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PICTURE BOOK AWARD SHORTLIST
• A Million Chameleons - Rachel Morrisroe & Aysha Awwad
• Basil Dreams Big - Lu Fraser & Sarah Warburton
• Jenny Peckles Lays Eggs with Speckles - Rachel Emily & Paul Delaney
• Llama Library - Holly Ryan & Ella Bailey
• Tiny McToot - Barry Falls
ALT James Reckitt Hull Children's Book Award 2026 - Picture Book Award shortlist
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Feature on the Dirigible Balloon:
Pandora and the Story Forge
written by Gaynor Andrews @GooseyGandering
illustrated by Marie-Alice Harel
published by Rocket Bird Books @books_rocket
dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Pa…
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Delighted that Invisible Dogs by Ruby Wright has been shortlisted in the Picture Book category at the #IndieBookAwards 2025!
Congratulations Ruby and our fabulous @books_rocket team 🥳
✨ Picture Book Shortlist ✨
• Bear by Natalia Shaloshvili
• The Dinosaur Next Door by David Litchfield
• Farah Loves Mangoes by Sarthak Sinha
• The Golden Hare by Paddy Donnlley
• Invisible Dogs by Ruby Wright
• Runaway Cone by Morag Hood
#IndieBookAwards
ALT Image description Yellow, blue, green and pink asset featuring flowers and birds. The text says: INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025 Picture Book Shortlist #IndieBookAwards The asset features book jackets for the below titles. • Bear by Natalia Shaloshvili • The Dinosaur Next Door by David Litchfield • Farah Loves Mangoes by Sarthak Sinha • The Golden Hare by Paddy Donnlley • Invisible Dogs by Ruby Wright • Runaway Cone by Morag Hood
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This week's #StaffPicks feature books about family and friends of all kinds, for all ages.
Browse the selection now:
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@books_rocket @AndersenPress @BarringtonStoke @guppybooks @HachetteKids @AbramsChronicle @QuartoKids @LittleIslandBks
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Have you seen this yet? This is Slug Life by @MoeshaKellaway and published by @books_rocket, a vibrant celebration of these creatures for children in years 1 and 2! 🎉
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Our #BookOfTheDay is a brilliant read that combines the charm and characters of a narrative picture book with the facts and diagrams of non-fiction.
#SlugLife by @MoeshaKellaway is perfect for reading in school or at home:
booktrust.org.uk/book/s/slug… @books_rocket
ALT The front cover of Slug Life and a quote from our review: 'Fascinating... celebrates the world of slugs in a brilliantly fun way'
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Thank you Gaynor for popping in to sign your beautiful book Pandora and the Story Forge. @GooseyGandering @HarperCollinsUK @books_rocket
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GRANDAD’S STAR came with me on a special visit to The Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University recently! Lovely to meet Public Astronomer and author @Astronomy_Matt in person, too! ⭐️ @books_rocket ⭐️#RhianStone ⭐️@lucyirvine93 ⭐️
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Thrilled to have this wonderful review of GRANDAD’S STAR from @Astronomy_Matt 🔭. I was lucky enough to go to one of Matt’s brilliant astronomy talks recently— what a fab evening! If you get the chance, do go!! 🪐⭐️ @books_rocket ⭐️@lucyirvine93 ⭐️#RhianStone ⭐️
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Got this beauty yesterday written by Gaynor Andrews and illustrated by Marie-Alice Harel . Gorgeous all round, very special 🥰🌞📚 @GooseyGandering
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We are absolutely thrilled to announce the Longlist for the 2025 UKLA Book Awards, the only children's book awards judged by teachers.
#ukla #uklabookawards2025 #teacherbookawards
ukla.org/news/ukla-book-awar…
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CONGRATULATIONS to all the longlisted stories on the @The_UKLA Book Awards!
Astounding collection and BEYOND ecstatic to see the “spooky” creeping in there too 🖤
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I chose 14 of the 22 illustrators on @The_UKLA Book Awards 3-6 longlist for #NewIllustrationoftheDay. I seem to be of a mind with teachers.
We are absolutely thrilled to announce the Longlist for the 2025 UKLA Book Awards, the only children's book awards judged by teachers.
#ukla #uklabookawards2025 #teacherbookawards
ukla.org/news/ukla-book-awar…
Rocket Bird is over the moon that TWO of our titles are longlisted for this year's UKLA Book Awards!
Doris by Lo Cole in the 3-6 category and Slug Life by Moesha Kellaway in 3-14 information category. Congrats @MoeshaKellaway and @lo_cole!
@The_UKLA #UKLA25 #teachersbookawards
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Today is World Alzheimers Day... the perfect day to share GRANDAD'S STAR. With words by me, illustrations by #RhianStone, published by @books_rocket, this book sensitively introduces the theme of Alzheimers in a child-friendly way. alzheimers.org.uk @alzheimerssoc 💙⭐️
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Lovely to spot these in @WaterstonesPicc ! 🐭✒️@SOCillustration @publishinguclan 📙@books_rocket #RhianStone ⭐️🔭 Thanks Waterstones for stocking these! 🥰
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So pleased that GRANDAD’S STAR has joined the #BooksThatHelp list for Dementia and Alzheimers… @books_rocket #RhianStone @alzheimerssoc @DementiaFriends @DementiaUK @YoungDemNetwork 🌟
📚💛 BOOKS THAT HELP 💛📚
Are you looking to gently introduce children to memory loss? There's a new review on the #BooksThatHelp site:
GRANDAD’S STAR (@FrancesTosdevin #RhianStone)
booksthathelp.co.uk/dementia…
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❤️ Friday reads! This week it's the turn of Grace who has chosen 'Invisible Dogs', perfect for children just starting school by Ruby Wright @books_rocket and 'Kind, A Call to Care for Every Creature' full of reminders we could all learn from, by Jess McGeachin @AllenAndUnwin 📚
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This brilliant debut by✍️@GooseyGandering, stunningly illustrated by 🎨#MarieAliceHarel, is the perfect choice for a bedtime story, a quiet afternoon read, or to kickstart a discussion about words and #storytelling!
📚@books_rocket
Full review here👇
mybookcorner.co.uk/pandora-a…
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“Sam Francisco- a riot of a book”
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Thanks so much for choosing our book for your ace podcast @Mostly_BookTalk
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@books_rocket @binnytalib @peachjamcloset
Episode 11 now available. An interview with @jacobsw about his picture book What Rosa Brought, illustrated by @WheelerStudio @KTegenBooks plus chat about other picture books (old and new) that have caught our attention recently #RfP #booktalk
