Simon & Schuster Children's is to publish author and illustrator Beach's first picture book, secured in a three-title deal. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Ahead of the Shanghai International Children's Book Fair, which runs November 13–15, the winners of the first Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award were announced today at the Baoshan International Folk Arts Exposition. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For parents who don’t want their kids sleeping all night, but rather staying up studying, Penguin Young Readers Group is publishing a parody of The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep early next year. 'The Rabbit Who Wants to Go to Harvard' hops into bookstores in February. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trade journal Quill and Quire conducted a round-table discussion to ask: “Are we in a golden age of Canadian picture books?” The post Is This the “Golden Age” for Canadian Picture Books? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Almond introduces a gallery that opens doors into the stunning illustrated children’s books coming out of Iran including The Little Black Fish, a book that is beloved in Iran and now published in the UK for the first time Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Recordings of longer works usually get the most attention in the audiobook world, but two recent splashy releases are reminders that picture books can also make for quality audio productions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canadian screenwriter Elan Mastai's debut novel 'All Our Wrong Todays' has been nabbed in a preempt by Maya Ziv at Dutton. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic has acquired world rights to Zog and the Flying Doctors, a new picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. The deal for world rights to the book, which is a follow-up to Zog and features Zog the dragon, Princess Pearl and Sir Galahad, was made by Alison Green of Alison Green... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Remember those customized children's books that the rich kids in school used to get, featuring a story with their name and face pasted onto the pages? It turns out that these things are still going, but now the companies that make them are harnessi... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Eric Carle Honors, held on September 24, marked a milestone – the annual awards ceremony, art auction, and gala event turned 10 this year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Describe your role My job title is picture book designer but people outside the industry always think that I must illustrate all the books! Unfortunately I’m not that talented (though I do a mean stick man) so I end up describing my job as being an editor for the illustrators. Working in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bear Who Went Boo!, about a cheeky polar bear cub, will be David Walliams’ next picture book, published by HarperCollins later this year. Children’s publisher Ann-Janine Murtagh said the book, which will be released 5th November in time for Christmas, is a “deliciously funny new tale”... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Channel 4 is set to broadcast a 30-minute animation based on Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury’s bestselling picture book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. The channel’s chief executive officer Jay Hunt and head of drama Piers Wenger commissioined the programme, striking a deal with Walker... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unbound is crowd funding for a new book by ‘iconic’ producer and musician Matthew Herbert. Instead of producing a new record, Herbert’s debut book, The Music, will describe in “precise and almost poetic detail” how the record will sound. It will be divided into chapters the way an album is... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zia Haider Rahman's debut novel In the Light of What We Know wins the prestigious James Tait Prize for fiction. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder Children’s Books, part of Hachette Children's, has acquired a 64-page picture book about the animal kingdom by zoologist and author Nicola Davies. The illustrator is Lorna Scobie. The deal for Diversity was brokered between Emma Layfield, picture book publisher at Hodder Children’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Not everyone writing their first book is under 40. The prizewinning novelist has helped to form a group called Prime Writers, designed to change expectationsA few months before my first novel was published, it seemed that everywhere I looked people were writing about young debut authors. And... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Walker Books Group will next year publish a picture book by rapper and actor Ben Bailey Smith across the Walker Entertainment and Candlewick Entertainment imprints. Smith, who raps under the name Doc Brown, has penned I Am Bear, a rap-style read-aloud story about a mischievous bear. The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With 600,000 books sold, the startup Lost My Name is redefining personalization in publishing.There's no company sign or logo out front. No indication of any kind that this quiet stretch of Pritchard's Road in East London includes the headquarters of a global publishing sensation. A squat,... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The designer who pioneered the ‘big book look’ - creating covers for more than 6,500 books, ranging from Catch-22 to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - has died aged 91 in New York. Here are some of his best Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Capstone has acquired a picture book by Carmen Oliver, author and founder of book agency The Booking Biz. Bears Make the Best Reading Buddies was created to encourage literacy and is about a little girl called Adelaide and her reading buddy, Bear. In the story, Adelaide has to persuade her... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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