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Helen Docherty
@helendocherty.bsky.social
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Children's author (Superwolf, Someone Just Like You, The Snatchabook), language nerd & mum of teenagers. I love broccoli & dark chocolate (but not together). Gower / Wales / Cymru. SoA. I will probably post pictures of my dog as well. www.helendocherty.com
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Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social · Jun 2
✨🐦 KERFUFFLE BIRD is out this week!!! 🐦✨
Illustrated by Gwen Millward @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

Huge thanks to Gerry Smith for the FAB Kerfuffle Bird song 🎵 & to @imogencarter.bsky.social @familyofbeasts.bsky.social @marcelafwrites.bsky.social for the reviews 💗💛💚

Available to pre-order now! 😍
Reposted by Helen Docherty
booktrust.org.uk
Today's #BookTrustStorytime spotlight is on the wonderful #Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social!

Head to our website to find Helen reading the story plus additional activities and resources to use in your library:

https://bit.ly/4nY61vi
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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nicolettejones.bsky.social
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Gwen Millward from Kerfuffle Bird by Helen Docherty, a picturebook about expressing bottled-up feelings. Neon tones, a scribbly line and an exuberant sense of fun. Paperback from Oxford Children’s Books 5 June. @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social @helendocherty.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 7:10 AM
helendocherty.bsky.social
✨🐦 KERFUFFLE BIRD is out this week!!! 🐦✨
Illustrated by Gwen Millward @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

Huge thanks to Gerry Smith for the FAB Kerfuffle Bird song 🎵 & to @imogencarter.bsky.social @familyofbeasts.bsky.social @marcelafwrites.bsky.social for the reviews 💗💛💚

Available to pre-order now! 😍
June 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Reposted by Helen Docherty
scholasticuk.bsky.social
Thrilled to have two fabulous books on the #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 longlist!

✨One Goose, Two Moose by @kaeltudor.bsky.social & Nicola Slater

✨Superwolf by @helendocherty.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social

Huge congrats!
booktrust.org.uk BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · May 28
✨ Our #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 longlist is here! ✨

The BookTrust Storytime Prize - part of our BookTrust Storytime programme with libraries - celebrates reads that are great for sharing with 0–5s.

Enter to win all 23 longlisted books 👇

www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/new...
The BookTrust Storytime logo and word "Longlist" alongside the books nominated for the BookTrust Storytime Prize 2026: Bear's Lost Glasses, Bothered By Bugs, Dance Just Like So, Detective Catz, Don't Think of Tigers, Five Enormous Dinosaurs, Hank Goes Honk, Kitten Kitten Peekaboo, Maya and Marley and the Great Big Tidy Up, I Spot a Duck, Nee Naw Nee Naw, One Goose Two Moose, Panda and Penguin Find a Thing, Suki Cat Astronaut, Superwolf, The Camel Who Had the Hump, The Jellyfish Jiggle, There's A Gorilla at the Door, Tiger It's Snowing, Uh Oh Niko, Until You Find The Sun, Who Ate Steve, Wow! What a Day
May 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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annashannon.bsky.social
"Millward’s scratchy, wild drawings [are the] perfect accompaniment to this fabulous exploration of feelings and freedom" 🐣💛

Kerfuffle Bird featured in The Observer, ahead of pub day next week! 🎉

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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@imogencarter.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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✨ Delighted to share that I'll be opening the @canterburykidslit.bsky.social on Fri 11 July, with 2 public events at 10 am & 4 pm 📚😍
Join me for a fun and interactive storytelling session! ✨
Learn to sing the Kerfuffle Bird Song 🐦🎵🎵
& draw Superwolf! 🐺🎨🖌
www.canterburykidslitfest.co.uk/programme
April 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Cover reveal! ✨📗🌈💖 I'm so excited to share the cover of Make It All Go Away, my upcoming book about sensory overload. It's beautifully illustrated by @taylorbarron.bsky.social and published by Moon + Bird in the UK and the US. Available to pre-order now!
February 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
helendocherty.bsky.social
Exciting news in @the-bookseller.bsky.social today about my forthcoming book with Moon+Bird, with stunning illustrations by @taylorbarron.bsky.social 📗🌈💛

Make It All Go Away is a story about sensory overload, drawing on personal experience. It's the book I wish we'd had on our shelves years ago 💛
Article from the Bookseller about my new book, Make It All Go Away, illustrated by Taylor Barron and published by Moon+Bird
February 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Thank you to the lovely people at @rshipbshop.bsky.social in #Salisbury for getting lots of copies of our books in for us to sign! 📚 😍
@thomasdocherty.bsky.social grew up in Salisbury, so this is a special bookshop for us ❤️ and it has such a brilliantly curated selection of children's books! 📚
Helen and Thomas Docherty in the Rocketship Bookshop in Salisbury, with signed copies of their books: Someone Just like You, All The Ways I Love You, All The Things We Carry, Superwolf, Into The Wild and The Hare-Shaped Hole
February 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
helendocherty.bsky.social
Thank you, Kim! 💗🧡
pblove.bsky.social Kim Campbell @pblove.bsky.social · Feb 6
“On the outside you look different, but your feelings are the same.”💗💗💗

One of my favorite lines from Someone Just Like You, written by @helendocherty.bsky.social & illustrated by David Roberts. The story is beautiful & the illustrations feel like sunshine! Buy/borrow/share it!

#KidLit #SimonKids
Image of cover of picture book, Someone Just Like You, written by Helen Docherty & illustrated by David Roberts. Six happy looking diverse young children with bright colored clothes on. Lots of neon pink & neon orange used with the characters’ clothes and letters of the book title.
February 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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✨ Indie bookshops, who would like some signed bookplates for my latest books published by Alison Green Books @scholastic.bsky.social ? DM me if you'd like some! 📚✨
@booknookhove.bsky.social @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social @telltales.bsky.social @maxminervas.bsky.social @portybooks.bsky.social
Books by Helen Docherty: All The Ways I Love You, Superwolf and All The Things With Carry, with signed bookplates
February 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Parenting Expert UK are giving away a copy of 💗ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU 💗 by me and Daniela Sosa 💗

"The best bedtime story EVER! We gave this toddler book a well deserved 10 out of 10 stars. All the adults and children we shared it with loved it!" 💗

parentingexpert.co.uk/book-review-...
Book Review : "All the Ways I Love You" by Helen Docherty
Discover the heartwarming picture book 'All the Ways I Love You' that celebrates the unique bond between parent and child.
parentingexpert.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
helendocherty.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social for hosting the book launch for 💗ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU💗 by me and Daniela Sosa! We had a brilliant evening - thanks so much to everyone who joined us, and to everyone who's bought a copy of our book! 🙏🏼💗
@scholastic.bsky.social #picturebook #love 💗
alligatorsmouth.bsky.social The Alligator's Mouth @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social · Feb 3
We were thrilled to host the book launch for All the Ways I Love You! Huge congratulations to @helendocherty.bsky.social and Daniela Sosa. It was wonderful to share the delights of the book and a draw-along with their family and friends. Thank you to Scholastic and everyone that came!
February 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Reposted by Helen Docherty
wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social
Lovely @helendocherty.bsky.social has sent us some bookplates! Order a copy and you'll receive one fitted with a signed bookplate 💕
wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social · Jan 23
Our friend is running The Leeds Marathon raising money for the Jo Cox Foundation (which he leads). To support him, we're going to donate £1.50 from every sale of Someone Just Like You by @helendocherty.bsky.social to his fundraiser 💕

wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/some...
Cover image of Someone Just Like You by Helen Docherty and David Roberts.
January 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
helendocherty.bsky.social
Look what arrived in the post today! These beautiful Italian and German co-editions of All The Things We Carry by me and @brizidamagro.bsky.social 🌻🧡💛

#lecosecheportonelcuore
#alleswaswirtragenkonnen
#allthethingswecarry
@scholastic.bsky.social
Italian and German co-editions of All the Things We Carry by Helen Docherty and Brizida magro: Le cose che porto nel cuore and Alles Was Wir Tragen Konnen
January 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
helendocherty.bsky.social
✨ You can help raise money for the Jo Cox Foundation by buying a (signed) copy of SOMEONE JUST LIKE YOU by me and David Roberts from @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social ✨
Our book was inspired by the words of Jo Cox:
"We have far more in common with each other than things that divide us" 💗🧡
wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social · Jan 23
Our friend is running The Leeds Marathon raising money for the Jo Cox Foundation (which he leads). To support him, we're going to donate £1.50 from every sale of Someone Just Like You by @helendocherty.bsky.social to his fundraiser 💕

wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/some...
Cover image of Someone Just Like You by Helen Docherty and David Roberts.
January 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Reposted by Helen Docherty
wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social
Our friend is running The Leeds Marathon raising money for the Jo Cox Foundation (which he leads). To support him, we're going to donate £1.50 from every sale of Someone Just Like You by @helendocherty.bsky.social to his fundraiser 💕

wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/some...
Cover image of Someone Just Like You by Helen Docherty and David Roberts.
January 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Reposted by Helen Docherty
sabrinashahauthor.bsky.social
Hello #writingcommunity. My reach here is so very low. If anyone sees this, would love a little support. I want to reach out to the amazing #librarians and #teachers out there fighting for diversity in publishing.

Pre-orders and ARC requests now available.

#Weneeddiversebooks #debut #barefootbooks
December 21, 2024 at 11:31 PM
helendocherty.bsky.social
These two brothers are SUPER fans of all my books with @thomasdocherty.bsky.social 📚
Here they are enjoying our latest book together, SUPERWOLF! 🐺❤️
With thanks to their lovely mum for allowing me to share this photo 🥰
@scholastic.bsky.social
#alisongreenbooks
#superwolf
#picturebooks
#boysreading
Two brothers reading Superwolf by Helen and Thomas Docherty Cover of Superwolf (picture book by Helen and Thomas Docherty)
January 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Came across these three in Swansea Museum today. #TheTraitors mission eat your heart out.
@thetraitors.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
helendocherty.bsky.social
Join me and Daniela Sosa on 29th Jan at the wonderful @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social for a celebration of our new book 💗All The Ways I Love You💗 and the chance to buy a signed & dedicated copy for the little ones in your life! 💗

@scholastic.bsky.social #booklaunch #picturebook #love
Book launch invitation for All The Ways I Love You by Helen Docherty and Daniela Sosa - 29th Jan, 6 - 8 pm, The Alligator's Mouth, Richmond
January 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
helendocherty.bsky.social
Signed copies of my new book with Daniela Sosa 💗 ALL THE WAYS I LOVE YOU 💗 at our local indie bookshop in #Mumbles #Swansea, Cover to Cover 💗
#allthewaysiloveyou #picturebook #love
Me with a copy of my new book, All The Ways I Love You (illustrated by Daniela Sosa) in Cover to Cover bookshop My new book, All The Ways I Love You (illustrated by Daniela Sosa) My new book, All The Ways I Love You (illustrated by Daniela Sosa) in Cover to Cover bookshop, Mumbles, Swansea
January 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
helendocherty.bsky.social
Happy New Year to you all 🎉 and Happy Book Birthday to All the Ways I Love You! 🥳
My new picture book, beautifully illustrated by Daniela Sosa and published by Alison Green Books for Scholastic UK, is out today! ❤️
We hope you will love it 🤗 💕
#AllTheWaysILoveYou
January 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
helendocherty.bsky.social
This beautiful, heartfelt book by @writerpoetjohn.bsky.social and @thomasdocherty.bsky.social will be coming out in 2025 💗✨
Another deeply emotional and important book (following on from The Hare-Shaped Hole) which will help to comfort anyone facing the death of a loved one 💜
#thebearshapedhole
The Bear-Shaped hole, a new picture book by John Dougherty and Thomas Docherty
December 18, 2024 at 2:53 PM
helendocherty.bsky.social
Great to see my book with David Roberts 🧡Someone Just Like You💗 on the shortlist for the @booksfortopics.bsky.social Books of the Year 2024 ✨ in fantastic company! ✨
You can vote for 🧡Someone Just Like You💗 by following this link. Thanks for your support! 🥰

www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/be...
December 17, 2024 at 12:15 PM