Mikka editor Everything with Words Books

Great to see The Feathered Book @charlienutbrown.bsky.social on this list. The first Monty the Fox adventure ! #kidslit #animalAdventure #middlegrade #childrensBooks Thank you @petersbooks.bsky.social

Great to see The Feathered Book @charlienutbrown.bsky.social on this list. The first Monty the Fox adventure ! #kidslit #animalAdventure #middlegrade #childrensBooks Thank you @petersbooks.bsky.social

Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise - two young people, a city and a ticking clock. Oran Doyle’s Give Me ’til Midnight brings that magic to Dublin, with a time loop! Clever, tender and entirely its own. Lovely to welcome Oran in to sign copies! @everywithwords.bsky.social❤️📚

📮 Gremlins running the postal service? That explains a lot! Lovely to welcome Dublin author & teacher D. T. Moorhouse to sign Grebs & Co, a magical adventure set inside a postbox. From @everywithwords.bsky.social Thank you for calling in! 💚 #IrishBooks #ChildrensBooks

My enormous thanks to @everywithwords.bsky.social for this beautiful looking and sounding surprise copy of Almost A Ghost Story by Emily Bullock www.everythingwithwords.com/books/almost...

📮 Gremlins running the postal service? That explains a lot! Lovely to welcome Dublin author & teacher D. T. Moorhouse to sign Grebs & Co, a magical adventure set inside a postbox. From @everywithwords.bsky.social Thank you for calling in! 💚 #IrishBooks #ChildrensBooks

Thank you so much to East Sussex Libraries for including The Feathered Book on this fantastic list! #bookawards #teachers #education #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #childrensbooks @everywithwords.bsky.social

Fantastic to see The Feathered Book @charlienutbrown.bsky.social on this fabulous list! Congratulations everyone! #fantasy #animals #mystery

A fun, shorter middle grade fantasy, No Tune Ned by Oliver Lendon is out now for 9+ readers. @everywithwords.bsky.social #KidlitUK #UKKidlit worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/n...

Thank you to Lancashire School Library Service for nominating The Feathered Book for The Fantastic Book Award! I'm delighted to be nominated alongside so many wonderful writers. #fantasticbookawards #bookawards #teachers #education #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #childrensbooks @everywithwords.bsky.social

Fiona Goggin: 'You never know what weird piece of information will spark a brilliant idea' 💡 We caught up with CBC alumna @fionagoggin.bsky.social to discuss her debut historical novel #TheSilverBonesOfFrancesWinter, out next week with @everywithwords.bsky.social.

#GiveMeTilMidnight by #OranDoyle is a time-bending, tender, #YA novel, publishing next Thursday 10 Sept by @everywithwords.bsky.social Ulysses meets Groundhog Day for a teen readership! #IrishKidLit Here’s my review 👇 vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2026/09/05/y...

Don’t miss The Silver Bones of Frances Winter by Fiona Goggin out from @everywithwords.bsky.social on 24th September I loved it and have my review today lindasbookbag.com/2026/09/09/t...

Enormous thanks to Mikka @everywithwords.bsky.social for this amazing haul of books! YA read Give Me ‘Til Midnight by Oran Doyle Middle grade No Time Ned by Oliver Lendon Grebs & Co: The Secret Lives of Gremlins by D. T. Moorhouse, illustrated by Ewa Beniak-Haremska for 7+…

Monty and Nettle, heroes of The Feathered Book, flee the river pirates. Illustration by Ewa Beniak-Haremska. #middlegradebooks #middlegradefiction #middlegradereads #childrensbookstagram #childrensbooks #kitlit @everywithwords.bsky.social

Help! Aliens Stole My Grandad written by @missdeplume.bsky.social & illustrated by @rorywalker.bsky.social is hilarious & poignant. Published by @everywithwords.bsky.social #UkKidLit Here’s my review 👇 vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2026/06/15/i...

Thank you to LoveReading4Kids for including The Feathered Book in their list of 50 Cosy Crime Novels for Children and YA Readers. “A debut of the highest order." www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/blog/get-sle... @everywithwords.bsky.social #middlegradebooks #middlegradefiction #books #childrensbooks

My huge thanks to @everywithwords.bsky.social for this superb sounding The Silver Bones of Frances Winter by @fionagoggin.bsky.social coming in September www.everythingwithwords.com/books/the-si...

Help Aliens Stole My Grandad — Blogtour! Please Repost and follow! #kidlit #childrensbooks

Happy Publication day Help Aliens Stole My Grandad! @missdeplume.bsky.social @waterstoneskids.bsky.social @bookcraic.bsky.social One signed copy available— Follow RT by June first!

Help Aliens Stole My Grandad @missdeplume.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @lib4sch.bsky.social @emmapullar.bsky.social A whimsical tale about space pirates and moon flowing with rivers of cheese!

Pelican surveying the sea

Are you enjoying listening to books on uLibrary? We are delighted to announce that this week they have introduced four new audiobooks! To access uLibrary, visit and sign in at https://wakefield.ulverscroftulibrary.com/ #NewBooks #Audiobooks #uLibrary #Crime #HistoricalFiction #BookSky

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Steve Antony. Deliberately upside-down panda and text in Super Mr. Panda, after the hero has saved the bake sale by squirting a pile of doughnuts with icing. Enjoying the cape with doughnut pattern and the drippy icing like paint. Hodder 7 May. @hodderbooks.bsky.social

Great to see Help Aliens Stole My Grandad out in the world A fun intergalactic adventure , complete with pirates, their parrot and a moon made of cheese! @missdeplume.bsky.social @booklib61.bsky.social

Just saw that one of my favourite bookshops, Bristol’s wonderful Heron Books, included The Feathered Book in their Favourite Kids Books of 2025! Thank you so much! #UKKidlit #childrensbooks #BookBloggers #books #bookshops @everywithwords.bsky.social

A massive thank you to @vonprice.bsky.social for including The Feathered Book in her 25 for 2025 round up! #UKKidlit #childrensbooks #BookBloggers @everywithwords.bsky.social

A huge thank you to Mary Rees at @bookcraic.bsky.social for including The Feathered Book in her 25 Favourite Middle Grade Books of 2025! #UKKidlit #childrensbooks #BookBloggers #books @everywithwords.bsky.social

Thank you to The Irish Times for including The Feathered Book in their Children's Books for Christmas article! "A gripping whodunnit … there is word pleasure in abundance in this atmospheric debut." #UKKidlit #childrensbooks #BookBloggers @irishtimes.com @everywithwords.bsky.social

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in these troubled times!

'Apart from the propulsive plot, there is word pleasure in abundance in this atmospheric debut' Thanks Sarah Keating @irishlittimes.bsky.social for Including The Feathered Book @charlienutbrown.bsky.social in your best books for Christmas!

#Viewfromabook The perfect read for today. 🤣🌧🌧🌧🌂#bookbloggers #librarians @carnegiemedals.bsky.social @susancahill.bsky.social @everywithwords.bsky.social #UKKidLit

Illustration of the day from The Kingdom of Broken Magic by Christine Aziz— a tale of about a sinister monkey who rules the Kingdom of Broken Magic, a knitting elephant and dancing tigers! #KidLitUK #Illustrations #artist #animalTales

If after all those lies, all that harm, Epstein is what sinks Trump, what does that say about democracy? He can cut aid that affects millions....it's a weird world #Trump

Image of the day—looking thoughtful two thousand years ago. Pompeii Naples, sometime between 50 and 79 AD ( that volcano!) What to write? Words are dangerous, chaotic, comforting, misleading — no wonder she's hesitating. Go for it girl!

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Neal Layton depicting the young Michael Rosen for the pb of Rosen‘s Hot Food Nice! which Walker Books published on 6 Nov. 13 Nov is Michael Rosen Day with 266,000+ children signed up to watch his livestreamed event. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction

Really enjoyed the brilliant new #storyshaped @sineadohart.bsky.social & @susancahill.bsky.social with fab Nate Lessore! Amid the hilarity, Nate has a serious point-without diverse authors we limit readership-the opposite is needed right now. #ukkidlit #kidlituk podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Suggested reading list of books for 12 year olds. Authors include Mark Haddon, KM Peyton, Anne Cassidy and William Golding #ukedchat schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-list... #YAlit

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors." tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v

Illustration of the day from A Place of a Thousand Wishes by Sarah Merrett. The hero suspended in a ballon over the raging sea! #KidLit #Fiction #fantasy

Sign up for the Spark! School Book Award by 28 November and you'll receive TWO sets of the shortlisted books instead of one! Don't miss out...sign up now: sparkbookawards.co.uk/schools/scho...

Elon Musk has just suspended our X account—we're a danger to those who presently control the world, feeling honoured—building our hopes on Bluesky—please Repost Follow indie publisher of fine books #books #Fiction #chilrensbooks @louiestowell.bsky.social

Received an email from Elon Musk that EWW X account has been closed—never knew that I was a danger 'free speech' &Trump, feel honoured— please repost & follow Indie publisher of children's fiction, three books nominated for Carnegie 2026. #childrensbooks #fiction #childrensillustrators

Croaking crows, dark tales Can she uncover the truth Before it’s too late. 🥳@carnegiemedals.bsky.social @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social @everywithwords.bsky.social #Middlegrade #bookbloggers #librarians #readingrecommendations

Awesome to see Black Gables @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social and The World between the Rain @susancahill.bsky.social nominated for writing and Ewa Beniak-Haremska nominated for her stunning illustrations of A Place of a Thousand Wishes @sarahmerrett1.bsky.social

Wonderful to see Black Gables @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social —Congratulations #Carnegie2026

Absolutely thrilled that Black Gables has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing. Huge thanks to all the librarians and readers @carnegiemedals.bsky.social Special thanks to @everywithwords.bsky.social and Silvia @pfd Congrats to all the nominees! #Carnegies2026