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Nicola Kent
@nicolakent.bsky.social
Author/illustrator of books for young children.
Rep'd Jodie Hodges, United Agents
Latest: Croc's Cooking Day, Bear's Wash Day, Measuring Me
www.nicolakent.co.uk
Thrilled to reveal the cover of the third Cat and Dumpling story, CAT AND DUMPLING GO CAMPING - out in March! It's part of Waterstones special offer on upcoming titles, this week only. You can preorder here! www.waterstones.com/book/cat-and...
October 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🦁COVER REVEAL! Lion's Cleaning Day will be out in September! It's the fourth in my novelty board book series Busy Chores for Little Paws and I can't wait for it to join its sister books on the shelves! @littletigeruk.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The wonderful Illustrators' Fair returns to Granary Square, Kings X tomorrow and I'll be selling books, prints, tea towels and tote bags! Always a lovely event, it's round the corner from the weekly Canopy Market which hosts crafts and delicious food stalls, so you can really make a day of it!
July 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
So lovely to see my board book series coming together as a set! One more to join the gang in September. @littletigeruk.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🌻🌹🌺🌸a quick reminder that Hippo's Garden Day will be out on Thursday just in time for a bank holiday gardening weekend! 🍀🌿🌱🪻🪴 @littletigeruk.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
And so lovely to see Bear's Wash Day and Croc's Cooking Day at WHSmith Victoria Station too!
April 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Wonderful to see Cat and Dumpling: Home Sweet Home at WHSmith Victoria Station! @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🐱🐶Wonderful to launch my new early chapter book series Cat and Dumpling at @goshcomics.bsky.social last night with the brilliant team from @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social! I'm so excited that this unlikely furry friendship is heading out to bookshops and libraries and lots of home sweet homes!🐾
March 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
🐾I've made some paw print stamps for signing books at the Cat and Dumpling launch at @goshcomics.bsky.social tonight. If you can't come but would like to signed copy you can order today through their website! goshlondon.com/pre-order-ca...
March 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Cat and Dumpling in great company at the London Book Fair! Lovely to see Team @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social yesterday. 🐱🐶
March 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🐱🐶🌟It's publication day for Cat and Dumpling: Home Sweet Home! My debut chapter book, it's packed with colour illustrations and comic capers - perfect for new readers.

Thanks to all at @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social and good luck Cat and Dumpling on your adventures out in the wild!
March 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Happy Pancake Day from me, Croc and Hippo!

Croc's Cooking Day is the second in the Busy Chores for Little Paws series. Two more out later this year with @littletigeruk.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Tomorrow is the last day to take part in #ReadItForward. If you order through @bookshop-org.bsky.social they'll give 10% to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social. Order Croc's Cooking Day in time for Pancake Day next week! @littletigeruk.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Up the road from me today - what an amazing expression of unity in the face of a grave threat to our creative industries. 💙
#HandsOffOurCopyright
February 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
February 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The first in my series of illustrated picture books about Cat and Dumpling is out on March 6th and is included in this offer of 25% off when you pre-order online from Waterstones. Just enter PREORDER25 as a promo code when you check out. Valid until 11.59pm on Feb 24!
February 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Yesterday I visited the wonderful @newhambookshop.bsky.social - a real community hub it was a pleasure to spend time in. I decorated their window and signed copies of Measuring Me!
February 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I’m supporting #ReadItForward! Buy my book Measuring Me! during February @bookshop_org_uk and they will donate 10% to @BookTrust and @scottishbktrust.
uk.bookshop.org/shop/littlet...
February 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
All set for the @unitedagents.bsky.social Illustrators' Showcase tonight. I'm really looking forward to this annual get together of agent stablemates, editors and designers!
February 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Nothing quite like the joy brought by the first bunch of supermarket daffs of the year 💛
February 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
So pleased that Measuring Me! has won a 2024 Eureka! Silver Award from the California Reading Association, along with two other Kane Miller books (MM's US publisher.) @kanemillerbooks.bsky.social @littletigeruk.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Exciting delivery from @raggyrat.bsky.social !

Cat and Dumpling: Home Sweet Home - out March 6th with @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

Thank you Raggyrat for these adorable plushies 🐱🐶🥰
January 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It's PLR week, when authors and illustrators find out the number of library loans of our books. We get 11.76p for each borrow! Chuffed that from July 2023 to June 2024 ALL THE DOGS and ALL THE CATS were my most borrowed! Thank you libraries and thank you borrowers! @andersenpress.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Love these tape measures which I used as hanging ribbons in my window display at ChocoLit Children's Bookshop to celebrate the paperback publication of Measuring Me!@littletigeruk.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Measuring Me is officially out in paperback on Feb 1st, which gorgeous new cover, but ChocoLit bookshop in Clapham has already got some in and yesterday I decorated their window and signed a big pile of books. It was lovely chatting about kids books and bookshops too 📚
January 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM