New Zealand Education Awards finalists announced
Friday, 28 October 2016
The finalists for the New Zealand Content Counts Education Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Primary NZ Curriculum Mathematics: Connecting All Strands—Level 3B (Maryanne Tipler, Caxton...
YABBAs 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
The winners of the 2016 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Pig the Fibber (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic) Fiction...
SLV and Vic public libraries launch statewide early literacy program
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) and Public Libraries Victoria Network (PLVN) have jointly launched ‘1000 Books Before School’, a statewide early literacy program designed to tackle adult illiteracy and...
Affirm announces new kids’ list to launch in 2017
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Affirm Press is introducing a new list of books for children and young adults in March 2017. Publishing director Martin Hughes told Books+Publishing that he is ‘really pumped about it, and...
Australians nominated for 2017 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Several Australian authors and illustrators have been included in the 2017 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals nominations, which were announced in the UK on 24 October. The three Australian titles...
Australian author’s middle-grade trilogy acquired at auction
Monday, 24 October 2016
A middle-grade trilogy from debut Australian author Jessica Townsend has been acquired at auction by Hachette UK, US and Australia, reports the Bookseller. The first book in the trilogy tells...
Nine Australian authors and illustrators nominated for 2017 Astrid Lindgren Award
Monday, 24 October 2016
Nine Australian authors and illustrators have been nominated for the 2017 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Randa Abdel-Fattah, Ursula Dubosarsky, Libby Gleeson, Morris Gleitzman, Gus Gordon, Leigh Hobbs, Alison Lester, Kirsty...
Virtual reality rights sold for YA trilogy in ‘world first’ deal
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Virtual reality rights to a YA trilogy have been sold to an ‘interactive entertainment company’ in what is being described as a ‘world first’ deal, reports the Bookseller. ‘The Fallow...
A&U to publish ‘dinosaur robots’ series from McFarlane and Park
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Allen & Unwin has announced it will publish a new ‘high-concept adventure series’ about ‘dinosaur robots’ from authors Susannah McFarlane and Louise Park. ‘D-Bot Squad’, which will be published under...
Fremantle Press illustrators longlisted for FBF prize
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Australian illustrators Kyle Hughes-Odgers and Chris Nixon have been longlisted for the inaugural Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) Global Illustration Award, which has a prize pool of €30,000 (A$42,660). Hughes-Odgers and...
Fraillon shortlisted for 2016 ‘Guardian’ children’s fiction prize
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Australian author Zana Fraillon’s The Bone Sparrow (Lothian) has been shortlisted for the 2016 Guardian children’s fiction prize. Fraillon’s novel for middle-grade readers is a coming-of-age story about the friendship...
Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2016 winners announced
Monday, 17 October 2016
The winning titles for this year’s Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Birth to three years Once I...
Black Inc. to publish kids’ guide to inaugural AFL Women’s season
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Black Inc. has acquired the rights to A Footy Girl’s Guide to the Stars of 2017, a children’s book by ‘Outer Sanctum’ podcast hosts Alicia Sometimes and Nicole Hayes, which...
Book bites: In the picture
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Several forthcoming picture books take younger readers on a journey abroad, and around Australia. Scribe’s children’s imprint Scribble has translated two ‘modernist picture-book classics’ from the late 1960s into English....
New logo for Five Mile
Monday, 10 October 2016
Bonnier Publishing Australia’s children’s imprint Five Mile has unveiled a new logo as part of its rebranding. In a statement, the publisher said the logo’s illustrative element ‘loosely references the...
Dymocks Kids’ Top 51 list announced
Friday, 7 October 2016
Dymocks has revealed its Kids’ Top 51 list for 2016, with more than 26,500 votes received from Booklovers members. The top 10 books on the list are: The ‘Harry Potter’...
Book bites: Teen talk
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Nicole Hayes’ previous YA novels The Whole of My World and One True Thing have won her many fans. Her latest, A Shadow’s Breath (Random House, February), begins with a...
Dead ringer: ‘The Turnkey’ by Allison Rushby
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Allison Rushby’s middle-grade novel The Turnkey is a ‘page-turning mystery’ set in London’s Highgate Cemetery during the Blitz. Reviewer Maria H Alessandrino spoke to the author. Read her review here....
School ties: Partnerships between bookstores and schools
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Danielle Binks explores different partnerships between bookstores and schools. At the 2016 Leading Edge Books Conference, the Best Business Idea award was presented to Amelia Lush from Better Read Than...
Choose your own adventures: 2017 children’s and YA preview
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Publishers tell Jackie Tang about their standout titles for kids and teens in 2017, from plucky new junior-fiction protagonists to YA genre hybrids. Next year will see the launch of...
Under the microscope: Science and technology in the classroom
Thursday, 6 October 2016
A growing emphasis on science and technology in the classroom is presenting an opportunity for children’s publishing, writes Brad Jefferies. Late last year, Wiley introduced its ‘Dummies Kids’ line, a...
Your store: #loveOzYA in action
Thursday, 6 October 2016
The #LoveOzYA movement has been gaining traction in local bookstores, with a number of booksellers creating dedicated shelves and promotions for Australian YA. One of those booksellers is Dymocks, which...
Readings Matters 2017 authors announced
Thursday, 6 October 2016
US authors A S King and Rick Yancey and Canadian author Mariko Tamaki are among the guests attending next year’s Reading Matters conference. The 2017 conference, which is presented by...
Kaufman & Kristoff, Nelson win 2016 Inky Awards
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
The winners of the 2016 Inky Awards, presented by the Centre for Youth Literature, were announced at the State Library of Victoria on 4 October. Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff...
#LoveOzYA to introduce e-newsletter with new release titles
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Grassroots advocacy group #LoveOzYA is introducing a monthly e-newsletter with information on new-release Australian YA titles. The newsletter aims to be a resource for booksellers, teachers, librarians and readers. A...
Nix’s forthcoming ‘Frogkisser!’ to be adapted for musical film
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Garth Nix’s forthcoming middle-grade novel Frogkisser! (A&U, February 2017) is being adapted into a live-action/animation musical film by US-based Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios. The film will follow the...
#LoveOzYA gathers momentum
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
A grassroots campaign to promote Australian YA books in a market dominated by US titles has been gathering momentum, writes Sophie Teague. In 2015, a group of authors, teachers and...
‘The 65-Storey Treehouse’ tops Australian children’s bestsellers charts
Monday, 26 September 2016
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 65-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has topped the Australian children’s bestsellers chart for July 2015-June 2016, selling an astounding 347,000 titles over this period. This is...
Royal Society Science Book Prize 2016 winner announced
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
In the UK, The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf (John Murray) has won the 2016 Royal Society Science Book Prize for ‘outstanding popular science books’ written for a non-specialist...
ILF’s Great Book Swap raises $150,000
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Over 20,000 students, libraries and other organisations have raised $150,000 from Great Book Swap campaigns for Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD), held this year on 7 September. More than 500 schools...
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