Kate Hitchings
@katehit.bsky.social
Year 4 teacher, love reading, here mainly for the book chat!
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My book REEK is in the BookTrust Great Books Guide, yaaaay!!! 🥳🥳🥳. Alongside some brilliant company, too – check it out!
👉 alastairc.com/blog/2025100...
@barringtonstoke.bsky.social @booktrust.org.uk #KidLitUk #Reek
👉 alastairc.com/blog/2025100...
@barringtonstoke.bsky.social @booktrust.org.uk #KidLitUk #Reek
REEK is a BookTrust Great Book!
REEK by Alastair Chisholm has been included in the BookTrust Great Book Guide 2025
alastairc.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
My book REEK is in the BookTrust Great Books Guide, yaaaay!!! 🥳🥳🥳. Alongside some brilliant company, too – check it out!
👉 alastairc.com/blog/2025100...
@barringtonstoke.bsky.social @booktrust.org.uk #KidLitUk #Reek
👉 alastairc.com/blog/2025100...
@barringtonstoke.bsky.social @booktrust.org.uk #KidLitUk #Reek
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I'm delighted that Fallout is on the 7-10+ longlist. Thank you @uklitassociation.bsky.social and @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social. Congratulations to all other authors and illustrators! 💫
Your 2026 UKLA Book Awards Longlists are here - the only national children’s book awards judged by teachers!
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
September 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I'm delighted that Fallout is on the 7-10+ longlist. Thank you @uklitassociation.bsky.social and @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social. Congratulations to all other authors and illustrators! 💫
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Huge congratulations to @alastairc.com as #REEK longlists for the @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Awards 2026!
September 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Huge congratulations to @alastairc.com as #REEK longlists for the @uklitassociation.bsky.social Book Awards 2026!
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So incredibly proud of these incredible longlists (particularly the 11-14+ list which once again formed the bulk of the last few months' reading) and looking forward to working with our amazing teacher judges in Glasgow as they read and share these books with their classes!
Your 2026 UKLA Book Awards Longlists are here - the only national children’s book awards judged by teachers!
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
September 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
So incredibly proud of these incredible longlists (particularly the 11-14+ list which once again formed the bulk of the last few months' reading) and looking forward to working with our amazing teacher judges in Glasgow as they read and share these books with their classes!
Was raving about this dictionary to my class yesterday! It’s brilliant! So clever! And yes, we looked up the word we’d been experimenting with and there is was - parashoot.
Have you ever looked for giraffe under ‘j’? This is the dictionary for you! A re-edited and rejacketed edition of Barrington Stoke’s internationally bestselling reference book to support struggling spellers. Learn more at bit.ly/3UVNO5q
September 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Was raving about this dictionary to my class yesterday! It’s brilliant! So clever! And yes, we looked up the word we’d been experimenting with and there is was - parashoot.
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The River Thief is a highly engrossing multi-layered story combining early seventeenth history, folklore, adventure and nature. And a new @justimagine_books Reading Gladiator Book Club choice for Year 5. @templarbooks.bsky.social
Review for Just Imagine here:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
Review for Just Imagine here:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The River Thief is a highly engrossing multi-layered story combining early seventeenth history, folklore, adventure and nature. And a new @justimagine_books Reading Gladiator Book Club choice for Year 5. @templarbooks.bsky.social
Review for Just Imagine here:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
Review for Just Imagine here:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
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The wonderful @catwrote.bsky.social is #BookSquad's spotlight author this month! Find books, extracts and resources here: collins.co.uk/pages/catherine-johnson-author-spotlight
September 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The wonderful @catwrote.bsky.social is #BookSquad's spotlight author this month! Find books, extracts and resources here: collins.co.uk/pages/catherine-johnson-author-spotlight
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A note on #NewIllustrationOfTheDay. These daily posts aim to demonstrate the range and quality of children’s book illustration today. But they are also, I hope, an oasis of skill and beauty/humour/curiosity in everyone’s day, whatever else is happening. Please share with anyone who might enjoy that.
July 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A note on #NewIllustrationOfTheDay. These daily posts aim to demonstrate the range and quality of children’s book illustration today. But they are also, I hope, an oasis of skill and beauty/humour/curiosity in everyone’s day, whatever else is happening. Please share with anyone who might enjoy that.