Julia Donaldson, Sara Ogilvie, Lemn Sissay, Ingrid Persaud and Jasbinder Bilan have won prizes at the Indie Book Awards, held as part of Independent Bookshop Week's celebrations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-26 13:47:44 UTC ]
Puffin has picked up Welcome to the World, a “tender and lyrical picture book” from Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-20 03:03:23 UTC ]
Scholastic imprint Alison Green Books has snared The Baddies, a new book from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler starring their “boldest, meanest and silliest villains” ever. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-28 22:31:02 UTC ]
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's classic picture book The Gruffalo (Macmillan Children's Books) has now been translated into 105 languages and dialects. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-21 10:52:32 UTC ]
For many, staying indoors is an unsettling experience. It’s been heartening to see the imaginative leaps being taken by many organisations and artists to help us through – sitting-room gigs, free theatre streams, virtual tours of museums and archives and galleries – but given the limitless... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-04-06 11:36:00 UTC ]
Novelists rub shoulders with presidents, chefs, comedians and thriller megastars on longlist to define the title with the biggest impact on the book worldIt could be almost the setup for a joke, but a former president, a Booker winner and an erotic fiction superstar have walked on to the British... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-14 06:01:23 UTC ]
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler are returning to the Tales From Acorn Wood preschool series with four new lift-the-flap instalments for Macmillan Children’s Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-08 07:32:51 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books has bagged a new book in the What the Ladybird Heard series from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-17 01:54:19 UTC ]
One of the UK’s best-loved creative duos, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, muse on two decades of their most famous creation, The Gruffalo. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scottish Book Trust will distribute 800,000 titles by authors such as David Melling, Joseph Coelho and Julia Donaldson to toddlers across Scotland as part of the Bookbug initiative. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan authors Joe Wicks, Jeffrey Archer, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler were last night awarded the Golden Pan, one of the industry's very first author awards, recognising sales in excess of one million copies over a book's lifetime. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two members of picture book royalty - Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury - have joined forces for a new and charming tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic UK will next year publish The Ugly Five, a new picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spate of openings of ‘destination’ stores as owners offer drinks, performances and crafts to tempt customers away from Amazon It’s children’s story hour at the Book Nook in Hove and the owner, Vanessa Lewis, is doing a reading of Julia Donaldson’s rhyming picture book The Detective Dog. Related:... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fungus the Bogeyman and Stick Man are latest book characters to go on the boxAdaptations of children’s and young adult literature are big news right now, both in film and, increasingly, on television. Mockingjay – Part 2, the climax of Lionsgate’s big screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic has acquired world rights to Zog and the Flying Doctors, a new picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. The deal for world rights to the book, which is a follow-up to Zog and features Zog the dragon, Princess Pearl and Sir Galahad, was made by Alison Green of Alison Green... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University Press has signed a host of book deals in the run-up to the Bologna Book Fair, including titles by Joel Stewart and Roland Chambers. OUP commissioning editor Peter Marley bought world rights Tiny Cops and Robbers, by Stewart, who is an illustrator who has worked with Julia... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Entertainment company Magic Light has signed a Gruffalo licensing deal with Yorkshire tea. Magic Light, which owns the branding, audio-visual and merchandising rights for The Gruffalo, the bestselling children’s book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (Macmillan Children’s Books), is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Book Doctor seeks out books for a German-English couple who want children’s books that reflect their duel heritage I’m German and my wife is English. We are bringing their children up bilingually. I especially like the Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture books because they bring... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booktrust will next Monday (1st December) launch an online advent calendar to raise money for books for vulnerable children, featuring authors Malorie Blackman, Julia Donaldson and Chris Riddell. Each day a picture of a celebrity or author will appear behind a calendar window with a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]