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National Literacy Trust @literacytrust.org.uk · 20/03/2026

Choice is radical 📢 @sharnajackson.com is closing #PrimCon2026 with a powerful address on the future of reading and literacy #NationalYearOfReading2026

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lauriestonp6.bsky.social @lauriestonp6.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This morning we engaged in a live lesson with author @sharnajackson.com 📚. We loved her interest in gaming, street art and murder mystery stories. We couldn’t believe she liked the game Among Us! It was fascinating to hear the different ways to plan a piece of writing ✍️

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Mr Tom Slattery @slatterymr.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Another triumph by @sharnajackson.com at @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social The street Art Mystery is entertaining, raw and brimming with authenticity. Set around the Notting Hill Carnival this is vibrant and real and leaves you with a great murder to solve! tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/t...

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The Street Art Mystery by Sharna Jackson

The Book in Rhyme… “School is starting soon, only a few days left of Summer, And Margot is moving to London if that wasn’t such a bummer. Josie, Wes and Margot with one last Hurra…

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 16/02/2026

Hi teachers – join my live (and importantly free) @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social Virtual Visit on March 13 where I will be chatting about The Street Art Mystery. I'll tell you all about the book and your class can ask me ANYTHING at the end puffinschools.co.uk/virtualvisits << sign up here

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Mr Tom Slattery @slatterymr.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The Year of Reading 2026 is well under way so I’ve added my voice to the chat with a monthly blog - Here’s February! Recommendations, teacher ideas and resources. Probably nothing groundbreaking but hopefully there’s something useful… tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/t...

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The Year of Reading – February

As we have now embarked on ‘The Year of Reading’ for 2026, I felt compelled to add something (hopefully of value) to the conversation each month. A mixture of recommendations, genre foc…

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 12/02/2026

The Street Art Mystery is out today 🎉 A story about creativity, courage, friendship – and how art can hold secrets and make us look closer. This is the final outing for the Copseys, and I’m so grateful to everyone who helped bring their journey to life, and to every reader who’s been part of it. 🖤

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 08/12/2025

Hi guys, I’m fundraising, join me? Christmas won’t be magical for every child. A book gift could add sparkle to Christmas for a child who needs it most, giving them something to cherish for years to come. Will you help? Find out more here: www.booktrust.org.uk/xmas @booktrust.org.uk #MagicOfBooks

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 16/10/2025

The Street Art Mystery is coming your way Feb 2026, but if you fancy preordering, with a decent discount, have at it! 🕵🏽‍♀️🕵🏽‍♂️🕵🏾‍♀️

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Get a whopping 25% off when you pre-order my debut MG children's novel "The Night I Borrowed Time" from @waterstones.bsky.social ! Valid online until 23.59 Friday 17th October. Enter the code "OCTOBER25" at checkout to redeem the offer. Happy reading! Link: www.waterstones.com/book/the-nig...

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 04/07/2025

Hey guess what? I've started a creative studio with three of the best people to ever do it. @mairispaceship.com , @katboo.bsky.social and Rowan Bishop! Meet @heft.studio! heft.studio We’ve launched with a new game Spy Club, created in collaboration with Yoto 🎉🔎🎉

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Studio HEFT

Studio HEFT is a collective of senior creatives building interactive work with weight. We make things that last – in memory, in meaning, and in impact.

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Michael Mann @mikemannwrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

What a joy it was to help judge this fantastic @booktrust.org.uk competition with @sharnajackson.com! There were so many brilliant entries, but Jessica's really stood out - huge congrats, the prize is well deserved! #BookTrustRepresents

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 14/03/2025

Massive, massive thank you to @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com for not only bringing Choose Your Own Adventure books back into print, but also sending me the series. I love them, I am obsessed ❤️❤️

Six new choose your own adventure books on the floor in my ship.

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Mr Tom Slattery @slatterymr.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

So last year went against the grain and posted my favourite reads of the previous year in Feb rather than end of Dec. And it continues. Some brilliant reads of 2024 and hopefully something in there you haven’t read yet. tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/2...

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2024: Books to Remember

The end of the year is always a great time for reflection and is always jam packed with bloggers identifying their favourites from the year. Last year I decided to go against the grain and wait a m…

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emilydrabs.bsky.social @emilydrabs.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Calling all teachers to enter their class in The Book That Represents Me competition @booktrust.bsky.social www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/p.... Guest judges are @sharnajackson.com & @michaelmann.bsky.social with MOST AMAZING PRIZES inc £3000 of books (thank you @enterprisemobility.bsky.social)

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Dapo Adeola @dapsdraws.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 01/12/2024

The Palestinian-made game Dreams on a Pillow is 413 dollars and 13 backers short of respectively 60K raised and 1,000 supporters. Who wants to help push it over towards those milestones? launchgood.com/1948

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Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood

A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

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Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk · 20/11/2024

London! I’ll be chit chatting at this months V&A Friday Late “Wild Digits” alongside a heck of a line up. If you’re about then please do come say hello. Nov 29, 6:30pm, Free, more details hither: www.vam.ac.uk/event/k9xoYe...

Event promo image. A colourful photo of me in an arcade set against a bright green back drop.

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 20/11/2024

I curate Ensemble with @londongamesfest.bsky.social - we’re back for 2025 🎉 Are you a UK-based game creative/professional from an underrepresented ethnicity? Let us showcase+celebrate you at #LGF25 and beyond! Nominate your friends, colleagues or yourself by Monday 16 December bit.ly/3O9ujCJ

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Christopher Edge @christopheredge.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This is good from Joan Aiken on a danger that every children's writer is likely to encounter.

Most writers - most people - have at some point the idea for a good children's book. And maybe something fetches it out: an unresolved trau- ma from childhood to dispose of, or simply the circumstance of having children and telling them stories which seem worth writing down. In one way or another, this person, owing to some environmental factor,

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writes a good book - maybe two or three. And then, although the for- mative circumstances no longer exist, he or she is too caught up in the business to quit. Financial pressure, pressure of success, pressure of habit- it's easy to succumb. I can think of several people who wrote one or two good children's books; and then their interests developed elsewhere in a natural progression and they stopped. I can think of several more who wrote one or two good children's books; and should have stopped there, but didn't. And I need hardly say, since my previous remarks will have made this opinion clear - but I will say it again because I feel so strongly about it: Writing anything for children unless one has a strong, genuine impulse not only to write but to write that one, particular thing - writing anything without such an impulse is every bit as wicked as selling plastic machine-gun toys, or candies containing addictive drugs, or watered- down penicillin.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This must be so frustrating for people getting their accounts marked as problematic amid all the other horrors.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Alright! Started working on a literary agent starter pack on here, for all my writer friends out there! Follow along and see what folks are looking for. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo

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Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

For those of you looking for authors of middle grade children's books, we've got you covered here: go.bsky.app/RwXPjHm Still adding! #kidlituk

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My map of children's independent bookshops is updated regularly. Most provide an online service and they're all run by people who can make well-informed book recommendations. Make sure you support your local one if you want to keep it. Any missing, please let me know. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 18/11/2024

I’m not one to stan but I LOVE @levarburton.bsky.social. Years ago now, I created ‘Looking with LeVar’, a kids audio guide for The Broad in LA for its opening. He was the best. So kind and generous and warm and lovely and supportive. I think you can still listen: www.thebroad.org/tours/lookin...

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A family audio tour for kids of all ages, narrated by award-winning actor, director, and education advocate LeVar Burton.

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Dominic Yoboué @dominicyoboue.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Your hair is your crown, wear it proud! These last couple months have been a blur! Debut picture book ‘Kara’ out in all good bookstores now 💛 #KidsLit #KaraBook #DiverseBooks

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 18/11/2024

(Me, genius) I will do this task later when it’s less convenient

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Just made my first starter pack! Authors with dogs. Applications welcome, cute pictures encouraged for vetting purposes 😂 go.bsky.app/5CYu6mE

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Had a handful of homophobic/transphobic messages here today because I’ve created a Starter Pack supporting LGBTQIA+ writers. Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be. go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W

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John Shelley - Illustrator @studionib.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I've put together a #starterpack of illustrators based in, or focused on, UK publishing bsky.app/starter-pack... Do let me know if your name should be there :) #kidlit #kidlitUK #UKkidlit #kidliART #illustrator #illustrators

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Here's the beginnings of a starter pack of people working on, working in, thinking about, working-class literature. Writers and critics and allies and groups - please send me more names of accounts on Bluesky & I'll add them of course. go.bsky.app/UQVX5Lb

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Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hello! Reposting a thread of starter packs to help anyone spending their Sunday trying to find UK children’s book people. Most are being updated so if you checked them before, you may find new additions. #kidlitUK These two are (mainly) UK children's authors go.bsky.app/GLnmxCv go.bsky.app/3hvsJPY

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Dapo Adeola @dapsdraws.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A little something to make it easier to find some dope Black creatives to follow on here. ☺️ go.bsky.app/U3UQX2A

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 17/11/2024

I live on a ship named Anna Maria in Rotterdam. She's an old lady, built in 1897. It sounds romantic, right? Hahaha. No, not all the time. I took those masts down four years ago, but let's pretend they're still there.

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 17/11/2024

I also write games! Saltsea Chronicles with @gutefabrik.bsky.social and a little something soon to be announced (that I should be actually working on right now, but it is what it is)

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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com · 17/11/2024

Hi hi! I'm Sharna. I write books and games about murder, mystery and art. You might know High Rise Mystery (2019) but I promise my other books are just as good (if not better). Here's a few of them:

Book cover for The Nine Night Mystery. A house wit

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