Publisher Walker Books has snapped up The House at the Edge of Magic, a middle-grade comic fantasy adventure by picture book author Amy Sparkes in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-18 00:50:05 UTC ]
Jim Field makes his author-illustrator début with the perfect picture book for budding language learners. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 20:29:18 UTC ]
Puffin has acquired the first children’s book from author–illustrator Keri Smith, Wreck this Picture Book, due to publish in autumn 2020 as part of a global release. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 10:22:48 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s has landed a new picture book from Giles Andreae and illustrator Guy Parker-Rees to mark 20 years of Giraffes Can’t Dance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 00:47:25 UTC ]
Hachette Children's Group has acquired the first collaboration on a picture book between France-based author team Myriam Dahman and Nicolas Digard and Kate Greenaway Medal longlisted illustrator Júlia Sardà: The Wolf’s Secret. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 02:56:28 UTC ]
Oxford University Press has signed husband-and-wife team Naomi and James Jones' debut picture book in a five-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-14 08:36:11 UTC ]
Many parents want their kids to be bilingual but don’t have the tools to teach them. Enter Habbi Habbi, a platform that makes learning new languages fun. My 3-year-old has been playing in her room by herself for an hour. I’m beginning to worry she is up to no good: Is she “decorating” her walls... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2019-10-03 10:00:03 UTC ]
‘Dr. Seuss’s Horse Museum’ is the #9 book in country, and one of three new titles at the top of our picture book list. Plus ‘This Tender Land’ sells well in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes, and debut novel ‘The Secrets We Kept’ gets the nod from Reese’s Book Club. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books Group imprint Candlewick Press has acquired rights to a new children’s picture book by Caldecott medallist Jon Klassen. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-12 11:17:10 UTC ]
Trigger Publishing children’s imprint Upside Down has snapped up a “heartwarming” picture book debut which aims to help children to deal with emotions and boost self-confidence. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-11 08:35:17 UTC ]
Frances Lincoln Children's Books has commissioned a fictionalised picture book from Zoë Tucker and illustrator Zoë Persico, inspired by young climate activist Great Thunberg. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-04 12:43:38 UTC ]
Del Rey unveils a new Max Brooks novel, a Pushcart Prize winner sells a romance trilogy, a National Book Award winner sells a picture book, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Children’s UK has acquired a dog-themed picture book from Richard Jones, his first as both author and illustrator. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 16:59:01 UTC ]
Klaus Flugge Prize winner Kate Milner's new picture book has been snapped up by indie Barrington Stoke. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 07:38:33 UTC ]
Alastair Chisholm, Morag Hood and Meg McLaren have made the 2020 Bookbug Picture Book Prize shortlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-27 21:03:28 UTC ]
Malorie Blackman laments the lack of BAME children’s characters. I know – it’s a real battle to get writers of colour publishedMy daughter, like me, is of mixed heritage. She has wildly curly hair, as have I. When she was born four years ago I was given five copies of the same kids’ picture book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-17 07:00:41 UTC ]
The 2018 back-to-school picture book ‘We Don’t Eat Our Classmates’ is the #8 book in the country, thanks to some timely promotion. Plus Laura Lippman’s latest Baltimore crime novel, ‘Lady in the Lake,’ stirs up local interest, and ‘Ask Again, Yes’ is the summer reading pick of ‘The Tonight Show.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Benedict Cumberbatch, David Walliams, Tamsin Greig, David Oyelowo and Paul Whitehouse will star in the upcoming TV adaptation of Judith Kerr’s classic picture book The Tiger Who Came to Tea (HarperCollins Children's Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-28 22:45:17 UTC ]
Egmont has snapped up a picture book about a "David Bowie-esque rhinocorn" by Matt Carr. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-24 15:26:49 UTC ]
Literary agents are gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Find picture book literary agents open to submissions in this post. List will be updated regularly. The post Picture Book Literary Agents Open to Submissions by Robert Lee Brewer appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2019-07-19 15:00:04 UTC ]