Walker Books sold to Trustbridge Global Media
Walker Books Limited, parent company of Walker Books ANZ, has been acquired by private equity-owned children’s content company Trustbridge Global Media, but says ‘no changes to operations are contemplated’. In...
Magrit (Lee Battersby, Walker Books)
Magrit is nearly 10 and lives in an abandoned cemetery with her skeletal mentor Master Puppet. One day her simple life is disrupted forever by the arrival of a tiny...
Spiral of absurdity: Lee Battersby on ‘Magrit’
Lee Battersby’s first book for children is set in an abandoned cemetery and has ‘echoes of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and The Graveyard Book’. Reviewer Tehani Wessely spoke to the author....
Power play: Meg McKinlay on ‘A Single Stone’
Meg McKinlay’s novel for younger readers A Single Stone (Walker Books, May) ‘manages to pose big questions about gender and power, and thoroughly entertain’, writes reviewer Frances Atkinson. She spoke to...
New Walker Books website for teachers and librarians
Walker Books Australia has launched a new website for teachers and librarians. Walker Books Classroom features classroom ideas, book lists, interviews and other resources, which are organised by theme, title,...
Walker Books promotes Van Den Belt, announces new appointments to Aus management team
Walker Books has promoted Angela Van Den Belt to the position of president, general manager and commercial director of Walker Books Australia and New Zealand. Van Den Belt was previously deputy...
Foster leaves Walker Books
Walker Books has announced that Sarah Foster, managing director and publisher for Walker Books Australia and New Zealand, has left the company. Her last day was on 4 July.‘It is with great...
Soldier on: Rachael Craw on ‘Spark’
Rachael Craw’s debut YA novel Spark (Walker Books, July) is about Evie, a 17-year-old super-soldier from a government experiment gone wrong. Dani Solomon spoke to the author.I loved the character...
Soccer superheroes: Michael Wagner on ‘Maxx Rumble: Soccer’
Michael Wagner and illustrator Terry Denton take ‘their healthy sense of the ridiculous to the world’s most popular sport’ in their ‘Maxx Rumble: Soccer’ series (Walker, May), writes reviewer Samuel...
Bolinda partners with Walker Books on audiobooks, ebooks
Bolinda has formed a publishing and distribution partnership with Walker Books to co-publish new release audiobooks, distribute backlist audiobooks and distribute digital content, including ebooks, via its BorrowBox platform.The partnership...
Walker Books creates international sales team; Vahtrick appointed sales executive for Northern, Eastern Europe
Walker Books has appointed a new sales team to manage all international sales of Walker Books UK, Candlewick Press and Walker Books Australia titles, reports the Bookseller. As part of...
Changes at Walker Books
At Walker Books, Melissa Keown has moved into a new position, taking on responsibility for sales of all Walker Books UK, Candlewick Press and Walker Books Australia English-language editions in...
Walker Books to launch media imprint
In the UK, Walker Books is set to launch a media imprint, reports the Bookseller. The imprint, which launches in 2014, will be called Walker Entertainment in the UK and...
Dreamtime tales: The collaboration of ‘More Stories from the Billabong’
Author James Vance Marshall and illustrator Francis Firebrace collaborated on More Stories from the Billabong (Walker Books, August). They spoke to Thuy On. (Read the review of More Stories from the Billabong here.) This...
Walker Books celebrates 20 years of children’s publishing with picture-book campaign
Walker Books Australia is celebrating 20 years of publishing books for children in 2013. The publisher said in a statement that it is celebrating the anniversary by launching the campaign ‘We Believe in...
Vale Jan Ormerod
Jan Ormerod, Australian author and illustrator, has died aged 67. Sarah Foster, managing director and publisher of Walker Books, writes: ‘One of the first things Jan Ormerod ever said to...
Australian author-illustrator Jan Ormerod dies
Much-loved Australian children’s books author and illustrator Jan Ormerod has died in the UK. Ormerod died from a stroke on 23 January after battling cancer. Her daughter Laura announced the news...
HarperCollins, Walker Books sign with Wheelers ebook platform
ALS Library Services has announced that ebooks from HarperCollins, Walker Books and Dark Horse Comics are now available to Australian users of Wheelers ePlatform library lending service. ALS managing director...
Junior book bites
A taste of forthcoming Junior books. Picture books A number of lovely board books are out later this year, including a some readalong picture books by Alison Lester: Run like...
Bad Grammar (Nathan Luff, Walker Books)
Marcus is a great warrior—a dragonslayer! At least, he is online. Gaming is the one place he feels at home since his only friend Bashir moved to India, a fact...