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Hannah Moffatt
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Hello, I’m a children’s author from London. My first book, SMALL! is out now. And so’s the sequel: SMALL BITES BACK
Publisher: Everything With Words

https://hannahmoffatt.com/
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It’s #BackToSchool time again. #Teachers (especially years 2-4) if you read Small or Small Bites Back with your classes, I’ll gladly do free virtual Q&As with them. There are also worksheets for every chapter on my website. #Reading #PrimarySchool
Text: Head back to school with small. I’m still doing free virtual Q&As for all classes reading Small or Small Bites Back! Image: the orange and blue covers of Small and Small Bites Back Text: know little ones nervous about starting a new school? Harvey knows the feeling. He’s got a place at Madame Bogbrush’s School for Gifted Giants. But he’s not a giant … he’s a boy on stilts! Image: boy looking wobbly in long blue dungarees and big rubber foot. Next to orange and blue covers of Small and Small Bites Back.
August 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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I have 100% judged this book by its amazing cover. Can’t wait to read it this weekend! #Reading
Cover of Return to the Dallergut Dream Department Store, featuring a train of different coloured carriages going over a bridge with a rainbow and snow-topped mountains behind. It’s very colourful!
August 30, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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I have been attempting to learn how to garden this year. This sunflower is my greatest success so far (It’s even taller than me!). #Gardening
Sunflower with dusky pink centre and light yellow outer petals. Against a Victorian brick wall.
July 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Opened the loveliest book post this morning. Finders of the Silverthorn Forest looks utterly delightful. Out 1st May with @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
Written by Rachel Chivers Coo and illustrated by Laura Catalan.
For readers 7+ #kidlit
Proof copy of Finders of Silverthorn Forest (title in chunky red letters against a mostly green background with leaves and flowers. And the head of a grey fox-like creature with bushy eyebrows with its paw on a yo-yo). The book is in a light blue box with the gingham cloth is was wrapped in underneath and a hint of the other goodies inside the proof pack- luggage label, edge of a fruit pastels packet and corner of a packaged tea bag.
April 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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If you’re in the mood for buying children’s books (especially mine!) it’s a great time to give @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social a try.
10% of their children’s book sales in Feb go to BookTrust & Scottish Book Trust to fund early years reading support for disadvantaged and vulnerable families in UK.
Purple background of the Bookshop.org Read it Forward campaign. The orange cover of Small! middle left and the blue cover of Small Bites Back middle right. Text at the bottom reads: 10% of all children's book sales go to BookTrust and Scottish Book Trust in February 2025
February 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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PLR day is always such a delight. Thank you so much to all the wonderful #libraries that have Small and Small Bites Back on their shelves … and to everyone who borrowed them 💕📚💕
Top of my head hiding behind the orange cover of Small and the blue cover of Small Bites Back
January 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Happy New Year Bluesky!
Aerial shot of fireworks bursting around London Eye as part of the NYE celebrations
January 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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When you work in @britishlibrary.bsky.social they recommend taking a snap of your locker so you don’t forget it … meaning my phone is full of shots like these!
Thanks a million to the staff at The British Library for making it such a joyful, peaceful place to work. #WritingCommunity
A montage of red, yellow, green and one blue locker I’ve loved and lost at The British Library. Most doors show their number and a grey number pad where you enter your code to lock/unlock the door.
December 30, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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I loved my early read of Grumpfort. Really funny and endearing 💕
December 29, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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Now that’s what I call a flaming Christmas pudding!
Season’s greetings one and all 🎄
Very flaming Christmas pudding as a hand pours flaming brandy over it. Blue flames surround the pudding as a bright yellow/orange flame stretches to the top of the picture.
December 25, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Forgotten a gift for the author in your life? Leaving a review is free - and means the world to us. Merry Christmas! #AuthorLife
Starry top and bottom. Text in middle: Need a last-second gift for the author in your life? A lovely review will always do!
December 24, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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Last commute of the year! Hooray!
Feeling so ready for the festive break. Anyone else still in an office today? Sending solidarity 💪🎄
My view of the railway tracks from the station platform, heading under a bridge. Plenty of bare trees on the opposite platform but also the hint of blue sky between grey and white clouds
December 24, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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Still got two days of work to go, but re-reading my favourite @matthaig.bsky.social and @chrismould.bsky.social story this morning to get in the festive spirit! I love A Boy Called Christmas so much!
#kidlit
Which books lift your festive spirits?
Cover of A Boy Called Christmas (the pre-film edition with gorgeous Chris Mould illustration of a boy with a long red hat riding a reindeer with a giant moon behind them and snowy skies)
December 22, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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Had a blast at the @da-childrens.bsky.social Christmas party tonight! Nan’s Bar in Deptford is so much fun. Didn’t take enough pics of author friends. But managed to get one with @aliceemross.bsky.social (and a YA author called Joyce who isn’t on here yet)
Party pic with the smiling faces of Joyce, Alice and me Superstar agents Clare Wallace and Lydia Silver up on a balcony giving a speech to the authors below. The room is full of colourful fabrics and neon lettering between Clare and Lydia says Ho Ho Auntie’s Ballroom is full of glass cabinets like this featuring all lots of childhood memorablia. This one includes a Womblw doll, playing cards, a plastic car, paper face masks, dolls, mugs…everything!
December 5, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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I’m officially feeling festive now. My grandma was German and every year my Mum has followed in her footsteps and baked Christmas gingerbread for the whole family before St Nicolas Day on 6th December. The tradition has now passed onto me. My icing needs some work, but the love is there. #Christmas
Two trays of wonkily iced and decorated chocolate-coated biscuits in heart, circle and star shapes
December 2, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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Had so much fun creating SMALL-inspired swamp creatures with some super imaginative Year 3s this morning. All part of the SEL book festival. #kidlit
Selfie of me in front of a screen that says Hannah Moffatt Children’s Author
November 27, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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Brrr, less blue skies and more snowy skies on my train to Cambridge this morning. If you’re at home #writing today, wrap up warm! ❄️🌨️🥶 #Snow
A train station photo that’s failing to do justice to the blizzard outside. Grey skies, empty platform and a few bright station lights not quite picking up the snow
November 19, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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First outing for the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Christmas jumper today. I love it! #writers #bookworms
Selfie of me wearing an olive green and cream Christmas jumper with the words Ex Libris across the middle and an open book below it and Christmas tree above it.
November 17, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Just finished an early read of Jamie Hammond’s Grumpfort. So much fun and heart and a reminder not to judge a monster (or warden) by the stories other people tell about them.
I think fans of Small! would really enjoy it! Out 13 March 2025 with Usbourne #kidlit
Proof cover which reads ‘Dare to enter Grumpfort’ beside the Usbourne press release.
November 17, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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Hello #Kidlit Bluesky! It’s been lovely to see so many brilliant bookish folk arriving this week.
If we haven’t met yet, I’m Hannah: writer of sensible corporate things by day (till AI takes my job) and author of very silly kidlit by night.
Here’s a pic of me holding my books!
Top of my head - face covered by the orange cover of Small! And the blue cover of Small Bites Back
November 16, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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It’s done! (By which I mean not done at all and at the start of a very long editing process). But the Draft Zero NaNoWriMo part is DONE!
Good luck to anyone still going with the final push!
NaNoWriMo dashboard showing my 100% progress or 50,141 word count
November 30, 2023 at 8:16 PM
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10,000 words into NaNoWriMo already. I wish I could crush word counts like this the rest of the year!
If you’re a wrimo too, I hope it’s going well!
Screen photo from NaNoWriMo site: You unlocked a badge. 10k. Write 10,000 words (That’s the badge I’ve just unlocked!)
November 6, 2023 at 9:28 PM
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Is anyone doing NaNoWriMo on Scrivener? And have you figured out how to connect the template to automatically update your word count? I’ve downloaded the 2023 template but get an error when I try and do the update…
Error message: Something went wrong. The NaNoWriMo servers did not return a valid response. Please try again later.
November 1, 2023 at 9:51 AM
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Anyone else got a shiny new notebook for NaNoWriMo prep?
Here’s mine (wishing I’d started filling it a little sooner!) 😂✍🏻
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
Bright green notebook with green pencil sticking out the end
October 30, 2023 at 8:11 AM
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What time do families usually go trick or treating? I’ve got all my Small Bites Back vampire treats ready … but will I make it back from work in time?
Glowing pumpkin light surrounded by Small Bites Back postcards, stickers and fang sweets that you can just make out in the dark.
October 29, 2023 at 5:49 PM