Canongate is to publish illustrated children's book The Biggest Footprint by brothers Rob and Tom Sears next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-28 15:40:51 UTC ]
Looking to celebrate undiscovered authors and illustrators, Ehomebooks launches the International Children’s Picture Book Award. The post Vietnamese Publisher Ehomebooks Launches the International Children’s Picture Book Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-10-28 14:05:06 UTC ]
A reader visited the Story Museum in Oxford, England to learn how the space modified its "interactive" exhibits for COVID-19 compliance. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-10-28 10:36:00 UTC ]
Jimmy Fallon, local authors and devoted regulars are rallying to help Once Upon a Time in Montrose — the country's oldest kids' bookstore — survive the pandemic that has destroyed so many small businesses. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-10-27 12:00:02 UTC ]
Check out wonderful picture book biographies of inspiring Black icons, including Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-10-26 10:33:00 UTC ]
More than 200 children's authors and illustrators, including Malorie Blackman, Philip Pullman and Cressida Cowell, have signed a letter condemning the government’s vote rejecting the extension of its free school meal scheme over the holidays. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 00:51:58 UTC ]
Children's titles from Rob Biddulph, Kes Gray and Serena Patel are among the winners of Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards in partnership with BookTrust. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 18:29:53 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Children's has acquired two picture books from author and illustrator Richard Jones. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-14 00:40:26 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Children's is to publish author and illustrator Beach's first picture book, secured in a three-title deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-11 20:46:58 UTC ]
The Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's virtual trade show, FallCon, kicked off Thursday morning with a group of children's and YA book authors demonstrating the magic that storytelling holds. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Author and entrepreneur Kristina Bingham Jones is using the release of her first children's book as an opportunity to help grieving children cope with their losses in a new online community. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Lawmakers are calling for "Wonderland Is For Everyone," published by a lesbian group, to be banned. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-10-08 22:57:55 UTC ]
John Robert Allman's "Boys Dance!" explains how fancy footwork can pay off at school and in sports, while spotlighting male role models in the art form. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-10-07 14:25:30 UTC ]
A campaign designed to help create visibility and generate book sales for emerging children's authors and illustrators of colour has been launched by BookTrust Represents and Waterstones children’s laureate Cressida Cowell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-05 01:01:07 UTC ]
Author-illustrator Emily Gravett caps off a busy 12 months with her new picture book Too Much Stuff, a tale about how less can often be more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-01 10:27:38 UTC ]
Children’s publishers grew readerships during lockdown across subject areas, extending to renewed interest in their backlists as well as in their online educational resources, delegates heard at The Bookseller’s Children’s Conference this week. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-29 06:08:42 UTC ]
I always loved giving my son a picture book rich in detail and watching him get lost in it, thereby gaining a few moments of peace and grown-up solitude—but now science is telling me I may have made him dumber.* According to a very cruel study at Carnegie Mellon University, in which researchers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-28 13:51:06 UTC ]
Natalie Portman knows a thing or two about fairy tales. Portman’s turn as a dancer whose life goes awry in Black Swan (2010) was, famously, a brooding take on Pyotr Tchaikovksy’s most famous ballet. Swan Lake itself was likely inspired by Russian and German folktales like Johann Karl August... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-23 16:54:30 UTC ]
Following a slew of press coverage and prize successes—including scooping last week’s Branford Boase Award—Pushkin Children’s Books is looking to grow its list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-18 09:11:35 UTC ]
David Walliams has announced his “monstrously funny” next picture book for HarperCollins Children's Books, Little Monsters, with new illustrator Adam Stower. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-17 05:46:06 UTC ]