BILBY Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Monday, 9 July 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards—the children’s choice book awards for Queensland—have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Early readers Do...
Reading the audience: the LoveOzYA readership survey
Thursday, 5 July 2018
In 2017, the LoveOzYA committee conducted a survey into the reading habits of the Australian YA community. Committee chair Stacey Malacari reports on the survey’s findings. The LoveOzYA movement was...
Book bites: A taste of books to come
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Picture this With Father’s Day coming up, several publishers are releasing dad-themed picture books. My Old Man He Played Rugby (Peter Millett, illus by Jenny Cooper, Scholastic, August) is for...
Cover new ground: Rejacketing a children’s book series
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Nathania Gilson asks publishers and booksellers about the art of rejacketing a children’s book series. When Tristan Bancks, co-creator and author of the Tom Weekly junior-fiction series, was presented with...
Back to the drawing board: Publishing local board books
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Danielle Binks explores the rising demand for homegrown board books. In her Ten Commandments for reading aloud with children, author Mem Fox’s number-one rule is: ‘Spend at least ten wildly...
Five delegates receive OzCo funding to attend Shanghai book fair
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
The Australia Council has announced the five Australian publishing recipients it is sponsoring to attend the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) in November. The five delegates are: Jacinta...
‘Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables’ sold to US in three-book deal
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has sold North American rights to Tim Harris’ children’s book series ‘Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables’ (illus by James Hart, Random House) to Sourcebooks in a three-book...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 shortlist announced
Monday, 2 July 2018
The Wilderness Society has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The shortlisted books in each category are: Picture fiction Can You Find Me? (Gordon Winch,...
Hinkler and Bookoli launch mass-market UK publisher
Friday, 29 June 2018
Melbourne-based children’s publisher Hinkler Books and UK children’s publisher Bookoli are launching a new mass-market publisher based in the UK. Curious Universe UK, which is the result of a 50-50...
HK public libraries remove LGBTQIA+ kids books
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
The Hong Kong government has been accused of moving several LGBTQIA-themed children’s books out of public view in the city's public libraries, following complaints by an anti-gay group, reports the Standard....
Dymocks Book Club launches on ‘Kids’ WB’
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Chain bookseller Dymocks has partnered with Australian children’s television show Kids’ WB, from Channel Nine, to launch a monthly children’s book segment. Each month’s segment will feature a group of...
ALA renames Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
Monday, 25 June 2018
In the US, a division of the American Library Association (ALA) has voted to remove the name of Laura Ingalls Wilder from a children’s book award, over concerns about how...
McCaughrean, Smith win 2018 Carnegie, Greenaway medals
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
The UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the winners of the 2018 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. British writer Geraldine McCaughrean won the Carnegie Medal...
UK Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize shortlist announced
Monday, 18 June 2018
In the UK, the shortlist for the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for the best science books for children has been announced, reports the Irish News. The six shortlisted...
‘Nevermoor’ wins ABA Booksellers Choice Award; booksellers of the year announced
Monday, 18 June 2018
Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor (Lothian) has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers Choice Award at the 2018 ABA conference awards night, held in Canberra on 17 June. Townsend’s novel was...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Dani Solomon from Readings Kids
Thursday, 14 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
Berbay sells Canty picture books to US
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Berbay Publishing has sold rights to Melbourne author and illustrator John Canty’s Heads and Tails: Insects in three territories, including North America. Rights to the picture book, which is the...
Acquiring new languages: Exploring the world of bilingual children’s books
Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Jackie Tang asks publishers, booksellers and librarians if there is an increased demand in foreign-language children’s books. When Allen & Unwin published Joanne O’Callaghan and Kori Song’s Found in Melbourne,...
HGE, ASRC to release three bilingual editions of ‘My Two Blankets’
Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Publisher Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) have partnered to publish three bilingual editions of the picture book My Two Blankets (Irena Kobald, illus by...
NZ Book Awards for Children and YA 2018 finalists announced
Wednesday, 6 June 2018
The finalists for the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The awards aim to celebreate the contribution New Zealand’s children’s authors and illustrators...
‘The Muslims’ wins 2018 Little Rebels Children’s Book Award
Monday, 4 June 2018
The Muslims by Zanib Mian (Sweet Apple Books) has won the 2018 Little Rebels Children’s Book Award in the UK for radical children’s fiction, reports the Bookseller. A chapter book...
The Little Bookroom opens ‘big sister’ bookshop in Northcote
Friday, 1 June 2018
Melbourne children’s bookstore The Little Bookroom is opening a new independent ‘big sister’ bookshop, called Neighbourhood Books, in the inner northern suburb of Northcote. Located at 55 High Street in...
‘After the Fire’ wins 2018 ‘Bookseller’ YA Book Prize
Friday, 1 June 2018
In the UK, Will Hill’s After the Fire (Usborne) has won the Bookseller’s 2018 YA Book Prize, worth £2000 (A$3510), reports the Bookseller. Loosely based on the 1993 Waco siege...
World class: Jeremy Lachlan on ‘Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds’
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Jeremy Lachlan’s middle-grade adventure Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds (Hardie Grant Egmont, August) is ‘a thrilling story set in a universe made up of multiple worlds’ that features...
Kaleidoscopic views: Emily Gale on ‘I Am Out with Lanterns’
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Emily Gale’s I Am Out with Lanterns (Random House, August) intertwines the points of view of several teenagers to create a story that is ‘nuanced, complex and thoroughly devourable’, writes Jordi...
BWF releases 2018 schools program
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has released its 2018 Word Play program, designed for students from prep to year 12. The Word Play program will run from 4-7 September at...
New children’s press Yellow Brick Books releases first title
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
A new small publisher focused on children’s books has recently released its first title, amid plans to release two more books in 2018. In May this year, Yellow Brick Books...
Readings YA Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Readings Young Adult Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Small Spaces (Sarah Epstein, Walker Books) Amelia Westlake (Erin Gough, Hardie Grant Egmont) Between...
‘300 Minutes of Danger’ adapted for VR project
Monday, 28 May 2018
A virtual reality (VR) project based on Jack Heath’s book of short stories 300 Minutes of Danger (Scholastic) is one of four online projects to receive production funding from Screen...
MWF 2018 schools’ program released
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has released its 2018 schools' program, which will run from 27-30 August. Held at Melbourne's Federation Square, the 2018 MWF schools' program will focus on...
