Firefly for Schools

✨GIVEAWAY✨ To celebrate the publication of Live, Luke Palmer's third YA novel, we're giving away a full set of Luke's books to one lucky winner. To be in with a chance of winning, be sure to follow us, like and RT this post by 11:59pm 04/06 UK only. Good luck!

So proud to share that Play has been shortlisted for the UK’s longest running children’s book awards, the @CarnegieMedals – congratulations @lcpalmerpoet! #Carnegies2025 🌟 Available from your local bookshop!

It was my pleasure! @FireflyPress @trust_leaf

When Grimstink the alien and Layla the thirteen-year-old girl swap planets, they must face down warriors, deathbots, vicars and traffic wardens in their battle for the fate of planet Earth. Grimstink by Daniel Peak lands in bookshops 10/07! Superb cover by Jack Brougham

We’re so delighted And I Hear Dragons edited by Hanan Issa and illustrated by Eric Heyman has been chosen by @EmpathyLabUK for the #ReadForEmpathy collection 2025. Download the collection guides here: empathylab.uk/RFE

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ Camilla Chester returns this Spring with gorgeous galloping middle grade, Project Pony, for horse lovers everywhere. Cover by the wonderful Irina Avgustinovich🐎 Pre-order here: fireflypress.co.uk/books/project-…

Huge congratulations to @lcpalmerpoet who has been longlisted for The Carnegie Medal for Writing with his second novel, Play #Carnegies25 Play is an intensely gripping & masterly YA novel of boyhood, modern-day masculinity and innocence lost Available from your local bookshop!

Demonstrating the art of literary crowd surfing to Year 3: Mold Library, Flintshire ... diolch am fy nghael i! #bookswales #WorldBookDay @FireflyPress #worldbookday2025 #bookstagram @Books_Wales

Yesterday in Oxford book shops. WHSmith: Monster Max, Waterstones: Cracking Cricket and Blackwells: Fantastic Football. Hooray! @FireflyPress @FireflySchools @WHSmith @Waterstones @WaterstonesKids @blackwelloxford #stupendoussports #monstermax

This heartfelt verse novel will be being added to our year 6 read aloud spine next week thanks to our @OpenUni_RfP TRG. It’s so wonderful to be introduced to brilliant texts that I wouldn’t have ordinarily read myself. Such a beautiful book. @FireflyPress

Our Author of the Month is Karen Owen! Her fourth Major and Mynah adventure is Project Puffin and perfect for readers aged 6+ What suggestions does Karen have to encourage children & young people to read more? Read our interview with the author! 👉 libraries.wales/aotm/karen-owe…

Our new blog: buff.ly/4hkoCPx 📗Thunderboots @NaomiJones_1 Rebecca Ashdown 📘The Last Boy @Eve_Mc_Donnell @EveryWithWords 📙Feather by Manon Steffan Ros @fireflypress 📕Darkly by Marisha Pessl @WalkerBooksUK #ReadingForPleasure

The children of the travelling school have one last mystery to solve... Libby and the Egyptian Escapade by Jo Clarke and Becka Moor lands in bookshops TODAY 🔍 We hope you love it as much as we do!

It's #giveaway time!📚 To celebrate #TheTraitorsUK finale, we're giving away three copies of Lie or Die, a pacy reality TV based YA thriller perfect for fans of the show To be in with a chance of winning, be sure to follow us, like and RT this post by 11:59pm 31/01 (UK only)

Happy publication day to Red Sky in the Morning, Poet's Warning by @alexwhartonpoet and Ian Morris📚 Now available from your local bookshop!

📚️ Looking for enchanting, inspiring, awesome gifts this Christmas? 🎁 Get free gift wrapping as standard on all orders this month! 📮 For guaranteed Christmas delivery, order by Monday 16th December 👉️ fireflypress.co.uk 👈️ 🎄📚️💫 #shoplocal #smallbiz

Our online Reading for Pleasure - Live workshop, with the brilliant Children’s Laureate Wales @alexwhartonpoet, explored reading and words, with some art thrown in! Over 300 schools registered, and 220 teachers joined the event from 118 schools from nine different countries. That’s an estimated 6000+ children watching live and taking part. The event was part of our Reading for Pleasure programme, which has seen 59 UK schools working with 63 schools in Jamaica. 📸 Alex Wharton © Sam Hardwick and Hay Festival.

Lucie Bryon has won the inaugural Entente Littéraire Prize for her YA graphic novel Thieves (@NobrowPress), alongside Manon Steffan Ros, who was awarded the prize for The Blue Book of Nebo, translated by Lise Garond (@FireflyPress) 👇 #Echobox=1733407980" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thebookseller.com/news/lucie-bry…

At Westminster today celebrating 25 years of the #SummerReadingChallenge! Here’s to many more years of empowering children’s futures 📚@KarenNapierTRA @alexwhartonpoet

🤝 This week is all about understanding and making things better for everyone in our different communities. What empathetic actions can young people take to make a difference in their communities? empathylab.uk/empathy-action… @a_reflective [CONT IN THREAD]