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We've had fun reading through some excellent poetry entries this morning! 🌟 Primary schools, you've still got time to submit and be in with the chance of winning a visit from the excellent Lisa Thompson, find out more below 👇
The sun is finally shining and all of our new May titles have arrived! Happy publication month to all our wonderful authors and illustrators 😎☀️
Head over to our blog for all the info and a sneak peek at each book: https://tinyurl.com/y2jugef9
We're thrilled to see 'Firebird' and 'Race to the Frozen North' on the The Historical Association's shortlist for the Young Quills Award 2019 🎉 🤩
Congratulations to Elizabeth Wein and Catherine Johnson - fingers crossed!🤞
You can view the full shortlist and read all of the excellent reader reviews at the link below:
We're barking about dogs this month with 'D-Day Dog' by Tom Palmer and 'McTavish Takes the Biscuit' by Meg Rosoff hitting shelves 🐶🐾
Find out more and download posters for each book over on our blog!
#DDayDog #McTavishTakestheBiscuit #DDay75 #McTavishBakes
ICYMI: Head to the post below for all the info on an exciting poetry competition for schools. Enter to win a school visit from the one and only Lisa Thompson! 🤩👏
#OwenandtheSoldier
We had a brilliant evening last night launching #DDayDog into the world. Congratulations Tom Palmer! Huge thanks to everyone who came and to Book Corner Halifax for hosting us!
You can pick up a copy of 'D-Day Dog' from your local bookshop or online from 2nd May 🐾📚
We have a new website!! 🥳👏
To celebrate we're offering a special discount on web orders - just use the code NEWWEBSITE at the checkout to get 15% off your order 🌟 http://bit.ly/2ZHuhrt
Thank you to Maisie Paradise Shearring for her beautiful illustrations and to Bookswarm for the design and build. ... . . . . T&Cs: 1. code is only available on single titles, not applicable to packs 2. code expires at midnight on 6th May 3. code cannot be used in conjunction with any other coupon code 4. code cannot be used on any sale items 5. code is only valid for sales made on the website
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Would you like to win a school visit from Lisa Thompson? Of course you would! To celebrate our upcoming book 'Owen and the Soldier' we're running a poetry competition with Lisa - find out how your primary school students can get involved below! 🥳
Well, look what's just landed in the office! 😍
'D-Day Dog' by Tom Palmer arriving in bookshops and libraries near you 2nd May, featuring beautiful cover artwork by Tom Clohosy Cole.
#DDayDog #DDay75
We're equal parts honoured and thrilled to see two of our recent teen novellas featured in the New Statesman best new children's books for Easter selection! Huge thanks to Amanda Craig for her wonderful words on 'One Shot' and 'Lark', and three cheers for Anthony McGowan and Tanya Landman 👏🥳
"My favourite heroine this season is in Tanya Landman's One Shot ... Tough and almost unbearably honest about the brutalities of poverty and powerlessness, its deceptively simple prose and narrative drive are stunning"
"An exceptional piece of writing from the author and a dyslexia-friendly publisher that is consistently impressive ... As taut as Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Lark rings with truth, humour, humanity and pathos. My hope is that it wins prizes"
April is here, the sun is shining (sort of), and we've got four fantastic new books to add to your reading list! With everything from circus mysteries to the power of football, it's a bumper month of brilliant reads over on our blog: https://tinyurl.com/y5boyz4z 📚☀️
This week on the blog we're joined by illustrator Emma Shoard, as she takes us on her first whirlwind trip to Bologna Children's Book Fair #BCBF2019 #PaveeBook
Publishing today we have the first in a brand new series from the incomparable Alexander McCall Smith and Sam Usher! Join in with all the fun of the circus in 'The Big-Top Mysteries: The Case of the Vanishing Granny'🎪🤡🤸♀️
Head to our website for more info and a sneak peek at chapter one: https://tinyurl.com/y5turpys
Wonderful news from Bologna Children's Book Fair! The Italian edition of 'The Pavee and the Buffer Girl' by the late Siobhan Dowd, illustrated by Emma Shoard, has won the YA category of the Orbil Prize 🎉🥳
Huge congratulations to Emma and Italian publisher uovonero!
#BCBF19 #PaveeBook
Some very, very exciting news to start your Tuesday! We're over the moon to announce that we will be publishing 'The Ghost Garden' by Emma Carroll - Author next year! 👏🥳