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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 12/11/2025

Today's #BookTrustStorytime spotlight is on the wonderful #Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social! Head to our website to find Helen reading the story plus additional activities and resources to use in your library: bit.ly/4nY61vi

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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Gwen Millward from Kerfuffle Bird by Helen Docherty, a picturebook about expressing bottled-up feelings. Neon tones, a scribbly line and an exuberant sense of fun. Paperback from Oxford Children’s Books 5 June. @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social @helendocherty.bsky.social

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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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Scholastic UK @scholasticuk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Thrilled to have two fabulous books on the #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 longlist! ✨One Goose, Two Moose by @kaeltudor.bsky.social & Nicola Slater ✨Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social Huge congrats!

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Anna Shannon @annashannon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"Millward’s scratchy, wild drawings [are the] perfect accompaniment to this fabulous exploration of feelings and freedom" 🐣💛 Kerfuffle Bird featured in The Observer, ahead of pub day next week! 🎉 observer.co.uk/culture/book... @helendocherty.bsky.social @imogencarter.bsky.social

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

✨ Delighted to share that I'll be opening the @canterburykidslit.bsky.social on Fri 11 July, with 2 public events at 10 am & 4 pm 📚😍 Join me for a fun and interactive storytelling session! ✨ Learn to sing the Kerfuffle Bird Song 🐦🎵🎵 & draw Superwolf! 🐺🎨🖌 www.canterburykidslitfest.co.uk/programme

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Cover reveal! ✨📗🌈💖 I'm so excited to share the cover of Make It All Go Away, my upcoming book about sensory overload. It's beautifully illustrated by @taylorbarron.bsky.social and published by Moon + Bird in the UK and the US. Available to pre-order now!

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Exciting news in @the-bookseller.bsky.social today about my forthcoming book with Moon+Bird, with stunning illustrations by @taylorbarron.bsky.social 📗🌈💛 Make It All Go Away is a story about sensory overload, drawing on personal experience. It's the book I wish we'd had on our shelves years ago 💛

Article from the Bookseller about my new book, Make It All Go Away, illustrated by Taylor Barron and published by Moon+Bird

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Thank you to the lovely people at @rshipbshop.bsky.social in #Salisbury for getting lots of copies of our books in for us to sign! 📚 😍 @thomasdocherty.bsky.social grew up in Salisbury, so this is a special bookshop for us ❤️ and it has such a brilliantly curated selection of children's books! 📚

Helen and Thomas Docherty in the Rocketship Bookshop in Salisbury, with signed copies of their books: Someone Just like You, All The Ways I Love You, All The Things We Carry, Superwolf, Into The Wild and The Hare-Shaped Hole

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

✨ Indie bookshops, who would like some signed bookplates for my latest books published by Alison Green Books @scholastic.bsky.social ? DM me if you'd like some! 📚✨ @booknookhove.bsky.social @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social @telltales.bsky.social @maxminervas.bsky.social @portybooks.bsky.social

Books by Helen Docherty: All The Ways I Love You, Superwolf and All The Things With Carry, with signed bookplates

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Parenting Expert UK are giving away a copy of 💗ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU 💗 by me and Daniela Sosa 💗 "The best bedtime story EVER! We gave this toddler book a well deserved 10 out of 10 stars. All the adults and children we shared it with loved it!" 💗 parentingexpert.co.uk/book-review-...

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Book Review : "All the Ways I Love You" by Helen Docherty

Discover the heartwarming picture book 'All the Ways I Love You' that celebrates the unique bond between parent and child.

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Huge thanks to @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social for hosting the book launch for 💗ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU💗 by me and Daniela Sosa! We had a brilliant evening - thanks so much to everyone who joined us, and to everyone who's bought a copy of our book! 🙏🏼💗 @scholastic.bsky.social #picturebook #love 💗

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Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Lovely @helendocherty.bsky.social has sent us some bookplates! Order a copy and you'll receive one fitted with a signed bookplate 💕

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Look what arrived in the post today! These beautiful Italian and German co-editions of All The Things We Carry by me and @brizidamagro.bsky.social 🌻🧡💛 #lecosecheportonelcuore #alleswaswirtragenkonnen #allthethingswecarry @scholastic.bsky.social

Italian and German co-editions of All the Things We Carry by Helen Docherty and Brizida magro: Le cose che porto nel cuore and Alles Was Wir Tragen Konnen

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

✨ You can help raise money for the Jo Cox Foundation by buying a (signed) copy of SOMEONE JUST LIKE YOU by me and David Roberts from @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social ✨ Our book was inspired by the words of Jo Cox: "We have far more in common with each other than things that divide us" 💗🧡

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Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Our friend is running The Leeds Marathon raising money for the Jo Cox Foundation (which he leads). To support him, we're going to donate £1.50 from every sale of Someone Just Like You by @helendocherty.bsky.social to his fundraiser 💕 wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/some...

Cover image of Someone Just Like You by Helen Docherty and David Roberts.

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Sabrina Shah #kidlit author @sabrinashahauthor.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Hello #writingcommunity. My reach here is so very low. If anyone sees this, would love a little support. I want to reach out to the amazing #librarians and #teachers out there fighting for diversity in publishing. Pre-orders and ARC requests now available. #Weneeddiversebooks #debut #barefootbooks

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

These two brothers are SUPER fans of all my books with @thomasdocherty.bsky.social 📚 Here they are enjoying our latest book together, SUPERWOLF! 🐺❤️ With thanks to their lovely mum for allowing me to share this photo 🥰 @scholastic.bsky.social #alisongreenbooks #superwolf #picturebooks #boysreading

Two brothers reading Superwolf by Helen and Thomas Docherty

Cover of Superwolf (picture book by Helen and Thomas Docherty)

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Came across these three in Swansea Museum today. #TheTraitors mission eat your heart out. @thetraitors.bsky.social

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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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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Signed copies of my new book with Daniela Sosa 💗 ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU 💗 at our local indie bookshop in #Mumbles #Swansea, Cover to Cover 💗 #allthewaysiloveyou #picturebook #love

Me with a copy of my new book, All The Ways I Love You (illustrated by Daniela Sosa) in Cover to Cover bookshop

My new book, All The Ways I Love You (illustrated by Daniela Sosa)

My new book, All The Ways I Love You (illustrated by Daniela Sosa) in Cover to Cover bookshop, Mumbles, Swansea

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy New Year to you all 🎉 and Happy Book Birthday to All the Ways I Love You! 🥳 My new picture book, beautifully illustrated by Daniela Sosa and published by Alison Green Books for Scholastic UK, is out today! ❤️ We hope you will love it 🤗 💕 #AllTheWaysILoveYou

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This beautiful, heartfelt book by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social will be coming out in 2025 💗✨ Another deeply emotional and important book (following on from The Hare-Shaped Hole) which will help to comfort anyone facing the death of a loved one 💜 #thebearshapedhole

The Bear-Shaped hole, a new picture book by John Dougherty and Thomas Docherty

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Great to see my book with David Roberts 🧡Someone Just Like You💗 on the shortlist for the @booksfortopics.bsky.social Books of the Year 2024 ✨ in fantastic company! ✨ You can vote for 🧡Someone Just Like You💗 by following this link. Thanks for your support! 🥰 www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/be...

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Over the years, I've visited so many primary schools as an author - one of the best bits of my job! 🥰 I'm looking for more school work in 2025, so please recommend me! 🙏🏼 Schools in #Wales can apply for funding from Literature Wales ✨ Diolch! ❤️ Thank you! #authorvisit #primaryschool #worldbookday

Helen Docherty doing author visits to different primary schools - nine images

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My mum gave a copy of The Green-Fingered Witch to a friend's granddaughter, and this was the wonderful thank you card she received 💚💜🎃 Somebody REALLY loves our book @stevenlenton.bsky.social, and look at Mia's amazing illustration! 💚💜✨ #thegreenfingeredwitch #picturebook #gift #thankyou

Thank you card for The Green-Fingered Witch (picture book by Helen Docherty and Steven Lenton): "My favourite bit was wen Cress saved the day!!!!"

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A poem came to me this morning. Not in rhyme, and not for children, so a bit of a departure for me. Here it is anyway. #stormwarning

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Watched a phenomenal one man performance of A Christmas Carol by Andrew Margerison / Dyad Productions at the #Taliesin Theatre in #Swansea tonight. So worth going to see if you can catch this on tour before #Christmas 🕯 www.dyadproductions.com/theatre-prod...

Andrew Margerison in Dyad Productions' A Christmas Carol

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Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org · 04/12/2024

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com JOIN US - there's cake!

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Another beautiful image from @hobslantern.bsky.social from her work with @eloisewilliams.bsky.social, using natural botanical indigo ink 💙

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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

The first time I've seen an illustration done using woad ink! So beautiful - I love the different tones

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

@simonjamesgreen.bsky.social writes brilliant books for teenagers and I'm sure this one will be a fantastic read too! 🌈

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

Fantastic advice to all #teachers and #librarians on how to host a really successful author visit, with long lasting benefits to the children ⭐ I love visiting primary schools; the best visits are always the ones where the school has prepared well in advance. Book me for an author visit in 2025! 😊📚

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

So true! I think the reason may be that we don't take children that seriously (as a society), so why should we take children's books seriously? Or maybe it's because too many adults have lost touch with their inner child... Children's books help grow the next generation of readers! 📚

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

Sunrise over Mumbles Pier, from our house this morning. Such a beautiful start to the day 💗🧡💛 #sunrise #Mumbles #SwanseaBay #Gower

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Here is the beautiful Taiwanese edition of 💗Someone Just Like You🧡 - words by me and illustrations by David Roberts, published in Taiwan by the Eastern Publishing Company and featured on their website! 💗🧡 #someonejustlikeyou #picturebook #taiwan #davidroberts

Taiwanese edition of Someone Just Like You by me and David Roberts

Taiwanese edition of Someone Just Like You by me and David Roberts (back cover)

Taiwanese edition of Someone Just Like You by me and David Roberts (interior)

Taiwanese edition of Someone Just Like You by me and David Roberts, featured on the Eastern Publishing Company website

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 24/11/2024

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

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Storyville Books Bookshop UK

Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Tesni (Tess-knee) is 4 today! 🥳 She enjoyed her birthday walk in #ClyneGardens this morning. Nothing like a good pile of leaves to celebrate with 🍂🍁🐶 #birthday #dogwalk

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

#Mexican #veggie lunch with Nopales #tortillas from #Otomi in #Bristol and veg from #Swansea market (The Choice is Yours). Candles lit 💛 Perfect antidote to the storm outside 💚

Nopales tortilla with guacamole, Mexican beans and greens

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My wise 14 year old just now: "Imagine how different our perspective on history would be if it was herstory" #history #herstory

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Nicola Kent @nicolakent.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

🎉I've just received advance copies of Croc's Cooking Day, out with @littletigeruk.bsky.social in January, and it's so lovely to hold and play with the finished novelties! Second in a series of novelty board books about Busy Chores for Little Paws, with two more still to come! 🐊🥞

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John Dougherty @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Book news!!!

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Bristol / Cornwall wall art 💙 My friend John and his dad painted this Cornish scene together

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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Last week @marcelafwrites.bsky.social and I presented our new picture books (out next year!) at the OUP Sales conference in #Oxford. It was a real joy to share the stage with Marcela & to talk about the inspiration behind our stories. My Kerfuffle Bird is beautifully illustrated by #GwenMillward ✨

Me and Marcela Ferreira with our new picture books with OUP: Kerfuffle Bird and I Could Be Eaten By A Shark

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