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Children's - News
Last updated 08.05.08
Children's 'Booker' mooted
Children's publishers are investigating the creation of a "children's Booker" award to replace the Nestlé...
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Top Gear turns to children
"Top Gear" is targeting children and families with a range of new titles this...
Horrid celebrity writers
Children's writer Francesca Simon has hit out at celebrity authors. The author of the...
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Children's - In Depth
Last updated 09.04.08
Templar's treasures
Amanda Wood, m.d. of Templar Publishing, which was named both independent publisher of the year and children's publisher of the year at last month's Independent Publishing Awards, dates the turning-point for her 26-year-old Surrey-based...
Sally Nicholls: Looking death in the eye
It's easy to see why the judges of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2008 were hooked by Sally Nicholls' début novel. Ways to Live Forever (Scholastic/Marion Lloyd Books, £7.99) is a deceptively simple...
Licensed to thrill
When HarperCollins found itself without a managing director for its children's books division in late 2006, following Sally Gritten's departure for a new role in training, few could have predicted that it would take a year to fill the...
Children's - Blogs
Last updated 18.04.08
Anthony Horowitz
Political suicide
Why do publishers insist on paying large advances for political memoirs when most of them are doomed to fail?
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Benedicte Page
Chilled Bologna
Bologna exudes an air of calm, but publishers are busy, while agents are protesting their...
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SALLY FLOYER
Mould-breakers
Beatrix Potter, J K Rowling and Eric Hill were all rejected by overly cautious publishers. The...
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