Bloomsbury is launching 'First Birds', nature charity The RSPB's first app for children. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group is partnering with ITV’s Lorraine show to find a new children’s author. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DK, a division of Penguin Random House UK, will next month launch a series of braille books for children. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Trust is launching its first children’s book festival at Wray Castle in the Lake District in March. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With its new YA imprint Loqueleo launched in Guadalajara, Spanish publisher Santillana targets 100 million pupils in Spain and Latin America. The post Santillana Launches Loqueleo, Children’s & YA Imprint appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British Library Publishing is launching a children’s list, starting in March 2016 with two activity books in a series entitled My Book of Stories. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is already dominating peoples’ phone time, and now it wants a crack at your lock screen, too. The social network rolled out a new app called “Notify” on Wednesday specifically to send you mobile notifications fr ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's Notify is here. Think Apple News + Twitter = Facebook Notify. The news-centric stand alone app lets users receive news alerts on their lock screens from a menu of topics and publishers. Facebook says this is supplemental to its News Feed because people want multiple ways to get... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Publishing's sales grew 13% in the first half of the year, boosted by a particularly strong performance from the children’s and educational department. For the six months ending 31st August 2015, turnover totalled £52.7m, 13% higher than £46.6m for the same period in 2014. Adjusted... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Leila Rasheed has created a writer development scheme, funded by the Publishers Association and Arts Council England, to encourage writers from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds to write children’s books. Rasheed said she set up the Megaphone project because she... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hitting digital bookshelves this week: an interactive way to explore space with a cat. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s Books Ireland (CBI) is hoping to get kids across the country reading in October through the "Read Everywhere in 2015", campaign. For the campaign, also known as "Níl Turas Níos Fearr Ná Turas le Leabhar!" in Irish, CBI will run a range of activities, including a "The Danger is... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stanfords has launched a Children’s Book of the Month promotion, which will begin with City Atlas by Martin Haake (Wide Eyed Editions). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week in children's apps features an interactive storybook in which Little Critter helps a puppy find a home. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Mills, owner of the Plum Pudding Illustration Agency, and former Bloomsbury editor Fiz Osborne, are setting up a new children’s literary agency. Plum Literary will be based in Reigate, Surrey, and cater for writers for all kinds of children’s books, from picture books to YA. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week in children's apps, an interactive story book encourages vocabulary building. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller is launching a children’s marketing competition for delegates of this year’s children’s conference, which will take place at the Barbican in London on the 29th September. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Guardian is organising a children’s literature festival – a free one-day event in London on 29th August, featuring authors such as Sarah McIntyre, Philip Reeve and Paul Strickland. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twit or Miss game kicks off digital strategy to bring Dahl’s characters to young fans, in tandem with the writer’s centenary celebrations next yearOne of the most dysfunctional couples in the history of children’s fiction, The Twits, are starring in a new children’s game for smartphones and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House Children’s and the Roald Dahl Literary Estate will next week release the first ever Dahl app. Twit or Miss is based on The Twits. Developed with Aardman Digital for children aged six to 11, it is a “food fight” game in which players have to swipe food away from the sleeping... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week in apps, an interactive version of a Seuss classic reinforces literacy skills. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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