Isabel Thomas
@isabelthomas.co.uk
Science & nature writer • Author of 300 books, with Bloomsbury, Phaidon, OUP, Hachette & many others • AAAS Book Prize 2020 & 2023 • Tortoise wrangler 🐢 🐢 • Creators' Rights Alliance Committee • School SEND governor • Cambridge, UK • www.isabelthomas.co.uk
I'm looking forward to Brighton Festival next weekend! Tickets at brightonfestival.org/whats-on/Xka...
May 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'm looking forward to Brighton Festival next weekend! Tickets at brightonfestival.org/whats-on/Xka...
FROG: A Story of Life on Earth hops into the world today!
To celebrate, I have a copy to give away, along with two perfect chocolate frogs!
To enter, share this post and leave a comment below with your best froggy fact 🐸💚 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
To celebrate, I have a copy to give away, along with two perfect chocolate frogs!
To enter, share this post and leave a comment below with your best froggy fact 🐸💚 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
FROG: A Story of Life on Earth hops into the world today!
To celebrate, I have a copy to give away, along with two perfect chocolate frogs!
To enter, share this post and leave a comment below with your best froggy fact 🐸💚 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
To celebrate, I have a copy to give away, along with two perfect chocolate frogs!
To enter, share this post and leave a comment below with your best froggy fact 🐸💚 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Happy #WorldFrogDay 🐸💚 the perfect day to preorder Frog and get the entire story of life, the universe and everything delivered to your door in May! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #danielegneus
March 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Happy #WorldFrogDay 🐸💚 the perfect day to preorder Frog and get the entire story of life, the universe and everything delivered to your door in May! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #danielegneus
Join us on 24 March for a fun evening of comedy and science in Cambridge! @cambridgejunction.bsky.social @cambridgefestival.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Join us on 24 March for a fun evening of comedy and science in Cambridge! @cambridgejunction.bsky.social @cambridgefestival.bsky.social
My new cover feature for The Week Junior Science + Nature! Innovative ideas for tackling climate change, great discussion points for KS2 and KS3, on newstands now! 🐄
January 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My new cover feature for The Week Junior Science + Nature! Innovative ideas for tackling climate change, great discussion points for KS2 and KS3, on newstands now! 🐄
Turns out their own medicine tastes disgusting
January 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Turns out their own medicine tastes disgusting
It's #PLR day and brilliant news that my books were borrowed from public libraries more than 50,000 times last year 🦊🧡 these are four of the most-borrowed 🧪👩🔬 Thank you librarians, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & readers for using your library to discover the world #lovelibraries
January 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It's #PLR day and brilliant news that my books were borrowed from public libraries more than 50,000 times last year 🦊🧡 these are four of the most-borrowed 🧪👩🔬 Thank you librarians, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & readers for using your library to discover the world #lovelibraries
Another writer told me we need to also change another setting to stop anything we write in Word being scraped to train AI
January 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Another writer told me we need to also change another setting to stop anything we write in Word being scraped to train AI
'The perfect book for talking to children about death’ – The Guardian
Fox: A Circle of Life Story out in paperback today!
Fox shows that the scientific understanding of death and renewal is no less beautiful and comforting than traditional stories
🏅Winner AAAS Book Prize 2023 #naturewriting 🧪
Fox: A Circle of Life Story out in paperback today!
Fox shows that the scientific understanding of death and renewal is no less beautiful and comforting than traditional stories
🏅Winner AAAS Book Prize 2023 #naturewriting 🧪
January 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
'The perfect book for talking to children about death’ – The Guardian
Fox: A Circle of Life Story out in paperback today!
Fox shows that the scientific understanding of death and renewal is no less beautiful and comforting than traditional stories
🏅Winner AAAS Book Prize 2023 #naturewriting 🧪
Fox: A Circle of Life Story out in paperback today!
Fox shows that the scientific understanding of death and renewal is no less beautiful and comforting than traditional stories
🏅Winner AAAS Book Prize 2023 #naturewriting 🧪
My most gifted science and nature books this year! Snuggle up with a good book at Christmas 🦊🧡🧪 #naturewriting
December 19, 2024 at 12:57 PM
My most gifted science and nature books this year! Snuggle up with a good book at Christmas 🦊🧡🧪 #naturewriting
Fox and Moth are about nature in urban settings, life, death, the struggle for survival alongside humans, adaptation, hope
Not explicitly about my own background but it definitely influences my writing 🦊
Not explicitly about my own background but it definitely influences my writing 🦊
December 17, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Fox and Moth are about nature in urban settings, life, death, the struggle for survival alongside humans, adaptation, hope
Not explicitly about my own background but it definitely influences my writing 🦊
Not explicitly about my own background but it definitely influences my writing 🦊
I had a sign! So I felt obliged to greet everyone in the same pose!
December 16, 2024 at 8:52 PM
I had a sign! So I felt obliged to greet everyone in the same pose!
It was lovely to be the bookseller today and chat with customers! I'll be back with a galaxy of science books @ Stapleford Granary Christmas market #Cambridge on Monday 16th!
December 13, 2024 at 9:34 PM
It was lovely to be the bookseller today and chat with customers! I'll be back with a galaxy of science books @ Stapleford Granary Christmas market #Cambridge on Monday 16th!
One of my books *Sky Dancers* has been longlistd for the Spark! School book Award!
If you've been a student of my course in writing non-fiction for young audiences you will recognise this book! #naturewriting
Thank you so much @sparkbookaward.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social
If you've been a student of my course in writing non-fiction for young audiences you will recognise this book! #naturewriting
Thank you so much @sparkbookaward.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 2:22 PM
One of my books *Sky Dancers* has been longlistd for the Spark! School book Award!
If you've been a student of my course in writing non-fiction for young audiences you will recognise this book! #naturewriting
Thank you so much @sparkbookaward.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social
If you've been a student of my course in writing non-fiction for young audiences you will recognise this book! #naturewriting
Thank you so much @sparkbookaward.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social
Oh my gosh that is such lovely news, thank you so much! Chiara's artwork is exquisite, sharing a murmuration skyline below, and 1800s New York where the story begins!
December 11, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Oh my gosh that is such lovely news, thank you so much! Chiara's artwork is exquisite, sharing a murmuration skyline below, and 1800s New York where the story begins!
What's on your science Christmas list? 🧪 top of mine is the Edible Museum's chocolate natterjack toad 💚
ediblemuseum.com/products/cho... #naturewriting
ediblemuseum.com/products/cho... #naturewriting
December 1, 2024 at 6:40 PM
What's on your science Christmas list? 🧪 top of mine is the Edible Museum's chocolate natterjack toad 💚
ediblemuseum.com/products/cho... #naturewriting
ediblemuseum.com/products/cho... #naturewriting
I didn't know this was one of my career goals until it happened
November 29, 2024 at 8:37 AM
I didn't know this was one of my career goals until it happened
😲 managed to personalise my handle with only minor gremlins
November 28, 2024 at 4:10 PM
😲 managed to personalise my handle with only minor gremlins
I'll be living all my dreams at once & running a pop-up science and nature bookshop IN a Christmas market in December!
Come and say hello if you're near Cambridge!
13 and 16 December, 4pm to 8pm, book at @staplefordgranary.bsky.social
#naturewriting
Come and say hello if you're near Cambridge!
13 and 16 December, 4pm to 8pm, book at @staplefordgranary.bsky.social
#naturewriting
November 28, 2024 at 2:16 PM
I'll be living all my dreams at once & running a pop-up science and nature bookshop IN a Christmas market in December!
Come and say hello if you're near Cambridge!
13 and 16 December, 4pm to 8pm, book at @staplefordgranary.bsky.social
#naturewriting
Come and say hello if you're near Cambridge!
13 and 16 December, 4pm to 8pm, book at @staplefordgranary.bsky.social
#naturewriting
One of the best water pistols in nature... the 'hat thrower' pin mould grows on dung 💩 but has to get its spores to a tastier patch of grass so they can get back in the other end 🐄 so the stalks swell with water until the 0.5 mm cap pings off landing up to 2.5 metres away!
November 28, 2024 at 11:17 AM
One of the best water pistols in nature... the 'hat thrower' pin mould grows on dung 💩 but has to get its spores to a tastier patch of grass so they can get back in the other end 🐄 so the stalks swell with water until the 0.5 mm cap pings off landing up to 2.5 metres away!
So many nature spotting opportunities under our noses! Pop a drop of pond or puddle water under a microscope and you'll see Paramecia dancing about, defending themselves by deploying tiny, explosive, toxin-tipped 'darts'!
November 27, 2024 at 5:17 PM
So many nature spotting opportunities under our noses! Pop a drop of pond or puddle water under a microscope and you'll see Paramecia dancing about, defending themselves by deploying tiny, explosive, toxin-tipped 'darts'!
Not the shiniest but definitely the favourite of every class I teach... the diabolical ironclad beetle is unsquishable up to 39,000x bodyweight. It's also really good at playing dead. They live about 200 times longer than the average beetle!
November 27, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Not the shiniest but definitely the favourite of every class I teach... the diabolical ironclad beetle is unsquishable up to 39,000x bodyweight. It's also really good at playing dead. They live about 200 times longer than the average beetle!
The diabolical ironclad beetle is unsquishable up to 39,000x bodyweight. It's also really good at playing dead. They live about 200 times longer than the average beetle!
November 27, 2024 at 4:46 PM
The diabolical ironclad beetle is unsquishable up to 39,000x bodyweight. It's also really good at playing dead. They live about 200 times longer than the average beetle!
Keeping the festive theme... this dwarf mistletoe doesn't wait around for a peck... it seems to disperse seeds by heating its own fruits until they explode 💥
November 27, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Keeping the festive theme... this dwarf mistletoe doesn't wait around for a peck... it seems to disperse seeds by heating its own fruits until they explode 💥
Clubmosses were once popular winter decorations but fell out of fashion because their dry spores burn so quickly they can explode. No more tiny 'fir trees' but lycopodium powder was used for camera flashes and special effects.
November 27, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Clubmosses were once popular winter decorations but fell out of fashion because their dry spores burn so quickly they can explode. No more tiny 'fir trees' but lycopodium powder was used for camera flashes and special effects.