Alberta Torres

Two books published in two days! 🤩 The Big Bus and Us, and Dinosaur Playtime are available now! Both published by HarperCollins (Collins and KumushaBook repectively). Written and illustrated by yours truly. #kidlitUK

There are these data centers that use minimal amounts of electricity and don't need millions of gallons of water, to cool them. They're called libraries.

The worst thing about AI train announcements in Italian is that they mess up all the accents of place names (incorrectly assuming that the stress always goes onto the last syllable). Roma Termíni non se po' senti'.

I didn't hate my birthday today. Have also discovered that a scops-owl lives near me 🦉 a rather nice present 😊

If you're looking for ways to support creatives, writing positive reviews of their work is 1. Free 2. Full of compliments that encourages them 3. Marketing they can reshare to promote their work 4. Just a decent thing to do, thank you!

I'm watching Death Comes to Pemberley (2018) on Prime. The subtitles are "auto" (read: AI) and they are soooo wroooong all the time. Darcy is "Dossie", Wickham is "Wake up" and Mr Alverston is "His Majesty". But this one tops them up! #AIslop

posting this 'ol thing again for no reason

BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

O M G 🦐 Shrimp bowl (close-up). Bowl. Peru: Ica, Nasca. 100 B.C.E.-800 C.E. MOA Collections 2990/180. Photo by Joshua Doherty. myvancity.ca/2026/02/27/m...

Reminder to any authors thinking of starting a Substack www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners. Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night. The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today

🎶 I don’t want a lot for Christmas I just want one thing from you. For that A.I. bubble to burst, And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶 🎄

Authors including Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman have backed plans to give newborn babies automatic library cards, following a proposal by think tank the Cultural Policy Unit. Read more 👇

Ok. So, if OpenAi can buy a 3-year licence from Disney, then all AI companies can afford to buy licenses from all artists worldwide and stop stealing people's work. FFS.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

I often think I don't know sh*t because I didn't go to art school...but I've got over 10 books under my belt, and over a decade of work in the design industry too (which helped a lot in making my illustration practice eddicient).. However, I never know *how* to share my knowledge..

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

It's #NationalIllustrationDay in the UK! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

London #kidlitUK folks! I'm giving away my small collection of the last 9 issues of Carousel magazine (from Winter 2016 to Winter 2019). Pick up from E3 or can meet in Central. Any takers?

Two days of not being able to work because Photoshop isn't able to open a single JPG. @adobe.com I'm this much away from ditching you forever. (Yes, I did update my graphics driver, yes I did update the app). #photoshop

Got my Irish PLR. My books were borrowed over 800 times! That's a little over £50, but you know what, it's a huge increase from last year!! Thank you so much Irish librarians and little Irish readers 🇮🇪 💕✨️ #PLR #kidlitUK #IrishPLR

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

That AI video must be the most unhinged meta thing I've ever seen: sh*t depicting a giant sh*t sh*thing sh*t.

So many jokes going around all my social media things right now about the prez' neck and what bothers me the most about it? They compare it to a vagina. People! It looks like a vulva! A vulva! Get your anatomy right, please.

gene kelly is antifa

I think there should be an imprint called Star Fucker Books that only signs celebrities and social media stars. I mostly think the purpose is for big 5 publishers to have the odd famous person at their events and for their corporate promos.

No work for months and then ALL the work AT ONCE. Thankful to past me for all the afternoon naps I've taken.

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Went to see Éiru, Cartoon Saloon's latest short, last night. So so good. 13 minutes of beautiful entertainment packed with meaning, from fellow compatriot Giovanna Ferrari. #éiru

'Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth', the seventh in our highly-illustrated series, is out now! Available at all good bookshops! 🐭🐭✍️✍️ @philipreeve.bsky.social @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

My next picture book is ready to pre-order! It's a rompus of a book. Expect prehistoric small humans, dodos, and dinosaurs! Dinosaur Playtime is out in February in the UK with KumushaBooks (HarperCollins). #kidlituk #kidlit

I've also delivered the roughs for my next picture book this morning, almost a whole week ahead of deadline. And today was supposed to be a day off as I did I live event yesterday. Relax is my second name...not.

Today I made a whole new section on my website which is basically an entirely new website. Because my creative career has taken a new route yet again... and so now I probably should add website design to my skills and services. No, I won't, I'm joking. I'm a creative octopus, though 🐙

For the love of all that is good in the book world, please work with real-life illustrators, cover designers and other creatives. In the UK, they are absolutely the best in the world.

I'm working on the roughs of my next picture book and I'm just looooooving it so much. Pencils are my favourite part of making a children's book: the research, the layouts, the problem solving, the potential of expanding the narrative...✨️💫 it's magical 💫✨️ #kidlitUK #kidlitart #kidlit

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

An important counter narrative to the recent headlines — actual journalism about the daily lives of asylum seekers in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We want it this way.

Comic inspired by (too many) encounters with those who think writing/illustrating children's picture books are a stepping stone to writing/illustrating REAL books. Thanks to Catherine Bailey for the caption! #KidLitChat #LibrarySky #DebbieOhiComics

#kidlitart #kidlituk #kidlitillustration

If you see this, QRP with your yellow art 💛✨️

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

When I was 5 years old I helped my own nonna preparing gnocchi. After making the potato dough, I carefully handled the knife to cut the first ones, when she snatched the knife off me saying "Give it to me, you're cutting them all wrong". One of the most defining moments of my childhood. 🥲

It's #kidlitartpostcard day! I'm Alberta and I'm always on the lookout for projects *with a budget* 🤪 Find me at albertatorres.com or at my agency Darley Anderson for UK/NorthAmerica publishing. 👋

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.