need diverse voices

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I will never, ever get over this.

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Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I'm offering 3 hours of free picture book mentoring for a UK based writer whose voice is underrepresented in children's publishing. Please help me spread the word by sharing this post. Full details of how to apply are here: naomiandjamesjones.substack.com/p/free-pictu...

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Free picture book mentoring

For an underrepresented writer

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Being kept waiting - often for months - for contracts and payments to come through is incredibly stressful, especially when you're supporting a family 😟 I'm sure many other #writers, #illustrators, #artists and #creatives feel the same way. But what can we do about it? #selfemployed #stress

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My next #picturebook, All the Ways I Love You ❤️ (beautifully illustrated by Daniela Sosa) is coming out Jan 2025 🎉 We're hoping to hold an evening book launch 📚 🍷 #London people, who'd like to join us? Any #teachers or #librarians? All welcome! 🥰 Thanks for your support & for spreading the word! ❤️

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Brizida Magro @brizidamagro.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Hello there #kidlitartpostcard day! I am Children’s Book Illustrator. This illustration from Let Me Call You Sweetheart written by Mary Lee Donovan and published by @greenwillowbooks . . . #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #writershouse #childrenillustration #childrensbookillustration

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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

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Mini Grey @mini3grey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Looking for bargain stocking fillers or small odd things or original art or prints? I have a shop on Etsy. Have a look here: etsy.com/uk/shop/Mini...

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Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I had so much fun at the Derby Book Festival last weekend with @familyofbeasts.bsky.social We did a family event on Sunday followed by a day of school events on Monday where we met 300 kids!

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Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Episode 15 is now available - interviews with @naomijones1.bsky.social and @familyofbeasts.bsky.social who won the Diverse Book Award Readers' Choice Picture Book Award for Thunder Boots and with @erikadraws.bsky.social who won the overall Picture Book Category with To the Other Side #kidlitUK

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Scott Evans, The Reader Teacher @thereaderteacher.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hello Bluesky 👋 📒 My debut children’s book, ALL BRAINS ARE WONDERFUL, is publishing in February 2025! 🧠 🌟Huge thanks to Dr Rachel Williams, The Boy Fitz Hammond and b small publishing for bringing it to life so beautifully! 🔗 Pre-order it here: bsmall.co.uk/product/all-... #AllBrainsAreWonderful

Cover image of All Brains Are Wonderful by Scott Evans, illustrated by The Boy Fitz Hammond. The cover features a bright yellow background with a silhouette of a head and brain, filled with inclusive illustrations that symbolise the unique power and diversity of every brain. Text below the image reads ‘Out in February 2025’.

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Rob Biddulph @robbiddulph.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello. I'm Rob. Nice to meet you.

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Tim Budgen @mrtimdraws.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here’s a starter pack for picture book and young fiction book creators in the UK - please ask to be added 😄 go.bsky.app/Eopnbgm

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Isabel Ashdown @isabelashdown.com · 19/11/2024

I'm compiling a ‘Books and Dogs’ Starter Pack of writers and readers who also love dogs. Pls nominate good bods or add your dog’s pic to this thread to be added 🐾 go.bsky.app/Tpw1Zej

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Tim Budgen @mrtimdraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thanks again for the lovely messages of support for the Bedtime Story on Children in Need - it was a privilege to supply the illustrations for such a special story ❤️ #childreninneed full story in the link youtu.be/rsdHefxXDaQ?...

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Nicola Kent @nicolakent.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

👋I am busy meeting a deadline (a day late) but wanted to pop up to say thanks so much for all the new follows on here. Here are my five latest books plus the next one - Croc's Cooking Day - out in January. More book and other news when I'm less buried in work!

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