UK report finds more children enjoy reading but gender gap remains
Thursday, 21 May 2015
In the UK, a literacy survey has found that reading for enjoyment among young people has increased, but the gap between girls and boys in terms of reading for pleasure...
Little Rebels Children’s Book Award winner announced
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Gill Lewis has won the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award for radical children’s fiction for her book Scarlet Ibis (OUP), reports the Guardian. Lewis’ book for readers aged nine to...
PRH UK Children’s division creates one editorial team
Thursday, 7 May 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) has restructured its children’s division to create one editorial team, reports the Bookseller. Editors at Random House Children’s Publishers and Puffin will continue...
Children’s Choice Book Awards 2015 winners announced in the US
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
In the US, the winners of the 2015 Children’s Book Council (CBC) Children’s Choice Book Awards have been announced. The awards, which are voted on by US children and teenagers, saw...
On tour: Meet the illustrator Priya Kuriyan
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Priya Kuriyan is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Delhi. She recently contributed to Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean (A&U), a YA speculative-fiction anthology featuring writers and artists from...
HGE Ampersand Project expands to include middle-grade manuscripts
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) Ampersand Project for unpublished writers has been opened to authors of middle-grade fiction—aimed at readers aged eight and up—for the first time in 2015.The project, which has been...
Wagner to launch children’s book publisher Billy Goat Books
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Author Michael Wagner is launching a new children’s book publisher Billy Goat Books.The first Billy Goat title, Pig Dude, is written by Wagner and illustrated by Adam Nickel, and is scheduled...
Book Links, QWC to host annual lecture on children’s literature
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
Book Links—the Queensland branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia—and the Queensland Writers Centre will host the first annual Book Links Lecture on Children’s Literature in June. The annual...
A&U wins Bologna Prize for children’s publishing
Thursday, 2 April 2015
Allen & Unwin has won the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. The publisher was chosen from a shortlist of three, which included...
Debut authors celebrated at Waterstones Children’s Book Prize
Friday, 27 March 2015
In the UK, Rob Biddulph’s picture-book Blown Away (HarperCollins) has won the overall and best illustrated book categories at this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, reports the Bookseller. Melissa Cox, head...
LIANZA Children’s Book Awards 2015 finalists announced
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
The finalists in the 2015 Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Russell Clark Illustration Award Marmaduke Duck on the Wide...
Readings Children’s Book Prize 2015 shortlist announced
Monday, 23 March 2015
Independent Melbourne bookseller Readings has announced the shortlist for its 2015 Readings Children’s Book Prize.The shortlisted titles are: Rivertime (Trace Balla, A&U) The Mapmakers Chronicles: Race to the End of...
YA Book Prize winner announced
Friday, 20 March 2015
In the UK, Irish author Louise O’Neill has won the inaugural YA Book Prize for her debut novel Only Ever Yours (Quercus), reports the Bookseller. Judge and head of children’s at Waterstones...
‘Struck’ first YA novel to win UK Romantic Novel of the Year
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
In the UK, Struck by Joss Stirling (Oxford University Press) has become the first YA novel to be awarded Romantic Novel of the Year by the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA),...
Little, Brown teams up with Lego for new kids titles
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
In the US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (LBBYR) has signed a deal with the Lego Group to develop titles based on a number of Lego properties, reports Publishers...
Keeping up with the kids: Chris Kunz on the Kidscreen conference
Thursday, 12 March 2015
Chris Kunz, freelance editor and writer and former children’s publisher at Random House, attended the Kidscreen conference for children’s entertainment professionals in Miami in February. She reports on partnerships between...
Avid Reader opens children’s bookshop
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Brisbane’s Avid Reader has opened its specialist children’s, YA and giftware bookstore, Where the Wild Things Are Bookshop, located next to its West End store.Owner Fiona Stager told Books+Publishing that the new store,...
Wild Dog partners with PNG charity to create children’s books
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Children’s publisher Wild Dog Books has partnered with not-for-profit organisation Buk bilong Pikinini (BbP) in Papua New Guinea to publish a series of books produced by local children.BbP was founded...
Hardie Grant’s Roxy Ryan reports from Digital Book World
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
‘The ability for booksellers and publishers to articulate, reach and engage readers in their products is something that they can do better than anyone else,’ writes Hardie Grant marketing director...
Newcastle Writers Festival launches 2015 Kids Program
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Newcastle Writers Festival has launched its 2015 Kids Program, running from 16-21 March 2015. Guest speakers include Melina Marchetta, Garth Nix, Susaire Dunn and Kaz Delaney. The festival will include...
Hardie Grant’s Roxy Ryan reports from Digital Book World
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
‘The ability for booksellers and publishers to articulate, reach and engage readers in their products is something that they can do better than anyone else,’ writes Hardie Grant marketing director...
Controversy over Canadian YA award-winner
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid, a YA book about a transgender teen that won Canada’s 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award, is proving controversial, reports Publishing Perspectives....
Mills appointed children’s and YA publishing director at A&U
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Allen & Unwin has appointed Eva Mills as publishing director of children’s and YA books. (See news.)
Mills appointed children’s and YA publishing director at A&U
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Eva Mills has been appointed publishing director of children’s and YA books at Allen & Unwin (A&U).Mills has been a publisher of children’s and YA books at the company since 2009, and...
New app lets travelling parents share picture books with kids
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
A new Australian-made app that lets parents read books with their children when they’re away from home launched on the Apple iTunes store in late December.The Quality Time app, which is available for iPad, with...
Majority of kids looking for books with humour, according to Scholastic report
Friday, 12 December 2014
Seventy-three percent of kids aged six to 17 say they would read more ‘if I could find more books that I like’ and another 70% say they want books that...
Inaugural ‘Bookseller’ YA Book Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 5 December 2014
Ten books are in the running for UK book publication the Bookseller’s inaugural YA Book Prize. They are: Goose (Dawn O’Porter, Hot Key Books), Say Her Name (James Dawson, Hot...
YA journal ‘Viewpoint’ to cease publication
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
The YA journal Viewpoint will cease publication in 2014 due to ‘changing circumstances’, the publication announced in its final edition. Viewpoint was established by Pam Macintyre and Stella Lees in 1992 as...
Clunes Booktown for Kids festival this weekend
Friday, 31 October 2014
Clunes’ inaugural Booktown for Kids festival will be held this weekend in the central Victorian town of Clunes with a Schools’ Day on Friday 31 October and a Family Day on...
Cool for kids: Publishers’ top children’s and YA titles for 2015
Friday, 17 October 2014
Publishers tell Hilary Simmons about their top children’s and YA titles for 2015.A&U publisher Erica Wagner believes Maureen McCarthy’s forthcoming YA novel Stay with Me (May) is particularly timely given...
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