Maura Farrelly
@blikablika.bsky.social
School librarian. YLG National committee and conference team. Former Carnegies chair of judges. She/her
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Ireland is voting for its stories 💚
From Derry to Dingle, readers everywhere are casting their votes for the books that moved, thrilled, & inspired them this year.
Have you voted yet? Join readers across Ireland and help choose the 2025 winners.
VOTE: scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote
From Derry to Dingle, readers everywhere are casting their votes for the books that moved, thrilled, & inspired them this year.
Have you voted yet? Join readers across Ireland and help choose the 2025 winners.
VOTE: scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote
November 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Ireland is voting for its stories 💚
From Derry to Dingle, readers everywhere are casting their votes for the books that moved, thrilled, & inspired them this year.
Have you voted yet? Join readers across Ireland and help choose the 2025 winners.
VOTE: scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote
From Derry to Dingle, readers everywhere are casting their votes for the books that moved, thrilled, & inspired them this year.
Have you voted yet? Join readers across Ireland and help choose the 2025 winners.
VOTE: scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote
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A new chapter begins Monday — the Carnegie Nominations are coming. 👻📚🕯️
#Carnegies2026
#Carnegies2026
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A new chapter begins Monday — the Carnegie Nominations are coming. 👻📚🕯️
#Carnegies2026
#Carnegies2026
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🎵🎶It's the final countdown 🎶🎵
Don't forget to pop your nominations in before midnight tonight! I'm so looking forward to seeing what my reading list is going to look like for the next few months as a Judge!
Don't forget to pop your nominations in before midnight tonight! I'm so looking forward to seeing what my reading list is going to look like for the next few months as a Judge!
📚 Calling all @cilip.bsky.social members! It's that exciting time once more!
Join us in nominating your favourite children's and YA books for the 2026 Carnegies. Each member can nominate one exceptional title per Medal. 🏅
🗓️ Submit yours by 26 September carnegies.co.uk/nominations
Join us in nominating your favourite children's and YA books for the 2026 Carnegies. Each member can nominate one exceptional title per Medal. 🏅
🗓️ Submit yours by 26 September carnegies.co.uk/nominations
September 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🎵🎶It's the final countdown 🎶🎵
Don't forget to pop your nominations in before midnight tonight! I'm so looking forward to seeing what my reading list is going to look like for the next few months as a Judge!
Don't forget to pop your nominations in before midnight tonight! I'm so looking forward to seeing what my reading list is going to look like for the next few months as a Judge!
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Don’t miss out! Make sure you nominate by tomorrow night!!
September 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Don’t miss out! Make sure you nominate by tomorrow night!!
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📚 Calling all @cilip.bsky.social members! It's that exciting time once more!
Join us in nominating your favourite children's and YA books for the 2026 Carnegies. Each member can nominate one exceptional title per Medal. 🏅
🗓️ Submit yours by 26 September carnegies.co.uk/nominations
Join us in nominating your favourite children's and YA books for the 2026 Carnegies. Each member can nominate one exceptional title per Medal. 🏅
🗓️ Submit yours by 26 September carnegies.co.uk/nominations
September 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
📚 Calling all @cilip.bsky.social members! It's that exciting time once more!
Join us in nominating your favourite children's and YA books for the 2026 Carnegies. Each member can nominate one exceptional title per Medal. 🏅
🗓️ Submit yours by 26 September carnegies.co.uk/nominations
Join us in nominating your favourite children's and YA books for the 2026 Carnegies. Each member can nominate one exceptional title per Medal. 🏅
🗓️ Submit yours by 26 September carnegies.co.uk/nominations
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ICYMI: The 2024 Yoto Carnegies won Best Development of an Existing Awards Event at the 2025 #AwardsAwards 🏆
Judges praised the “vibrant, youth-powered reinvention” as “massively scaled, emotionally resonant, and culturally important.” We’re honoured!
Read more 👉:
Judges praised the “vibrant, youth-powered reinvention” as “massively scaled, emotionally resonant, and culturally important.” We’re honoured!
Read more 👉:
Two photos. One of the Award which has text on it as follows: "2025 Awards Awards. Best Development of an Existing Awards Event. CILIP. Yoto Carnegies 2024". The second photo is from the awards ceremony with awards team members on stage accepting the award and the screen behind them announcing the win.
carnegies.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
ICYMI: The 2024 Yoto Carnegies won Best Development of an Existing Awards Event at the 2025 #AwardsAwards 🏆
Judges praised the “vibrant, youth-powered reinvention” as “massively scaled, emotionally resonant, and culturally important.” We’re honoured!
Read more 👉:
Judges praised the “vibrant, youth-powered reinvention” as “massively scaled, emotionally resonant, and culturally important.” We’re honoured!
Read more 👉:
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“Manhood’s become a rock / I cannot lift alone.”
Joseph Coelho’s The Boy Lost in the Maze remakes the Theseus myth into a mirror—reflecting modern masculinity, identity and the timeless search for self.
My review for @justimaginecentre.bsky.social
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
Joseph Coelho’s The Boy Lost in the Maze remakes the Theseus myth into a mirror—reflecting modern masculinity, identity and the timeless search for self.
My review for @justimaginecentre.bsky.social
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
The Boy Lost in the Maze - Just Imagine
Myths are a thing of liquid. They flow to fit the vessel into which they are poured, curving into each crevice and curling into every corner—the same water taking on new and unrecognisable shape. Each...
justimagine.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
“Manhood’s become a rock / I cannot lift alone.”
Joseph Coelho’s The Boy Lost in the Maze remakes the Theseus myth into a mirror—reflecting modern masculinity, identity and the timeless search for self.
My review for @justimaginecentre.bsky.social
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
Joseph Coelho’s The Boy Lost in the Maze remakes the Theseus myth into a mirror—reflecting modern masculinity, identity and the timeless search for self.
My review for @justimaginecentre.bsky.social
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
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📚 Thrilled to share that I’ve been shortlisted for the @sla.org.uk Secondary School Librarian of the Year Award! Honoured and grateful to be recognised among such dedicated professionals. 🌟 #SchoolLibraries
Congratulations to the outstanding school librarians on the honours list for the 2025 @sla.org.uk Secondary School #Librarian of the Year Award, the Peter Usborne Primary School #Library of the Year Award, & the Enterprise Award.
Be inspired🔽
booksforkeeps.co.uk/the-school-l...
Be inspired🔽
booksforkeeps.co.uk/the-school-l...
July 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
📚 Thrilled to share that I’ve been shortlisted for the @sla.org.uk Secondary School Librarian of the Year Award! Honoured and grateful to be recognised among such dedicated professionals. 🌟 #SchoolLibraries
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Applications for the Klaus Flugge Bursary for a sponsored place at Journeys Into Reading: #YLGConference2025 are now open! See the following post for details.
Thank you to @andersenpress.bsky.social for sponsoring this bursary
Thank you to @andersenpress.bsky.social for sponsoring this bursary
July 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Applications for the Klaus Flugge Bursary for a sponsored place at Journeys Into Reading: #YLGConference2025 are now open! See the following post for details.
Thank you to @andersenpress.bsky.social for sponsoring this bursary
Thank you to @andersenpress.bsky.social for sponsoring this bursary
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Relive the magic of the 2025 Carnegie Awards💫 You can now watch back the ceremony on our website! Don’t miss the heartwarming moments and powerful speeches 🏅🎥 #Carnegies2025
📷: Tom Pilston / Beth Prodger
Find the full recording and photo gallery: carnegies.co.uk/take-part/st...
📷: Tom Pilston / Beth Prodger
Find the full recording and photo gallery: carnegies.co.uk/take-part/st...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Relive the magic of the 2025 Carnegie Awards💫 You can now watch back the ceremony on our website! Don’t miss the heartwarming moments and powerful speeches 🏅🎥 #Carnegies2025
📷: Tom Pilston / Beth Prodger
Find the full recording and photo gallery: carnegies.co.uk/take-part/st...
📷: Tom Pilston / Beth Prodger
Find the full recording and photo gallery: carnegies.co.uk/take-part/st...
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🎟️ General sale tickets now available 🎟️
Join us for a weekend of joyful Resistance at the Children’s Books Ireland International Conference 2025.
🗓️20th & 21st September
📍Light House Cinema
🎟️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/childrens-...
#CBIConf25
Join us for a weekend of joyful Resistance at the Children’s Books Ireland International Conference 2025.
🗓️20th & 21st September
📍Light House Cinema
🎟️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/childrens-...
#CBIConf25
June 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🎟️ General sale tickets now available 🎟️
Join us for a weekend of joyful Resistance at the Children’s Books Ireland International Conference 2025.
🗓️20th & 21st September
📍Light House Cinema
🎟️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/childrens-...
#CBIConf25
Join us for a weekend of joyful Resistance at the Children’s Books Ireland International Conference 2025.
🗓️20th & 21st September
📍Light House Cinema
🎟️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/childrens-...
#CBIConf25
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The winners of the @cilip.bsky.social #CarnegieMedals have been announced! 📚📜
Carnegie Medals Winners Announced
The Carnegies celebrate achievement in writing and illustration for young people and are unique in being judged by an expert panel of youth librarians. Thousands of reading groups in schools and li…
teenlibrarian.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The winners of the @cilip.bsky.social #CarnegieMedals have been announced! 📚📜
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It’s fantastic to see the winners of the Carnegie Medals announced today at the #Carnegies2025 awards ceremony. Huge congratulations to the winners, shortlistees and the judges from CILIP Youth Libraries Group!
June 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It’s fantastic to see the winners of the Carnegie Medals announced today at the #Carnegies2025 awards ceremony. Huge congratulations to the winners, shortlistees and the judges from CILIP Youth Libraries Group!
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Homebody has won the 2025 Shadowers' Choice Medal for Illustration! Congratulations to Theo Parish and @panmacmillan.bsky.social! #Carnegies2025
June 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Homebody has won the 2025 Shadowers' Choice Medal for Illustration! Congratulations to Theo Parish and @panmacmillan.bsky.social! #Carnegies2025
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Clever Crow has won the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Illustration! Congratulations to Olivia Lomenech Gill and @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social! #Carnegies2025
June 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Clever Crow has won the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Illustration! Congratulations to Olivia Lomenech Gill and @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social! #Carnegies2025
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King of Nothing has won the 2025 Carnegie Shadowers' Choice Medal for Writing! Congratulations to Nathanael Lessore and Bonnier Books UK! #Carnegies2025
June 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
King of Nothing has won the 2025 Carnegie Shadowers' Choice Medal for Writing! Congratulations to Nathanael Lessore and Bonnier Books UK! #Carnegies2025
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And the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing goes to Glasgow Boys! Congratulations to @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social and @faberchildrens.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social! #Carnegies2025
June 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
And the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing goes to Glasgow Boys! Congratulations to @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social and @faberchildrens.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social! #Carnegies2025
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A huge thank you to the Awards Team, to @youthlibrarygroup.bsky.social and to all our judges, led by Ros Harding! Their dedication makes the Carnegie Awards possible 👏
June 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A huge thank you to the Awards Team, to @youthlibrarygroup.bsky.social and to all our judges, led by Ros Harding! Their dedication makes the Carnegie Awards possible 👏
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🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Winners of the Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration, and Shadowers' Choice Medals: @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social, Nathanael Lessore, Theo Parish and Olivia Lomenech Gill! #Carnegies2025
Read the press release: carnegies.co.uk/2025-winners...
Read the press release: carnegies.co.uk/2025-winners...
June 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Winners of the Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration, and Shadowers' Choice Medals: @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social, Nathanael Lessore, Theo Parish and Olivia Lomenech Gill! #Carnegies2025
Read the press release: carnegies.co.uk/2025-winners...
Read the press release: carnegies.co.uk/2025-winners...
April 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The Discover Irish Children’s Books Symposium
🗓️Saturday 21st June from 11am to 4pm
📍Cregan Library, St Patrick’s Campus, DCU, Drumcondra, Co Dublin
Booking details & more:
www.writing.ie/news/discove...
@irishkidsbooks.bsky.social
#kidslit #illustrators #booksky #teachers
🗓️Saturday 21st June from 11am to 4pm
📍Cregan Library, St Patrick’s Campus, DCU, Drumcondra, Co Dublin
Booking details & more:
www.writing.ie/news/discove...
@irishkidsbooks.bsky.social
#kidslit #illustrators #booksky #teachers
April 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Discover Irish Children’s Books Symposium
🗓️Saturday 21st June from 11am to 4pm
📍Cregan Library, St Patrick’s Campus, DCU, Drumcondra, Co Dublin
Booking details & more:
www.writing.ie/news/discove...
@irishkidsbooks.bsky.social
#kidslit #illustrators #booksky #teachers
🗓️Saturday 21st June from 11am to 4pm
📍Cregan Library, St Patrick’s Campus, DCU, Drumcondra, Co Dublin
Booking details & more:
www.writing.ie/news/discove...
@irishkidsbooks.bsky.social
#kidslit #illustrators #booksky #teachers
Those picture books look awful fine!
Time for a Book #Giveaway!
To (very belatedly) celebrate the milestone of 500 followers on BlueSky, I'm giving three collections of books away:
📚 Picturebooks (for readers aged 0-6)
📚 Middle Grade (for readers aged 8-12)
📚 Young Adult (for readers aged 15-18)
To (very belatedly) celebrate the milestone of 500 followers on BlueSky, I'm giving three collections of books away:
📚 Picturebooks (for readers aged 0-6)
📚 Middle Grade (for readers aged 8-12)
📚 Young Adult (for readers aged 15-18)
April 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Those picture books look awful fine!
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April is full of fab new Irish children's books. Check out the @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social posters for some of our favourites for all ages.
Designed by @bexsheridan.bsky.social
#DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
The posters can be downloaded free from discoveririshkidsbooks.ie/new-irish-ch...
Please share!
Designed by @bexsheridan.bsky.social
#DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
The posters can be downloaded free from discoveririshkidsbooks.ie/new-irish-ch...
Please share!
April 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
April is full of fab new Irish children's books. Check out the @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social posters for some of our favourites for all ages.
Designed by @bexsheridan.bsky.social
#DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
The posters can be downloaded free from discoveririshkidsbooks.ie/new-irish-ch...
Please share!
Designed by @bexsheridan.bsky.social
#DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
The posters can be downloaded free from discoveririshkidsbooks.ie/new-irish-ch...
Please share!
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From the Guardian:
This year’s chair of judges Ros Harding said this year’s shortlists “highlight the diversity and high quality within publishing for children and young people in the UK”.
#Carnegies2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
This year’s chair of judges Ros Harding said this year’s shortlists “highlight the diversity and high quality within publishing for children and young people in the UK”.
#Carnegies2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Lauren Child in running for repeat Carnegie medal after 25 years
Former children’s laureate joins shortlists for prestigious children’s book prizes that ‘highlight the diversity and high quality’ in British work
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
From the Guardian:
This year’s chair of judges Ros Harding said this year’s shortlists “highlight the diversity and high quality within publishing for children and young people in the UK”.
#Carnegies2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
This year’s chair of judges Ros Harding said this year’s shortlists “highlight the diversity and high quality within publishing for children and young people in the UK”.
#Carnegies2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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The Carnegies shortlist is out, for the awards' 88th year. Shadowing starts tomorrow, awards are 19 June. Lovely to hear the panel talk of librarians as "equalisers" who know their readers and how to hook them on reading #Carnegies2025 #LBF25 carnegies.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Carnegies shortlist is out, for the awards' 88th year. Shadowing starts tomorrow, awards are 19 June. Lovely to hear the panel talk of librarians as "equalisers" who know their readers and how to hook them on reading #Carnegies2025 #LBF25 carnegies.co.uk