UQP acquires Fraillon’s middle-grade novel ‘The Way of Dog’
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Zana Fraillon’s ‘inventive’ middle-grade novel The Way of Dog. Told in verse from the perspective of a dog called...
UQP acquires Atkins picture book
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Egg, the first picture book by YA author Clare Atkins. A ‘multi-layered picture book with thought-provoking metaphors around environment, generational...
Wakefield acquires Webster’s ‘That Thing I Did’
Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to YA novel That Thing I Did by Allayne Webster, via Jane Novak. ‘That Thing I Did is a rollicking road trip with a...
Wakefield announces YA horror anthology winning submissions
Wakefield Press has announced the winning submissions to its national callout for contributions to its YA fiction anthology Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales. The four winning stories are: An 'intense,...
Layton launches Larrikin House
James Layton, CEO of children’s book reseller Learning Discovery, has launched a new children’s book publisher, Larrikin House. Larrikin House plans to publish 20 books per year, with an initial...
McLean receives inaugural $10k Albert Ullin Award
Andrew McLean is the winner of the inaugural Albert Ullin Award. The $10,000 biennial award, created with a bequest from the late The Little Book Room co-founder Albert Ullin, is...
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing establishes new illustration prize
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has established a new illustration prize. The Little Hare Prize for Illustration has been established to ‘inspire new work from unpublished and emerging artists’ and...
UQP acquires second novel for children by Carnavas
UQP has acquired My Brother Ben, the second novel for children by Peter Carnavas. ‘Offering a rich narrative that centres on sibling relationships, the story follows brothers Luke and Ben...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2020 finalists announced
The finalists for the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The shortlists in each category, chosen from a record 178 entries, are: Picture...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 3 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s third issue for 2018 is out now! It features 30 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing from September to November. Reviews: Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue, four...
Book bites: Forthcoming junior titles
In the pictureA book about books is hard to resist. The Great and Wondrous Storyteller by Michael Scott Parkinson (The Five Mile Press, August) features a cast of colourful, cartoonish...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains reviews of seven children’s and YA books publishing in September.Among the highest-scoring books are Lucy Estela’s debut picture book Suri’s Wall (illus by Matt Ottley,...
Tan shortlisted for 2015 Kate Greenaway medal
Shaun Tan’s Rules of Summer (Lothian) is one of eight titles shortlisted for this year’s Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration in children’s books.The shortlists for the Kate Greenaway Medal...
‘Birdee’ creators launch print edition of teen website
The creators of teen website Birdee have announced they will publish a ‘quarterly tabloid newspaper for girls’ after research revealed there was demand for a print publication among its readers.The...
Fox, Griffiths and Marsden top Australian children’s bestsellers charts 2013-14
For the fourth year in a row, books by Mem Fox, Andy Griffiths and John Marsden have topped the Australian picture book, children’s fiction and YA bestsellers charts, according to...
Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2014 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the 2014 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are:Young Readers Girl v the World: Sophie Bennett Saves the...
Make it snappy: Ana Vivas from Snappyant
Ana Vivas is a publisher at Scholastic Australia and co-director of Snappyant, which creates interactive children’s book apps for tablet technologies. She shares her career journey. I grew up in a creative...
Brooks, Klassen win Carnegie, Greenaway medals
In the UK, Kevin Brooks has won the Carnegie Medal for The Bunker Diary (Puffin) and Jon Klassen has won the Kate Greenaway Medal for This is Not My Hat...
Lonely Planet to relaunch children’s list
Lonely Planet will relaunch its children’s list, Not for Parents, as Lonely Planet Kids, reports the Bookseller. ‘We now feel the time is right to establish Lonely Planet Kids as...
LIANZA Children’s Book Awards 2014 finalists announced
The finalists in the 2014 LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) Children’s Book Awards have been announced. The judges this year selected six finalists in the young...