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Farrah Riaz

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London writer ✨ picture book The Twirly Wiggly Dance available now to buy✨ #WritingCommunity #2024debut Insta: farr.ahriaz

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@mariesadulak.bsky.social congratulations on your lovely new book. I ♥️ the story’s message about animals needing our compassion, respect and care & the strength of human connection, showing how understanding and love can inspire us to do what’s right—for each other and for the world around us.

01.05.2025 12:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

You can make a change 📢 Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter ✒️ authr.uk/sp40 #MakeitFair #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing

27.03.2025 18:37 👍 161 🔁 135 💬 0 📌 28

Yay!!!!🥳

25.03.2025 15:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ooo what a great selection!! Congrats everyone 😁 and special shoutout to fellow #2024Debuts
@zeenagos.bsky.social @sharadakeats.bsky.social 😊♥️
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25.03.2025 15:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well done / so well deserved!! ♥️♥️

25.03.2025 10:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

10 book deal!!!! 🥳🥳Congratulations @jolyons.bsky.social Your wonderful #RomCom stories are a pleasure to read- with wonderful characters. Can’t wait for @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social to start releasing them 🥰😍⬇️⬇️⬇️

25.03.2025 10:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

👀 New Loki book ⬇️
#ukkidlit

19.03.2025 10:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks for the boost @louiestowell.bsky.social 😊

19.03.2025 09:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Join me at Pickled Pepper on Saturday, 29th March @2pm for a fun filled afternoon with an interactive story session -fun activities, and crafting! ⬇️

Book tickets : www.pickledpepperbooks.co.uk/collections/...

#ukkidlit #childrenevents #authorevents

18.03.2025 21:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Objection to the Government's Proposed Copyright Exemption for Generative AI Training To add your name to this letter, please fill and submit the form at the bottom. Wednesday 12th February 2025: We are some among the 2.4 million working in the UK creative industries. We are staring i...

AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS please add your name to this open letter against the modification of our copyright law in favour of AI!
#kidlitUK #HandsOffOurCopyright

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

13.02.2025 13:27 👍 39 🔁 34 💬 5 📌 4

And I joined the library! Double hurrah. ♥️
#libraries #reading #ukkidlit

23.02.2025 09:37 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Oo yes please- I’d like to be added. ♥️

22.02.2025 18:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Virtual author visit with Alex Falase-Koya. Wednesday 12 March at 11am for years 3 & 4." Plus the logos of BookTrust Represents and Enterprise Mobility, a photo of Alex Falase-Koya smiling with a hedge in the background, and the front cover of The Breakfast Club Adventures

"Virtual author visit with Alex Falase-Koya. Wednesday 12 March at 11am for years 3 & 4." Plus the logos of BookTrust Represents and Enterprise Mobility, a photo of Alex Falase-Koya smiling with a hedge in the background, and the front cover of The Breakfast Club Adventures

We're thrilled that our next #BookTrustRepresents virtual author visit is with Alex Falase-Koya!

Join us on 12 March for a super session with Alex, ideal for Years 3 and 4 - plus, 60 registered schools will receive 60 free books.

Book your spot now 👇

www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/p...

20.02.2025 14:30 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
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🌟I’ll be doing a #thetwirlywigglydance #storytime at the newly refurbished Burnt Ash Library -Bromley Libraries on Saturday 22 February⭐️🌟💫

Come join us for the reopening 😊

www.better.org.uk/library/lond...
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20.02.2025 16:19 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Brilliant!! Thank you for having me. I learnt so much and it was lovely having the children interact with the story. Wonderful. 😁♥️

31.01.2025 12:43 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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💫#ukkidlit #picturebooks The Space Between, is a beautiful book about #moving houses and learning to appreciate the spaces between what’s passed and what’s to come. Time is a gift and to enjoy every stage written @clarehelenwelsh.bsky.social illustrated by Fiona Lumbers @andersenpress.bsky.social

22.01.2025 15:00 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Booklovers' Retreats Luxury Bookish Getaways

⭐️ BOOK NOW -READING RETREAT MAY 2025 Cosy Crime Edition 09/05/25-12/05/25
Idyllic getaway in Cornwall
“All meals cooked for you and you can just relax, chat about your favourite books, joined by author guests and your fellow book lovers”.
bookloversretreats.com
#reading #luxuryretreats #bookclubs

21.01.2025 11:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can’t wait to read it ♥️😁⬇️ @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social

18.01.2025 19:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So proud to announce that my new picture book will be out in the states on the first week of February. Little Rhino Lost, written by me, Candy Gourlay, and illustrated by Jamie Bauza, published by Crocodile Books.

UK: Out in March published by
@otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

17.01.2025 17:06 👍 38 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 2

Oh yes, it’s brilliant to read aloud. So much fun doing all the different voices and meeting the delightful characters #2024debuts Book2 OUT NOW Book3 out November 2025. 😁🥳⬇️

18.01.2025 05:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@jofranklinbooks.bsky.social 😳 crikey.
Im bringing chocolate 🍫 that’s what writers need too 😀

16.01.2025 19:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Congrats 🥳

16.01.2025 13:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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And here they are! We're incredibly pleased and proud of this selection and we can't wait to hear what pupils think of them! #Spark2025Shortlist 📚❤️✨

16.01.2025 11:19 👍 30 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 6
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@catherinebruton.bsky.social and I celebrating BIRDBOY’S shortlisting for the NERO Book Awards with a sneaky coffee and cake !! #kidlit #mglit #prizes #readingforpleasure #literacy

16.01.2025 13:07 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Defo one of the best episodes!! So good. 😊 we’re just about to watch uncloaked now 😁

10.01.2025 22:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🌨️ Flow with the Snow, by Oliver Averill and me, has been awarded the @booksfortopics.bsky.social Book of the Year for KS1 Curriculum Support and shortlisted for the @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social Picture Book of the Year! Download teaching resources here ⬇️
www.roberttregoning.com/activity-she... ❄️

08.01.2025 08:32 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2025 Enter The Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2025 here.


The Macmillan Prize for Illustration is awarded for an unpublished children’s picture book. Submissions are open (UK residents only) for 2025!

www.panmacmillan.com/mac-prize-en...

08.01.2025 10:38 👍 12 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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✨My first post 😊
I’m a #2024debuts with my first #picturebooks The Twirly Wiggly Dance - 💃🏻 🕺 illustrations are gorgeous and done by Navya Raju ♥️ and we published with Oxford University Press.🥳

I have lots of stories simmering in the background and meanwhile here to support the #WritingCommunity 👋✨

07.01.2025 12:12 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0