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Jennifer Claessen @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social · 20h

Netta Becker book 1 & 2 live in the lovely Children in Read auction now! A-MAZE-ING!

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Children in Read @childreninread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Once again the wonderful @janefallon.bsky.social is supporting Children in Read. If you are an author or Illustrator and would like to take part in this year's event simply reply to this post for further details. We go live online 5th Oct. All proceeds are in aid of B.B.C. Children in Need

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We will never know or properly appreciate how many lives have been saved by librarians. The right book in the right hands at the right time. Astounding.

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else.
- George Saunders

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Alexandra Dawe @alexandradawe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Who fancies sitting in a bookshop on a lovely Sunday afternoon, drawing with me? Any reposts would be lovely, thank you! www.waterstones.com/events/child...

A poster for my upcoming event as part of the Waterstones Children's Book Festival.

The text reads;

Magical Creatures Workshop

ALEXANDRA DAWE

THE STITCHWORT CURSE

SUNDAY 17 MAY, 2.30PM

AT WATERSTONES, THE COUNTY HOTEL, EAST STREET, TAUNTON, TA1 3LU

WATERSTONES

CHILDREN'S BOOK FESTIVAL

For tickets and details please visit waterstones.com/events

The poster is white, with the text written in coloured boxes. There's a photo of me, and the cover of my book The Stitchwort Curse.

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I run an occasional blog series where people get the chance to celebrate their favourite children's bookshop. The latest post spotlights The Little Fox Bookshop in Whitby, a place that holds special meaning for author Jennifer Claessen. childrenreadingforpleasure.blogspot.com/2026/04/book...

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Bookshop Blurb by Jennifer Claessen - The Little Fox Bookshop, Whitby

The Little Fox Bookshop of Whitby has a dark blue ceiling swirling with handpainted stars. It has bunting in the windows, framed posters o...

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 17/12/2025

Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.

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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026! 🐒💍🐍✨✨

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Children in Read @childreninread.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

In case you are wondering what Jennifer @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social is trying to promote 👇 jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta... All proceeds are in aid of B.B.C. Children in Need

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gabliotecaria @gabliotecaria.northsky.social · 22/09/2025

My 4 (so far) are: 😈 Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos by @louiestowell.bsky.social (peerless) 🍩 Donut Squad by @neillcameron.bsky.social (perfection) 🌌 Boss of the Underworld by Tor Freeman (sui generis) ⏳ Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime by @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social (superb)

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Libraries 4 Schools @lib4sch.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

As we work our way into autumn, transport yourself to sunnier weather by checking out our book recommendations from over August! We had quite the reading haul last month, so there really is something for everyone 👀 www.libraries4schools.com/2025/09/05/b... #BookSky #ChildrensBooks #BookReview

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Monthly Book Recommendations: August 2025 | Libraries 4 Schools

Book Recommendations: August 2025 | With fiction, non-fiction and picture books galore, check out what we were reading last month!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I am for trans people, unreservedly I am also for Gaza and arts funding and healthcare and solar energy and the post office and unions and abortion and raising the minimum wage and thriving public schools and freedom of speech and abolishing ICE and defunding the police that’s just being a person

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Kate Nicholls @katenicholls1.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This makes me so sad. I read Peepo to Travers, my oldest son, every night for two years. He had other stories, but the last one before a kiss goodnight always had to be Peepo. I loved his books…Each Peach, Pear, Plum…oh don’t get me started I’ll cry. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87

Working first with his wife Jane, and later with illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, he wrote more than 150 books

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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Are you aged 5-10? This free creative writing workshop with children’s author Jennifer Claessen will inspire you to enter the mythical world of words this summer! Places limited: please pre-book. www.mklitfest.org/summerfun #thecentremk @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social

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My Book Corner @mybookcorner.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime by Jennifer Claessen 📚📚📚 Delve into an ancient world in this time travelling mystery! Review by @sareenmclay.bsky.social @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social #mg#childrensbooks#illustration#booksforkids#kidlit#booksforchildren#egypt#myths

Picture shows the front cover of the book Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime by Jennifer Claessen, gold with images of children, a bull, a crown and Daedalus and Icarus.

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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Delighted to share the cover of my new book, Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School! Art by @unawoods.bsky.social, pub Gill Books, Sept 4th. Ellora's just started at a new school, and it's hard to keep her budding banshee powers secret. But what if they're about to save the day? 📚🇮🇪💫

Cover of a children's book, white and green background colours. Foreground shows an illustrated child with long dark braids wearing a grey hoodie, black and white dotted leggings, with wings on her back. In the background is a tall, wobbly, tumbledown building. Title Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School appears above her head. Author's name Sinéad O'Hart appears beneath her feet, and beneath that again is the illustrator's name, Úna Woods.

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Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The very shiny time travel adventures of Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social is definitely one to seek out. #kidlitUK

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gabliotecaria @gabliotecaria.northsky.social · 27/06/2025

I'm looking to KickFlip by @ldlapinski.bsky.social and Nate Yu--my copies are waiting at the library but I'm away this weekend, aghhhh! And am tearing through this perfect summer holiday read by @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social -- it's making me want to board the next flight to Crete! (alt for deets)

The shiny GOLD with black outline of a maze cover to Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime by Jennifer Claessen, which gives all the excitement of time travel in a summer holiday to Crete while not shying away from the crimes and horror that often gets airbrushed out of time travel novels. Cannot recommend enough!

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Jennifer Claessen @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Thank you for having me and Alex of Four Bears Bookshops in today @thamesidesch.bsky.social to talk to your wonderfully engaged Year 5s & 6s about Netta Becker and the Timeline Crime!

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

If you’ve got a young person in your life who might like a beautifully illustrated book about the history and science of time, you can order a signed and dedicated copy of “About Time” here: www.bookabookshop.co.uk/shop/about-t...

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About Time – Signed and Dedicated Copy

Signed hardback copy of About Time by Rebecca Struthers and Alom Shaha, illustrated by Lucy Rose First Edition, First Printing Hand signed by Rebecca Struthers and Alom Shaha to the title page. We ...

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Lucas Maxwell @lucasjmaxwell.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Every week I post a new interview with a great Children’s and YA author, this week it’s @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social! If you’re an author that would like to be on the show, email me at lucasmaxwellwrites at gmail dot com podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social

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Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Ooh! this is my weekend read - just getting started. It has a very shiny gold cover 💛 #kidlitUK @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social

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Lucy Ann Unwin @lucyannunwin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I’m so excited to share the cover of 🧠 #InsideYourBrain 🧠 - a lighthearted gallop through the history of neuroscience co-written with @caswell.bsky.social, stunningly illustrated by María Jesús Contreras and published by @thamesandhudson.bsky.social Pre-order links here >> linktr.ee/lucyannunwin

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Harry Woodgate @harrywoodgate.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Today's the final day to make our voices heard against the government's proposed plans to allow AI developers to steal our work for use in training their AI systems. It's theft, plain and simple, but you can object by filling out the IPO consultation. Guidance here: theaoi.com/news/the-cop...

graphic with a turquoise background with black text reading 'MAKE IT FAIR' - the 'AI' of 'FAIR' is highlighted in white. Subtitle reads 'the government is siding with big tech over British creativity'

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Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Don't be intimidated by the number of questions - you do NOT have to answer them all. You can answer as many or as few as you like, and the ALCS has nice, simple guidance and advice for answering the important ones. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

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Your rights are under threat from AI. It’s time to have your say!

The Government recently launched a consultation on AI and copyright. Now is the time to have your say and make sure that legislators hear the concerns of creators.

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Emily Randall-Jones @erandalljones.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It's here! Thrilled to reveal 'The Scream of the Whistle' cover by the incredible Micaela Alcaino. It's May Eve, and the veil between worlds is thin. Join Ruby Darke on the ghost ride of her life... Out 5th June. Pre-order: shorturl.at/E5aXz shorturl.at/oLTwA

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George @hannahtempler.com · 10/01/2025

you can pry the sparkle emoji from my cold dead hands

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Jennifer Claessen @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My child’s R.E. teacher is called Ms GODdard and her music teacher Ms HelSING - what in the Hogwarts is going on?? Or am I being lowkey trolled by a six year old’s interpretation of their real names?

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Ann Sei Lin @annseilin1.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Giveaway Alert! This is my first time trying to do a giveaway on Bluesky. Not sure how it will go! I'm giving away copies of Rebel Dawn, plus a bookmark for the Rebel Skies trilogy. To enter, please comment on this post. Giveaway open to UK and Europe only. Ends midnight 14 Jan.

Rebel Dawn book cover features a girl riding an origami tiger as the sun rises behind her. The book lies on a red and white flower patterned yukata, next to a blue bookmark

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I asked a child what their fave book from last year was and their answer was a series that was published about a decade ago. A good reminder that a book is always new to a child who hasn't read it. The constant publishing hustle for novelty has nothing to do with what children want. #KidLitUK

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Erin Literary Cool Cat 🐈📚 @erinliterary.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The DECEMBER Witches by @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social claessen_ @uclanpublishing.bsky.social _publishing A hugely satisfying 3rd & final part to a heartfelt, fun, magical fantasy adventure. 💙 ➡️https://erinthecatprincess.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-december-witches.html #ukkidlit #kidlituk

A Christmassy cover of matt red with the three main Merlyn witches standing with backs to us. Centrally on the cover, in white text, is the title and author name. The girls are dressed in long scarves and bobble hats that match their hooded coats. From left to right, the colours are mauve, red & yellow. The decorations on the cover include a Christmas tree, an owl, a robin, leaves, snow, a wooden spoon and a recipe book. There are loads of stars that feature prominently in the story.

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Jennifer Claessen @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thank you @meltaylorbessent.bsky.social for an always wonderful start to the season at the Kidlit Christmas Party! You’re the festive dream queen 🧑🏻‍🎄❤️📚

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Melissa Welliver - TO THE DEATH available to pre-order NOW! @melliver.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Made a start pack for UCLan authors if people would like to follow us! go.bsky.app/7ZmvUHn

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Jennifer Claessen @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

HELLO BLUESKY! Coming in way too strong for a first post to say that I’m ridiculously absurdly honoured to have my first play shortlisted for the Polka Playwriting Award with the snappily titled ‘Adventures in A Time Travelling Caravan with my Nan’ 🎉🤩

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