October Jones

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👇🏻

🎉 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

“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

@JenniferKillick @thetimes @DanSmithAuthor .@JenniferKillick's Barrington Stoke debut #SoulFeeder publishes 6 June 2026 🐍

@JenniferKillick @thetimes @DanSmithAuthor 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

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

🕷️🕸️📚✨ 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…

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!

Um, so a little bit of news . . . 😱

🐊 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!

📢 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-at-…

Waterstones are currently offering 25% off selected pre-orders, including Soul Feeder!

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

@Sally_writes Sally this is everything & I’m 100% going to use it for our WBD visits. I’ll take pics for you 💚📚✨ thank you!

Full poem available as a PDF here: sallydohertyauthor.com/schools Video here: youtu.be/jHOO2thpcgM (Yes, I went for the embarrassing pic)

Feel a little self-conscious sharing this as I’m not primarily a poet but I thought this poem might be of use to some schools for 📚World Book Day📚 Excerpt in picture, link to full poem in next post I’ve also recorded it as a video for World Book Day.See next post #edutwitter

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-str…

Oh my goodness! Not a spooky Supertato flap book??? YES, a spooky Supertato flap book!!! Pre-order yours now!!

@TinyTreeBooks This sounds AMAZING! 💚

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

Our #StaffPicks this week of fantasy, adventure, thrills and chills for both younger and older readers. Shop knowing you'll also be sharing the magic with your child's school: lovereading4kids.co.uk/weekly-staff-p… @HotKeyBooks @OxfordChildrens @WalkerBooksUK @FarshoreBooks @HarperCollinsCh

@SlatteryMr @ADayInTheLib @jacquiS21 @Book_Craic @KateHeap1 @karen_wallee @MrsP512 @mrs_j007 @BarbaraEvaV @MrsNCleveland @checkemoutbooks @MrEPrimary @MrsAtkinreads @boxster14 @LdLoz @KevC46 @MissC_1717 @TanyaEfthymiou @ilovetoread28 @jonnybid Thank you Tom! I need to add some of the MG ones I’ve just found 🖤

@OctoberJonesCo @ADayInTheLib @jacquiS21 @Book_Craic @KateHeap1 @karen_wallee @MrsP512 @mrs_j007 @BarbaraEvaV @MrsNCleveland @checkemoutbooks @MrEPrimary @MrsAtkinreads @boxster14 @LdLoz @KevC46 @MissC_1717 @TanyaEfthymiou @ilovetoread28 @jonnybid I love this padlet! SO much choice!