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Jacqui Sydney 📚
@jacquisydney.bsky.social
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Ex KS2 teacher, children’s book blogger and lover of undunked biscuits and Lego. Currently reading all the books. Autistic. She/her.
Blog: https://worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/
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Fabulously fun, festive picture book post today in the form of The Humble Pie and Have Yourself a Cheesy Little Christmas by Jory John & Pete Oswald. Huge thanks to @antswilkinson.bsky.social @harper360uk.bsky.social 🎄

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The 2 books and matching sheets of stickers. The Humble Pie’s cover shows a smiling pie with arms and legs standing by an open window, surrounded by red apples. The other book’s cover shows a grinning cylindrical yellow cheese standing on a pile of Christmas presents outside in the snow.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for gorgeous chapter book #Superquesters Mission: Rainforest Magic by @pauliancross.bsky.social, illustrated by Katarina Gasko.

Out now from @questfriendz.bsky.social

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The blog tour banner listing the stops.
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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I adore @juditheagle.bsky.social's writing and cannot wait to pick up #TheBlitzSisters. Out 26/02 for middle grade readers, the most enormous thanks go to Sarah @faberchildrens.bsky.social 🥰

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November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Very excited to have received a copy of The Experiment by Rebecca Stead. Out 01/01 for 9+ readers, huge thanks go to Jade @andersenpress.bsky.social

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The book and its press release. The cover shows the backs of 2 teenagers, one of whom has a long stripy tail, sitting on the edge of a tall building gazing over a city at night.
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Enormous thanks to Kirsten @edpr.bsky.social #TJBooks for sending Lionborn by Sharique Zea. Out now for 8-12 readers 🦁

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The book and its press release. The cover shows a boy with outstretched left arm surrounded by golden swirls, with the head of a young lion behind him.
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I’m beyond excited to have been sent a copy of the children's edition of Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World by the incredible human being who is @niallharbison.bsky.social Out today for 8+ readers, the most enormous thanks go to Hannah and @sarahreadsandruns.bsky.social @farshorebooks.bsky.social 🐾
The book and its press release. The cover shows smiling golden retriever Tina, wearing a rainbow bandana around her neck.
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Love the Anisha Accidental Detective stories and am thrilled to have received the latest festive read, Christmas Chaos, by @serenakpatel.bsky.social & Emma McCann. Out 06/11 for 7+ readers, enormous thanks go to Georgia #UsborneBooks 🎄

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The book, the cover of which shows Anisha and friend Milo wrapped up in warm clothing and standing either side of a snowman. A small dog has tied them up with a string of fairy lights and both children look worried.
November 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Huge thanks to @antswilkinson.bsky.social @barefootbooks.bsky.social for these lovely nonfiction board books for younger readers.

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The three books. Top: Canada, bottom left: Iceland and bottom right: Vietnam.
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Ashamed to say I’ve not read any of Oscar Wilde's stories for children so am delighted to have received this collection, illustrated by Lauren O'Hara. Out now for 8+ readers, huge thanks to @thelifeofdivia.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social 🥰

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The book, the cover of which shows lots of young children playing beneath some trees.
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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I adored Rowan Foxwood's Heartseer so am thrilled to have received a copy of Magpie Girl to read. Out 01/01 for 9+ readers, enormous thanks go to @frithal.bsky.social #UsborneBooks 🥰

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The book and its press release. The cover shows a girl with a long cloak that sweeps around her standing with outstretched arms while a Phoenix swoops overhead and a magpie flies close to her left hand.
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Very excited to receive a proof of The Golden Monkey Mystery by @piudg.bsky.social, having loved Secrets of the Snakestone. Out 15/01 for 9+ readers, huge thanks go to @hannahprutton.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social 🐒

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The proof and its press release tied up with string. The unwrapped proof and press release. The cover shows a smiling golden monkey holding a green gem in its front paws.
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Out now for 7+ readers, Werelock and Scratch: Mystery Most Puzzling by @katethompson.bsky.social, illustrated by Binny Talib, looks like the most enormous fun! Huge thanks to Katie @hachettechildrens.bsky.social for sending the book and accompanying detective must-haves 🔎

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Book wrapped in ‘Crime Scene: Do not enter’ tape. The book with a magnifying glass, tiny notebook and pencil. The cover shows a werewolf in Sherlock Holmes-style dress with a matching raven sitting on his arm.
November 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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October brought rereads of 2 old favourites as well as lots of new titles and included some wonderful nonfiction and poetry. Reviews still to come for a few of these but they are coming!
Another huge pile of children’s books. Cover of Wildspark by Vashti Hardy.
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Thank you to @barefootbooks.bsky.social for sending board books The Dinosaur Shoes and The Clean-Up Monster by Eleni Tassopoulos Wehner and Danamarie Hosler.

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The 2 board books. The first (on the right) shows the lower parts of a child’s legs with shoes on that look like triceratopses and the second the face of a stripy purple monster.
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Enormous thanks to Poppy @barringtonstoke.bsky.social for today's gorgeous book post. Looking forward to reading The Winter Snow Goose by @gill-lewis.bsky.social, illustrated by Irina Avgustinovich. Out 06/11 for 7+ readers ❄️

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The book and its press release. The cover shows a young girl wrapped up against the cold together with a big shaggy dog above the title with a goose flying with wings outstretched below.
October 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Enormous thanks to @farshorebooks.bsky.social for sending me a copy of Bobland by @realmattlucas.bsky.social, illustrated by Begoña Fernández Corbalán. Out 06/11 for 8+ readers 🎢

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The book and its press release. The cover shows the title in fairground-style capitals below a roller coaster car travelling at speed with a boy and a dog riding in it.
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Concentration levels are currently in my boots so am rereading this old favourite, set very appropriately at Ghastly Night 🎃
Shadowghast by Thomas Taylor. The cover shows Herbie and Vi caught in the light from a projector as they run across a theatre stage. Inexplicably, their shadows are joined by that of a horned man who is chasing after them.
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Enormous thanks to @thelifeofdivia.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social for this beautiful copy of The Cloud Kingdom by Maire Zepf, illustrated by Andrew Whitson. Out now for 7+ readers ☁️

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The book and its press release. The cover shows a girl with long blonde hair riding a dragon over the roofs of some buildings close to a river that leads out to sea.
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Huge thanks to @frithal.bsky.social #UsborneBooks for sending this fabulous proof of #TheNotSoGreatEscape by Emma Green. Out 01/01 for 9+ readers, I cannot wait to read it 🦙

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The book and its press release. The cover shows the heads of two children, one of whom is wearing a bobble hat, and an alpaca alongside the words: Two friends on the run. One angry alpaca. Zero plan.
October 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Huge thanks to @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social for sending middle grade adventure Flipped! by Philip Caveney which is set in Dickensian times against the backdrop of Covid. Out 06/11.

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The book and its press release. The cover shows the silhouettes of 2 boys - one modern and one wearing a top hat - facing away from one another above the title and reflected below it.
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Publishing January 26, be sure to keep an eye out for hilarious and heartbreaking middle grade road trip story #TheNotSoGreatEscape by #EmmaGreenAuthor.

Cover by Jack Noel #UsborneBooks

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October 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I love the #WoodlandExplorersClub series by Ewa Jozefkowicz, illustrated by Gillian Flint, and am delighted to have been sent a copy of Fujiko and the Fox. Out 06/11 for 6+ readers, huge thanks go to @zephyrbooks.bsky.social and Katey @edpr.bsky.social 🦊

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The book, the cover of which shows Fujiko crouching down to look at a fox that is asleep between the roots of a tree in a snowy woodland, and its press release.
October 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Doubly blessed to have also received a paperback of Lockett & Wilde's Dreadfully Haunting Mysteries: The Ghosts of the Manor by Lucy Strange & Pam Smy. Link to my review for this below 👻

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The book, the cover of which shows the figure of a young person heading towards a grand house by the light of a full moon, accompanied by a ghost.
October 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Huge thanks to the lovely folks @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social for sending a finished copy of fabulous middle grade adventure Small Wonder by @mossmontmomery.bsky.social, giving me the opportunity to reshare my review 😊

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The book, the cover of which shows a boy on the back of a large grey horse with autumn leaves blowing about them both.
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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I couldn’t put middle grade thriller Avalanche by Simon Fox down when I read it on NetGalley. Huge thanks to @hannahprutton.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social for this physical copy - I’m celebrating by resharing the link to my review below.

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The book, the cover of which shows a boy in skiing gear running away from snowy mountains towards the reader, and its press release.
October 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM