Sarah Lodge
@sarahjlodge.bsky.social
Illustrator and printmaker
Children’s Bookseller
London, UK
sarahlodge.com
Children’s Bookseller
London, UK
sarahlodge.com
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Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87
Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87
Working first with his wife Jane, and later with illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, he wrote more than 150 books
Author Allan Ahlberg, who delighted generations of children with colourful characters and nimble rhymes, has died aged 87.
Working with his wife Janet, an award-winning illustrator, Ahlberg produced a host of bestselling nursery classics including Burglar Bill, Peepo!, and Each Peach Pear Plum. After Janet’s death in 1994, he worked with illustrators such as Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, with his career coming full circle in a series of collaborations with his daughter Jessica including Half a Pig and a pop-up set of anarchic variations on the tale of Goldilocks. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87
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If you're in the publishing community and have been using WeTransfer to share work with publishers and others, but don't want your work exploited by AIs without compensation, YOU NEED TO STOP USING WETRANSFER!
#CopyrightAndAI
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
Source: wetransfer.com/explore/lega...
#CopyrightAndAI
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
Source: wetransfer.com/explore/lega...
July 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
If you're in the publishing community and have been using WeTransfer to share work with publishers and others, but don't want your work exploited by AIs without compensation, YOU NEED TO STOP USING WETRANSFER!
#CopyrightAndAI
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
Source: wetransfer.com/explore/lega...
#CopyrightAndAI
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
Source: wetransfer.com/explore/lega...
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If you work in children’s publishing in the U.K. in anyway shape or form and especially if being a racialise minority is not your experience I would strongly urge you to read this. We know diversity and representation is an issue. And yet the pace of change is glacial. @darrenchetty.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you work in children’s publishing in the U.K. in anyway shape or form and especially if being a racialise minority is not your experience I would strongly urge you to read this. We know diversity and representation is an issue. And yet the pace of change is glacial. @darrenchetty.bsky.social
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For the wonderful Eva Ibbotson's 100 birthday, I talked to her children about her.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
The remarkable Eva Ibbotson — remembered by her children
The beloved author of stories for adults and children would have been 100 this year. Nicolette Jones speaks to Ibbotson’s family about her extraordinary life and the writing it inspired
www.thetimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
For the wonderful Eva Ibbotson's 100 birthday, I talked to her children about her.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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Sometimes people tell me that they bought a picturebook because of #NewIllustrationOfTheDay. I love to hear when this happens. If you have bought a picturebook as a result of seeing an image on my social media, do please respond here with the name of the book. Thanks. (Also helpful to share this.)
April 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Sometimes people tell me that they bought a picturebook because of #NewIllustrationOfTheDay. I love to hear when this happens. If you have bought a picturebook as a result of seeing an image on my social media, do please respond here with the name of the book. Thanks. (Also helpful to share this.)
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Authors, illustrators, screenwriters, poets etc. Please sign this open letter regarding the recent UK Supreme Court judgement on trans peoples’ rights to legal recognition. 🏳️⚧️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
An Open Letter of Solidarity With the Trans Community from UK Writers
NOTE: THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT TO PRESS AND RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC ON TUESDAY - UNTIL THEN, PLEASE ONLY SHARE WITH SMALL GROUPS AND TRUSTED INDIVIDUALS.
The UK Supreme Court ruling of 17th April 2025...
docs.google.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Authors, illustrators, screenwriters, poets etc. Please sign this open letter regarding the recent UK Supreme Court judgement on trans peoples’ rights to legal recognition. 🏳️⚧️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Children’s writer and author of the award-winning Crongton series, Alex Wheatle MBE, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 62. 👇 #BookSky
'Beloved' author Alex Wheatle MBE dies aged 62
www.thebookseller.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Children’s writer and author of the award-winning Crongton series, Alex Wheatle MBE, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 62. 👇 #BookSky
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Authors and illustrators (and both) of Bluesky! I've shared the petition about the lambeth library cuts, but they'd LOVE some more authors to sign this open letter. #KidLitUK docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from Authors and Illustrators to Lambeth Council in support of Lambeth Libraries. A call to halt the proposed £1m cut!
Dear Lambeth councillors and officers,
We are authors, illustrators, and book industry workers writing to ask you in the strongest of terms to halt the cuts to Lambeth Libraries that you announced las...
docs.google.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Authors and illustrators (and both) of Bluesky! I've shared the petition about the lambeth library cuts, but they'd LOVE some more authors to sign this open letter. #KidLitUK docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Libraries are so important for ALL children to have access to. Yet Lambeth council are about to cut £1M from the budgets of the libraries in their borough.
We need your help to STOP this.
I wrote an open letter to the council to try and get them to see the error of their decision.
Please repost.
We need your help to STOP this.
I wrote an open letter to the council to try and get them to see the error of their decision.
Please repost.
March 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Libraries are so important for ALL children to have access to. Yet Lambeth council are about to cut £1M from the budgets of the libraries in their borough.
We need your help to STOP this.
I wrote an open letter to the council to try and get them to see the error of their decision.
Please repost.
We need your help to STOP this.
I wrote an open letter to the council to try and get them to see the error of their decision.
Please repost.
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When your book post transports you back to your childhood! @pushkinpress.com are bringing back the brilliant Choose Your Own Adventure books. 😃 I know tonnes of young readers are going to love these! Anyone else devour these?
March 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
When your book post transports you back to your childhood! @pushkinpress.com are bringing back the brilliant Choose Your Own Adventure books. 😃 I know tonnes of young readers are going to love these! Anyone else devour these?
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BIG Up Kate Bush and the other musicians who stepped up like this. I was surprised at the amount of creatives who didn’t realise that this affects ALL OF US!
February 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
BIG Up Kate Bush and the other musicians who stepped up like this. I was surprised at the amount of creatives who didn’t realise that this affects ALL OF US!
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Up the road from me today - what an amazing expression of unity in the face of a grave threat to our creative industries. 💙
#HandsOffOurCopyright
#HandsOffOurCopyright
February 25, 2025 at 12:03 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
#HandsOffOurCopyright
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The Guardian has today joined the creative industries in a nationwide campaign to highlight the risks around content being given away for free to AI firms.
You can read more about how to get involved here: newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair/
You can read more about how to get involved here: newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair/
February 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The Guardian has today joined the creative industries in a nationwide campaign to highlight the risks around content being given away for free to AI firms.
You can read more about how to get involved here: newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair/
You can read more about how to get involved here: newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair/
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Wow. Every paper.
February 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Wow. Every paper.
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The new four minutes and thirty three seconds of total silence, with added fight against AI slop...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kate Bush and other artists protest AI copyright laws with silent album
Music stars including Kate Bush and Damon Albarn say law changes would damage people's livelihoods.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The new four minutes and thirty three seconds of total silence, with added fight against AI slop...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Steal, verb
1. take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
"thieves stole her artwork"
Links to resist the UK government’s proposal here: linktr.ee/MrSteveAntony
1. take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
"thieves stole her artwork"
Links to resist the UK government’s proposal here: linktr.ee/MrSteveAntony
February 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Steal, verb
1. take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
"thieves stole her artwork"
Links to resist the UK government’s proposal here: linktr.ee/MrSteveAntony
1. take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
"thieves stole her artwork"
Links to resist the UK government’s proposal here: linktr.ee/MrSteveAntony
Open letter
open.substack.com/pub/againstt...
open.substack.com/pub/againstt...
Open letter
Objection to the Government's Proposed Copyright Exemption for Generative AI Training
open.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Open letter
open.substack.com/pub/againstt...
open.substack.com/pub/againstt...
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Creatives, if you haven't done this yet please do!
This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this.
www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...
www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...
AI and copyright - blog - Chris Haughton - AI and copyright
The blog of designer and author Chris Haughton. Chris was listed in Time magazine's DESIGN 100 for his fair trade design work for PEOPLE TREE.
www.chrishaughton.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Creatives, if you haven't done this yet please do!
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This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this.
www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...
www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...
AI and copyright - blog - Chris Haughton - AI and copyright
The blog of designer and author Chris Haughton. Chris was listed in Time magazine's DESIGN 100 for his fair trade design work for PEOPLE TREE.
www.chrishaughton.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this.
www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...
www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...
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I adore picturebooks and totally believe that the best ones are a truly untapped resource in our schools and that they are works of true literary merit. Absolutely agree with #MacBarnett. (He is really is one of the great picturebook creators)
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
Are picture books undervalued? This new ambassador of children's literature thinks so
The Library of Congress has given Mac Barnett the job of promoting books and reading to kids across the country. His plan is to focus on picture books.
www.npr.org
February 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I adore picturebooks and totally believe that the best ones are a truly untapped resource in our schools and that they are works of true literary merit. Absolutely agree with #MacBarnett. (He is really is one of the great picturebook creators)
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
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Just a reminder that the books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes absolutely no-one at all. They are BOOKS FOR EVERYONE - and you can never, ever be too old to read them, and to love them!
January 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Just a reminder that the books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes absolutely no-one at all. They are BOOKS FOR EVERYONE - and you can never, ever be too old to read them, and to love them!