Moon Lane Group
We have grown from one specialist independent children’s bookshop in London, est.
in 2003, into three shops, an expert school supply company, a community project development branch, and an experienced Children’s Literature Festival Consultancy.
30/10/2021
🎠🇩🇪 …Thank you so much for the super special interview with Tamara and Nicci, and in-depth article about Moon Lane and our multi award-winning bookshops and childrens education services!! Absolutely thrilled!!
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13/05/2021
🎠Moon Lane are hugely grateful to , the judges and the sponsors, and , for making both awards possible, and for helping to support our work creating a clear route to market for books written and illustrated by authors and illustrators from under-represented groups. The business will continue to champion reading and literacy for children from all walks of life and backgrounds.
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22/04/2021
🎠Our Moon Lane children's bookshop by the sea in Ramsgate, Kent was featured in The today thanks to The Guardian reader Karina Baker who choose Moon Lane Ramsgate as 1 of the 12 UK’s best independent bookshops!! So wonderful!! Congratulations to the team in Ramsgate!!
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22/04/2021
🎠Congratulations to all the team !! They have charted in 8th place on a very popular app in China called DIAN PING, which helps customers to locate the best destinations for tourism, leisure and lifestyle. Brilliant news having only officially opened on 28th March. Wonderful news!! 👏
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19/03/2021
🎠🎉We are hugely excited and delighted to let you know that we have been shortlisted at this year's British Book Awards (aka The Nibbies, aka THE publishing event of the year) for Children’s Bookseller of the Year. We are so grateful to the judges and sponsor , and cannot wait for the awards ceremony on 13th May 2021.
📚✨We were the 2020 Children’s Bookseller of the Year, and our passion for children’s reading is shared across our 3 bookshops, education business and CIC… and new projects including our very popular Moon Lane TV YouTube channel and new franchise in China.
📚✨There are 9 nominees across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland who have demonstrated the ‘indefatigable spirit of children’s independent booksellers’. Find out more here:
🔗https://www.thebookseller.com/british-book-awards/childrens-bookshop
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19/01/2021
🎠Our founder and co-owner in this week ... talking about Moon Lane’s first franchise opening in China next month 🇨🇳 📚
05/01/2021
🎠*NEW* Children's Book Writing Support and Script Editing Services...
✨"Moon Lane are delighted to be able to help the many budding children’s authors out there with our new editorial services" - Tamara Macfarlane, Founder and Co-Owner, Moon Lane Group
✨Find out more here:
🔗https://moonlane.co.uk/services/editing/
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25/11/2020
🎠Moon Lane TV ‘The Children’s Book Channel’ invites you to get cosy and enjoy our very special Christmas Jumper Series!📺
🎄📖From award-winning authors such as Joseph Coelho and David Litchfield, to exciting children's illustrators such as Beatrice Blue and Lizzy Stewart… and a very special ‘the Polar Express’ storytime with Father Christmas…we are inviting you to get into a very literary festive mood!❄️
🎄📖Starting on Tuesday, 1st December we will be airing FREE daily storytimes and draw-alongs for ages 3+!
Watch out for a very special storytime with ‘you know who’ in a couple of weeks time as our series finale🎅
🎄📖Huge thanks to all the authors, illustrators, publicists and school staff who have taken part in filming. You are all such super-stars!🌟
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02/11/2020
🎠All Moon Lane teams are delighted by the opportunities Bookshop.org will bring to the UK, allowing us to share our expert knowledge with customers further across the country and beyond.
With online shopping becoming an increasing necessity for many, the possibility of offering expertly curated recommendations by our knowledgeable booksellers through Bookshop.org could not have come at a better time.
Long known for its passion for raising equality in children's books, Moon Lane draws together expert knowledge from all areas of children's books, with a particular focus on promoting ranges that celebrate everyone in our society.
– Tamara Macfarlane, Moon Lane founder and co-owner
Moon Lane is The British Book Awards Children’s Bookseller of the Year 2020
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30/10/2020
🍂🎃'Zombierella Ball' Halloween Special with Joseph Coelho and Freya Hartas (for ages 8+)
🍂👻Here it is, our fantastic fun spooky 'Fairy Tales Gone Bad: Zombierella' live halloween half term event we did with the wonderful Joseph Coelho and Freya Hartas… as promised!! ENJOY a super fun performance by Joseph and a Zombierella and Simpson the cat draw-along PLUS a Q&A session with so many ‘did you know’s, we lost count!!
Recording date: 27th October 2020
🍂📖About ‘Fairy Tales Gone Bad: Zombierella’....
A yellow moon hangs in a satin sky the night Cinderella, barefoot and in hand-me-downs, slips at the top of the stairs … and dies. But not for long. The Shadow of Death arrives to breathe life back into her bones and, for three nights only, Cinderella goes forth as Zombierella. With her skin as cold as ice and her faithful horse Lumpkin back by her side, can she seek revenge on her three cruel, fake sisters, once and for all? Crawl out of the grave and step into your mushroom carriage for this haunting and humorous adventure of the undead girl searching for her happily ever after.
🍂💀About Joseph Coelho (Author)…
Joseph Coelho is a performance poet, children’s author, playwright and winner of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award 2015 for his debut poetry collection Werewolf Club Rules (Frances Lincoln, 2014). Joe has written plays for the Polka Theatre, Soho Theatre and the Unicorn Theatre and creates dynamic poetry theatre pieces for young people that he tours nationally. He also performs with the UK's top performance poetry organisation, Apples and Snakes, visiting venues across the UK. Joseph has also been a guest poet on Cbeebies’ Rhyme Rocket.
🍂💀About Freya Hartas (Illustrator)…
Freya Hartas is a UK based illustrator of children's books. She graduated from Falmouth University with a first class honors in BA illustration in 2014. The same year, she won the international Lemniscaat illustration Award which resulted in the publication of Little Kong, her first stand-alone picture book. In 2012 Freya Hartas won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.
Title: Zombierella: Fairy Tales Gone Bad
Author: Joseph Coelho
Illustrator: Freya Hartas
Publisher: Walker Books UK
ISBN: 9781406389661
Publication Date: 3rd September 2020
This is a multi-award winning Moon Lane Group online children’s author event in association with Joseph Coelho and Walker Books UK
Moon Lane is dedicated to raising equality in children’s books; equality of access, representation and roles in the publishing industry.
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27/10/2020
🍂💀👻🎃🦇 What a super spooky-tactic morning we had today love over Zoom with and celebrating their absolutely amazing book for 8+yr olds... ‘Fairytales Gone Bad : Zombierella’ 📖🖤!!
We were treated 🍬 to:
✨a performance reading from the book by Joseph
✨a Zombierella and Simpson the cat draw-along with Freya (swipe to see all the super amazing drawings we have been tagged in so far!)
✨a live Q&A with some absolutely fantastic questions from the children taking part!!
If you missed it this morning then FEAR NOT... for we will be uploading the whole event to in due course and let you know as soon as it’s there 💖
In the meantime... Enjoy your half term hols and we look forward to seeing you at the shop soon 📚🧸🎁🎈🎀🛍
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23/10/2020
Moon Lane live online publication day festive event (ages 5+):
‘Where Snow Angels Go’ by Maggie O’Farrell, illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini
When: 6pm GMT on Thursday 5th November 2020 BST (1pm EST / 10am PST)
Where: Zoom
Tickets: £2 booked through https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-on-publication-day-where-snow-angels-go-with-author-maggie-ofarrell-tickets-126302559355?aff=MLG
or... free access with pre-order book purchase
https://www.moonlaneramsgate.com/s/shop (online events)
Join award-winning author Maggie O’Farrell (Hamnet, I Am I Am I Am and more…), and the incredibly talented illustrator Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini to celebrate the launch of their gorgeous new book, Where Snow Angels Go; an extraordinary and compelling modern fairy tale about the bravery of a little girl and the miracle of a snowy day.
Chaired by Katherine Woodfine, this virtual event will feature an enchanting reading and mesmerising live drawing from Maggie and Daniela, as well as an opportunity for you to ask the duo questions. It’ll be a magical event not to be missed!
Praise for Where Snow Angels Go, publishing Thursday 5th November 2020
“As perfect as a snowflake. As magical as snow.” - M. G. Leonard
“Where Snow Angels Go is a tender and magical story, told in O’Farrell’s characteristically beautiful, witty prose which is matched perfectly by Daniela Terrazzini’s sweepingly lovely artwork.” - Anna James
“[It] has all the tell-tale signs of a future classic. A perfect, magical Christmas story." - Sarah Crossan
“An enchanting, emotive and magical piece of work that transported me” - Laura Dockrill
This Moon Lane online event is held in association with Walker Books UK.
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19/10/2020
🍂🎃Moon Lane Spooky Half-Term Halloween FREE Live Online Author & Illustrator Event!! (For ages 8+)
11am Tuesday 27th October (approx 60 minutes)
🍂👻You are cordially invited to the Zombierella Ball!
Full of spooky (and at times gruesome) fun, join Joseph Coelho and Freya Hartas for spooOOookily terrific readings and frightful draw-a-longs and a Q+A.
🍂💀Come dressed in your best Zombie Ball fancy dress for this spectacular Halloween event – Mwahahaha. Dress Code: Halloween Fancy Dress!
🍂✨REGISTER FOR FREE ACCESS TO THE ZOOM EVENT HERE: http://bit.ly/zombierellaball
🍂📖….and if you purchase a copy of ‘Zombierella: Fairytales Gone Bad’ from any Moon Lane Bookshop by the end of October, you get free gifts too! Wohoooo!
18/10/2020