Introducing Pushkin Children’s Classics!
Reading is never more ✨magical✨ than in childhood. That’s why we’re bringing you the most thrilling and inspiring children’s stories from around the world.
Stay tuned for the six beloved titles we’re publishing on July 3rd 🥳
We're hiring a senior children's editor/commissioning editor for Pushkin Children's Books. If you are creative, entrepreneurial, with strong editorial vision and experience commissioning globally, we'd love to welcome you to the team.
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Announcing the longlist for the #Carnegies2026 Medal for Illustration!🏅🎨
Featuring lively colours and immersive mediums, these 19 works beautifully portray themes of identity, relationships, nature, and life’s journey. 📚🌟
carnegies.co.uk/2026-longlis…
ALT Colorful book covers arranged in a grid showcasing the 2026 Carnegie Medal longlist titles.
As an indie publisher, we LOVE indie bookstores, and so we're proud to support #ReadItForward 2026! Buy ANY children's book on Bookshop.org during February, and
@bookshop_org_UK will donate 10% to @Booktrust
- you'll be supporting indie bookshops with every purchase!
ALT A photo of a white hand holding up a paperback copy of The Twelve by Liz Hyder against a background of bookshelves.
ALT A photo of Liz Hyder, an author, holding up two copies of her book The Twelve and smiling for the camera. She has dark curly hair and is wearing a floral patterned dress.
📚 NEW: The #GreatBooksGuide 2025-26 is here!
The guide is packed with 100 reading recommendations, carefully curated to engage and excite children from 4 to 11.
Explore the guide here 👇
booktrust.org.uk/book-recomm…
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I’m thrilled to have received a beautiful finished copy of Thirst by @DarrenSimpson44! It’s a great chance to reshare my review.
It publishes 11.9.25
Thank you @PushkinChildrenscopeforimagination.co.uk/20…
The WONDERFUL latest Books for Keeps reviews The Invisibles @susienottbower, Captain Danger and the Stupid Shadow by Victor Engbers, and The Otherwhere Post @emilycanwrite 🥳
Out now! #BfK273, our #summer special! Authorgraph interview Kenneth Oppel, Windows into Illustration Jarvis, new Beyond the Secret Garden, new Picture This, Nikesh Shukla on reading for pleasure interviews, new #childrensbook reviews & more #KidLit 😎booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bf…
ALT Cover of the new issue of children's review journal Books for Keeps. Illustration taken from The Wood Where Magic Grows by Andy Shepherd, illustration by Ellie Snowdon. Illustration is of a tree with children playing in the branches.
Piglettes by Clémentine Beauvais is 'witty, empowering and irresistibly bonkers', available NOW for all your summer holiday reading 🐽
newstatesman.com/culture/boo…
'Fortune invariably favours the brave' in Journey Under the Sea, one of our 6 AMAZING choose-your-own adventure books. Go rediscover the remarkably 'fresh' format almost fifty years later 🎉
telegraph.co.uk/books/childr…
We’re excited to reveal the 2025 Children’s #WainwrightPrize for Fiction Shortlist! 🌿
Stories of wonder, courage and care. These authors inspire the next generation to imagine a better, wilder world.
#StoriesThatConnect
Been eyeing our upcoming releases? Use the code SUMMER25 online at Waterstones.com and on the app for 25% off when preordering Thirst, The Twelve paperback, and The Snow Fox and the Long, Long Night!