Alberta Torres
@albertatorres.bsky.social
#kidlit illustrator, author, designer in London, UK | She/her | Rep'd by Clare Wallace @ DarleyAnderson Illustration Agency
Books with Tiger Tales, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Giunti.
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Books with Tiger Tales, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Giunti.
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🚫AI
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The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners.
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
January 12, 2026 at 8:02 AM
The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners.
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
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🎶 I don’t want a lot for Christmas
I just want one thing from you.
For that A.I. bubble to burst,
And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶
🎄
I just want one thing from you.
For that A.I. bubble to burst,
And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶
🎄
December 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🎶 I don’t want a lot for Christmas
I just want one thing from you.
For that A.I. bubble to burst,
And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶
🎄
I just want one thing from you.
For that A.I. bubble to burst,
And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶
🎄
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Authors including Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman have backed plans to give newborn babies automatic library cards, following a proposal by think tank the Cultural Policy Unit.
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Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman back proposal to give newborns automatic library cards
Authors including Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman have backed plans to give newborn babies automatic library cards, following a proposal by think tank the Cultural Policy Unit.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Authors including Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman have backed plans to give newborn babies automatic library cards, following a proposal by think tank the Cultural Policy Unit.
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Ok. So, if OpenAi can buy a 3-year licence from Disney, then all AI companies can afford to buy licenses from all artists worldwide and stop stealing people's work.
FFS.
FFS.
It's a whole new world for Mickey, Simba, Stitch and more as Disney brings hundreds of its characters to Sora, the short-form video platform from OpenAI, as part of a three-year licensing agreement. n.pr/44ph9KC
Billion-dollar OpenAI deal allows users to make content with Disney characters
It's a whole new world for Mickey, Simba, Stitch and more as Disney brings hundreds of its characters to Sora, the short-form video platform from OpenAI, as part of a three-year licensing agreement.
n.pr
December 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Ok. So, if OpenAi can buy a 3-year licence from Disney, then all AI companies can afford to buy licenses from all artists worldwide and stop stealing people's work.
FFS.
FFS.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
I often think I don't know sh*t because I didn't go to art school...but I've got over 10 books under my belt, and over a decade of work in the design industry too (which helped a lot in making my illustration practice eddicient).. However, I never know *how* to share my knowledge..
Share your knowledge if/when you can. Teaching other people how to do what you do doesn’t lessen your art - it just means more and better art for everyone.
I appreciate when people are willing to tell me about their brushes, how they study, etc… I want to put that back out into the world.
I appreciate when people are willing to tell me about their brushes, how they study, etc… I want to put that back out into the world.
December 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I often think I don't know sh*t because I didn't go to art school...but I've got over 10 books under my belt, and over a decade of work in the design industry too (which helped a lot in making my illustration practice eddicient).. However, I never know *how* to share my knowledge..
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1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
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London #kidlitUK folks! I'm giving away my small collection of the last 9 issues of Carousel magazine (from Winter 2016 to Winter 2019). Pick up from E3 or can meet in Central. Any takers?
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
London #kidlitUK folks! I'm giving away my small collection of the last 9 issues of Carousel magazine (from Winter 2016 to Winter 2019). Pick up from E3 or can meet in Central. Any takers?
Two days of not being able to work because Photoshop isn't able to open a single JPG. @adobe.com I'm this much away from ditching you forever.
(Yes, I did update my graphics driver, yes I did update the app).
#photoshop
(Yes, I did update my graphics driver, yes I did update the app).
#photoshop
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Two days of not being able to work because Photoshop isn't able to open a single JPG. @adobe.com I'm this much away from ditching you forever.
(Yes, I did update my graphics driver, yes I did update the app).
#photoshop
(Yes, I did update my graphics driver, yes I did update the app).
#photoshop
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Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award
Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award
Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce
• ‘The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce
The Booker prize foundation has launched a major new literary award, the Children’s Booker prize, offering £50,000 for the best fiction written for readers aged eight to 12.
The new award will launch in 2026, with the first winner announced in early 2027. It will be decided by a mixed panel of adult and child judges, a first for a Booker award. The inaugural chair of judges will be Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the children’s author and current children’s laureate. He will be joined by two other adult judges, who will help select a shortlist of eight books before three child judges are recruited to help decide the winner. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award
That AI video must be the most unhinged meta thing I've ever seen: sh*t depicting a giant sh*t sh*thing sh*t.
October 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
That AI video must be the most unhinged meta thing I've ever seen: sh*t depicting a giant sh*t sh*thing sh*t.
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So many jokes going around all my social media things right now about the prez' neck and what bothers me the most about it? They compare it to a vagina.
People! It looks like a vulva!
A vulva!
Get your anatomy right, please.
People! It looks like a vulva!
A vulva!
Get your anatomy right, please.
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
So many jokes going around all my social media things right now about the prez' neck and what bothers me the most about it? They compare it to a vagina.
People! It looks like a vulva!
A vulva!
Get your anatomy right, please.
People! It looks like a vulva!
A vulva!
Get your anatomy right, please.
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gene kelly is antifa
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
gene kelly is antifa
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I think there should be an imprint called Star Fucker Books that only signs celebrities and social media stars. I mostly think the purpose is for big 5 publishers to have the odd famous person at their events and for their corporate promos.
October 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I think there should be an imprint called Star Fucker Books that only signs celebrities and social media stars. I mostly think the purpose is for big 5 publishers to have the odd famous person at their events and for their corporate promos.
No work for months and then ALL the work AT ONCE. Thankful to past me for all the afternoon naps I've taken.
October 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
No work for months and then ALL the work AT ONCE. Thankful to past me for all the afternoon naps I've taken.
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One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books
A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Went to see Éiru, Cartoon Saloon's latest short, last night. So so good. 13 minutes of beautiful entertainment packed with meaning, from fellow compatriot Giovanna Ferrari. #éiru
October 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Went to see Éiru, Cartoon Saloon's latest short, last night. So so good. 13 minutes of beautiful entertainment packed with meaning, from fellow compatriot Giovanna Ferrari. #éiru
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'Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth', the seventh in our highly-illustrated series, is out now!
Available at all good bookshops!
🐭🐭✍️✍️
@philipreeve.bsky.social
@dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
Available at all good bookshops!
🐭🐭✍️✍️
@philipreeve.bsky.social
@dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
'Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth', the seventh in our highly-illustrated series, is out now!
Available at all good bookshops!
🐭🐭✍️✍️
@philipreeve.bsky.social
@dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
Available at all good bookshops!
🐭🐭✍️✍️
@philipreeve.bsky.social
@dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
I've also delivered the roughs for my next picture book this morning, almost a whole week ahead of deadline. And today was supposed to be a day off as I did I live event yesterday. Relax is my second name...not.
Today I made a whole new section on my website which is basically an entirely new website. Because my creative career has taken a new route yet again... and so now I probably should add website design to my skills and services. No, I won't, I'm joking. I'm a creative octopus, though 🐙
October 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I've also delivered the roughs for my next picture book this morning, almost a whole week ahead of deadline. And today was supposed to be a day off as I did I live event yesterday. Relax is my second name...not.
Today I made a whole new section on my website which is basically an entirely new website. Because my creative career has taken a new route yet again... and so now I probably should add website design to my skills and services. No, I won't, I'm joking. I'm a creative octopus, though 🐙
October 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Today I made a whole new section on my website which is basically an entirely new website. Because my creative career has taken a new route yet again... and so now I probably should add website design to my skills and services. No, I won't, I'm joking. I'm a creative octopus, though 🐙
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Tilly Norwood sounds like a junction gap north of London where the chips are shit
October 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Tilly Norwood sounds like a junction gap north of London where the chips are shit