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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
The murderous unicorns are coming! A 28-year-old lawyer and debut children’s book author from England, Annabel Steadman, has landed what is reportedly the largest children’s book deal ever—a healthy seven figures—for a fantasy adventure series, Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. The series is set in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-16 16:36:23 UTC ]
Bonnier Books UK's Templar imprint has acquired cartoonist Tom Gauld's first picture book, The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-11 04:10:24 UTC ]
Big Picture Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired a non-fiction children’s book from Channel 4 News weather presenter and meteorologist Liam Dutton. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-04 23:38:38 UTC ]
Still planning to mount a first children's book fair in Moscow next year, BolognaFiere is 'in' Moscow this week but primarily digitally. The post Bologna Children’s Book Fair Is on the Ether With Moscow appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-09-03 18:24:47 UTC ]
"The One and Only Sparkella" is dedicated to the actor's daughter, Everly, "who loves sparkly, rainbow-y things." Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-09-01 00:28:27 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Children's UK is to publish two rhyming picture books by author Mark Sperring and illustrator Matt Hunt, with the first out next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-25 22:03:02 UTC ]
A groundbreaking children’s book based on an equally groundbreaking sports hero comes out today: Fauja Singh Keeps Going by Simran Jeet Singh, featuring the story of the first centenarian marathon runner, is also the first children’s book from a major publisher that features a Sikh main... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-25 16:06:55 UTC ]