What if I had something announce later today, hm? What then???

Event time! I’m dazzlingly excited to be part of Hachette Pride Network’s Pride in Writing event in Manchester in June!! Tickets are on Eventbrite, below. 🩷🩵💛🤍💜🖤🩷🩵

Happy to have contributed this piece for The Bookseller LGBTQ+ edition where Kalynn Bayron 🍏 SLEEP LIKE DEATH and I chat about our experiences of censorship and book bans. Important we continue to talk about, and fight, this.

Pride Month is coming....!

We are over-the-moon-and-back delighted to bring you the:
📣2024 Longlist for The Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction📣

#LittleRebelsAward

That’s 17 books for readers aged 0-12 which hone in on social justice themes with empathy, urgency & joy!

Did an author video, time to go on a hot guy walk to get a little treat

#Hasa1wordtitle Poignant, thought-provoking and incredibly touching, 'Jamie' written by L.D. Lapinski & cover illustration by Harry Woodgate is a book everyone should read. One of the gems is the 'Jamie Rambeau's guide to words' and my favourite is on p.141. #nospoilers #kidlit

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First Snow (Deity Chronicles 1) by Jake Vanguard

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Pucking Sweet by Emily Rath

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The 12.2-Per-Cent Solution by Josh Lanyon
Jamie by L.D. Lapinski
A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins
Evocation: Book I in The Summoner's Circle by S.T. Gibson

Our Live Literature programmes fund author events across Scotland, so if you have an idea to bring reading and writing into your community, make sure you apply! 📚

scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-au…

'...this book will leave any reader inspired and informed. A remarkably excellent and joyful book, suitable for 9+ years.'

Thank you to Books Ireland for including JAMIE on this amazing list of reads for Pride Month! 💛🤍💜🖤 booksirelandmagazine.com/books-to-be-pr…

Congratulations to all the authors and illustrators on the 2024 longlist for the #LittleRebelsAward 👏👏👏 One of our favourite awards! Letterbox Library Housmans Bookshop

A children's book award like no other!

The 2024 Little Rebels Award longlist just landed. And it's 😍

Celebrating radical fiction for children. Kids books with social justice in their hearts. 💙

littlerebels.org/2024/05/23/the…

Little Rebels Award

#BooksWeLoveWednesday
This week we are showcasing our bespoke hospital bookcase. It is crammed with books we love, for children in hospital it is a moment of joy & choice L. D. Lapinski Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚 Tom Percival Ian Eagleton Nathanael Lessore Ryan Hammond John Patrick Green