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Timothy Knapman

@timothyknapman.bsky.social
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Writer of children's books, musicals, plays, operas and the rest. More details at www.timothyknapman.co.uk - if you dare... #KidLitUK

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Kids in Scotland got The Book of Blast Off in Bookbug Bags, and it's so cool to see comet science represented with Rosetta and Philae! ☄️🛰
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
It's a rotten day, at least where I'm sitting, so here's Jenny Agutter reading my story FOLLOW THE TRACK ALL THE WAY BACK, illustrated by @benmantle.bsky.social published in the UK and Ireland by Walker Picture Books. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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CBeebies Bedtime Stories - A-E: Jenny Agutter - Follow the Track, All the Way Back
All aboard for a Bedtime Story with Jenny Agutter about a little train who goes on his first big adventure all by himself.
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Well this is a turn up for the (picture) books. DINOSAURS IN THE SUPERMARKET by me and @sarahwarburton.bsky.social is being republished by @scholasticuk.bsky.social next January. Here’s a sneak peek of the eye-catching new cover. How many naughty dinosaurs will you spot?
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Every READER counts in this new racing adventure! The brand new TEN WHIZZY RACERS book, by me & Richard Merritt hits bookshops TODAY! So take a pit stop and refuel with a copy as soon as you can. We’re COUNTING ON YOU!! TEN WHIZZY RACERS: FROSTY FALLS FRENZY published by @ladybirdbooks.bsky.social
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Every READER counts in this new racing adventure! The brand new TEN WHIZZY RACERS book, by me & Richard Merritt hits bookshops TODAY! So take a pit stop and refuel with a copy as soon as you can. We’re COUNTING ON YOU!! TEN WHIZZY RACERS: FROSTY FALLS FRENZY published by @ladybirdbooks.bsky.social
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Start your engines for a BRAND NEW countdown adventure! The sequel to the award winning TEN WHIZZY RACERS: CHAOS AT CRACKLING CREEK by me and Richard Merritt is out TOMORROW from Ladybird Books!
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Amused - actually, no, revolted - to read Camilla Long, of all people, in the Sunday Times telling us that Angela Rayner isn’t an authentic working class hero. I mean, she’d know, wouldn’t she?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I'm delighted to announce that 10 Whizzy Racers: Chaos at Crackling Creek by me and Richard Merritt has been awarded the Bizziebaby Gold Award 2025! Available in all good bookshops from @ladybirdbooks.bsky.social bizziebaby.co.uk/product-revi...
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Ten Whizzy Racers: Chaos at Crackling Creek From Penguin Books
Ten Whizzy Racers: Chaos at Crackling Creek by Timothy Knapman, Richard Merritt (Illustrator) We’re ready and waiting, the countdown's begun . . . join ten whizzy racers for super-fast fun! Zoom throu...
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Watching the Peter Ustinov Death on the Nile. Script by Anthony Shaffer of Sleuth and Wicker Man fame. Apart from noting that most of the cast is now dead, I’m finding it hard to get past the fact that the murder victim - spoilers! - is called Mrs Doyle.
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
“Get the back-to-school giggles with this sweet tale. Imagination runs wild here – or does it? It’s a great first day read for littles.” Lovely review for the new US edition of OH NO! DINOSAURS IN MY SCHOOL by me and Sarah Warburton.
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Steve May @stevemaythe1st.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Silly Name for a Monster' by the brilliant @timothyknapman.bsky.social with illustrations by me was published 11 years ago today! I've always been really fond of this one! You can read more here - tinyurl.com/lupsrng #childrensbooks #illustration
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
www.achuka.co.uk/blog/ten-whi... Great review from the lovely folk at ACHUKA!
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Ten Whizzy Racers: Chaos at Crackling Creek – Ten Whizzy Racers by Timothy Knapman ill. Richard Merritt
ACHUKA Book of the Day 31 July 2025 Waterstones Bookshop My wife returned from a trip to Bristol recently saying that our three-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter could not get enough of this book. …
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Shivaji Shiva @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Virgin Media's customer service is truly appalling. They were to replace a cable today. They did not arrive to do so. My wife has spent hours on futile calls to call centres staffed by people with no apparent ability to give a straight answer to a straight question or solve the problem. #Sludge
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Shivaji Shiva @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
'None of the bands are being paid today ... because the whole event is for three charities: Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and – huge nostalgia rush on hearing this name after growing up in Solihull – Acorns Children’s Hospice.' www.theguardian.com/music/live/2...
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Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s final gig – follow it live!
The influential Birmingham band are at Villa Park for a final concert – called Back to the Beginning – joined by the cream of heavy metal. After including Slayer, Guns ‘N Roses and more we’re looking ...
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J. Gonzo @jgonzo.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Looking forward to this Friday
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Curtis Jobling @curtisjobling.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Lovely write-up of #WolfKing on CBR 🐺👑 www.cbr.com/netflix-flaw...
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Netflix Just Released a Flawless Fantasy Series Based on Popular Books (& It's the Perfect Binge-Watch This Weekend)
The entire first season of Netflix's animated fantasy series, Wolf King, is available to watch now, and its short runtime makes it ideal for binging.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
'A pioneering project to fill gaps in Irish history is making 175,000 more records and millions more words of searchable content freely available to researchers and members of the public.' 1/2
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Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years
Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I don't think I have to tell most people who follow me why libraries are important, or that they're under threat in the UK. But I want to make sure everyone knows Lambeth libraries are going on strike and there's a solidarity hardship fund HERE linktr.ee/savelambethl... #KidlitUK #SaveLibraries
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Save Lambeth Libraries | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
Linktree. Make your link do more.
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This is cool! Author copies of TIME TRAVEL SLEEPOVER, Egypt and Knights & Castles, by me and Matt Robertson, IN GERMAN! UK editions published by Quarto Books.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I'm a great admirer of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Mayor of Casterbridge, but my favourite Thomas Hardy work was the way he'd roll up his sleeves and throw Stan and Ollie out of the saloon for non-payment of the bill.
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Despite that huge special effects budget, Doctor Who can never make Cardiff look like London.
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Thrilled to bits by these: Vietnamese editions of SOMETIMES I AM FURIOUS and SOMETIMES I JUST WON’T by me and the mighty Joe Berger. Available in the UK from @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
At last, I'm delighted to share the film I wrote to accompany the excellent exhibition MI5: Official Secrets, which is currently on at The National Archives in Kew. Take a look at the film, and go and see the exhibition for yourselves. It's extraordinary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKv...
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MI5: Official Secrets Exhibition film
YouTube video by The National Archives UK
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Oh, @susiedent.com! Mispronouncing mischievous is now acceptable, says Susie Dent www.thetimes.com/article/247b...
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Mispronouncing mischievous is now acceptable, says Susie Dent
Lexicographer says purists’ pet peeve is just a ‘fascinating snapshot’ of how language evolves — but don’t expect Richard Dawkins to agree
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Author copies of the US edition of OH NO! DINOSAURS IN MY SCHOOL by me and Sarah Warburton heading across the Atlantic from Scholastic to cause mischief and mayhem. Full of fun, laughs and games of Spot The Dinosaur. Enjoy!
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Berlin friends! Still two more dates for the triumphant new Germany production of BEFORE AFTER (DAVOR DANACH) by the brilliant OFFstage Germany. Don't miss it, it's FANTASTIC! Everything you need to know is at the other end of this link: offstage-germany.de/davor-danach/
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Benedict Cumberbatch has given many excellent performances but none I think as good as his comic tour de force in the Cabin Pressure episode Uskerty. “Lotta lotta bees!” @johnfinnemore.bsky.social
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15/05/2025
This is an incredible story when you read it and discover what actually happened was: - Lammy paid in advance - The driver tried to extort him for a massive tip - Drove off with his luggage - At somepoint clocked he was a VIP - Is now selling the story to The Sun.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The full tawdry terrible story of appeasement, in all its detail, in which literally every moment is an echo of today.
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GillianFM @gfmortonfernandez.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Absolutely! Not up to much as a father , but given his war experience I can forgive, but glad of having seen almost all of Shakespeare's plays by the age of 14. Also he figures, heavily disguised of course, in my 3rd novel ('Kiss and Don't Tell', Silverwood books) to be out this summer hopefully.
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Happy (probable) birthday!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We found this during the Origin Story episode on anti-vax. When people experienced the condition the vaccine prevented, they were grateful for it. But once it retreated into historical memory, they began to resent the thing which saved them.
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Well that’s cheered me up on a Friday afternoon: THE GREEDY WOLF by me and @jeanjullien.bsky.social in… Dutch! Thank you, Walker Picture Books (who publish it here in the UK) x
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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 28/03/2025
latest review on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog, Somtimes I Just WON'T by Timothy Knapman and Joe Berger Full of energy in the writing and the illustrations this begs to be read whilst moving and gesticulating a lot and getting your audience to join in www.bigbeardedbookseller.com/2025/03/28/s...
hand holding a book in front of a bookcase, on the book cover is a drawing of a boy with his arms crossed and a bowl of food on his head which has gone all over the table in front of them, there is an anticipatory looking dog to their side
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Jill Bennett @jillshanti.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The 1st of @timothyknapman.bsky.social & Richard Merritt’s countdown series with a racing theme #TenWhizzyRacers #ChaosatCracklingCreek @ladybirdbooks.bsky.social is #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-d3T
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Ten Whizzy Racers: Chaos at Crackling Creek
Ten Whizzy Racers: Chaos at Crackling CreekTimothy Knapman and Richard MerrittLadybird This is the first in a new countdown series with a racing theme. The whizzy racers are Boo, Bolt, Bounce, Dash…
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New book klaxon! TEN WHIZZY RACERS: CHAOS AT CRACKLING CREEK by me and #RichardMerritt is published by @ladybirdbooks.bsky.social this very day. It's the first of a series of Wacky Races-style counting books - perfect for the car-crazy kid in your family who's learning to count.
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
There’s another brilliant production of BEFORE AFTER by Stuart Matthew Price and me on the horizon - this one’s in Berlin and it’ll be the work of the fantastic #OFFStageGermany
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"Children's Book Roundup: March 2025." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/chi... @candlewickpress.bsky.social @berbaybooks.bsky.social @modavey.bsky.social @timothyknapman.bsky.social @jeanjullien.bsky.social #booksky
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Still out in paperback! Over the moon.
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I made it into the Sussex Express! I had a great time visiting the lovely Fernhurst Primary School - though I seem to have lost my head at some point during the day - for #WorldBookDay www.sussexexpress.co.uk/education/pu...
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Pupils at Fernhurst Primary School celebrate World Book Day
The children dressed up as vocabulary rather than a book character; they also enjoyed visits during the week from an author, an illustrator, a poet and a storyteller.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Mike Myers as Musk is the cherry on this delicious slice of SNL resistance masquerading as comedy, but they've also nailed Vance's prep bully and the Epstein line is 👩‍🍳👌
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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
David Niven's birthday, is it? Time once more for The Greatest Picture Ever Taken, then.
David Niven as Cupid. Photographed IN MID AIR over a swimming pool - shorts, ridiculous hat and very little else, holding a bow and arrow and sporting the cheesiest of grins.
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LeftIdaho4Good @leftidaho4good.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
vaccinate your child. As a survivor of the measles, I lost much of my eyesight but am guaranteed immunity. My son, as an adult, just went and received a booster to ensure the 97% effectiveness that he can have with the vaccine. It is a PREVENTABLE DISEASE.
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Poor @garethpjones.bsky.social - a fine and talented man but there is no escape from me!
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Sometimes I am CHUFFED! It’s always a thrill to receive a coedition of one of your books, and I’ve just had two! Castilian versions of SOMETIMES I AM FURIOUS and SOMETIMES I JUST WON’T by me and the mighty Joe Berger, published in English by @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I'll be doing an event Pickled Pepper Books in Crouch End next Thursday. My new book, THE GREEDY WOLF, illustrated by @jeanjullien.bsky.social, will be front and centre but there'll be a few old favourites too! So come and join me! www.pickledpepperbooks.co.uk/collections/...
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The Greedy Wolf Author Event with Timothy Knapman - Thursday 20th February - 10.30am
There was once a greedy wolf. He was so greedy that every day he would eat enough food for TEN birthday parties and still be hungry for more... A wicked and ravenous wolf is on the prowl for dinner wh...
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Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I'll be doing an event Pickled Pepper Books in Crouch End next Thursday. My new book, THE GREEDY WOLF, illustrated by @jeanjullien.bsky.social, will be front and centre but there'll be a few old favourites too! So come and join me! www.pickledpepperbooks.co.uk/collections/...
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The Greedy Wolf Author Event with Timothy Knapman - Thursday 20th February - 10.30am
There was once a greedy wolf. He was so greedy that every day he would eat enough food for TEN birthday parties and still be hungry for more... A wicked and ravenous wolf is on the prowl for dinner wh...
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