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Anna Shannon
@annashannon.bsky.social
Dabbling in Oxford Children's Marketing and Publicity ✨📚
The placement of the first two headlines in The Bookseller had tickled me this morning 🤣
July 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Anddd that's a wrap! What a fun, thought inducing day at The Bookseller's Marketing and Publicity Conference yesterday - please hold while my brain whirls and twirls with ideas 👀🧠✨

@thebookseller.com #MPConf
July 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
📍Lapstone Barn, Chipping Campden

✅ Good amount of loos, bright lighting, enjoyed the stone wall, hand wash smelled nice, mirrors were ample, lovely sinks!

❌ Not enough space between loos & sinks, stiff doors, had to shove to open one, felt less grand than the rest of the venue & that bothers me
June 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reason 3743 of why I love my husband:

When he buys an sneaky iced coffee for me, because he knows I am a fan, and hides it in the fridge so I don't see it until the morning 🥹☕🧊
June 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It's a good week when the advances get delivered to @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social 👀✨

🫧Albert's Bubble Bath

🐦Harry and the Heron

🌌Cosmic Cadets and the Universal Uni-Korn

These children's books are coming this autumn - yay!
June 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Mirror, mirror on the wall 🪩
June 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
S A T U R D A Y
night

🧊🌇👯‍♀️🪩
June 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"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...

@helendocherty.bsky.social
@imogencarter.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
📍Kibou, Oxford

✅ Fairly consistent décor with the main restaurant, nice hand wash & lotion, free sanitary products, good mirrors, & ample space

❌ Brown walls, lots of stairs to get there...

🧻🧻🧻

#AnnaLooksInLoos
May 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Goooood morning from a tired wannabe gym bunny 🐇
May 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Book Club 🤝 Black Sheep Coffee

@blacksheepcoffee.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I don't take the ability to vote lightly.

Many, many, many have gone before us to give us a voice 🙏🏻
May 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I'm a dog person, but just look at my cutie boy 🥹🥰☀️
April 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This weekend I was at the FCBG conference talking to the loveliest crowd of librarians, teachers, and children's book enthusiasts in sunny Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿☀️✨

Thanks to Megan for snapping this photo during my presentation 📷

@oxfordeducation.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Isobel McArthur's adaptation of Pride & Prejudice was stellar this evening!

It's Austen but as a freshly mixed comedy 🤩

Highly recommend: prideandprejudicesortof.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
And we're London Book Fair ready🎉

📷 by Aleena
⭐ing Lauren and I
#LBF25
March 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Blue skies for Blue Sky ☀️😎

#OUP
March 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Cloud Boy flies into The Guardian, thanks to @imogenrw.bsky.social 🥳

"A lively, empathetic picture book, which may provide particular insights for families managing ADHD" 🧠☁️✨

Read more: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
February 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
It's his one week of joining the family today! 🥹😍
February 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
No cats spotted this time 🐈🐾
February 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Now THIS is the kind of book I'd like to be able to write. It's beautifully raw, real, and relatable. It's also brimming with hope and I felt that with my whole heart. I think we all need that.

Thank you @alisonespach.bsky.social for writing The Wedding People 🙏🏻✨

5/5
February 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
My nice little stack of January reads

❄️Wintering #KatherineMay
🎁The Christmas Appeal @janicehallett.bsky.social
🌍Boy, Everywhere @amdassu.bsky.social
💭Dallergut Dream Department Store #MiyeLee
🐾Olga Takes Charge #MichaelBond
🐹Olga Carries On #MichaelBond
🌵Just.Got. Real @janefallon.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Read the full #OxfordCWOTY report here: global.oup.com/education/co...
January 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In a world that looks bleak, there is hope...

Kindness is Oxford Children’s Word of the Year 2024, following research carried out by the Children’s Dictionaries and Children’s Language Data team at OUP.

#OxfordCWOTY
January 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A good strong quote at the start of a book pleases me greatly.

Also enjoyed casting shadows on shadowy quotes 📖👀

#Dickens
January 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM