"She is literally my favourite person in the whole of children’s publishing.” Dapo Adeola is talking about Malorie Blackman, his co-creator on new picture book We’re Going to Find the Monster (published by Puffin in September). His editor Joe Marriott approached Adeola about the project in 2018,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-18 23:17:19 UTC ]
Transworld and Puffin have acquired three books from Alison Hammond, including the "This Morning" presenter's memoir, a novel and a non-fiction title for readers aged eight to 12. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-07 06:39:32 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 ]
Puffin has scooped the “epic” new stand-alone middle-grade novel from bestselling author Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep, featuring his first female protagonist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-23 13:02:08 UTC ]
Puffin has acquired The Secret of Haven Point and one other book from Lisette Auton, a 2018 graduate of Penguin's WriteNow programme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-15 12:16:53 UTC ]
Commercial herring fishing has suffered in recent years due to new restrictions. Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2021-01-23 17:51:58 UTC ]
Puffin is publishing the first children's book by CBeebies presenter and YouTuber Maddie Moate, illustrated by Paul Boston, this September. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 22:41:13 UTC ]
Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired a "unique" and "chilling" debut thriller, Breathless, from mountaineer and former Puffin editor Amy McCulloch, in a two-book deal, following a six-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 19:05:59 UTC ]
Puffin has announced it is publishing A Different Sort of Normal, written and illustrated by debut talent Abigail Balfe – the true story of one girl's journey growing up with autism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 08:28:31 UTC ]
Puffin has scooped The Ice Whisperers, a "haunting and magical" debut novel from Helenka Stachera, in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 14:35:34 UTC ]
Puffin has announced the final book in Jacqueline Wilson’s and Nick Sharratt’s 30-year-partnership, The Runaway Girls. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 00:56:46 UTC ]
"In a world where fake news can travel scarily fast, factual books have such an important place.” Rashmi Sirdeshpande’s second children’s non-fiction book How to Change the World, illustrated by Annabel Tempest, will be published by Puffin in January. Speaking over the phone from her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 14:20:32 UTC ]
Puffin has acquired debut middle-grade series, The Accidental Diary of B.U.G, from author-illustrator talent Jen Carney in a "heated" six-figure auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 21:47:37 UTC ]
Puffin has acquired the first children’s non-fiction title from writer, broadcaster, documentary maker and activist Afua Hirsch. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-08 06:48:52 UTC ]
Puffin has netted The Dream Team, a football-themed middle-grade series from Priscilla Mante, in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-24 00:18:30 UTC ]
Puffin will publish Fearne Cotton's first children's book, My Mood Journal, in November, as the first title in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-02 09:45:03 UTC ]
Puffin will publish a new animal detective series from Megan Rix for readers aged six plus. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-02 09:37:50 UTC ]
The pandemic has found a way to derail more than 25 years of research on Atlantic puffins and a variety of other seabirds on Machias Seal Island in the Bay of Fundy. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2020-08-04 09:30:00 UTC ]
Puffin has revealed it has chosen Adam Larkum to be the illustrator of Captain Tom’s forthcoming picture book for young readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-21 13:03:42 UTC ]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle analyses a poem that represents the meeting-point of ancient riddle and modern nonsense ‘I Saw a Peacock’ is an anonymous nonsense poem that is included in Quentin Blake’s The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse (Puffin Poetry), a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2020-07-03 14:00:44 UTC ]