Teachers, parents and poets alike know how children thirst for poetry. Now it's up to booksellers and publishers to save it from extinctionChildren dive into poetry with the same natural ease as swimmers into water, climbers into trees and sleepers into dreams. I've seen this alchemy at work on countless visits to schools, visits which have convinced me that poetry's narrative, rhythm and vibrant imagery is the real language of childhood. But poetry written for children is in danger of dying out, of sliding into fossilised irrelevance, cut off from modern verse. A classic such as Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses may be lovely, but it can't sustain the vital connection between children and poetry. Children also need poets who are still breathing.The delicate machine which brings poetry books into the hands of children is in desperate need of repair. I used to help choose the poems for the Children's Poetry Bookshelf, the Poetry Book Society's book club for ages seven to 11, and I watched with horror as the submissions from publishers gradually dried up. Starved of funding and support, the club had to stop taking on new members in 2011. As PBS director Chris Holifield said, it seemed that "children's poetry in book form was close to extinction, with just a small number of new titles being published and not much backlist being kept in print." Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Pushkin Press is launching a children’s imprint, Pushkin Children's Books, for publishing works that have had success overseas but have not found a publisher in the UK. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Chorleywood Bookshop in Hertfordshire, which already runs the Chorleywood Literary Festival, is... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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To mark its 50th anniversary the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, will award six new prizes for publishers at the "forefront of innovation" and "creative editorial choices." Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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A tightly focused strategy on maintaining margins has enabled WHSmith to persist after than two centuries at the heart of UK bookselling, inspiring admiration and ire alike. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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W H Smith will open two dedicated children's bookshops, branded as Zoodle, in Manchester... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The value of the children’s physical books market last year was marginally up on 2011,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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How two gallery owners found 'Rhoda's Ocean' – an unpublished children's book hiding under a pile of laundry. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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The number of children who have read an ebook has almost doubled since 2010 but children still... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Macmillan Children's Books has made further changes to its publishing team, appointing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Comedy and “new adult” will be among the hot trends for 2013, according to children... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The annual search to find the best publishers, retailers, agents, librarians and supply... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Faber has launched a series of digital-only poetry ebooks being described as "a new way to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Booksellers’ post-Christmas sales are well underway, with retailers offering discounts of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John Agard has been given the royal seal of approval as the winner of Her Majesty’s Gold... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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One out of every seven young people has never been to a bookshop, according to new research by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Children's publishers' digital Christmas strategies are already being unwrapped, with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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For the past decade the American Booksellers Association has been warning about the need for succession plans and the graying of booksellers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A ruling on John Wiley & Sons Inc. v. Kirtsaeng – a case expected to come before the Supreme Court early next year – could make it illegal for non-profits and businesses to resell copyrighted works produced abroad. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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British bookshop Foyles and The Bookseller have partnered to help crowdsource ideas for making Foyles's new flagship store fit for the 21st Century. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The largest children’s library in Mexico—Biblioteca BS-IBBY México—in Mexico City boasts some 25,000 titles, of which more than 3,000 are in digital format. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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