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Past Carnegie Medals Judge for NI (2016,2017,2022,2023)& Kids’ Lit Quiz NI heat Co-ord (2006-2019) & Creative Book Blogger at goodnighttoread.wordpress.com Book Reviewer,Interviewer & Sch Librarian.YLG Nat Comm.Love writing book & nature haikus.

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Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social · 9h
I thoroughly enjoyed it. I loved the family dynamics, the take on time travel, the rich historical & cultural context & its emotional impact on me as a reader. I was reading it in the laundarette & I spoke about it to another customer who immediately took a photograph of the front cover.❤️📚⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️read
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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · 18h
schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/pod... It's #InternationalPodcastDay ! Listen to our children's literature podcast featuring new children's and YA book reviews and previews, occasional interviews, discussions on current themes in literacy and English teaching & much more. #teachertwitter
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School Reading List Children's Literature Podcast
School Reading List Podcast - listen to our monthly children's literature podcast. Each episode includes resources, links and a transcript.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lisa Benson (British Artist, born 1958) "Lunar Light", 2019. Linocut Print, 37.5 × 48.5 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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worldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just a few days left of #WorldKidLitMonth 2026 but it's never too late to set yourself a #readtheworld reading challenge! Use these bingo charts for inspiration or make your own! Link here to the canva template to make your own: worldkidlit.org/what-is-worl... #kidlitUK #booksky #kidlit #GoAllIn
Bingo chart for the World Kid Lit Explorer Challenge: reading prompts for reading children's and YA books in translation and books from every continentBingo chart for the World Kid Lit Explorer Challenge: middle grade reading prompts for reading children's books in translation and books from every continentBingo chart for the World Kid Lit Explorer Challenge: reading prompts for discovering picture books from other countries and in translation from other languagesBingo chart for the World Kid Lit Explorer Challenge: teen/YA reading prompts for discovering books from other countries and in translation from other languages
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Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More choices- Interactive Books for young children #KidsBooksFriday #Popupchildrensbooks
Yellow background with three cats looking over the top of a book at a dog.Grey grass and house with yellow writing.Green door. Scaly tail of creature coming out of letter box. Pink bubble writing.Three children with father on a country walk (including baby on his shoulders)
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Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The one where they came out of a revolving lemon 🍋 in Botanic Park.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For the day that's in it, what's the first U2 concert you ever saw? #u2
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A family friend has just had a new wee baby which has sent me down a rabbit hole of the best books for babies. So for this week’s #KidsBooksFriday what books would you particularly recommend for reading with babies? #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
Book cover for Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg Book cover for Little Miss Austen: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Alison Oliver. Book cover for You… by Emma DoddBook cover for A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young by Michael Rosen and Chris Riddell
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Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The expression, the colours, the language of movement. Just beautiful.
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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Bulgarian illustrator Kalina Muhova, based in Rome, & working in pastel & pencil crayon. From Footprints, with text by Stephen Davies telling the story of Mary Leakey’s discovery of Lucy, from a species between ape and human. Post Wave 17 Sept. @postwavebooks.bsky.social
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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Half a spread by Rob Biddulph from his picturebook South, about a young goose who’s left behind when the rest of his family migrates. Snowy landscape with sunrise in candy colours. HarperCollins Children’s Books 10 Sept. @robbiddulph.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Liam Neeson on The Lost Children of Tuam, his film about Catherine Corless’s uncovering of hundreds of deaths at the town’s Bon Secours mother and baby home www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
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Liam Neeson: ‘I got angrier and angrier. I’m an Irishman. I was an altar boy. But I was horrified’
The actor on The Lost Children of Tuam, his film about Catherine Corless’s uncovering of hundreds of deaths at the town’s Bon Secours mother and baby home
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A few weeks ago we did cats as our prompt so this week it’s time for the doggies to get their chance to shine. What great children’s books can you recommend that feature or celebrate dogs? #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
Book cover for Bear by Ben Queen and Joe Todd StantonBook cover for What’s That in Dog Years? by Ben Davis and Julia ChristiansBook cover for Paws by Kate FosterBook cover for Claude in the Country by Alex T. Smith
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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Polly Dunbar adds impact to the last section of Michael Rosen‘s poem London Airport with this touching image. From Peas On Your Knees: a life in the poems of Michael Rosen, an anthology of favourites with five illustrators. Walker Books 10 Sept. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
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Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bookish goodness from #ylgconference at Oxford @youthlibrarygroup.bsky.social @sallynicholls.bsky.social @ihussainwriter.bsky.social #librarians #bookbloggers #bookadventures #Historicalfiction #LiterarySocialRealism #Fantasy #Timetravel #reimaginings
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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jane Ray. From The Tale That Time Sews and the Threads That Bind, with text by Sita Brahmachari. A story of lifetimes, and the love that links generations. Illustrated with such tenderness and decorative loveliness. Templar Books 10 Sept. @templarbooks.bsky.social
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"The Los Cedros Cloud Forest is evoked as a 'miraculous realm' ” in Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Paula Terán Ospina’s “immersive accordion-style” picture book SONGS OF THE CEDARS buff.ly/iHMk3rb
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
★ “Horror morphs into magic as silhouettes and shadows embody night’s quixotic wonders” in Mariachiara Di Giorgio’s “tantalizing wordless fantasy” picture book THE NIGHT buff.ly/zS8GdZ1
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Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Daily poetry prompt: Playing with collective nouns... I might feel uncomfortable spending time with a prickle of porcupines, or finding myself far too close to a stench of skunks. More here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2024/09/coll...
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Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel
Collective Nouns I might feel uncomfortable spending time with a prickle of porcupines, or finding myself far too close to a stench ...
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Jacqui Sydney 📚 @jacquisydney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Top tier book post this afternoon from @hachettechildrens.bsky.social I’m beyond excited to read this stunning proof of The Raven’s Gift by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, illustrated by Tom de Freston. Out 08/10 for 10+ readers, enormous thanks go to Emily. #KidlitUK #UKKidlit
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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Out now! Our September issue #BfK280. Authorgraph interview David Solomons, Windows into Illustration Carly Gledhill, 20 years of Lulu, Guy Bass & David Roberts interview, NEW Beyond the Secret Garden, NEW insights into reading for pleasure & much more, inc new book reviews #KidLitUK bit.ly/4rfrQtp
The cover of the UK's children's book review journal, Books for Keeps September 2026 issue, no. 280. Cover features illustration from Guy Bass and David Roberts' new book THE WORST THING THAT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN.
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Attie Lime @attielime.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What my 9yo and I are reading this week. Plus everything he's reading at school 📚 Reading to him is already dropping off a little in Year 5 because he's so keen to read his own book independently; I hope we can keep it up as long as possible. #KidLitUk #UKKidLit
The Day Our Lives Collided by Laura Pearson 
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford
If I Met a Tiger (I'd let it eat me) by AF Harrold
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Don’t miss Neill this Wednesday on Authors Live! Free and open to schools across the UK. Can’t wait!
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Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
During the #YouthLibrariesGroup Conference in Oxford one of the highlights was meeting Chris Baker at #BroadeningtheBookshelf who champions translated books & whose Instagram feed is full of wonderful reading recs #bookbloggers #librarians #Translatedbooks #NationalYearofReading #WorldKidLit
Map of the world with book mark promoting #WorldKidLit month. Blues and greens.Tirquoise background. Ape in turban. Steamship. Elephant. Typewriter.Monochrome effect of sky studded with stars & sea reflecting back. Tiny white boat on waves.Small person sitting on red book. Green background. Blue glass on cover.
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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’ll be celebrating his epic series Mortal Engines with Philip Reeve at Bath Festival on Saturday 26th September at the Guildhall 6-6.45pm. Join us to hear about cities that eat each other, names inspired by biscuit tins, and the new prequel Bridge of Storms. www.bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/cel...
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Celebrating Mortal Engines with Philip Reeve
Bath Children’s Literature Festival in association with Longleat presents
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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Britta Teckentrup from her book The Chairs, about community, and hostility to, or acceptance of, outsiders. An important and beautiful story notable for its astonishing use of texture and of sunlight, moonlight and firelight. Prestel 8 Sept. @brittateckentrup.bsky.social
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.
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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We've got a new a Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland, YA author Stephen Daly. Welcome! Stephen will be based with us at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's for two years, working with students and the public.
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Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Camilla Reid, co-founder of #NosyCrow on the fun, playfulness, energy & the importance of reading for pleasure during shared reading of parent & child. #YLGConference #NationalYearofReading
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Kids books are riddled with terrible parenting and untrustworthy grown-ups. But sometimes an adult character will get to shine through as a source of kindness, refuge, wisdom or fun. For this week’s #KidsBooksFriday which books feature the lesser-spotted decent adult? #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
Book cover for Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen.Book cover for Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega and Rose BousamraBook cover for Popcorn by Rob HarrellBook cover for Wee Granny’s Magic Bag by Elizabeth McKay and Maria Bogade
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#KidsBooksFriday
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
These are the only types of Irish data centres we care about in this neck of the woods:
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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Cathy Fisher from A Wild Lullaby, with lyrical text by Jackie Morris about animals and the approach of night. Templar Books 3 Sept. Precisely observed drawing, with the highlight of a white bird, and sunset colours. @templarbooks.bsky.social @cathyfisherartist.bsky.social
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Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Great novel about second chances, baking, playing to your strengths, empathy, mental health, foster care & not giving in to peer pressure #NationalYearofReading2026 #BookBloggers #Librarians #ReadingRecommendations
Pale Green background. Girl of Caribbean heritage with braided hairstyle on front wearing large head phones 🎭🎶
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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
On the Wilomina book tour! It’s such a buzz sharing our graphic novel with kids! We visited 4 more primary schools around Glasgow with Daydreams bookshop, talked to hundreds of kids about Wilomina & making comics, signed tones of books! Looking forward to more next week! @scholasticuk.bsky.social
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#KidsBooksFriday #WorldKidLitMonth
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This September we celebrate 10 years of #WorldKidLit month - when @worldkidlit.bsky.social encourage us to discover global children’s literature. So let’s use this week’s #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate children’s books from the world. 🌍 worldkidlit.org/what-is-worl... #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit
Book cover for The Runaway Princess by Johan Troïanowski.Book cover for Jefferson by Jean-Claude Mourlevat, translated by Ros Schwartz.Book cover for Earthlings: Alien Insights into Earth’s Secrets by Ewa Solarz, illustrated by Robert Czajka and translated by Agnes Monod-Gayraud.Book cover for The Adventures of Odysseus by Nicholàs Schuff and Mariana Ruiz Johnson, translated by Lawrence Schimet
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just a little Water Vole, doing Water Vole things. What have you spotted in nature this weekend? 👀
A Water Vole sits partly hidden among dense green plants at the edge of still water. Its small brown face and rounded body peek out from the vegetation, with the surrounding greenery reflected softly across the water’s surface.
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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Taryn Knight from Cackle Cackle: Letters from a Witch, with removable spells. Text by Annie Atkins. Magic Cat 27 Aug. Traditional, atmospheric fairytale illustrations using silhouettes. Storytelling with character. @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social @tarynknight.bsky.social
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#KidsBooksFriday #BeMoreDolly
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Erin A. Craig Found Writing ‘Phantom of the Opera’ from Christine’s Side an ‘Honor and Responsibility’ | Parade buff.ly/nTwrDc4
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Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#KidsBooksFriday #BeMoreDolly #BeKind #PictureBooks #Empathy #Individuality
Blue and red. Boy wearing red super hero cloak over with purple jumper and glowing white heart. Purple background. Girl in red cloak at left. Birds circling in orange and purple silhouettes. White with pink polka dots as background. Pink elephant in pink pram with green wheels with ruffles and flowers. White background. Figures on front. Black shadows. Foliage. Blue spine.
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#KidsBooksFriday
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This week’s #KidsBooksFriday is inspired by the great Dolly Parton. So whether it’s books about kindness, generosity, gratitude, inclusivity, positivity, hope, self-belief, or something else, let’s share books that embody Dolly’s spirit and legacy. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit #BeMoreDolly
Image of Dolly Parton holding children’s books with her quote “You can never get enough books into the hands of enough children”. Featuring the logo of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a charity that gives out millions of books to kids who need them across the world. Book cover for You Choose by Nick Sherratt and Pippa GoodhartBook cover for Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriella EpsteinBook cover for Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan.
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
★ Nicola Davies and illustrator Britta Teckentrup “offer a stirring spotlight on all that remains unknown about the purpose and meaning of whale song” in their “elegant” picture book WHALE SONG buff.ly/t9FFDnx
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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In The Sunday Times this week ICYMI. My piece about The Story Museum in Oxford’s new interactive Mystery Academy exhibition which celebrates classic & new detectives, and eight detective stories to read alongside a visit. @thetimes.com @thestorymuseum.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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The eight best detective stories for children
Nicolette Jones recommends the best fictional detectives for kids, from Monsieur Mustard (a mouse) to Bearlock Holmes (well, you can guess)
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This Is the Solution to America’s Literacy Crisis, and It’s a Lot of Fun | The New York Times buff.ly/Vsu753z
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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“Bookshops are having a renaissance here in the north of Ireland and it’s exciting!” 📗Elk Books is a dream realised for owner Helene Heaney📗 Read all about this beautiful bookshop in Warrenpoint ⬇️ @bookshop.org booksirelandmagazine.com/bookshops-ar...
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'Bookshops are having a renaissance here in the north of Ireland'—Elk Books - Books Ireland
Elk Books in Warrenpoint is a dream realised for owner Helene Heaney.
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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My 15th stop on the indie bookstore tour is Elk Books, Warrenpoint where bookseller, Helene chose Liam Higginson’s The Hill in the Dark Grove as a favourite recommended read #indiebooksellers #SaintsAndWarriors
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Cathy Cole (Dumigan) @cathycole.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Popped into Elk Books Warrenpoint to meet the fabulous @suedivinwriter.bsky.social (and Sue’s mum. 😊) AND got her to sign my book THE RUNAWAY ROAD for my granddaughter. Thanks so much, Sue. #amreading #booksky
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