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Lucy Jakes 🌸

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28 | UK | Waterstones Children’s Buyer 📚 Rebellions are built on hope ✨️ she/her

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Working on this prize is always the highlight of my year. I could not be prouder of our shortlist and the incredible talent it celebrates - booksellers have chosen so incredibly well! ❤️📚✨️

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Hands up if you remember Ellie, Magda and Nadine?! Fans of Jacqueline Wilson's Girls series will be thrilled to hear that THINK AGAIN is the brand new adult novel following the trio as they navigate life in their late thirties. Signed Edition: bit.ly/43vwt6S

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the MOST gorgeous night celebrating 20 years of Waterstones Children’s Book Prize! congrats to winners old and new and congrats to all the wonderful people involved in planning such a lovely eve, especially my Lucy Jakes 🌸 !!

the MOST gorgeous night celebrating 20 years of Waterstones Children’s Book Prize! congrats to winners old and new and congrats to all the wonderful people involved in planning such a lovely eve, especially my <a href="/loofyjakes/">Lucy Jakes 🌸</a> !!
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It’s not lost on me that Isr*el is invading Rafah within 24 hours of the Met Gala. While our timelines are flooded by rich people parading around in unnecessary designs, Isr*el is using our distraction to enact their 10,000th war crime. First the Oscars, now the Met Gala.

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I’ve been keeping a BIG Skandar secret but I can finally tell you the most magical news. The 4th book in the Skandar series will be released in October THIS YEAR! It’s a thank you to every fan who has made these unicorns soar 💚 Pre-orders are now live: linktr.ee/skandar4

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I can't express how delighted I am that book 4 is coming this year - book 3 left me BREATHLESS and I'm absolutely dying to return to return to the island in October 🦄💚 Annabel you are a marvel!!

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Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang is not here has had me in a vice-like grip for over a week, and now I'm trying not to cry on my commute having just finished it. I am BEREFT. Please please please everyone read this when it's out in Oct - it's THE BEST academic fantasy and I'm OBSESSED

Blood Over Bright Haven by <a href="/M_L_Wang/">M.L. Wang is not here</a> has had me in a vice-like grip for over a week, and now I'm trying not to cry on my commute having just finished it. I am BEREFT. Please please please everyone read this when it's out in Oct - it's THE BEST academic fantasy and I'm OBSESSED
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The trailer for ‘A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER’ starring Emma Myers and Zain Iqbal has been released. Premiering this July.

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🍃COVER REVEAL🍃 Unicorn riders face their greatest fears in SKANDAR AND THE SKELETON CURSE coming October 2024… Cover design by the earth-shatteringly brilliant Simon & Schuster Children's Books & illustrated by extraordinary Two Dots 💚 I hope you love it as much as I do! Pre-order now!

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From Waterstones Children's Book Prize winner Elle McNicoll comes a heartwarming wintry YA romance as Jasper Montgomery unwittingly causes havoc and falls in love on her final visit to her hometown. Pre-order SOME LIKE IT COLD here: exyu.short.gy/oewDe9 Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙

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For over a year, I’ve run a middle-grade book club (for kids aged 10 to 12) at my local indie bookstore. Here are ten observations about their reading preferences that might be helpful to children’s book professionals in some small way. 🧵

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Judging for #BAMBReadersAwards this year was a huge joy! I'm thrilled to bits with the shortlists and can't wait to see who wins! ✨️📚

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Just announced! Samantha Harvey wins the #BookerPrize2024 for Orbital, her deeply human saga of six astronauts in space, which combines an urgent message about the state of our planet with luminous hope and a refusal to sink into despair: waterstones.com/category/cultu…

Just announced! Samantha Harvey wins the #BookerPrize2024 for Orbital, her deeply human saga of six astronauts in space, which combines an urgent message about the state of our planet with luminous hope and a refusal to sink into despair: waterstones.com/category/cultu…
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Could not be more thrilled! I Am Rebel is honestly a classic in the making, and it deserves to be read and beloved by every child.💙

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Last night we revealed our Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 winner, The Cafe At The Edge of The Woods, the brilliantly funny and enchanting debut from author/ illustrator Mikey Please! #WCBP25 Learn more here: bit.ly/3w9ZuZb HarperCollins Children's Books

Last night we revealed our Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 winner, The Cafe At The Edge of The Woods, the brilliantly funny and enchanting debut from author/ illustrator <a href="/MisterPlease/">Mikey Please</a>! #WCBP25

Learn more here: bit.ly/3w9ZuZb <a href="/HarperCollinsCh/">HarperCollins Children's Books</a>