One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three things: don't use drugs or weapons, don't cheat, don't steal. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/howard-...
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Richard Jones from You and I Are Stars and Night. A gorgeous quayside composition with water birds and zinging colour. From Kate Hosford's imaginative bedtime journey. Beach Lane Books 3 Feb 2026. @simonkidsuk.bsky.social @apaintedmouse.bsky.social @beachlane.bsky.social
Three friends who love playing an imaginative game with dolls and action figures find their friendship tested when a mysterious bone-china doll begins to feel frighteningly real. #bookrecommendations thebookseekers.com/book/holly-b...
Ella is the new girl at school. She doesn't know anyone and she doesn't have any friends. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/cath-ho...
Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan... #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/thomas-...
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay Raxenne Maniquiz from The Wonder of Life on Earth, the story of evolution by Henry Gee, former Royal Society Science Book Prize winner. The Cambrian Explosion 541m years ago - the time of the trilobites - depicted in vivid colour. Two Hoots 5 Feb. @twohootsbooks.bsky.social
'Some of the places I am still getting to know, some of these places I have known all my life. All of these places made me, are making me.' #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/ren-e-w...
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jenny Bloomfield from The Chase. Frances Lincoln 5 Feb. Cumulative story of dogs chasing a ball through streets, parks & buildings, picking up objects on the way. Free and energetic but exact depiction of all the dogs @quartokids.bsky.social @jennybloomfield.bsky.social
Young Sophie Hatter from the land of Ingary catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell... #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/diana-w...
Nine-year-old Megan Fawcett loves football and is desperate to be on her school team. She tries everything to get the coach to notice her, even wearing a tiara! But nothing works until... #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure #football thebookseekers.com/book/helena-...
Comic book style Greek myths thebookseekers.com/show/series/...
A heart-wrenching true story about life in a Kenyan refugee camp that will restore your faith in real-life happy endings. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure #graphicnovels thebookseekers.com/book/victori...
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Olga Shtonda from Nicola Davies's picturebook The Map of Me, about locating yourself in a new place, and about the past and the future. A collage effect composition with fascinating detail, in a beautiful, reassuring book. Templar Books 29 Jan. @templarbooks.bsky.social
Oliver Jeffers explores themes of love and loss in this tale of a girl who loses her father. How will she find the meaning of life now? #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure #grief thebookseekers.com/book/oliver-...
A stunning picture book, where two different voices tell their own experience of the same moments, day after day. There are days that seem very average, and others that are extraordinary and surprising. #bookrecommendatiosn #readingforpleasure
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A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book and a ukulele. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/dave-sh...
India, 1855. The British rule, and all across the country, Indian magic is being stamped out. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/nazneen...
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Tom Percival from his picturebook The Wonder, out in paperback from Simon & Schuster on 15 Jan, about being alert to the small joys in our lives. A vivid, digital, chiaroscuro combination of photographs and artwork. @tompercival.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social
Unable to speak since separation from his parents, Kester unexpectedly finds he is able to communicate with a cockroach who helps him to break out from his prison-like existence. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/piers-t...
Clay has grown up under the mountain, chosen along with four other dragonets to fulfil a mysterious prophecy and end the war between the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/t-t-sut...
How a little girl befriends her elderly neighbour who has dementia. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/bethan-...
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Ruchi Mhasane: The Beautiful Layers of Me. Engaging visual storytelling about a child made to feel bad about traditional dress. On yesterday’s Inclusive Books for Children shortlists. Text by Sophia Payne, Walker Books. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @ibc-reads.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Britta Teckentrup from There Are Mammals Everywhere. Textured, expressive, charming depictions of grey wolves and their habitat, with plants providing perfectly complementary dots of colour. Big Picture Press 1 Jan. @brittateckentrup.bsky.social @bonnierbooks.bsky.social
Maftu was afraid of the sea. It had taken his mother when he was a baby, and it seemed to him that the sea gods sought vengeance at having been cheated of Mafatu. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/armstro...
Sometimes I find it really tough to make sure I'm not in a huff because there's simply so much stuff that makes me want to yell. #bookrecommendations #readingforpleasure
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If we want libraries to be engines of social mobility we need investment in digital books and to give schools the ability to auto register pupils with the public library service. Parents are the barrier to access for lots of kids.
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Four children step through a wardrobe door and into Narnia, a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change and a great sacrifice. thebookseekers.com/book/pauline...
It's Christmastime, and Mortimer Mouse, unhappy in his cramped, cold hole, goes in search of a new home. #Christmas #readingforpleasure thebookseekers.com/book/chapman...
Day 15 of the #NewIllustrationOfTheDay #AdventCalendar quiz. Two children’s book characters whose name begins with O. Your task: name the ILLUSTRATORS.
(Answers will be posted on Christmas Eve.)
Olivia Pig and Orlando the Marmalade Cat - both favourites here.
