Egmont signs 'empowering' pirate picture book

Egmont is to publish a swashbuckling adventure that "smashes stereotypes", featuring a book-loving pirate who dares to be different. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trapeze signs Reid's 'empowering' guide for women

Trapeze has signed an empowering call to arms from journalist and author Rebecca Reid about how women need to assert themselves in day-to-day life.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-23 20:57:27 UTC ]
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HQ signs Humble the Poet's two empowerment books

HQ has acquired two books by Canadian-born rapper, spoken word artist, poet, blogger and social media influencer Kanwer Singh also known as Humble the Poet. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-13 14:44:24 UTC ]
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'Highly concerning': picture books bias worsens as female characters stay silent

Guardian research shows that the top 100 illustrated children’s books last year showed growing marginalisation of female and minority ethnic charactersThe most popular picture books published in 2018 collectively present a white and male-dominated world to children, feature very few BAME (black,... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-06-13 05:00:18 UTC ]
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Faber signs 'fabulous' new book by PRH's Coates and Foley

Faber & Faber has snapped up the latest book by writing duo and PRH staffers Liz Foley and Beth Coates.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-02 22:00:38 UTC ]
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Amazon imprint signs three-book series from debut crime writer Kane

Amazon Publishing imprint Thomas & Mercer has signed a three-book series from debut crime writer S W Kane. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-02 15:18:44 UTC ]
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HCG signs three new books in Townsend’s Nevermoor series

Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has acquired three more novels in Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor series, bringing the total to six. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-02 09:55:07 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2019: Spotlight on Picture Books

What promises to be a picture-perfect annual BookExpo event makes its debut today. During the “New Picture Book Showcase,” eight authors and illustrators will share their most recent contributions to the genre in a panel moderated by Sarah Enni, host of the 'First Draft' podcast. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2019: Pirates Still Plague the E-book Seas

Digital book piracy isn’t going anywhere, legal enforcement on the issue is getting worse and worse, and if publishers and authors don't band together and force compliance, they'll be playing ebook buccaneering Whack-a-Mole forever, the Authors Guild panel determined. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum signs six-figure two-book deal with FSG

Chinese American writer Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is causing waves across the Atlantic with an auction and six-figure deal for two books with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as buzz around a UK deal begins. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-24 01:13:28 UTC ]
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Puffin launches picture book subscription box

Puffin has launched its first ever subscription box service with boxes for children aged three to five-years-old.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-21 05:36:25 UTC ]
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Gazelle Book Services signs deal with Kumon Publishing

Book distributor Gazelle Book Services has signed a deal with learning provider Kumon Publishing.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-20 15:19:31 UTC ]
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Graffeg signs four-book deal with BBC broadcaster Jason Korsner

Welsh publisher Graffeg has acquired four picture books by Jason Korsner, a BBC broadcaster, film critic and photographer. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chelsea Manning signs book deal for memoir that will tell her life story

Activist and former soldier Chelsea Manning will tell her life story in a memoir set for release next year. Manning, who spent seven years in prison for leaking thousands of documents related to the Iraq war to the website WikiLeaks, is writing the book for publisher Farrar, Straus and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-14 18:35:00 UTC ]
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Mickler to handle licensing rights for McCartney picture book

Caroline Mickler Ltd has been appointed UK agent to represent the licensing rights for Paul McCartney’s first picture book Hey Grandude! (Puffin), by brand owner MPL Communications. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Askew signs two-book deal with Hodder

Hodder & Stoughton has announced a new two-novel deal with crime writer Claire Askew. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DK signs first book from C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels

DK has acquired the first book by Anthony Daniels, who played droid C-3PO in the Star Wars films, including the upcoming "Star Wars Episode IX". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown signs three books in Nixon saga

Little, Brown imprint Piatkus has signed three books in a new Cornwall-based series by Terri Nixon. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Revell signs new five-book deal with Arrow

Cornerstone imprint Arrow has signed five new books in the Shipyard Girls series by Nancy Revell. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Meaningful goats: Brexit picture book hits the farm

Andersen Press will publish “the first Brexit picture book”, Smriti Prasadam-Halls and illustrator Robert Starling’s The Little Island. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nosy Crow nabs three Naylor-Ballesteros picture books on eve of Bologna

Nosy Crow has bought three picture books by author-illustrator Chris Naylor-Ballesteros on the eve of the Bologna Book Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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