The ‘one stop spot’ for the spooky, kooky, magical, fantastical, weird and wonderful world(s) of Children’s Literature & Illustration!
Joined March 2022
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Hey Pumpkins!
I’m October Jones & I’m…
📚 Children’s Librarian
💚 GLL Literary Foundation Champion
📚 Creator of ‘The Bigger Picture’ Project
💚 KidLit Book Award Judge
📚 YLG London Committee Member
💚 KidLit Fest Volunteer
💚 Around The Cauldron Podcast Host
✨ oh & I’m👇🏻
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Caiden & Sam often help Caiden’s dad clear houses. But tonight, alone in the warehouse, it seems they have brought an uninvited evil passenger back w/ them. Can they unravel the mystery in time to save themselves? Hair-raising horror from @JenniferKillick. bit.ly/3RPLlLk
ALT Cover image for Soul Feeder by Jennifer Killick
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We have three phenomenal books publishing today from @JenniferKillick, Marina Vidal, Keith Gray, @RobinsonKH, Anne Fine and Emily Jones! Explore more and read a sample of each in the thread below 👇
ALT Cover images for Soul Feeder by Jennifer Killick, Ben's Gargoyle by Keith Gray and Creepy Araminta by Anne Fine
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May 18
2 weeks to to go to #LibrariesChangeLives Week! For EVERY library in EVERY sector. Public, school, academic, health, workplace - all change lives every day. Celebrate the breadth of what libraries contribute to society & share your plans in comments 👇cilip.org.uk/page/libraries-…
ALT Green promotional banner for Libraries Change Lives campaign encouraging literacy and reading with toolkit download info and CILIP logo.
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Calling all young princes, pixies and wizards! 🧙✨
Free Prince Kal activity sheets are now available to download — click the link in our bio and let the adventure begin! 👑🐊
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🎉 Happy book-birthday to 5 fantastic new titles! 🎉
🐙 Baby Kraken by Ani Manzanas
📚️ Hupo and the Doom Lagoon and Hupo and the Wonder Thief (now in PB) by Billy Partridge
🔍️ Guess Who? In the Forest, and Guess Who? In the Desert by Owen Davey
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“If we want our children to love reading, we have to let them choose for themselves” @JenniferKillick in this great piece in @thetimes on the popularity of #horror among young readers, featuring @DanSmithAuthor's terrifying #TheNightHouseFiles: bit.ly/4tYbLsa
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.@JenniferKillick's Barrington Stoke debut #SoulFeeder publishes 6 June 2026 🐍
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The next gruesome instalment of @DanSmithAuthor's Night House Files series is out 7th May 2026 - hear about it from the author at youtu.be/nU1o_k0hs3w
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WELCOME TO THE NEW LONDON CHILDREN'S LITERATURE FESTIVAL! Made in Barnes SW13 since 2015!
Same Festival. Same Folks. New Name.
Giant thanks and love, love, and more love to the genius that is #JamieSmart for our epic new poster!
Roll on June! londonkidslitfest.org
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Mar 15
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It’s #nationalsaveaspiderday & Mothering Sunday here in the U.K, so it feels right to spin a web of book recommendations celebrating the two.
Remember to Creep On Reading, Pumpkins and Support Your Spooky! 🎃
padlet.com/octoberjonesco/Sp…
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Mar 12
Ta da! 🎉 Here's the cover for #DeathAtTheMuseum my 2nd children's book! Luke & Ava find a box with clues to a murder at the Natural History Museum in 1983 🦕💎🦖📦 @PuffinBooks and Marta Kissi have captured the story perfectly with this stunner! Out 4 June 🤩 Pre-order now!
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Mar 10
Um, so a little bit of news . . . 😱
Mar 10
The Boy at the Window by Lucy Strange (Barrington Stoke) has been crowned Peters Children’s Book of the Year for 2026.
Read more 👇 ebx.sh/qQD2SC
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🐊 Coming Soon! See You Later by April Suddendorf arrives on 2nd April! 🐈⬛
📖 See you later alligator...
Gary the alligator grows tired of his small, soggy swamp and decides a nearby human house would be far more comfortable and luxurious. How wrong he turns out to be!
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Feb 17
📢 Bargain Alert! 📢 Pre-Order the second book in my middle grade A Box Full of Murders series #DeathAtTheMuseum online or in-app @Waterstones for a murderous 25%-off 💰 enter FEB26 at checkout 🤑 But hurry! Discount ends 20 Feb #WPreorder
Click link 👇
waterstones.com/book/death-a…
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Waterstones are currently offering 25% off selected pre-orders, including Soul Feeder!
Good news! You can pre-order #SoulFeeder by @JenniferKillick, #WhenTheInvaderComes by @tompalmerauthor and #MurderOnAMidsummerNight by @theLucyStrange with a 25% discount from @Waterstones when you enter code FEB26 at checkout! Offer ends Friday.waterstones.com/campaign/feb… #WPreorder
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Feb 18
Friends! My first cosy mini murder mystery for young readers is out in July! - and this week you can get 25% off by pre-ordering on waterstones.com with the code FEB26
Murder on a Midsummer Night is a proper murder mystery in an easy-to-read package! 9
🖌 Hannah Peck
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Feb 18
Buy any of my books (or indeed any children's books) at bookshop.org during February and 10% of the sale will go to @Booktrust and @scottishbktrust
🧡 Read it forward! 🧡 uk.bookshop.org/lists/lucy-s…
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Feb 17
Oh my goodness! Not a spooky Supertato flap book??? YES, a spooky Supertato flap book!!! Pre-order yours now!!
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When the moon is high, and the house is quiet… the Grumlyns come out to play!
Grumlyns is a riotous, rhyming, mischief-packed picture book from Fran & David Brylewski.
📆 Coming March 19th. Pre-order 👉 amzn.to/4a6juOf
#picturebooks
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