Clare Hall-Craggs
@loveswimming.bsky.social
Love to look. At books, in newspapers, outside at leaves, the sea. Grow tulips, veg. Bake bread. Play loopy tennis, run slowly, swim when the mood takes me. Mum of grown up twins. Very lucky to work in children’s book publishing. Fan of Norway. She/her.
Yesterday took in a swim in the sea at Pett Level, a scone in Hastings, fish and chips looking out to France, pirates en fete and aboard floats, a dip towards St Leonards and quite a lot of up and down and along the coast path from Winchelsea to Hastings. Perfection. #coastpath
August 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Yesterday took in a swim in the sea at Pett Level, a scone in Hastings, fish and chips looking out to France, pirates en fete and aboard floats, a dip towards St Leonards and quite a lot of up and down and along the coast path from Winchelsea to Hastings. Perfection. #coastpath
On the way of town for #KingstonRegatta.
Very hot already but hey I have my book (from indie Book Nook in Ware), sunscreen, sarnie, binoculars & water. Ready to shout for nephew 1 racing for #Vesta and nephew 3 racing for #TidewayScullers. I think I’d like another go #rowing #balance
Very hot already but hey I have my book (from indie Book Nook in Ware), sunscreen, sarnie, binoculars & water. Ready to shout for nephew 1 racing for #Vesta and nephew 3 racing for #TidewayScullers. I think I’d like another go #rowing #balance
July 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
On the way of town for #KingstonRegatta.
Very hot already but hey I have my book (from indie Book Nook in Ware), sunscreen, sarnie, binoculars & water. Ready to shout for nephew 1 racing for #Vesta and nephew 3 racing for #TidewayScullers. I think I’d like another go #rowing #balance
Very hot already but hey I have my book (from indie Book Nook in Ware), sunscreen, sarnie, binoculars & water. Ready to shout for nephew 1 racing for #Vesta and nephew 3 racing for #TidewayScullers. I think I’d like another go #rowing #balance
Dudley’s finest Sir @lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social is on BBC Saturday Live today - chatting about the Polka Theatre’s production of his middle grade adventure The Boy With Wings - can’t wait to see the play, had a lot of fun doing events with his books
June 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Dudley’s finest Sir @lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social is on BBC Saturday Live today - chatting about the Polka Theatre’s production of his middle grade adventure The Boy With Wings - can’t wait to see the play, had a lot of fun doing events with his books
It’s tonight, and the shop has air con! Come and meet #InvestiGators creator @johngreenart.bsky.social at Waterstones in Cambridge - he’s signing from 5-6.30pm
June 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It’s tonight, and the shop has air con! Come and meet #InvestiGators creator @johngreenart.bsky.social at Waterstones in Cambridge - he’s signing from 5-6.30pm
So very many congratulations to the winning - and shortlisted - authors and illustrators. Honoured that the young readers themselves chose to award beautiful and moving graphic novel Homebody by Theo Parish the Shadowers’ Choice Medal for Illustration
🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Winners of the @carnegiemedals.bsky.social for Writing and Illustration, and Shadowers' Choice Medals: Margaret McDonald, @natelessore, Theo Parish and Olivia Lomenech Gill! #Carnegies2025
Read the press release: carnegies.co.uk/2025-winners...
Read the press release: carnegies.co.uk/2025-winners...
June 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
So very many congratulations to the winning - and shortlisted - authors and illustrators. Honoured that the young readers themselves chose to award beautiful and moving graphic novel Homebody by Theo Parish the Shadowers’ Choice Medal for Illustration
It’s Monday! The sun is shining and it’s time for @johngreenart.bsky.social to talk Mango, Brash and all things InvestiGators in Sheffield! @panmacmillan.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
It’s Monday! The sun is shining and it’s time for @johngreenart.bsky.social to talk Mango, Brash and all things InvestiGators in Sheffield! @panmacmillan.bsky.social
Hurray! Author and comic book creator @johngreenart.bsky.social has landed so the UK InvestiGators tour can begin! First up a signing at @goshcomics.bsky.social in London at 1pm today!
June 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Hurray! Author and comic book creator @johngreenart.bsky.social has landed so the UK InvestiGators tour can begin! First up a signing at @goshcomics.bsky.social in London at 1pm today!
We are so excited to be welcoming the brilliant John Patrick Green, creator of the hit graphic novel series InvestiGators to the UK & Ireland in June! #TeamInvestiGators #MacmillanChildrensBooks
This month! The InvestiGators are coming to the UK and Ireland!
InvestiGators author @johngreenart.bsky.social will be on the road and visiting schools, bookstores, and comics stores to talk to kids about the awesomeness of comics and crocodiles.
See you there!
InvestiGators author @johngreenart.bsky.social will be on the road and visiting schools, bookstores, and comics stores to talk to kids about the awesomeness of comics and crocodiles.
See you there!
June 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We are so excited to be welcoming the brilliant John Patrick Green, creator of the hit graphic novel series InvestiGators to the UK & Ireland in June! #TeamInvestiGators #MacmillanChildrensBooks
Fabulous questions @hayfestival for Hamza Yassin from his sell-out crowd! Did you get to see any animals on Strictly? (No, except for time out at WWT Barnes) #hamzaswildworld What’s the scariest animal you’ve ever filmed? Polar bears!
June 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Fabulous questions @hayfestival for Hamza Yassin from his sell-out crowd! Did you get to see any animals on Strictly? (No, except for time out at WWT Barnes) #hamzaswildworld What’s the scariest animal you’ve ever filmed? Polar bears!
Super busy weekend underway with the brilliant Hamza Yassin. First up - signing at Lowdham Village Hall, Notts, with the ace team at indie bookshop The Bookcase. A few tix available on the door. First signing when I’ve been offered a tab at the cafe in the hall and plants for sale! #Hamzaswildworld
May 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Super busy weekend underway with the brilliant Hamza Yassin. First up - signing at Lowdham Village Hall, Notts, with the ace team at indie bookshop The Bookcase. A few tix available on the door. First signing when I’ve been offered a tab at the cafe in the hall and plants for sale! #Hamzaswildworld
@marlboroughprods.bsky.social hi I’d love to be in touch about pitching authors for The Coast is Queer. What’s the best way to do this please. Loved The Bookseller cover!
May 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
@marlboroughprods.bsky.social hi I’d love to be in touch about pitching authors for The Coast is Queer. What’s the best way to do this please. Loved The Bookseller cover!
A week in Sweden - cardamom buns, blue skies, borders bursting with tulips - and @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social brilliant new YA to rush through, pause and reread. The most generous of writers, and a sparkling summertime read with a sprinkling of insider info. Loved it!
May 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A week in Sweden - cardamom buns, blue skies, borders bursting with tulips - and @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social brilliant new YA to rush through, pause and reread. The most generous of writers, and a sparkling summertime read with a sprinkling of insider info. Loved it!
Beyond this lies the sea - and to the left The Bridge - so we went for the water, wooden changing cubicles, hot saunas, silent saunas and chatty saunas.
Sunday morning #malmo
Sunday morning #malmo
May 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Beyond this lies the sea - and to the left The Bridge - so we went for the water, wooden changing cubicles, hot saunas, silent saunas and chatty saunas.
Sunday morning #malmo
Sunday morning #malmo
#CapitalRing adventure continues with ducklings, deer, views of Richmond Park, speedy cyclists, smells and sounds of the Thames - and a distinct lack of people if you forget the Richmond bit.
Wimbledon Park > Boston Manor #winningonthebankholiday #sorefeet
Wimbledon Park > Boston Manor #winningonthebankholiday #sorefeet
April 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#CapitalRing adventure continues with ducklings, deer, views of Richmond Park, speedy cyclists, smells and sounds of the Thames - and a distinct lack of people if you forget the Richmond bit.
Wimbledon Park > Boston Manor #winningonthebankholiday #sorefeet
Wimbledon Park > Boston Manor #winningonthebankholiday #sorefeet
This is so exciting to see - congratulations to the UK nominees Emily Gravett & Michael Rosen!
Congrats @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social & Emily Gravett, UK nominees Hans Christian Andersen Award, Writing & Illustration categories respectively. The HCA recognises creators of children’s books whose works make an important, lasting contribution to children's literature www.ibby.org/awards-activ...
April 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This is so exciting to see - congratulations to the UK nominees Emily Gravett & Michael Rosen!
#CapitalRing day tripping under blue skies took us from Crystal Palace to Wimbledon Park
Loved Streatham with woods, common, Rookery and Carvalho’s cafe - well over half way round now
Loved Streatham with woods, common, Rookery and Carvalho’s cafe - well over half way round now
March 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
#CapitalRing day tripping under blue skies took us from Crystal Palace to Wimbledon Park
Loved Streatham with woods, common, Rookery and Carvalho’s cafe - well over half way round now
Loved Streatham with woods, common, Rookery and Carvalho’s cafe - well over half way round now
Today’s stretches of the #CapitalRing took us from Falconwood to Beckenham to Crystal Palace spotting an egret, a lot of horses, an inquisitive donkey and the wet woodland ready to be reclaimed in Beckenham Park #tiredlegs #happyhead
March 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Today’s stretches of the #CapitalRing took us from Falconwood to Beckenham to Crystal Palace spotting an egret, a lot of horses, an inquisitive donkey and the wet woodland ready to be reclaimed in Beckenham Park #tiredlegs #happyhead
Super delighted for Kate Rolfe author illustrator of Wolf and Bear and Theo Parish creator of graphic novel Homebody as both books are on the Carnegie Medal for Illustration shortlist! Formerly known as the Kate Greenaway Medal this is a super prestigious prize judge by professional librarians
March 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Super delighted for Kate Rolfe author illustrator of Wolf and Bear and Theo Parish creator of graphic novel Homebody as both books are on the Carnegie Medal for Illustration shortlist! Formerly known as the Kate Greenaway Medal this is a super prestigious prize judge by professional librarians
Happy #WorkdBookDay on the train to the Black British Book Festival’s Reading for Smiles in Birmingham - starring @lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social and then @salomeydraws.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Happy #WorkdBookDay on the train to the Black British Book Festival’s Reading for Smiles in Birmingham - starring @lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social and then @salomeydraws.bsky.social
Very excited that we have two titles on this year’s prestigious Carnegie Medal for illustration longlist - Kate Rolfe’s Wolf and Bear and Theo Parish’s Homebody. Here’s the full list: carnegies.co.uk/2025-longlists-announced
February 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Very excited that we have two titles on this year’s prestigious Carnegie Medal for illustration longlist - Kate Rolfe’s Wolf and Bear and Theo Parish’s Homebody. Here’s the full list: carnegies.co.uk/2025-longlists-announced
Hello UK based teachers and librarians. As we countdown to the end of term I have a giveaway of a trio of advances of @johngreenart.bsky.social brilliant InvestiGators: Class Action. Out in paperback 30/1/25. Please follow & RT to be in with a chance. Ends 9am Saturday.
December 13, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Hello UK based teachers and librarians. As we countdown to the end of term I have a giveaway of a trio of advances of @johngreenart.bsky.social brilliant InvestiGators: Class Action. Out in paperback 30/1/25. Please follow & RT to be in with a chance. Ends 9am Saturday.
Spot of bother landing at #Gatwick so the plane we’re on headed back east to safety. Landed in Koln and now wait to get off plane and fly back to Tallinn. Hey ho. #AirBaltic #thankyoucrew
December 7, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Spot of bother landing at #Gatwick so the plane we’re on headed back east to safety. Landed in Koln and now wait to get off plane and fly back to Tallinn. Hey ho. #AirBaltic #thankyoucrew
Tallinn in 4 more - what a welcome when we discovered the Estonian National Children’s Literature Centre. Wow! A fairytale attic, library & exhibitions. Look at this ogre’s bookish pockets. #Estonia
December 7, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Tallinn in 4 more - what a welcome when we discovered the Estonian National Children’s Literature Centre. Wow! A fairytale attic, library & exhibitions. Look at this ogre’s bookish pockets. #Estonia
Tallinn in 4 - double gloves but not cold. So many echoes of different pasts. Seaplane Harbour Museum, Russian Orthodox service and a dusting of snow. #Estonia
December 7, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Tallinn in 4 - double gloves but not cold. So many echoes of different pasts. Seaplane Harbour Museum, Russian Orthodox service and a dusting of snow. #Estonia