Mostly Book Talk Podcast

📙 We chat with AM Dassu about her stunning new book Wild Journey — five interlinked stories about children around the world, connected by a murmuration of starlings and illustrated by Joe Lillington. 🎧 Listen now: loom.ly/8MbE644

@stories_fest #NationalYearofReading #GoAllIn

📚 For the National Year of Reading, we’re sharing short conversations with people promoting reading for young people. 🎉 First up: Mo O’Hara from Stepping Into Stories Kids’ Lit Fest! 💬 Run a reading project or event? Get in touch: mostlybooktalk.com

How do testing, technology & access to books affect children’s reading for pleasure? We hear from authors, teachers & librarians on the pressures shaping reading today and why it matters. 🎧 Listen now: loom.ly/Czich7o #ReadingCrisis #ReadingForPleasure

Why aren’t children reading for pleasure and what can we do about it? We look at the data, explore key barriers, and hear from authors, teachers & literacy experts working to change the story. 🎧 Listen now: loom.ly/7Zut6PU #ReadingCrisis #ReadingForPleasure #teachers

Get ready for an exciting new series from Mostly Book Talk: The Reading Crisis. Launching soon!

#KidLitUk #Ukkidlit #NationalYearOfReading #GoAllIn #libraries #RfP

📙 Episode 37: Libraries Are a Very Good Thing 📚 We’re celebrating libraries with Rebecca Gediking (GLL) on supporting authors & schools, plus Barbara Band on her book Championing Your School Library. 🎧 Listen: loom.ly/-2JfVI4

Out today - @mossmontmomery ‘s first adult book and it’s great. Sweary octogenarian, twisty plot and intriguing historical facts. But most importantly, very fun. Probably not one to recommend to pupils, but totally recommend for grown up reading pleasure. #UKKidsLit author

🎉 We’re finalists at the Independent Podcast Awards 2025! 📚 Mostly Book Talk celebrates teachers, librarians & parents who champion children’s & YA reading for pleasure! #PodcastAwards #ReadingForPleasure #MostlyBookTalk

📙 Episode 36: We chat with Nathanael Lessore, author of Steady for This & King of Nothing, about writing for teens, the power of humour, and his hilarious Superpower series. 🎧 Listen now: loom.ly/t2KIAYA #NathanaelLessore #YAfiction #MiddleGrade #MostlyBookTalk

🌍 Fantastic news! @TomPercivalSays our guest from Episode 25 of Mostly Book Talk, has won Children’s Book of the Year: Older Fiction (9–12) at The Week Junior Book Awards for his moving novel The Wrong Shoes. 🎧 Catch up: loom.ly/sKiZHe4 #TomPercival #TheWrongShoes

📙 Episode 35: Dr Julie Blake on Poetry By Heart and Ross Montgomery’s Latest Books 🔗 Listen here: loom.ly/73Rh2H4 #ChildrensBooks #ChildrensPoetry #Teachers #Schools

We also review the latest two books in @mossmontmomery ‘s prodigious output. A big thumbs up for Small Wonder - pacey adventure with wide appeal - and for his first book for adults, The Murder at World’s End - a devour in one gulp mystery #books #rfp

*Just* in time to still be National Poetry Day we bring you our latest episode of Mostly Book Talk where we talk to Dr Julie Blake, founder and co-director of Poetry by Heart with lots of information about how schools can get involved @poetrybyheart #poetry #kidlitUK #edutwitter

📙 Episode 34: @Ashley__Thorpe on 'The Boy to Beat the Gods' and 'Spirit Warriors' 🔗 Listen here: loom.ly/Yu9NQ70 or wherever you get your podcasts!

Very excited to have been shortlisted for this 🎉 #readingforpleasure #kidlituk

@AlexHorne @juliamoschaf @LittleTigerUK @WalkerBooksUK @FireflyPress @MaisieWrites And the wider StoryFest event can be found here eseaauthors.co.uk

@AlexHorne @juliamoschaf @LittleTigerUK @WalkerBooksUK @FireflyPress The British Library event that @MaisieWrites mentions can be found here events.bl.uk/events/family-…

📙 Episode 33: In this episode of our podcast, award-winning author Maisie Chan joins us to talk about her brand-new children’s novel, Nate Yu’s Blast From the Past. Listen here: loom.ly/iXDJhu0 #MaisieChan #ChildrensBooks #Podcast