Welsh independent publisher Graffeg has released artwork for There’s Only One of Me, a picture book about losing a parent, by cancer patient Lisa Wells and picture book author Michelle Robinson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Children’s and Penguin Random House Children’s picked up two prizes each at this year’s Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A personalised picture book offering buyers seven different pronouns, as well as different skin tones and hair colours, has exceeded its kickstarter funding target within 12 hours. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The US-based Chronicle Books has introduced a new partnership with Trustbridge Global Media to translate, publish and distribute up to 20 children's titles into Chinese in the first year. The post New Partnership Announced To Publish Chronicle’s Children’s Books in China appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The team behind a picture book created by Lisa Wells, who has terminal cancer, has surpassed its initial crowdfunding target of £5,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors including Jessica Townsend, Matthew Syed and Ed Vere are in the running for this year’s Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, held in partnership with BookTrust. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cancer sufferer Lisa Wells has chosen illustrators Tim Budgen and Catalina Eccheveri to work on There’s Only One of Me, her picture book about the death of a parent. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Catherine O’Flynn, whose novel What Was Lost won the first novel prize at the Costa Book Awards in 2008, has written a children’s book about two girls who want to be detectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher The Emma Press has bought the UK English language rights to several Latvian children's books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
A woman with terminal cancer is working on publishing a picture book about the death of a parent with the help of authors, publishers and agents. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kes Gray and Jim Field, the author and illustrator behind the Oi! brand, are planning a new picture book series with Hachette Children’s Group. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hiring more employees of colour and seeing stories with BAME characters as normal, not niche, are just some ideas suggested by the book industry following a damning report which revealed that only 4% of all the children’s books published in the UK last year featured a black, Asian or minority... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic will this autumn publish a second children’s book by comedian Dara Ó Briain. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ethnic minority characters should feature in more books and not be defined by their "otherness". Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Almost a third of school-age children are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. But they will still struggle to find characters who resemble themselvesBooks can show us the world both as it is, and as it could be – “mirrors and windows”, as the author Malorie Blackman notes. For... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wayland Books, part of the Hachette Children’s Group, is publishing a non-fiction title about masculinity by Jeffrey Boakye and Darren Chetty. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children's Books' executive editor Sara Sargent says she's 'combining a non-traditional way of sourcing books with traditional storytelling' with Wattpad. The post Sourcing Content: Sara Sargent of HarperCollins Children’s Books on Working With Wattpad appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
After receiving praise from LGBTQ activists across the globe, the Wellington-based authors of LGBTQ children's book Promised Land have released a second book in the series, Maiden Voyage. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, voted on Saturday to rename the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, in response to the long-running discussion around prejudice in the author’s work. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Palazzo Editions is publishing a children’s picture book of Brian Bilston’s poem 'Refugees' after signing world rights from Unbound. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]