Caroline Fielding
@cazapr1.bsky.social
Chartered School Librarian, CILIP @YLGLondon Committee, National conference exhibition manager, Bea keeper. She/her
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Librarians! Fellow authors! You might find this article about Librarians supporting authors interesting:
"I did not have the good fortune of living with parents who loved reading or in a household filled with books, but I did have an excellent local library...now that I am an author, it is once again librarians who are helping me to flourish in the absence of other support" (scroll down to read my bit)
The GLL Literary Foundation One Year On – Books For Keeps
booksforkeeps.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Librarians! Fellow authors! You might find this article about Librarians supporting authors interesting:
Boosting, as obviously we have them all already #KidLitUK
BOOK GIVEAWAY!!! I'm not on social media much at the moment, working hard on my new book, which I feel sure will be my best one yet when it's done! In the meantime, I'm giving away signed copies of all my books so far. Follow & repost to enter, and say which book you'd like & why. Closes Dec 5!
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Boosting, as obviously we have them all already #KidLitUK
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CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
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Less than three weeks until December - have you got your advent book ready?? www.waterstones.com/book/stepfat...
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Less than three weeks until December - have you got your advent book ready?? www.waterstones.com/book/stepfat...
But do pop in or ring and ask, because I took a couple of bags of toys into a local charity shop last week and they said they weren't taking them at the moment!
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
But do pop in or ring and ask, because I took a couple of bags of toys into a local charity shop last week and they said they weren't taking them at the moment!
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We're THRILLED that The Gnome Book has been shortlisted for @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Book of the Year! The gnomes feel so proud to have been recognised in our world 🍬
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
We're THRILLED that The Gnome Book has been shortlisted for @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Book of the Year! The gnomes feel so proud to have been recognised in our world 🍬
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Directing to you all to this piece from 2021 in advance of the BBC and the Times maliciously raking up and rewriting painful history this week
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...
Pointing out racism in books is not an ‘attack’ – it’s a call for industry reform | Monisha Rajesh
I was called aggressive for criticising passages in Kate Clanchy’s memoir. But the real problem lies deep in the overwhelmingly white world of publishing
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Directing to you all to this piece from 2021 in advance of the BBC and the Times maliciously raking up and rewriting painful history this week
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...
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These articles elide exactly what Clanchy wrote in her book, so a reminder that she described girls going through puberty as having "Cypriot bosoms" and wearing "flirty hijabs". She also talked about Jewish noses and commented on the skull shapes of various children.
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
These articles elide exactly what Clanchy wrote in her book, so a reminder that she described girls going through puberty as having "Cypriot bosoms" and wearing "flirty hijabs". She also talked about Jewish noses and commented on the skull shapes of various children.
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We're so excited to announce that we have three books nominated for this year's @CarnegieMedals for Illustration! Huge congratulations to illustrators Billy Partridge, Neetols and Wenjia Tang!
#Carnegies2026 #MedalForIllustration #GraphicNovels #IllustratedNonFiction
#Carnegies2026 #MedalForIllustration #GraphicNovels #IllustratedNonFiction
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
We're so excited to announce that we have three books nominated for this year's @CarnegieMedals for Illustration! Huge congratulations to illustrators Billy Partridge, Neetols and Wenjia Tang!
#Carnegies2026 #MedalForIllustration #GraphicNovels #IllustratedNonFiction
#Carnegies2026 #MedalForIllustration #GraphicNovels #IllustratedNonFiction
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We’ve only gone and got ourselves nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration?!
Hugest congratulations to Logan Hanning for pulling this out of the bag for their debut book, and endless thanks to all the librarians who have given Elliot this chance to shine
💛🤍💜🖤
Non Binary November indeed!
Hugest congratulations to Logan Hanning for pulling this out of the bag for their debut book, and endless thanks to all the librarians who have given Elliot this chance to shine
💛🤍💜🖤
Non Binary November indeed!
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We’ve only gone and got ourselves nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration?!
Hugest congratulations to Logan Hanning for pulling this out of the bag for their debut book, and endless thanks to all the librarians who have given Elliot this chance to shine
💛🤍💜🖤
Non Binary November indeed!
Hugest congratulations to Logan Hanning for pulling this out of the bag for their debut book, and endless thanks to all the librarians who have given Elliot this chance to shine
💛🤍💜🖤
Non Binary November indeed!
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We are BEYOND delighted to have two nominations for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing!
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We are BEYOND delighted to have two nominations for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing!
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
The 2026 Carnegies nominations are live! 🎉 Join us in celebrating the exceptional storytelling and illustration recognised this year. 🏆 Get ready for an inspiring awards season! Congrats to all nominees! 📖❤️
https://carnegies.co.uk/nominations-announced-2026
#Carnegies2026
https://carnegies.co.uk/nominations-announced-2026
#Carnegies2026
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Some faves on these lists #Carnegies2026
The 2026 Carnegies nominations are live! 🎉 Join us in celebrating the exceptional storytelling and illustration recognised this year. 🏆 Get ready for an inspiring awards season! Congrats to all nominees! 📖❤️
https://carnegies.co.uk/nominations-announced-2026
#Carnegies2026
https://carnegies.co.uk/nominations-announced-2026
#Carnegies2026
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Some faves on these lists #Carnegies2026
First Tiny Owl now Knights Of (& presumably more that have gone under my niche radar). So dispiriting for book buyers & devastating for their authors/illustrators.
The news is out so I can finally point at this. Yes this is my publisher of the Vivi novels. I’m devastated that another company started to change things up in this industry has failed to thrive. I don’t know any more so pls be compassionate to the authors.
www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...
www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
First Tiny Owl now Knights Of (& presumably more that have gone under my niche radar). So dispiriting for book buyers & devastating for their authors/illustrators.
I made Alom's curry a few times last year & will do so again with some of these beauties we picked last week
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I made Alom's curry a few times last year & will do so again with some of these beauties we picked last week
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And no, I haven’t the slightest idea why I didn’t include the link. Here you go, only £5:
thearzner.com/TheArzner.dl...
thearzner.com/TheArzner.dl...
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
And no, I haven’t the slightest idea why I didn’t include the link. Here you go, only £5:
thearzner.com/TheArzner.dl...
thearzner.com/TheArzner.dl...
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Copies of STEPFATHER CHRISTMAS are up, in time for the festive season! The best way to read this book is like an advent calendar - one chapter a day - so don’t miss out!
October 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Copies of STEPFATHER CHRISTMAS are up, in time for the festive season! The best way to read this book is like an advent calendar - one chapter a day - so don’t miss out!
If only there actually was such a team in the addiction clinic!
![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
10
woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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October 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If only there actually was such a team in the addiction clinic!
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Love these!
Do you like scary movies? With animals in? Have resurrected some prints. Signed, A3 and available from Fiveways Arts and Crafts, Brighton. Online here:
fivewaysartsandcrafts.com/search?q=nad...
fivewaysartsandcrafts.com/search?q=nad...
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Love these!
It is learning to learn & question & research & digest information & form opinions. & to commit to something & build willpower & stamina & self-direction & a capability to endure tedium after 4 hours sleep & with a hangover. So many lessons learnt at uni are nothing to do with the course you choose.
Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees
Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results
If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one
Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results
If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
It is learning to learn & question & research & digest information & form opinions. & to commit to something & build willpower & stamina & self-direction & a capability to endure tedium after 4 hours sleep & with a hangover. So many lessons learnt at uni are nothing to do with the course you choose.
👶 Out of all the baby books we looked at, we found just two by British Own Voice creators.
These books deserve to be celebrated — because representation starts with the very first stories children read.
#IBCExcludedVoicesReport
These books deserve to be celebrated — because representation starts with the very first stories children read.
#IBCExcludedVoicesReport
October 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
#KidLitUK a great letter
An Open Letter to the Book Trade, Educators and Reading Community from Walker Books: In defence of stories that challenge, inspire and transform
Read the full open letter: www.walker.co.uk/an-open-lett...
Read the full open letter: www.walker.co.uk/an-open-lett...
October 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
#KidLitUK a great letter