Emily Drabble @EmilyDrabs
Head of children's books promotion and prizes at BookTrust. Believer that books can save the world. All views expressed here are mine. booktrust.org.uk London Joined December 2013-
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#NewIllustrationoftheDay. ‘One Day WE are going to clean up the ocean for good.’ Heightened colour and relaxed brushwork in a beach scene from Ken Wilson-Max’s just-published picture book Aqua Boy, a follow-up to Astro Girl and Eco Girl. @kenwilsonmax @OtterBarryBooks
@EmilyDrabs @Booktrust @QuartoKids @MichaelRosenYes @robstarlingart @PHoracek @RuthHearson @MicheRobinson @Karlwheel @nilaaye @AlannaMaxBooks @OtterBarryBooks @WalkerBooksUK @CuriousFoxBooks MY desk after the @Booktrust Storytime Prize announcement! The goodies we SO nice, I took out the good ware! So wonderful to celebrate books and stories for the very young. 💚💚💚
@EmilyDrabs @Booktrust @UKLaureate @JosephACoelho @BoltonLMS is just the BEST place to work and visit. I'm so glad you both had an amazing day, THANK YOU SO MUCH for coming and to @Haslamparkpri @StMarysDeane @HorwichParishCE for taking part. ❤️
Thank you @MrsBurnsey from myself and @Booktrust for hosting an amazing day with our wonderful @UKLaureate @JosephACoelho at the incredible Bolton Central Library. The kids were fabulous and we all loved it so much! I still can’t believe you have an aquarium in the library!!!
What an honour to be a judge for the @BranfordBoase - it was so difficult to choose just 6 from such an amazing long list! I love our shortlist deeply, congratulations to everyone!
What an honour to be a judge for the @BranfordBoase - it was so difficult to choose just 6 from such an amazing long list! I love our shortlist deeply, congratulations to everyone!
Huge thanks to our wonderful judges @lucasjmaxwell @CPillainayagam @amymckay14 @EmilyDrabs - a difficult task to choose a shortlist for this year's #BranfordBoaseAward from so many great books on the longlist, but they did it! Thanks @clpe1 for hosting branfordboaseaward.org.uk/shortlist-2024/
What a fantastic shortlist! Congratulations to all the nominees 👏 Our Head of Children's Books Promotion and Prizes @EmilyDrabs was delighted to be a part of the judging panel this year!
What a fantastic shortlist! Congratulations to all the nominees 👏 Our Head of Children's Books Promotion and Prizes @EmilyDrabs was delighted to be a part of the judging panel this year!
@EmilyDrabs @Booktrust @QuartoKids @MichaelRosenYes @robstarlingart @PHoracek @RuthHearson @MicheRobinson @Karlwheel @nilaaye @AlannaMaxBooks @OtterBarryBooks @WalkerBooksUK @CuriousFoxBooks It was fantastic & I’m not just being brave, Guilherme was absolutely the winner - a gift to storytimes - I just wish I had it when I did baby & toddler groups for SureStart- I absolutely love it
25 novels by 25 outstanding debut authors for children - remind yourself of the #BranfordBoaseAward longlist via @bookshop_org_UK or on our website before the annoucement of the shortlist, **Thursday 25 April** branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2024-longlist/
Huge congratulations to Guilherme on winning this brilliant award! I loved @MicheRobinson's reading of it (and speech proceeding)! A fantastic day for picture book fans! Thank you @EmilyDrabs 💛📚
Huge congratulations to Guilherme on winning this brilliant award! I loved @MicheRobinson's reading of it (and speech proceeding)! A fantastic day for picture book fans! Thank you @EmilyDrabs 💛📚
Congratulations to Gui on winning the @Booktrust Storytime Prize for this fabulous interactive story about one (and possibly two) little monsters, read very amusingly at the ceremony by @MicheRobinson. Thanks also to @EmilyDrabs for hosting.
Congratulations to Gui on winning the @Booktrust Storytime Prize for this fabulous interactive story about one (and possibly two) little monsters, read very amusingly at the ceremony by @MicheRobinson. Thanks also to @EmilyDrabs for hosting.
My desk after the @Booktrust #booktruststorytime prize announcement! Thank you so much everyone who came! Congratulations Guilherme karsten @QuartoKids & all our shortlistees including @MichaelRosenYes @robstarlingart @PHoracek @AnnaMMcQuinn @RuthHearson Christianne Jones
We're delighted to announce that Are You a Monster? by Guilherme Karsten is our #BookTrustStorytime Prize winner! 🏆 It was voted for by librarians and families taking part in BookTrust Storytime and is perfect for sharing with under-fives! More: booktrust.org.uk/news-and-featu…
Teachers! A message from me and @jabberworks about @Booktrust’s #LetterboxClub. ‘Otter Chaos’, the first of our #Adventuremice series, is included in this year’s bundle of books. BookTrust.org.uk/letterbox-club 🐭⚓️🦦
HERE IT IS! My first list of children’s nonfiction book recommendations for @Booktrust! Happy reading! 📚 booktrust.org.uk/news-and-featu…
Meet the MORERAPS! #PoetryPrompts is back, and this week Waterstones @UKLaureate @JosephACoelho is showing us how to make a MORERAPS poem using lots of poetic tricks! Have a go by watching the full video here 👇 booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/chi…
Thanks @WRDmag for featuring the #BranfordBoaseAward 25th Anniversary longlist! One week until the shortlist announcement 🗓️Thursday 25 April. Meanwhile, check out the brilliant books on the longlist branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2024-longlist/
Teachers! This one’s for you. I’m thrilled to tell you that DWR Monster Madness is one of the books included in @Booktrust’s amazing Letterbox Club scheme, which provides book parcels for disadvantaged children all over the UK. Watch the vid for more information on how to get…
We're delighted that one of @RobBiddulph's wonderful books is included in #LetterboxClub! Find out more here 👇 booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/pro…
We're delighted that one of @RobBiddulph's wonderful books is included in #LetterboxClub! Find out more here 👇 booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/pro…
So exciting to be with @JosephACoelho @UKLaureate and @VenessaTwrites @Discover_Story for a Bookmaker Like You event with 4 primary schools! @Booktrust
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✨april was really aprELLE✨ deeply proud of @BooksandChokers who started the month launching her new book Keedie and is ending it with s2 of A Kind of Spark dropping on iplayer today 💫 and this cast!! what a thing to have brought all these people together, she is magic 💛
I know I’m (just a tiny bit) biased but couldn’t agree more with this glowing review of @NateLessore’s #KingOfNothing: ‘Rib-achingly funny, poignant, thoughtful and sly, Lessore’s second YA novel confirms him as a uniquely talented writer.’ 🌟 @HotKeyBooks
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…
Cure Parkinson’s ambassador Guy Deacon is going on a UK-wide book tour to promote #RunningOnEmpty, a memoir about Guy’s experience of living with #Parkinsons and incredible journey to South Africa to raise global awareness of the condition: buff.ly/3xtncQO
we are up on BBC iPlayer!! #AKindOfSparkS2
#NewIllustrationoftheDay. ‘One Day WE are going to clean up the ocean for good.’ Heightened colour and relaxed brushwork in a beach scene from Ken Wilson-Max’s just-published picture book Aqua Boy, a follow-up to Astro Girl and Eco Girl. @kenwilsonmax @OtterBarryBooks
Delighted to say that I’ll be appearing at the Barnes Childrens Literature Festival, one of my absolute favourites, in June. I’ll be telling everybody about my author/illustrator journey, I’ll explain how I broke a Guinness World Record, plus there’ll be a live episode of…
@EmilyDrabs @Booktrust @QuartoKids @MichaelRosenYes @robstarlingart @PHoracek @RuthHearson @MicheRobinson @Karlwheel @nilaaye @AlannaMaxBooks @OtterBarryBooks @WalkerBooksUK @CuriousFoxBooks MY desk after the @Booktrust Storytime Prize announcement! The goodies we SO nice, I took out the good ware! So wonderful to celebrate books and stories for the very young. 💚💚💚
Thanks Emily, I was inspired by the company I was with 🙌🏾
@VenessaTwrites @JosephACoelho @Booktrust @MMS_Publishing @hashtag_press How lovely xxx you were brilliant Venessa xxx
What an amazing longlist there was for this years #BranfordBoaseAward and what a ride it was choosing just 6. Well done everyone on both long and shortlist. Every book gave me the feels. And thanks to @lucasjmaxwell @amymckay14 @EmilyDrabs for making me look shorter than usual...
Huge thanks to our wonderful judges @lucasjmaxwell @CPillainayagam @amymckay14 @EmilyDrabs - a difficult task to choose a shortlist for this year's #BranfordBoaseAward from so many great books on the longlist, but they did it! Thanks @clpe1 for hosting branfordboaseaward.org.uk/shortlist-2024/
@MicheRobinson @EmilyDrabs Heehee just the one! She said, Hello, had some milk, had a snooze, and woke up ready for your reading. A good day's work for her!
@EmilyDrabs @Booktrust @QuartoKids @MichaelRosenYes @robstarlingart @AnnaMMcQuinn @RuthHearson @MicheRobinson @Karlwheel @nilaaye @AlannaMaxBooks @OtterBarryBooks @WalkerBooksUK @CuriousFoxBooks Thank you for presenting the evening so well and for your interesting questions. Great fun!
I'm delighted that STEADY FOR THIS and @NateLessore are on this shortlist. Working with Nathanael and @ellasaurus_ on this book has been a joy and an honour. Congratulations to all the other shortlisted authors and editors!
Introducing the 6 outstanding debut novels for young people on the #BranfordBoaseAward shortlist: STEADY FOR THIS by @NateLessore, edited by @ellasaurus_ & @ruthmarybennett @HotKeyBooks is 'near perfect, authentic, with real emotional depth' ow.ly/RWlq50RnN2a
This shortlisting means a lot because it also acknowledges the tough editorial work that goes into books. And @SarahLStewart_ is the MOST brilliant editor with a magic eye for pulling out a great story. I am beyond grateful to have worked with her 🥰 thank you @BranfordBoase!
Introducing the 6 outstanding debut novels for young people on the #BranfordBoaseAward shortlist: YOU THINK YOU KNOW ME by @ayaan_moham, edited by @SarahLStewart @Usborne. Our judges very impressed by the storytelling and the quality of the writing ow.ly/86pG50RnNuV
This is from the man who wrote the funniest, most suspenseful Christmas story you've ever read. Yes THAT one. There are Christmas stories and there are M&S Craven Range Christmas stories ...
Well folks. It's out in the wild now (the book, not the dog). For what it's worth, I'm very proud of it. I hope you like it.
tomorrow, season 2 drops on BBC iPlayer. this season, the storylines I wanted to bring to the show were ones of redemption and forgiveness. I also wanted to explore how difficult it is to be an autistic teen when you haven't learned to love yourself yet. friendship, sisterhood--
Eek! What an honour to make the shortlist for this amazing book and with two of my favourite people to work with! @NateLessore @ruthmarybennett Thank you @BranfordBoase! 🤩
Introducing the 6 outstanding debut novels for young people on the #BranfordBoaseAward shortlist: STEADY FOR THIS by @NateLessore, edited by @ellasaurus_ & @ruthmarybennett @HotKeyBooks is 'near perfect, authentic, with real emotional depth' ow.ly/RWlq50RnN2a
WAHOO 🥳🥳 Are You A Monster? is the WINNER of the BookTrust Storytime Prize 2024 🏆🙌🥳 Thank you @Booktrust and congratulations to Guilherme!! 🏆
What a list to be on!!! Thanks a million, I’m over the moon 💕
The year's outstanding debut novels for children/young people - it's the shortlist for the #BranfordBoaseAward 2024. Congratulations to these talented new authors and to the editors who have supported and nurtured them. branfordboaseaward.org.uk/shortlist-2024/
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