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Carnegie Shortlisted Author. Lives in a House with Chicken Legs. Speaks Bear. Tangles Magic. Sings Storms.❄️The Snow Girl❄️
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A thread of gorgeous new books to celebrate! 🥳🎉🎉🎉First up, in picture books... 🌽Zeki Goes to the Market by Anna McQuinn & Ruth Hearson 🍚The Best Jollof Rice Ever! by @onyinyeiwu.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Discover 18 books "full of love, hope and joy": the #JhalakPrize25 shortlists were announced this morning! ✨ The Jhalak Prize celebrates the very best books by writers of colour - find the three dazzling shortlists in a bookshop near you 📚 Find out more: www.nationalbooktokens.com/the-jhalak-p...

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Happy Publication Day! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 I LOVED Peter Stevenson's Welsh Folk Tales so I'm hugely excited about this next book! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

I'm going to make a friend @darrenchetty.bsky.social & Sandhya Prabhat is a beautiful, thoughtful & fantastically fun celebration of friend-making, perfect to pour over & ponder, spark imaginations & stimulate conversations. Destined to become a firm favourite! 01/05 @littletigeruk.bsky.social 🤖

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Hooray for more chicken related puns in headlines! 🐤

submitted 67 days ago • 9 comments

Usborne has inked a “major” six-figure three-book with Sophie Anderson, the first title of which will be the sequel to her global bestselling debut, The House with Chicken Legs. 👇 #BookSky

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

This is lovely news for an author I admire and interesting from a publishing POV - Usborne has traditionally done in house fairy tale collections, an author-led one is a brand new thing for them, alongside Sophie's fiction www.thebookseller.com/rights/usbor... #KidLitUK @sophieanderson.bsky.social

submitted 67 days ago • 5 comments

Are you ready to run with the house again? 🛖🐤🧙‍♀️💀✨ I'm thrilled to announce the sequel to The House with Chicken Legs will publish next year, with cover art by Melissa Castrillon & internal illustrations by Elisa Paganelli 🤩 You can find out more here 👉 bit.ly/4ceu7xu 🗞️🙏💜

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

I'm sharing some EXCITING news on Monday and you can hear it on my newsletter first 👇📚🎉

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Huge thanks to ALCS and all the teachers, librarians and other professionals who photocopied extracts of my books and logged this. As always, these payments are hugely appreciated and make a big difference to creatives' ability to make a living creating! 🙏🖊️📚

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I have LOTS and LOTS of exciting booky news on the way... if you'd like to be the first to hear it, you can sign up to my (infrequent and irregular!) newsletter at the link below (if you haven't already!) 👇🙏📚💕 sendfox.com/sophieanders...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

🖤 Rest in peace, Rest in power, sharing love and condolences with all family and friends, all of our writing family and community and all students of the mighty Alex Wheatle. What a loss. Thank you Alex.

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

One of my fave times of the year - the announcement of the Jhalak Prize longlist. I'm going to have to add some of these to my ever-growing reading list 😍. Glad to see Flower Block on there too, a wonderful picture book!

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

While I fully understand the anxiety some authors have about school visits, as a Black children’s book creator, I definitely underestimated the impact me showing up at a school visit has on a child and their worldview of who gets to do what for a living…especially on the Black children present.

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

It's been a privilege to have a platform to highlight topics I care so deeply about - @booktrust.org.uk writer in residence (outgoing).

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

For all the authors now home safe after a busy WBD-week last week, I've made a follow-up to @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social's bingo to help you remember the happy times! 📚♥️

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment