Helen Docherty
@helendocherty.bsky.social
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
✨🐦 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! 😍
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
✨🐦 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! 😍
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! 😍
✨ 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
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
✨ 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
Join me for a fun and interactive storytelling session! ✨
Learn to sing the Kerfuffle Bird Song 🐦🎵🎵
& draw Superwolf! 🐺🎨🖌
www.canterburykidslitfest.co.uk/programme
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
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!
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 💛
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 💛
February 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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 💛
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 💛
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! 📚
@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! 📚
February 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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! 📚
@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! 📚
✨ 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
@booknookhove.bsky.social @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social @telltales.bsky.social @maxminervas.bsky.social @portybooks.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
✨ 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
@booknookhove.bsky.social @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social @telltales.bsky.social @maxminervas.bsky.social @portybooks.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
#lecosecheportonelcuore
#alleswaswirtragenkonnen
#allthethingswecarry
@scholastic.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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
#lecosecheportonelcuore
#alleswaswirtragenkonnen
#allthethingswecarry
@scholastic.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
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
January 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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
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
Came across these three in Swansea Museum today. #TheTraitors mission eat your heart out.
@thetraitors.bsky.social
@thetraitors.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Came across these three in Swansea Museum today. #TheTraitors mission eat your heart out.
@thetraitors.bsky.social
@thetraitors.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
@scholastic.bsky.social #booklaunch #picturebook #love
January 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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
@scholastic.bsky.social #booklaunch #picturebook #love
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
#allthewaysiloveyou #picturebook #love
January 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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
#allthewaysiloveyou #picturebook #love
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
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
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
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
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
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
December 18, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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
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
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...
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
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...
You can vote for 🧡Someone Just Like You💗 by following this link. Thanks for your support! 🥰
www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/be...
Over the years, I've visited so many primary schools as an author - one of the best bits of my job! 🥰
I'm looking for more school work in 2025, so please recommend me! 🙏🏼 Schools in #Wales can apply for funding from Literature Wales ✨
Diolch! ❤️ Thank you!
#authorvisit
#primaryschool
#worldbookday
I'm looking for more school work in 2025, so please recommend me! 🙏🏼 Schools in #Wales can apply for funding from Literature Wales ✨
Diolch! ❤️ Thank you!
#authorvisit
#primaryschool
#worldbookday
December 11, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Over the years, I've visited so many primary schools as an author - one of the best bits of my job! 🥰
I'm looking for more school work in 2025, so please recommend me! 🙏🏼 Schools in #Wales can apply for funding from Literature Wales ✨
Diolch! ❤️ Thank you!
#authorvisit
#primaryschool
#worldbookday
I'm looking for more school work in 2025, so please recommend me! 🙏🏼 Schools in #Wales can apply for funding from Literature Wales ✨
Diolch! ❤️ Thank you!
#authorvisit
#primaryschool
#worldbookday
My mum gave a copy of The Green-Fingered Witch to a friend's granddaughter, and this was the wonderful thank you card she received 💚💜🎃
Somebody REALLY loves our book @stevenlenton.bsky.social, and look at Mia's amazing illustration! 💚💜✨
#thegreenfingeredwitch #picturebook #gift #thankyou
Somebody REALLY loves our book @stevenlenton.bsky.social, and look at Mia's amazing illustration! 💚💜✨
#thegreenfingeredwitch #picturebook #gift #thankyou
December 9, 2024 at 11:28 AM
My mum gave a copy of The Green-Fingered Witch to a friend's granddaughter, and this was the wonderful thank you card she received 💚💜🎃
Somebody REALLY loves our book @stevenlenton.bsky.social, and look at Mia's amazing illustration! 💚💜✨
#thegreenfingeredwitch #picturebook #gift #thankyou
Somebody REALLY loves our book @stevenlenton.bsky.social, and look at Mia's amazing illustration! 💚💜✨
#thegreenfingeredwitch #picturebook #gift #thankyou
A poem came to me this morning. Not in rhyme, and not for children, so a bit of a departure for me.
Here it is anyway.
#stormwarning
Here it is anyway.
#stormwarning
December 7, 2024 at 2:09 PM
A poem came to me this morning. Not in rhyme, and not for children, so a bit of a departure for me.
Here it is anyway.
#stormwarning
Here it is anyway.
#stormwarning
Watched a phenomenal one man performance of A Christmas Carol by Andrew Margerison / Dyad Productions at the #Taliesin Theatre in #Swansea tonight. So worth going to see if you can catch this on tour before #Christmas 🕯
www.dyadproductions.com/theatre-prod...
www.dyadproductions.com/theatre-prod...
December 5, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Watched a phenomenal one man performance of A Christmas Carol by Andrew Margerison / Dyad Productions at the #Taliesin Theatre in #Swansea tonight. So worth going to see if you can catch this on tour before #Christmas 🕯
www.dyadproductions.com/theatre-prod...
www.dyadproductions.com/theatre-prod...
My next #picturebook, All the Ways I Love You ❤️ (beautifully illustrated by Daniela Sosa) is coming out Jan 2025 🎉
We're hoping to hold an evening book launch 📚 🍷
#London people, who'd like to join us? Any #teachers or #librarians? All welcome! 🥰
Thanks for your support & for spreading the word! ❤️
We're hoping to hold an evening book launch 📚 🍷
#London people, who'd like to join us? Any #teachers or #librarians? All welcome! 🥰
Thanks for your support & for spreading the word! ❤️
December 2, 2024 at 4:50 PM
My next #picturebook, All the Ways I Love You ❤️ (beautifully illustrated by Daniela Sosa) is coming out Jan 2025 🎉
We're hoping to hold an evening book launch 📚 🍷
#London people, who'd like to join us? Any #teachers or #librarians? All welcome! 🥰
Thanks for your support & for spreading the word! ❤️
We're hoping to hold an evening book launch 📚 🍷
#London people, who'd like to join us? Any #teachers or #librarians? All welcome! 🥰
Thanks for your support & for spreading the word! ❤️
I'm so proud to have had FOUR picture books published in 2024! 📚 🥰 Illustrated by four equally amazing #illustrators: #DavidRoberts, @brizidamagro.bsky.social, @thomasdocherty.bsky.social & @stevenlenton.bsky.social ✨✨✨✨
These would all make great #Christmas #gifts, just saying 😉💖 #picturebooks
These would all make great #Christmas #gifts, just saying 😉💖 #picturebooks
November 28, 2024 at 4:04 PM
I'm so proud to have had FOUR picture books published in 2024! 📚 🥰 Illustrated by four equally amazing #illustrators: #DavidRoberts, @brizidamagro.bsky.social, @thomasdocherty.bsky.social & @stevenlenton.bsky.social ✨✨✨✨
These would all make great #Christmas #gifts, just saying 😉💖 #picturebooks
These would all make great #Christmas #gifts, just saying 😉💖 #picturebooks
Sunrise over Mumbles Pier, from our house this morning. Such a beautiful start to the day 💗🧡💛
#sunrise
#Mumbles
#SwanseaBay
#Gower
#sunrise
#Mumbles
#SwanseaBay
#Gower
November 28, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Sunrise over Mumbles Pier, from our house this morning. Such a beautiful start to the day 💗🧡💛
#sunrise
#Mumbles
#SwanseaBay
#Gower
#sunrise
#Mumbles
#SwanseaBay
#Gower
Here is the beautiful Taiwanese edition of 💗Someone Just Like You🧡 - words by me and illustrations by David Roberts, published in Taiwan by the Eastern Publishing Company and featured on their website! 💗🧡
#someonejustlikeyou #picturebook #taiwan #davidroberts
#someonejustlikeyou #picturebook #taiwan #davidroberts
November 25, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Here is the beautiful Taiwanese edition of 💗Someone Just Like You🧡 - words by me and illustrations by David Roberts, published in Taiwan by the Eastern Publishing Company and featured on their website! 💗🧡
#someonejustlikeyou #picturebook #taiwan #davidroberts
#someonejustlikeyou #picturebook #taiwan #davidroberts
Tesni (Tess-knee) is 4 today! 🥳 She enjoyed her birthday walk in #ClyneGardens this morning. Nothing like a good pile of leaves to celebrate with 🍂🍁🐶 #birthday #dogwalk
November 25, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Tesni (Tess-knee) is 4 today! 🥳 She enjoyed her birthday walk in #ClyneGardens this morning. Nothing like a good pile of leaves to celebrate with 🍂🍁🐶 #birthday #dogwalk
