Naomi Jones
Children's Author
(c) John Hersey
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Biography
Naomi Jones is an award-winning children’s author. Her books are published by HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Oxford Children’s Books and Hachette Children’s Group in the UK and translated into 22 languages.
In 2025 Naomi was shortlisted for the Ruth Rendell Award and in 2024 her picture book Thunderboots inspired by her diagnosis of dyslexia won the Reader’s Choice Award for Picture Books at the Diversity Awards, the Derby Picture Book Award and was also shortlisted for The Week Junior Awards.
Naomi loves doing events at schools, libraries and literary festivals throughout the country and has worked with organisations including the National Trust, National Literacy Trust and the BBC.
Naomi lives with her family by the sea in Cornwall. She loves wild swimming, playing netball and curling up with a good book.
The Hug Button (2025)
It’s Matilda’s first day at The Meadows and she’s very excited. But when Mummy goes to say goodbye, Matilda isn’t happy. She doesn’t want Mummy to go.
The next day, Mummy has a helpful suggestion. She draws two hug buttons-one on Matilda’s wrist and one on her own. Then, when Matilda wants a hug, or wants to give one, she can press the hug button and know that Mummy is thinking about her too.
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A fabulously festive picture book packed with adorable Christmas decoration characters in a race to the top of the tree. Who will be the winner?
It’s nearly Christmas, and that can only mean one thing… it’s time to decorate the tree!
Star and her Christmas decoration friends are so excited. They can’t wait to get out of their box and up on to the branches! But this year, everyone wants to be the star of the show at the very top of the tree. Can these friends learn to share the limelight before they all come crashing down?
Trixie is the smallest person in Primrose Tower, but also the loudest and the building’s residents have given her an affectionate nickname: THUNDERBOOTS.
When it’s time for Trixie to start school, she is very excited. Sometimes it’s hard to concentrate in class, though. And it’s really hard to read letters. Maybe what Trixie needs is a superpowered plan.
An empowering story about starting school with dyslexia that celebrates everyone’s differences.
Freya loves rainbows. She loves their bright colours and their curvy shape. More than anything, she wishes she has one of her very own. One that she can keep forever. So she decides to become a Rainbow Hunter!
She searches high and low, but no rainbows are to be found, so she decides to make her own, collecting items in every colour of the rainbow from the garden. But when things don’t go quite to plan, Freya has to use her imagination and creativity to come up with a way to make her wish come true.
