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Caroline Carpenter

Kent, London

Children’s Editor and Deputy Features Editor at The Bookseller

Children’s Editor & Deputy Features Editor at @thebookseller • @yabookprize chair • @dtrhradio co-host • @_CreativeAccess alumn • books & Beyoncé 📚💃🏻 she/her

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  • 1 week ago | thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter

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  • 1 week ago | thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter

    Unlike her previous commissions, Clever Crow is non-fiction. “It obviously demanded thorough research and attention to detail, but this is what I really enjoy. I have a frustrated scientist somewhere inside me, I think from my father, who was a Doctor of Sciences.” While researching, she turns to books, the internet and experts. For this project, she contacted the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology and numerous ornithologists across the world.

  • 1 week ago | thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter

    The 2025 Carnegie Medal-winning author Margaret McDonald on making her first novel a “force for good” and her determination to represent life in care authentically. Scottish author Margaret McDonald has become the youngest author to win the Carnegie Medal for Writing with her debut novel, Glasgow Boys (Faber). Of the moment her editor told her the news, the 27-year-old said: “I just screamed. My heart leapt into my throat… I was so delighted.

  • 2 weeks ago | thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter

    Children’s Books North Network (CBNN) is launching the first prize for aspiring picture-book writers and illustrators based in the North of England. The Children’s Books North Network Prize will be run in partnership with New Writing North and will be part of the agency’s Northern Writers’ Awards. It is funded by Arts Council England and Manchester Metropolitan University.

  • 2 weeks ago | thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter

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Caroline Carpenter
Caroline Carpenter @CarolineC1988
30 May 25

RT @Laurenrbrown95: Interested in hearing from authors and editors of fiction/novels exploring AI; with AI as a central theme / plot point…

Caroline Carpenter
Caroline Carpenter @CarolineC1988
21 May 25

The measures taken by the government this week are grossly inadequate. Use @PSCupdates action to call on your MP to demand that the government introduce an immediate arms embargo to end all arms trade and military collaboration with Israel: https://t.co/rCAXcoiLIS

Caroline Carpenter
Caroline Carpenter @CarolineC1988
21 May 25

RT @Waterstones: 'My tenure as Waterstones Children’s Laureate will have happiness at its heart, but it will be about urgency. It will be a…