Walker Books has partnered with restaurant chain Ask Italian and Universal Brand Development, on behalf of Dreamworks, to celebrate 30 years of Where’s Wally? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has bought two more titles in a new illustrated fiction series from Philip Ardagh and Elissa Elwick about a detective duo of a young girl and her French poodle. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books' A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston has won the fiction category in the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books is publishing a Christmas title based on this year’s festive advert from Sainsbury’s. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has bought world rights to a middle-grade fantasy trilogy from Irish author Celine Kiernan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shakespeare’s Globe is working with Walker Books and RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) on "Shakespeare Telling Tales", a storytelling event that will be accessible to blind and partially sighted children. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new novel by Patrick Ness, entitled Release, will be published by Walker Books in May 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books UK will publish a series of interactive children’s books based on the upcoming Harry Potter spin-off film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to The Cruelty, a YA thriller by Scott Bergstrom. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has acquired The Teenage Guide to Friends, a book aimed at helping teenagers navigate friendships and peer group issues, by Nicola Morgan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seven Stories has delved into its own archive to put together a book about children’s illustration, which it will publish with Walker Books in October. Drawn from the Archive: Hidden Histories of Illustration is edited by Sarah Lawrence, Seven Stories’ collection director, who looks at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debut author Rosie Rowell and her editor Emily Thomas were announced as the winners of the 2015 Branford Boase Award for 'Leopold Blue' at an award ceremony July 9 at Walker Books in London. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has acquired a new YA novel by Siobhan Curham, author and editorial consultant for Zoella’s Girl Online. Senior commissioning editor Mara Bergmanbought the world rights to The Moonlight Dreamers, about a girl with two fathers, from Erzsi Deak at Hen & Ink Literary Studio. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has acquired the debut teen novel by comedian and screenwriter Nat Luurtsema. Goldfish is a comedy about Lou Brown, a swimmer who fails an Olympic time-trial and decides to give up the sport completely. She tries to find her new ‘thing’ and enters a world of underwater somersaults,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has acquired a children’s non-fiction series that helps children explore science, maths, politics and geography through football. The books are written by Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton and the first, The Football Academy, will be published in hardback in September 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books by YA Prize-shortlisted authors Non Pratt and Sally Green are on the seven-strong shortlist for this year’s Branford Boase award. The award is given jointly to the author and editor of the most outstanding debut novel for children, and Pratt is shortlisted for Trouble, published by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books is the publisher with the most books on the longlists for this year’s CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway awards, with four books listed for the Carnegie and six for the Kate Greenaway (full longlist below). Walker’s Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman, Hello Darkness by Anthony... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has acquired a new collection of short stories based on a character from Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy is a group of 10 stories centred around the character Simon Lewis as he enters training to become a Shadowhunter. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has acquired a middle-grade title from debut author Michael Byrne. Lottery... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has awarded this year’s Sebastian Walker award for new talent in children... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]