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Good Night To Read
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Past Carnegie Medals Judge for NI,Kids’ Lit Quiz NI heat Co-ord & BK Buzz P.Creative Book Blogger at https://goodnighttoread.wordpress.com/ Book Reviewer,Interviewer & School Librarian.YLG Nat Comm.Love painting watercolours & writing book haiku.
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@mariannedoherty.bsky.social Books (3 set in #Scotland ) about young people bonding over animals in need, dealing with difficult social circumstances & challenging bullying & prejudice #BookWeekScotland #Empathy #Friendship #UKKidLit #KidsBooksFriday
Black silhouettes of fox, gazelle & 2 girls on dark blue background Grey sky. Rooftops with domes. Splash of red. Purple, red, orange. Silhouettes in black in forest clearing. Fireworks. Framework of branches and leaves. Blue cloudy sky. Face of hawk. Piercing yellow eyes.
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Celebrating @carnegiemedals.bsky.social with a #bookhaiku a day #ALanguageofDragons #SFWilliamson @harpercollins.bsky.social 🐉 Exhilarating
epic dragon adventure
as a polyglot
despairing teen takes
a mysterious job where
she will need her wits
Blue,gold, orange. Dragon 🐉 with purple wings breaking out of gold circle set against fiery London sky. Tail wrapped around top of building & emerging in a smaller gold circle at side of cover. Green & yellow Carnegie Medal nomination board.
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Celebrating @carnegiemedals 2026 nominations with a #bookhaiku a day #TraumaLand by #JoshSilver @rocktheboatnews.bsky.social Vulnerable teen
impulsively follows a
rabbit while trying

to recall feelings
and to remember the past,
falling into a
Black cover with pink rabbit with a demonic stare. Green & yellow Carnegie nomination board.
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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🥳@carnegiemedals.bsky.social 2026 nominations with a #bookhaiku a day A fantastical
lyrical own voice set in an atmospheric

small town in Ireland
exploring psychology
and identity.

Working through the pain
of prejudice shifting through
the surreal towards light.
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Celebrating @carnegiemedals.bsky.social 2026 nominations with a #bookhaiku a day #Birdie
@andersenpress Lonely and troubled
girl relocated to a
small mining village

Big hearted Birdie
faces prejudice and finds
a pony in need.

Risking all to save
neglected Mr Duke
alone in the dark.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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🥳@carnegiemedals.bsky.social 2026 noms with a #bookhaiku a day @grainneobrien.bsky.social 🎼Recorder girl, so
fragile as her heart breaks in
two, disconnected

from the cadences
of music flowing through her
fingers, can friendship

and family help
Daisy heal from the
pain of betrayal
Girl hanging off a white recorder. Peach background. Author in green standing in front of pink background holding novel with peach cover. Central image of girl hanging off a white recorder. Green & Yellow Carnegie nomination background.
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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#BookHaiku a day Totally Gothic
a chilly mist crawls across
a lake of secrets

Beside a spooky
school with creepy staff,
fragile memories

trapped, set new pupil
Rosella on Edge ,
eerie Black Roses #CarnegieMedals
#Gothic
Creepy green lake. Black rose. Floating black silhouette. Midnight blue sky. Full moon, Green, black, blue. School on shore of eerie lake. Leaves. Black rose. Floating figure in black. Blurb of book in white. Black & white photograph of author. Green & yellow Carnegie nomination board
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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@mariannedoherty.bsky.social #KidsBooksFriday #NonFictionNovember #UKKidLit #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks #Music #Nature #Football
Green, purple, pink, violet, yellow, orange against black background. Colourful border around title. Yellow background. Red & black. Fist around a mike. Blue background. Geometric face of wolf. Green background of football field. Ronaldo in white. Messi in red and blue stripe. Active shots.
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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@carnegiemedals.bsky.social 🥳with a #bookhaiku a day #WolfSiren by Beth O’Brien @harpercollins.bsky.social

Follow Red into
a magical wood full of
secrets and stories.

Rebellious, brave
intent on finding clues to
solve a mystery.

Ecofiction so
thoughtful and poignant
transformed fairytale
Girl in red hooded cloak surrounded by black and grey wolves 🐺 in forest clearing. Brown trees with skeletal branches. Falling leaves. Red writing. Photograph of author , dressed in black t shirt & striped blue & white dungarees, with her dog beside yellow daisies. Review extract on peach background. Yellow & green Carnegie board
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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#KidsBooksFriday #NonFictionNovember
#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit
Exploring the worlds of Science and Nature. Stunning illustrations, insightful knowledge. #Exploration #Discovery
Blue and gold. Various birds in bright colours from the exotic to the recognisable. Grey, green, orange, blue. Cameos of female scientists. Blue and black. Silhouettes of human figures. Stars Purple, pink & yellow. Nocturnal animals pictured . Fox, badger, moth
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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@carnegiemedals.bsky.social 🥳with a book haiku a day./Atmospheric read,
siblings facing their worst fears/as a monster stalks.
Horror with such heart,
a family stricken by
grief as a house rots.
Only Gwen knows who/
to fear as tension and scares/ mount in gothic style./Congratulations to #JackMackay
Spooky hand. Blue background. House, cat, tree & girl. Book cover against divided blue background . Carnegie nomination board. Photograph of author. Green & yellow Carnegie Nomination background.
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#DiscoverIrishKidsBooksChallenge at bookamore23 on Insta- www.instagram.com/reel/DQg7wxH... @rurooie.bsky.social @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social #DIKBChallenge2025 Days 1-14 Catch up #bookbloggers #librarians
Black background. Coloured creature logo. Rainbow colour text.
November 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Another cosy, spooky book 🎃 Fun read. #bookbloggers #librarians
Green background. Witch in black dress with ermine wrap & familiar.
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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🎃👻reads #bookbloggers #librarians #recommendedreads How could I have forgotten Ghostlight by Kenneth Oppel? So exciting, sinister & well crafted with nuanced characters. Thrill ride 🎢 from start to finish. 🤩🤩🤩🤩 #spookyseason 🎃
Surging sea🌊 Deep blues. Scattering of birds. Powerful light beaming from light house. Two silhouettes on top walk way. Ghosts in murky blue & deep gold. Active cover.
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Ghostly hidden gems #KidsBooksFriday #bookbloggers #librarians 👻#CatherineSefton aka #MartinWaddell #NIauthors
Purple background. Girl with scared 😱face holding bird. White writing. Blue background. Man on horseback on cliff. Two girls sitting on a bed. One writing ✍️ Two girls looking through a mirror at a girl in a blue dress. Blue and pink. Boy & ghost.
October 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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#KidsBooksFriday #SpookyPictureBooks & reads #librarians #bookbloggers
Green door with spotted green & purple tail sticking out of letter box. Title in pink. Invitation to enter. Purple & blue windows in door. Ivy. Dusky purple background . Boy sitting up in bed. Ghost 👻 dressed in old fashioned clothes in front of him. Midnight blue background. Witch flying on broom 🧹 with cat 🐈‍⬛ attached & dangling cauldron. Yellow moon & stars. Red and black writing. Grey shades. House standing on grass. Child in doorway. Ghost 👻 looking out from top window. Yellow writing.
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Unsung hero #bookbloggers #librarians #VictorianGothic #Middlegrade 🎃💀🎪
Red border with skulls. Girl with red hair running across black rooftops in silhouette. Full moon behind rooftops. Weathervane on top of turret. White writing.
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I’m currently reading this @spookypurcell.bsky.social for psychological thrills & chills. Gothic & atmospheric.
Hands holding flowers. Black background. Curved thorny stems. Green, white, magenta.
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Which scary reads are you all reading this spooky season? Share them here 🎃👻@bookcraic.bsky.social @slatterymr.bsky.social @hejparry.bsky.social @vonprice.bsky.social @hookablebooks.bsky.social @jonbiddle.bsky.social @ljwattswales.bsky.social
#bookbloggers #librarians
1. Dark blue background. Boy with red hair standing on front of lit buildings. Dark birds of omen in flight around him. 2. Girl in lit doorway of farm house. Dark sky & shadows. Transparent figure in red with yellow light around them approaching. Trees with bare branches. Magpie.
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Gloam by Jack Mackay

Horror with heart. A compulsive & atmospheric read about facing fears, coping with grief, family bonds & finding courage. Watch out for the child minder. 😱. #UKKidLit
Murky blue, skeletal hand, creepy tree, house, cat, girl. Gothic style cover. Dripping fronds , eye.
October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A silly read 👻@scholasticuk.bsky.social to counterbalance all the spooky reads I’ve been posting. Happy Halloween 🎃 #bookbloggers #readers #librarians #UKKidLit
Orange and purple . Laughing boy. Ghost, bats, pumpkins Orange. Boy, ghost 👻, people, house, dog,
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Have a

Ghost
Haunting of Fortune Farm
Our Hideous Progeny
Shiver
Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Last Death 💀 Poet
You’ll Be the Death of Me

Halloween 🎃👻🧛🏻🕸 #bookbloggers #librarians
#readers
#spookyreads #UKFiction #MG #YA
Black & blue. Lightning. Silhouettes against tower. Dark blue sky with birds. Boy with red hair standing in front of buildings with lit windows. Side profile of girl in thought-black & white with wolf with golden eyes & background of snow & trees superimposed. Eerie effect.
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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🎃📚Halloween is coming. Here are reads guaranteed to give you
Corset @spookypurcell.bsky.social
Haunting of Tyrese Walker
Island at the Edge of the Night
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Lovecraft Collection
Seven Ghosts #bookbloggers #librarians #UKKidLit
Blue & Gold.Needle & Thread. silhouette of girl as cameo in eye of feather. Scared boy fleeing. Shadowy figure in background. Green foliage. Purple, peach. Figure in boat. House on cliff. Black background. Lit windows of house. Shadowed figure lit in foreground. White and yellow writing.
October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Halloween 🎃 is coming. Watch out for mysterious happenings & spookiness
Swanfall
Perfectly Preventable Deaths
Obsidian Mirror
Out to Get You: Tales of Weirdness & Woe
Keep Your Friends Close
Sisters of the Lost Marsh
🎃📚👻#bookbloggers #UKKidLit #librarians
Blue & yellow & white. Child with swans🦢 Skull within glass dome. Tree, corvid, potion bottle. Brown, blue and white. Blue eyes above clock and flying birds. Black, blue, white, pink, green. Blue , pink, yellow. Lake. Striped circus 🎪 Tent. Three girls holding hands on edge of lake.
October 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
A Skinful of Shadows
Long Lankin
Lies Like Wildfire
Oxford Blood
Wakenhyrst
Empty Heaven
Eerie Indiana
Nightmare- The Birth of Horror
🎃 is coming #bookbloggers #librarians #spookyreads #booksforhalloween #GothicTales
Gothic style painting with monster and victim. Dark trees. Grey sky. The stories behind classic Gothic Tales 🧛‍♂️What inspired Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker , Mary Shelley & RL Stevenson to write their tales of horror? Two children silhouetted in a clearing in an eerie wood. Towering trees. Dark and gloomy. Murky blues and blacks. Dark background. 3 Figures silhouetted within flames 🔥 . Fir 🌲 trees in background. Whete there’s smoke there’s a liar. Face with pink glasses , dark hair and nails 💅 emerging from box.
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM