I'm passionate about making creative opportunities accessible to everyone because everyone should have a chance to follow their dreams & we need to hear all voices.

This autumn I'm looking for a new mentee for my free mentoring scheme for under-represented children's writers (https://www.storygodmother.co.uk/index.php/opportunities/mentoring/ )

And searching for the next recipient of the David Banks Performers Fund - that supports a drama school student from a low income background.

Exciting times!

#AccessibleArts
#KidLit

I'm passionate about making creative opportunities accessible to everyone because everyone should have a chance to follow their dreams & we need to hear all voices.

This autumn I'm looking for a new mentee for my free mentoring scheme for under-represented children's writers (https://www.storygodmother.co.uk/index.php/opportunities/mentoring/ )

And searching for the next recipient of the David Banks Performers Fund - that supports a drama school student from a low income background.

Exciting times!

#AccessibleArts
#KidLit

“In the year C.S. Lewis published THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE, 1950, Naomi Mitchison published a very different fantasy novel for children”

—Prof Rob Maslen on how Naomi Mitchison’s THE BIG HOUSE mixes folklore, class war, global conflicts, & the supernatural

7/9

https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/naomi-mitchison-the-big-house-1950/

#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #Kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #fantasy

CROSSROADS & COINS

“Where might I have gone if, instead of a middle-aged Hobbit enamored of his pantry, I had embraced a girl who lost three homes before choosing the open road?”

—Amal El-Mohtar on discovering Naomi Mitchison’s strange children’s fantasy TRAVEL LIGHT, for @NPR

8/9

https://www.npr.org/2014/01/01/258384937/crossroads-and-coins-naomi-mitchisons-travel-light

#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #fantasy

CROSSROADS & COINS

“Where might I have gone if, instead of a middle-aged Hobbit enamored of his pantry, I had embraced a girl who lost three homes before choosing the open road?”

—Amal El-Mohtar on discovering Naomi Mitchison’s strange children’s fantasy TRAVEL LIGHT, for @NPR

8/9

https://www.npr.org/2014/01/01/258384937/crossroads-and-coins-naomi-mitchisons-travel-light

#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #fantasy

“In the year C.S. Lewis published THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE, 1950, Naomi Mitchison published a very different fantasy novel for children”

—Prof Rob Maslen on how Naomi Mitchison’s THE BIG HOUSE mixes folklore, class war, global conflicts, & the supernatural

7/9

https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/naomi-mitchison-the-big-house-1950/

#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #Kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #fantasy

I wonder if anyone would be willing to do me a favour and read my book? It's a children's portal fantasy with a twisty/puzzly plot kind of more like the children's books of my childhood than the ones you get these days, except with diversity. And it's short, only about 30k words. Currently free on amazon (I'm plotting my escape from amazon, but it takes time).
#WritingCommunity #Writing #books #bookstodon #kidlit
https://mybook.to/yenP

I wonder if anyone would be willing to do me a favour and read my book? It's a children's portal fantasy with a twisty/puzzly plot kind of more like the children's books of my childhood than the ones you get these days, except with diversity. And it's short, only about 30k words. Currently free on amazon (I'm plotting my escape from amazon, but it takes time).
#WritingCommunity #Writing #books #bookstodon #kidlit
https://mybook.to/yenP

Hello #kidlitartpostcard ! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids.

🌟Open for 2026 projects for PB, GN, board & chapter books🌟

Portfolio - charlenechua.com
Agent - Tracy Marchini
@bookendsliterary.bsky.social

#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration

Hello #kidlitartpostcard ! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids.

🌟Open for 2026 projects for PB, GN, board & chapter books🌟

Portfolio - charlenechua.com
Agent - Tracy Marchini
@bookendsliterary.bsky.social

#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration

A question for poets, picture book authors, or perhaps English majors-- is there something about the rhythm of these particular kids books that makes them tiresome to read?

The content is fine, the art is lovely, and I enjoy reading plenty of other rhyming books. But these ones? So grating to adults. Kids seem to have no problem.

(Books incoming in replies.)

#KidLit #poetry #writers

A question for poets, picture book authors, or perhaps English majors-- is there something about the rhythm of these particular kids books that makes them tiresome to read?

The content is fine, the art is lovely, and I enjoy reading plenty of other rhyming books. But these ones? So grating to adults. Kids seem to have no problem.

(Books incoming in replies.)

#KidLit #poetry #writers

We had some great news today, and were over the moon to see my wife's book, 'The House At The Edge of Magic' shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Children's & YA Book Awards! A huge honour.
Congratulations to all the other authors and illustrators of course!
#bookstodon #books #kidlit #childrensbooks

Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins is a YA novel set in early 2000s Myanmar/Burma (the author uses Burma, but does have a note on why she chose to do so). It's about a 15 year old who is forced into being a child soldier. It was easy to read- I read it in a day- but definitely not an easy subject matter. It did come with a happy for now ending, but let's be real about where Myanmar/Burma is now- war. I do wish that it had contained more historical context.

@bookstodon
#books#KidLit