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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

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2 weeks ago

The cover of the new Books for Keeps Book of the Week: The Upside-Down Lighthouse by Paddy Donnelly published by the O'Brien Press. It features Meara and Grandad in a smally rowing boat as they head towards an island with an updside down lighthouse. There are puffins and a gannet under the waves.

Our NEW Book of the Week is by a real #BooksforKeeps favourite, Paddy Donnelly. Go adventuring again with Meara and Grandad as they discover the magic of looking at things differently in THE UPSIDE-DOWN LIGHTHOUSE @theobrienpress.bsky.social
#kidlit #booksky

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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Looking forward to this! We're delighted that @gntread24.bsky.social reviews for #BooksforKeeps and interviews authors on our behalf 🔖

Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

1 month ago

Graphic with the cover of The Misadventures of Mina Mahmood School Inspectors by Farhana Islam, illustration by Simran Diamond Singh, published by Farshore. It is the new Books for Keeps Book of the Week.

The NEW #BooksforKeeps Book of the Week comes highly recommended. Don't miss THE MISADVENTURES OF MINA MAHMOOD SCHOOL INSPECTORS - highly entertaining & lots that young readers and their teachers will recognise #booksky #KidLitUK @farshorebooks.bsky.social

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Stephanie Lisa Tara

@stephanielisatara.bsky.social

8 months ago

🐇"Pat the bunny........gently."🐇

~Pat The Bunny, 1940

#DorothyKunhardt #vintagebooks #oldbooks #BookCollecting #BooksForKeeps #Readaloud #Kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustration #kidsbooks #kidlit #picturebooks #books #BookSky #ArtSky #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookCommunity #KidSky #art

Publisher Spotlight

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9 months ago

Have you shared WOLF IN THE CITY from @scallywagpress.bsky.social with the kids in your reading life? Now discover the author Rachel Tilda Wolf in this interview published by #BooksForKeeps booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/a-qa...

Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

9 months ago

The NEW #BooksforKeeps Book of the Week is Once I Was a Tree by Eoin McLaughlin and Guilherme Karsten @nosycrow.bsky.social 5 stars from our reviewer, 'Clever, informative, funny and inspiring – a good use of a tree.' 🌲 #KidLitUK
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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

9 months ago

Graphic advertising the latest issue of children's literature journal Books for Keeps with a list of the contents and image of the cover, which features the Joe Todd-Stanton illustration from THE FIRST YEAR, written by Matt Goodfellow.

ICYMI, the NEW issue of #BooksforKeeps is out now. Packed with interviews, features, comment & children's book reviews. Huge thanks to @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social for this issue's cover, to our contributors & the publishers who support us. #kidlit #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...

Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

11 months ago

Don't miss: in her new Picture This column for #BooksforKeeps, @nicolettejones.bsky.social looks at three picturebooks illuminating dark events. #Illustration #KidLit
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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

1 year ago

The cover of Stockingopolis by Tatyana Feeney published by the O'Brien Press showing an illustration of a town with two children splashing paint around in the foreground.

New week, NEW #BooksforKeeps Book of the Week! Enjoy STOCKINGOPOLIS by Tatyana Feeney whose scribbly style is perfect for a story that is delightfully silly but also a celebration of colour, creativity and children’s agency for change. @childrensbooksireland.ie
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Scott Evans, The Reader Teacher

@thereaderteacher.bsky.social

1 year ago

Wow! Absolutely blown away to see All Brains Are Wonderful as the NEW #BooksforKeeps Book of the Week!

Thank you so much, @booksforkeeps.bsky.social

This book means the world to me and I’m thrilled it’s being celebrated like this 💛🧠

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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

1 year ago

The NEW #BooksforKeeps Book of the Week is a wonderful one: ALL BRAINS ARE WONDERFUL by Scott Evans @thereaderteacher.bsky.social published by the excellent @bsmallpublishing.bsky.social Give your grey matter a work out 🧠

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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

1 year ago

graphic showing the cover of Books for Keeps, the online children's books review journal, plus the cover of Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O'Connor's new book Beyond the Secret Garden. The book began as articles published in Books for Keeps over the last five years. You'll find them all on the BfK website, which is open to all.

It's the launch tonight of @darrenchetty.bsky.social & @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social book BEYOND THE SECRET GARDEN published by @engmediacentre.bsky.social. Explore their #BTSG columns in #BooksForKeeps & don't miss @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social interview #KidLit
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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

1 year ago

The cover of the forthcoming Books for Keeps children's journal with a flash reading Coming Soon. This is the 270th issue and contents include Authorgraph interview with Bunny Vs Monkey creator Jamie Smart, Windows into Illustration from Caroline Magerl, an interview with MG Leonard and a look ahead to what 2025 will bring, from new books to new initiatives. It's free to read and can be downloaded and printed at no cost too.

Out this week, the new #BooksForKeeps featuring Jamie Smart, Caroline Magerl, MG Leonard, our regular features inc Beyond the Secret Garden PLUS #ChildrensBooks editors reveal the books they're most excited to be publishing 2025. Sign up for our newsletter so you don't miss out booksforkeeps.co.uk

Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

1 year ago

Photographs of the four authors shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Children's Category: Catherine Bruton, Scarlett Dunsmore, Liz Hyder and Patrick Ness

Graphic with the four books - spine on - shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Children's Category: Bird Boy by Catherine Bruton, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness, How to Survive a Horror Movie by Scarlett Dunsmore and The Twelve by Liz Hyder.

ICYI - read interviews with each of the four authors on the shortlist for the #NeroBookAwards Children's Category now via #BooksForKeeps. Winner announced 14 January 25. Which is your pick? #Awards #KidLit
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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

1 year ago

Graphic advertising the Books for Keeps Christmas Gift Guide 2024. The must-give books of the year. With the cover of Books for Keeps November issue (Seasonal special) and covers of Jonty Gentoo, One Christmas Eve, The Christmas Mouse, King Winter's Birthday, Grimm's Fairytales, Shakespeare's Folio for Children, Beanie the Bansheenie, Welsh Giants, Ghosts and Goblins, The Forest of a Thousand Eyes, Lockett and Wilde's Dreadfully Haunting Mysteries, One Wise Sheelp, Cobweb and Fox Goes North.

It’s always a pleasure and a challenge to compile the #BooksforKeeps annual #Christmas Gift Guide. Our focus in 2024 is on reading for pleasure. We were sent several sleigh-loads of new books to choose from, find out what passed the elf test! 🎁🎄 #Hohoho booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/book...

Tanja at Good Night To Read

@gntread24.bsky.social

1 year ago

Such a pleasure to interview Catherine Fisher about her rich retelling of Welsh classic Culhwch ac Olwen & her wonderful fantasy worlds #booksforkeeps

Caroline Roche

@carolineroche.bsky.social

1 year ago

Am reading the wonderful #booksforkeeps magazine and making a long list of books to buy, both for the library and for children I love. If you don't yet subscribe, you are missing out!
#UKKidsLit #reading #schoollibrarians

Children's Book Project

@childrensbooksf.bsky.social

1 year ago

#ElectionDay is here and it's time to make your voice heard! #GoVote!!

Learn more about our mission at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Volunteer, and Donate!

#ChildrensBookProjectSF #NorCalNonProfit #GiveBooks #KidsBooks #BooksForKeeps #Literacy

Sara Stanley

@saralstan.bsky.social

2 years ago

When I started writing stories after my reception class had gone home for the day I never imagined I would read about 1 of them in #BooksForKeeps. Stories take years to germinate & bloom. Children need to know this. #readingforpleasure @TeresaCremin

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Catherine Friess @ Story Snug

@storysnug.com

2 years ago

The January issue of #BooksForKeeps is out: booksforkeeps.co.uk/wp-content/u...
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