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Leonie Roberts
@leonieroberts.bsky.social
Children's Author and EYFS Teacher.
Books 📚 Dogs🐕 Gardening 🌸 Cake 🎂
Seeking representation 👋
Debut book, "My Colourful Chameleon" 🦎
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Hello! I have a new picture book coming out! The Butterfly House, will be published by @andersenpress.bsky.social on 9th Oct 2025, and is available to preorder now, from @waterstoneskids.bsky.social & all good bookshops!

www.waterstones.com/book/the-but...
July 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Last night I went on a flight that had been delayed by over an hour. It really cheered everyone up when shortly after take-off one little girl screamed, "Oh my God, hold on to your seats!" (It was her first flight) 🤣 #travelling
May 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Why did Ukraine's song start with notes only dogs can hear?? #eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Sorry Lithuania, I don't think Emo Leonardo di Daprio is going to win it for you. #eurovision
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May 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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May 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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So lovely to see poet Bethany Handley on the front cover of The Bookseller!
This week's issue of #TheBookseller is out now!

Read the issue here 👉https://www.thebookseller.com/editions/homepage-editions/20250425-edition?utm_source=social&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=newissue #BookSky
April 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Is everyone over on Threads? 🤔
April 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Aside from when I am writing, my garden is my happy place. I hope you all have somewhere you can go where you feel at peace. #gardeningismytherapy #happyplace
April 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Went in to the garden centre for some tomato seeds. They didn't have the ones I wanted...so I bought one of everything else instead 🙈 #gardening #gardeninglife #happyplace
April 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I’ve been at it again 🐰
April 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Good afternoon class,

Hello my names Jamel Carly Campbell, I’m an author and storyteller. Blessings to everyone that has purchased a copy of any of my books. Thank you #worldbookday2025
March 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hi everyone 👋👋
I have been AWOL for some time now as I've been having the time of my life travelling. #timeofmylife #travelling
April 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I still can't believe that two of my #picturebooks have been shortlisted in @writingawards.bsky.social 😊
www.searchlightawards.co.uk/best-childre...
#writingcommunity #amwriting #childrensbooks
Congratulations @tomwriting.bsky.social & all the shortlistees 🎉
February 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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When ADHD is identified and treated, people can live longer and have healthier lives. Without treatment, the risk for a shorter life is significant.

Read at www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/h...

Adult ADHD chadd.org/for-adults/o...

#ADHD #ADD #adultadhd #adhdtreatment #health #lifespan
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January 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
You know you are old when you bunny hopped for less than 30 seconds as a P.E WARM UP and now your knee hurts! 🙈 #teacherproblems
a cartoon of a girl walking with the words * mild knee pain *
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January 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Bad United have won their first match and Hoof the Unicorn is OVER THE MOON! But their journey as a team is only just beginning. ⚽️ 🏆

BAD UNITED: FOUL PLAY is the second book in a super and silly graphic novel series written & illustrated by Louise Forshaw.

⚽️ Kick Off February 2025! ⚽️

#BadUnited
January 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"If you want to use a copyrighted work, you ask permission, and then you pay for it. Anything else is theft, and anyone arguing for anything else is harming the UK creative industry."
Amen to @richardosman1.bsky.social on the government's pernicious AI proposal.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’
Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fields
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Delighted that #OneInAMillion is one of the Waterstones best new children’s books!! Debra the Zebra is clip-clopping with glee 💗 Thank you so much @waterstoneskids.bsky.social (added bonus - we get to hang out with Supertato! @suehendra.bsky.social)
January 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is my houseplant, Lazarus. I am hoping that 2025 is the year that I remember it lives (using the term loosely here) in the back room 🙈
January 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Picture book giveaway! 🦍🌸

I'm giving away five signed copies of my nonfiction IVAN picture book.

Repost and follow me for a chance to win! I'll choose and notify five random winners Monday, January 13. 🍃

#TheOneAndOnlyIvan #kidlit
January 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Alongside my latest haul of picture books from the library, I am reading the 4th book in a fabulous series by Kate Wells.
What are you reading?
#amreading #bookrecommendations
January 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Hello new followers !
Here are some examples of the types of books I illustrate - mostly picture books and young fiction.
I also like to promote and share the work of others and sometimes post pictures of my dog Baxter ! 😀 Welcome a long ! #kidlitart #kidlituk #illustration
November 20, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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Look what I spotted— my lovely friend’s debut with Jellycat! Congrats @meredithvighauthor.bsky.social !!! 🐻🎒🌏
January 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Happy Book Birthday! What a beauty 😍🎉🎉🎉
Tired of shopping? Fed up with consumerism? I have just the tonic...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 (02/01/25 Andersen Press) illust by Ali Pye: Squirrel doesn’t know what The Really Beautiful Thing is, or even what it does, but it’s AMAZING, and he wants it...
January 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM