ACHUKA Books of the Day 2025 week #25 • I Am Not Jessica Chen Ann Liang • Snow White And The Seven Bears Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 David Melling • Livia In Rome Bruna De Luca • The Sun Thief Alice Hemming • Beneath The Waves National Trust Nosy Crow achuka.co.uk/blog/books-of-…

Tears in my eyes listening to Frank Cottrell-Boyce's keynote speech at the UKLA conference this morning - so much joy and hope, and a profound focus on the human relationships at the heart of #readingforpleasure

Could Rome be where the heart is? 💗 16 year old Livia is spending the summer in her grandmother’s bar in Rome. Smug local boy Giulio works there too, and quickly becomes Livia’s nemesis. She is NOT going to be the cliché foreign girl who has a summer romance . . . right?

😃🌱A joyful story choice from our Preschool Booklist IS IT A SEED?: booksfortopics.com/book/is-it-a-s… ✅ Contemporary nature-themed picturebook ✅ Captures the wonder of planting seeds ✅ Celebrates curiosity & imagination ✅ EYFS curriculum links ✅ Resource sheets available

Calling all authors and illustrators. Would you like to take part in the biggest signed book auction in the world? We have begun building this year's site for Children in Read and would love for you to take part, simply reply to this post. All proceeds are in aid of BBC Children in Need .

The stellar and glorious Bruna De Luca Chicken House celebrating the launch of #LiviainRome at The Edinburgh Bookshop. Isn't it lush? Hearty congrats. 😊 Can't wait to read. 🤩😍🥳🍰📚

The sun is shining for Book Birthday!! 🎂 We are so exciting to be publishing 2 fabulous titles today: LIVIA IN ROME by Bruna De Luca MISSION: MONSTER MIND by Philip Kavvadias Pop into your local indies today to grab your copies! ☀️

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🎉🎉 IT'S PUBLICATION DAY!! 🎉🎉 My new YA fake dating romance, REAL WHEN I'M WITH YOU, is out today! It's the book of my heart – with an autistic main character and a love interest with ADHD. It's no longer my story – now it's yours to read and fall in love with ❤️

If you're around the St Andrews area on 23rd August, come along to this and say hello to me and Dotty!

A lovely afternoon in Windsor celebrating the launch of Philip Kavvadias’s third Microraptor book, Mission Monster Mind!

👀📚Check out my JULY 2025 Children’s Books I’m Most Excited About video on my YouTube channel. Please subscribe! 📖🌟Each month, I put together #ComingSoon videos previewing my most anticipated children’s books releases to bump up your TBRs! ➡️ youtu.be/n5J9L02tddY?fe…

Reading is transformative so I’m 100% behind a National Year of Reading but instead of shaming parents/carers (“put our phones down and pick up a book”) let’s focus on access and choice for children. That includes reversing library closures and funding cuts.

It's the summer of LOVE! ☀️ Join debut author ASLI JENSEN this summer across the UK as she shares all about her new novel LOVE ON SIGHT and the magic of falling in love for the first time . . . #UKYA #LOVEONSIGHT #ASLIJENSEN #CHICKENHOUSEBOOKS

Today's review...'Livia in Rome' Bruna De Luca Chicken House Perfect summer reading- I'm off to book a trip to Rome! throughthebookshelf.com/reviews/livia-…

South Asian Heritage Month is just around the corner and I have NEWS! Announcing SUPER UMA with the amazing Nakul P. A feel-good story about sensory overload, empathy and teamwork with ‘JOYFUL SOUTH ASIAN REPRESENTATION.’ Out in April 2026! PuffinBooks Lydia Silver

.PuffinBooks has signed Super Uma, a feel-good picture book written by @rashmiwriting and illustrated by Nakul P bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

Celebrate rebellious summer romance with authors Asli Jensen and Tanya Byrne, hosted by Abiola Bello, with their latest YA novels at Waterstones Piccadilly, London! ✨ Book tickets👉 loom.ly/d6Acoh0

Catch us in Rome for the sun-drenched romance of the summer ☀️ A clean teen Italian adventure for fans of TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE & LOVE AND GELATO Could Rome be where the heart is? 💞

Melanda Notwitch is planning to break her parents out of the Dark and Horrible and Disgusting Prison for Witches. But first, she and Mitch will have to find a way in. All they need is a spell that will get them arrested. What could possibly go wrong?