Mostly Book Talk
@mostlybooktalk.bsky.social
A podcast about children’s and YA books for teachers and librarians. Interviews with authors and also anyone doing interesting reading for pleasure activities, plus lots of book talk. #kidlitUK
www.mostlybooktalk.com
www.mostlybooktalk.com
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📙 Episode 37: Libraries Are a Very Good Thing 📚
We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library.
🎧 Listen: https://loom.ly/-2JfVI4
We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library.
🎧 Listen: https://loom.ly/-2JfVI4
Wishing you all a fun and peaceful festive season🎄
The baubles are just some of the books on our book list. We now have over 60 brilliant, diverse books 📚
We're so excited for everything happening in the #NationalYearOfReading. Our book club resources will be free in 2026 🎉
The baubles are just some of the books on our book list. We now have over 60 brilliant, diverse books 📚
We're so excited for everything happening in the #NationalYearOfReading. Our book club resources will be free in 2026 🎉
December 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
📙 Episode 37: Libraries Are a Very Good Thing 📚
We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library.
🎧 Listen: https://loom.ly/-2JfVI4
We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library.
🎧 Listen: https://loom.ly/-2JfVI4
December 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
📙 Episode 37: Libraries Are a Very Good Thing 📚
We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library.
🎧 Listen: https://loom.ly/-2JfVI4
We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library.
🎧 Listen: https://loom.ly/-2JfVI4
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
📙 Episode 37: Libraries Are a Very Good Thing 📚
We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library.
🎧 Listen: https://loom.ly/-2JfVI4
We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library.
🎧 Listen: https://loom.ly/-2JfVI4
Out today - @rossmontgomery.bsky.social ‘s first adult book and it’s great. Sweary octogenarian, twisty plot and intriguing historical facts. But most importantly, very fun. Probably not one to recommend to pupils, but totally recommend for grown up reading pleasure. #UKKidsLit author
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Out today - @rossmontgomery.bsky.social ‘s first adult book and it’s great. Sweary octogenarian, twisty plot and intriguing historical facts. But most importantly, very fun. Probably not one to recommend to pupils, but totally recommend for grown up reading pleasure. #UKKidsLit author
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Out today - @rossmontgomery.bsky.social ‘s first adult book and it’s great. Sweary octogenarian, twisty plot and intriguing historical facts. But most importantly, very fun. Probably not one to recommend to pupils, but totally recommend for grown up reading pleasure. #UKKidsLit author
🎉 We’re finalists at the Independent Podcast Awards 2025!
📚 Mostly Book Talk celebrates teachers, librarians & parents who champion children’s & YA reading for pleasure!
#PodcastAwards #ReadingForPleasure #MostlyBookTalk
📚 Mostly Book Talk celebrates teachers, librarians & parents who champion children’s & YA reading for pleasure!
#PodcastAwards #ReadingForPleasure #MostlyBookTalk
October 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🎉 We’re finalists at the Independent Podcast Awards 2025!
📚 Mostly Book Talk celebrates teachers, librarians & parents who champion children’s & YA reading for pleasure!
#PodcastAwards #ReadingForPleasure #MostlyBookTalk
📚 Mostly Book Talk celebrates teachers, librarians & parents who champion children’s & YA reading for pleasure!
#PodcastAwards #ReadingForPleasure #MostlyBookTalk
October 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🎉 We’re finalists at the Independent Podcast Awards 2025!
📚 Mostly Book Talk celebrates teachers, librarians & parents who champion children’s & YA reading for pleasure!
#PodcastAwards #ReadingForPleasure #MostlyBookTalk
📚 Mostly Book Talk celebrates teachers, librarians & parents who champion children’s & YA reading for pleasure!
#PodcastAwards #ReadingForPleasure #MostlyBookTalk
📙 Episode 36: We chat with Nathanael Lessore, author of Steady for This & King of Nothing, about writing for teens, the power of humour, and his hilarious Superpower series.
🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#NathanaelLessore #YAfiction #MiddleGrade #MostlyBookTalk
🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#NathanaelLessore #YAfiction #MiddleGrade #MostlyBookTalk
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📙 Episode 36: We chat with Nathanael Lessore, author of Steady for This & King of Nothing, about writing for teens, the power of humour, and his hilarious Superpower series.
🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#NathanaelLessore #YAfiction #MiddleGrade #MostlyBookTalk
🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#NathanaelLessore #YAfiction #MiddleGrade #MostlyBookTalk
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📙 Episode 36: We chat with Nathanael Lessore, author of Steady for This & King of Nothing, about writing for teens, the power of humour, and his hilarious Superpower series.
🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#NathanaelLessore #YAfiction #MiddleGrade #MostlyBookTalk
🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#NathanaelLessore #YAfiction #MiddleGrade #MostlyBookTalk
Woo hoo 🎉Our ambassador Sita Brahmachari won The Malorie Blackman Impact Award at #TheDiverseBookAwards last night.
Congrats to all the other winners, and thank you to Abiola Bello and Helen Lewis for hosting another wonderful and important Awards.
#TheDBAwards @malorieblackman.bsky.social
Congrats to all the other winners, and thank you to Abiola Bello and Helen Lewis for hosting another wonderful and important Awards.
#TheDBAwards @malorieblackman.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🌍 Fantastic news! @TomPercivalSays our guest from Episode 25 of Mostly Book Talk, has won Children’s Book of the Year: Older Fiction (9–12) at The Week Junior Book Awards for his moving novel The Wrong Shoes.
🎧 Catch up: https://loom.ly/sKiZHe4
#TomPercival #TheWrongShoes
🎧 Catch up: https://loom.ly/sKiZHe4
#TomPercival #TheWrongShoes
October 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🌍 Fantastic news! @TomPercivalSays our guest from Episode 25 of Mostly Book Talk, has won Children’s Book of the Year: Older Fiction (9–12) at The Week Junior Book Awards for his moving novel The Wrong Shoes.
🎧 Catch up: https://loom.ly/sKiZHe4
#TomPercival #TheWrongShoes
🎧 Catch up: https://loom.ly/sKiZHe4
#TomPercival #TheWrongShoes
📙 Episode 35: Dr Julie Blake on Poetry By Heart and Ross Montgomery’s Latest Books 🔗 Listen here: https://loom.ly/73Rh2H4
#ChildrensBooks #ChildrensPoetry #Teachers #Schools
#ChildrensBooks #ChildrensPoetry #Teachers #Schools
October 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
📙 Episode 35: Dr Julie Blake on Poetry By Heart and Ross Montgomery’s Latest Books 🔗 Listen here: https://loom.ly/73Rh2H4
#ChildrensBooks #ChildrensPoetry #Teachers #Schools
#ChildrensBooks #ChildrensPoetry #Teachers #Schools
October 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
📙 Episode 35: Dr Julie Blake on Poetry By Heart and Ross Montgomery’s Latest Books 🔗 Listen here: https://loom.ly/73Rh2H4
#ChildrensBooks #ChildrensPoetry #Teachers #Schools
#ChildrensBooks #ChildrensPoetry #Teachers #Schools
*Just* in time to still be National Poetry Day we bring you our latest episode of Mostly Book Talk where we talk to Dr Julie Blake, founder and co-director of Poetry by Heart with lots of information about how schools can get involved #KidLitUK #UKkidLit @poetrybyheart.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
*Just* in time to still be National Poetry Day we bring you our latest episode of Mostly Book Talk where we talk to Dr Julie Blake, founder and co-director of Poetry by Heart with lots of information about how schools can get involved #KidLitUK #UKkidLit @poetrybyheart.bsky.social
📙 Episode 34: @Ashley__Thorpe on 'The Boy to Beat the Gods' and 'Spirit Warriors' 🔗 Listen here: https://loom.ly/Yu9NQ70 or wherever you get your podcasts!
September 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
📙 Episode 34: @Ashley__Thorpe on 'The Boy to Beat the Gods' and 'Spirit Warriors' 🔗 Listen here: https://loom.ly/Yu9NQ70 or wherever you get your podcasts!
September 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
📙 Episode 34: @Ashley__Thorpe on 'The Boy to Beat the Gods' and 'Spirit Warriors' 🔗 Listen here: https://loom.ly/Yu9NQ70 or wherever you get your podcasts!
Very excited to have been shortlisted for The Independent Podcast Awards! Thank you to everyone who listens to us. We will be back from our summer break very soon with some great interviews. independentpodcastawards.com/IPA25/en/pag... #kidlitUK #UKkidlit #readingforpleasure
Independent Podcast Awards 2025 - Our 2025 Shortlist
Independent Podcast Awards 2025 - Our 2025 Shortlist
independentpodcastawards.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Very excited to have been shortlisted for The Independent Podcast Awards! Thank you to everyone who listens to us. We will be back from our summer break very soon with some great interviews. independentpodcastawards.com/IPA25/en/pag... #kidlitUK #UKkidlit #readingforpleasure
We really enjoyed our chat with Maisie - find it wherever you get your podcasts. Info about the British Library event she mentions below. #UKkidlit #kidlitUK 🌏📚
events.bl.uk/events/famil...
events.bl.uk/events/famil...
August 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
We really enjoyed our chat with Maisie - find it wherever you get your podcasts. Info about the British Library event she mentions below. #UKkidlit #kidlitUK 🌏📚
events.bl.uk/events/famil...
events.bl.uk/events/famil...
📙 Episode 33: In this episode of our podcast, award-winning author Maisie Chan joins us to talk about her brand-new children’s novel, Nate Yu’s Blast From the Past. Listen here: https://loom.ly/iXDJhu0
#MaisieChan #ChildrensBooks #Podcast
#MaisieChan #ChildrensBooks #Podcast
August 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
📙 Episode 33: In this episode of our podcast, award-winning author Maisie Chan joins us to talk about her brand-new children’s novel, Nate Yu’s Blast From the Past. Listen here: https://loom.ly/iXDJhu0
#MaisieChan #ChildrensBooks #Podcast
#MaisieChan #ChildrensBooks #Podcast
👀 this looks interesting www.eseaauthors.co.uk #kidlituk 🌏📚
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ESEA Authors discuss diaspora, inclusion and culture at SOAS during ESEA Heritage Month
www.eseaauthors.co.uk
August 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
👀 this looks interesting www.eseaauthors.co.uk #kidlituk 🌏📚
So where do you stand in the cats vs dogs debate? At Mostly, Ali is definitely team dog and Katy is team cat. Clearly Alan is King of the Universe, but here are some more team cat book recommendations. Any you would add? #teamcat #readingforpleasure #kidlituk #ukkidlit
July 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
So where do you stand in the cats vs dogs debate? At Mostly, Ali is definitely team dog and Katy is team cat. Clearly Alan is King of the Universe, but here are some more team cat book recommendations. Any you would add? #teamcat #readingforpleasure #kidlituk #ukkidlit
For our followers in #australia 🇦🇺 Justin Somper’s Pirate Academy books launch next week. Have a listen to find out more. #kidlit #eduskyau @justinsomper.bsky.social
📙🏴☠️Episode 32: Justin Somper - Pirate Academy. In this episode we talk with Justin Somper about the latest book in his Pirate Academy series, Sword Echoes. 🎧Available wherever you get your podcasts!
#PirateAcademy #SwordEchoes #readingforpleasure
#PirateAcademy #SwordEchoes #readingforpleasure
July 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For our followers in #australia 🇦🇺 Justin Somper’s Pirate Academy books launch next week. Have a listen to find out more. #kidlit #eduskyau @justinsomper.bsky.social
📙🏴☠️Episode 32: Justin Somper - Pirate Academy. In this episode we talk with Justin Somper about the latest book in his Pirate Academy series, Sword Echoes. 🎧Available wherever you get your podcasts!
#PirateAcademy #SwordEchoes #readingforpleasure
#PirateAcademy #SwordEchoes #readingforpleasure
July 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📙🏴☠️Episode 32: Justin Somper - Pirate Academy. In this episode we talk with Justin Somper about the latest book in his Pirate Academy series, Sword Echoes. 🎧Available wherever you get your podcasts!
#PirateAcademy #SwordEchoes #readingforpleasure
#PirateAcademy #SwordEchoes #readingforpleasure
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Our 2025 conference will focus on challenging historical narratives through writing for children and young people.
🗓 Saturday 8th Nov
📍Open Ealing Arts Centre W5 2TD
More info soon!
#ibbyuk #ibby #childrenspublishing #publishing #childrensbooks #historicalnarratives #challengingnarratives
🗓 Saturday 8th Nov
📍Open Ealing Arts Centre W5 2TD
More info soon!
#ibbyuk #ibby #childrenspublishing #publishing #childrensbooks #historicalnarratives #challengingnarratives
July 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM