We've got books for the Read Harder task asking you to read a children’s book that centers a disabled character but not their disability. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-01-13 11:32:00 UTC ]
Children’s Books North co-founders Tilda Johnson, Emma Layfield and Liz Scott are launching a mentoring scheme for emerging publishing professionals living in the North of England and in Scotland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 12:12:39 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group is partnering with Commonword, the largest writing development organisation based in Manchester, in a bid to find more northern Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers currently under-represented in publishing, particularly in picture book writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-28 15:57:06 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books has signed two novels by middle-grade author Nicola Skinner. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-23 00:52:01 UTC ]
Feature image from Akiko Miyakoshi’s I Dream a Journey * I knew things were going to get hard when the library closed. I am, by profession, a writer and a professor of storytelling. I’ve read to my twin children—now four—since their infancy. But as avid readers as we already were, 2020 upped our... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-21 09:49:02 UTC ]
A new Julia Donaldson picture book, The Christmas Pine, will be published by Alison Green Books in autumn 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-18 03:31:45 UTC ]
Rocky, who was rescued from the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree this year, now stars in the illustrated children's book "Rockefeller the Christmas Owl." Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-12-17 19:17:23 UTC ]
We take a look at how the coronavirus has prompted art and design professionals to adjust their process in innovative ways. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
We’ve gathered some unique examples of how authors are tailoring their outreach to meet the needs of students and teachers during the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Children’s Books has snapped up two new picture books from author-illustrator Benji Davies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 21:12:01 UTC ]
A three-book series with illustrator Ashley Evans opens with a picture book based on the Alphabet Rockers' song 'Not Alone.' The post Sourcebooks in a Picture Book Deal With Socially Conscious Alphabet Rockers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-12-03 21:01:10 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group has acquired two non-fiction picture books and two picture books by debut author and illustrator Ellan Rankin, winner of the 2020 Carmelite Picture Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-23 20:16:52 UTC ]
Children’s Books Ireland is giving 6,000 books to children in the run-up to Christmas, supported by the Arts Council and KPMG. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-22 20:52:56 UTC ]
Louisa Danquah and Leanne Nulty are to join Simon & Schuster Children's Books in January. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-20 05:19:34 UTC ]
An even busier Bologna Children's Book Fair than in the past will feature a new parallel general-publishing conference, 'BolognaBookPlus.' The post Bologna Children’s Book Fair Joins London Book Fair in Moving to June appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-11-18 13:58:55 UTC ]
As many on this side of the pond may not know, Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford is currently all that stands between the United Kingdom and compete moral ruination. In a year where a particularly grotesque grotesquerie of Brexiteer Tories consolidated power,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-17 19:04:34 UTC ]
According to UK study, just 5% of children’s books have black, Asian or minority ethnic protagonists – a small improvement from 1% in 2017Two years after the stark revelation that only 1% of British children’s books featured a main character who was black, Asian or minority ethnic, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-11 00:01:23 UTC ]
Representation in children’s books is still not reflective of society, according to reading charity BookTrust and the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-10 16:08:26 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books has signed Noa and the Little Elephant: A Tale of Friendship and Survival, a “poignant” picture book from author and illustrator Michael Foreman, in partnership with the wildlife conservation charity, Tusk. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-08 16:02:51 UTC ]
In 1988, Katherine Paterson wrote in the Book Review that children need not only the happily-ever-after of fairy tales, but also “proper endings” in which “hope is a yearning, rooted in reality.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-06 10:00:04 UTC ]