Hey Pumpkins!
I’m October Jones & I’m…
📚 Children’s Librarian
💚 GLL Literary Foundation Champion
📚 Creator of ‘The Bigger Picture’ Project
💚 KidLit Book Award Judge
📚 YLG London Committee Member
💚 KidLit Fest Volunteer
💚 Around The Cauldron Podcast Host
✨ oh & I’m👇🏻
2 weeks to to go to #LibrariesChangeLives Week! For EVERY library in EVERY sector. Public, school, academic, health, workplace - all change lives every day. Celebrate the breadth of what libraries contribute to society & share your plans in comments 👇https://t.co/aM8W3Mittb
Calling all young princes, pixies and wizards! 🧙✨
Free Prince Kal activity sheets are now available to download — click the link in our bio and let the adventure begin! 👑🐊
🎉 Happy book-birthday to 5 fantastic new titles! 🎉
🐙 Baby Kraken by Ani Manzanas
📚️ Hupo and the Doom Lagoon and Hupo and the Wonder Thief (now in PB) by Billy Partridge
🔍️ Guess Who? In the Forest, and Guess Who? In the Desert by Owen Davey
“If we want our children to love reading, we have to let them choose for themselves” @JenniferKillick in this great piece in @thetimes on the popularity of #horror among young readers, featuring @DanSmithAuthor's terrifying #TheNightHouseFiles: https://t.co/8IFxfB4Pzg
WELCOME TO THE NEW LONDON CHILDREN'S LITERATURE FESTIVAL! Made in Barnes SW13 since 2015!
Same Festival. Same Folks. New Name.
Giant thanks and love, love, and more love to the genius that is #JamieSmart for our epic new poster!
Roll on June! https://t.co/SGLzEuOQts
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It’s #nationalsaveaspiderday & Mothering Sunday here in the U.K, so it feels right to spin a web of book recommendations celebrating the two.
Remember to Creep On Reading, Pumpkins and Support Your Spooky! 🎃
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Ta da! 🎉 Here's the cover for #DeathAtTheMuseum my 2nd children's book! Luke & Ava find a box with clues to a murder at the Natural History Museum in 1983 🦕💎🦖📦 @PuffinBooks and Marta Kissi have captured the story perfectly with this stunner! Out 4 June 🤩 Pre-order now!
🐊 Coming Soon! See You Later by April Suddendorf arrives on 2nd April! 🐈⬛
📖 See you later alligator...
Gary the alligator grows tired of his small, soggy swamp and decides a nearby human house would be far more comfortable and luxurious. How wrong he turns out to be!
📢 Bargain Alert! 📢 Pre-Order the second book in my middle grade A Box Full of Murders series #DeathAtTheMuseum online or in-app @Waterstones for a murderous 25%-off 💰 enter FEB26 at checkout 🤑 But hurry! Discount ends 20 Feb #WPreorder
Click link 👇
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Friends! My first cosy mini murder mystery for young readers is out in July! - and this week you can get 25% off by pre-ordering on https://t.co/33uhO01AL3 with the code FEB26
Murder on a Midsummer Night is a proper murder mystery in an easy-to-read package! 9+
🖌 Hannah Peck
Buy any of my books (or indeed any children's books) at https://t.co/f4zLNzX6P9 during February and 10% of the sale will go to @Booktrust and @scottishbktrust
🧡 Read it forward! 🧡 https://t.co/lttqME5vwH
When the moon is high, and the house is quiet… the Grumlyns come out to play!
Grumlyns is a riotous, rhyming, mischief-packed picture book from Fran & David Brylewski.
📆 Coming March 19th. Pre-order 👉 https://t.co/iFSUKpF3iv
#picturebooks