Most overseas publishers are familiar with the reputation of Tomorrow Publishing House, which was founded 35 years ago and has translated more than 1,000 titles. Credited for putting several local authors—Yang Hongying, Cao Wenxuan, Wu Meizhen, and Yu Yujun, for instance—on the international... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roald Dahl's last children's book finally gets the Sir Quentin Blake treatment after 26 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House has revealed that the new hardback edition of Roald Dahl’s final children’s book will be released on 7th September. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roald Dahl has scooped the top three places in a list of the UK’s favourite children's reads from the past 80 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new hardback edition of Roald Dahl’s final children's book will be released this autumn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tops the list of Roald Dahl’s biggest sellers via Amazon.co.uk over the past five years, the internet retailer revealed today (12th September). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Steven Spielberg’s new film adaptation of a Roald Dahl story has Dahl being remembered as a children's book author with a dark sense of humor. But his stories for adults are typically more macabre. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lleucu Siencyn takes a look at Roald Dahl's Welsh roots, and how Wales wil celebrate the centenary of his birth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Siblings Lee Goldberg and Tod Goldberg appear on our Hardcover Fiction list, with books co-authored by Janet Evanovich and Brad Meltzer. Plus Roald Dahl’s ‘The BFG’ has a big week before its big-screen debut, and much more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roald Dahl's Matilda may have her own stage show but Australian author Jacqueline Harvey's Alice-Miranda character has snaffled her first animated international television series. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roald Dahl’s BFG and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird have topped the list of books parents said best helped children develop empathy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roald Dahl has scored his first ever Official Top 50 number one, as World Book Day title The Great Mouse Plot (Puffin) leapfrogged Cavan Scott’s The Escape: Star Wars (Egmont). The Great Mouse Plot, illustrated by Quentin Blake, sold 32,096 copies for £32,096, according to Nielsen BookScan’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House (PRH) UK has released a second app based on Roald Dahl’s The Twits, featuring the first ever rendering of Mr and Mrs Twit in 3D, entitled "Roald Dahl’s House of Twits". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A city-wide celebration of Roald Dahl, including theatrical spectacles and art exhibitions, will take place in Cardiff next year to celebrate the author’s centenary. For the "City of the Unexpected" event, co-producers National Theatre Wales and Wales Millennium Centre will organise live events... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin) is the book parents most think their children should read before the age of 16, according to a survey from supermarket Sainsbury's. Sainsbury’s asked 2,000 parents which 50 books children should read by the time they are 16 to celebrate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Patterson remains the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the eighth year running, according to data released today (13th February) by the Public Lending Right (PLR). Daisy Meadows holds firm in second place, while fellow children’s authors Julia Donaldson and Francesca Simon remain... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Children’s publicity director Adele Minchin is to leave Penguin after 14 years to join PR agency Riot Communications as associate director. At Penguin, Minchin devised PR campaigns for the likes of Eoin Colfer, Meg Rosoff, Emma Thompson and Madonna, as well as helping mastermind digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actor Mark Rylance will play the title role in The BFG, Steven Spielberg's film of Roald Dahl's much-loved children's book about a "Big Friendly Giant". Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The children's book by Roald Dahl is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roald Dahl's beloved children's book The Witches gets a timely work-out in this one-man show. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]