Caroline Horn | The Bookseller

Backlist and midlist grow children's book sales

Publication Date: Tue, 22/11/2011 - 10:15

Sales of children's books have rocketed during the past 10 years, but not just thanks to bestsellers like JK Rowling and Stephenie Meyer, but because of growth in backlist and midlist sales.

According to Nielsen BookScan data, sales of children's books have surged from £193m in 2001 to £325m in 2010. This growth...

Caroline Horn | Caroline Horn and Philip Stone | children's books | harry potter | Home | JK Rowling | Nielsen BookScan data | Philip Stone | Philippa Dickinson | random house | Stephenie Meyer | Twilight
Campaign Shouts About school libraries

Publication Date: Mon, 21/11/2011 - 09:40

A campaign to promote school libraries and school library services aims to make them statutory. The campaign, Shout About, is backed by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), the Association of Senior Children's and Educational Librarians (ASCEL) and the School Library Association.

The...

Annie Mauger | Caroline Horn | CILIP | Fight for Libraries | Home | school libraries | school library services | Shout About
Bookbug 2012/13 titles announced

Publication Date: Fri, 18/11/2011 - 08:50

Scottish Book Trust has announced the titles of the books that will be included in its 2012/13 Bookbug packs that provide free books to young children. Some 60,000 copies of each book will be given to children across Scotland.

The organisation, which took over the management of Bookbug from Booktrust last year, is waiting to hear...

Bookbug | Booktrust | Booktrust Scotland | Caroline Horn
Templar unveils ambitious growth plan

Publication Date: Mon, 14/11/2011 - 08:12

Templar plans to grow its fiction output to 35 titles by 2013, following its move into fiction last year with an initial seven titles. The biggest growth will be in young fiction, although commissioning editor Helen Boyle said the company will continue to develop its young adult (YA) titles.

Boyle said it is looking at three key...

Caroline Horn | children's publishing | expansion | helen boyle | hybrid fiction | illustrated fiction | Templar | Todays Picks | YA
Ribblestrop scoops Guardian Children's Book Award

Publication Date: Fri, 11/11/2011 - 07:30

Return to Ribblestrop by Andy Mulligan (Simon & Schuster Children's Books) has been awarded the Guardian Children's Book Award, beating off shortlisted titles including David Almond's My Name is Mina and Simon Mason's Moon Pie yesterday.

The book is about a boarding school...

Caroline Horn | Guardian Children's Book Award | Ribblestrop | Roald Dahl Funny Prize | Simon & Schuster Children's Books | Todays Picks
Paolini eyes sci-fi for next venture

Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 09:00

Christopher Paolini is likely to turn his hand to science fiction for his next work, as the final book in his epic Inheritance Cycle series is published this week.

The series has sold 4.5m in export and UK sales, including 1.2m in the UK (TCM sales), since the first book Eragon was published in 2004.

The...

Brisinger | Caroline Horn | Christopher Paolini | Doubleday Children's | Eragon | Inheritance | Todays Picks
Mabecron moves into children's fiction

Publication Date: Mon, 07/11/2011 - 08:30

Independent bookseller Ron Johns is moving into children’s fiction publishing, following a number of successes as a publisher of picture books and coffee-table books under the Mabecron Books imprint.

Johns, who owns bookshops in Falmouth, St Ives and Plymouth, said booksellers are “well placed” to develop their...

Caroline Horn | Childrens | indies | mabrecon | publishing | ron johns | Todays Picks
Booked Up 'encourages more reading'

Publication Date: Mon, 31/10/2011 - 07:20

Booked Up, the government-funded programme that gives a free book to Year 7 pupils, has found that more than half of students read books more often as a result of taking part in the initiative.

The evaluation of the programme was carried out by Booktrust, which also administers Booked Up, and research firm ERS. It found that more...

Booked Up | Booktrust | Caroline Horn | children's | children's news | government-funded
Hornby calls for a nationwide network of story 'ministries'

Publication Date: Fri, 28/10/2011 - 07:50

Author Nick Hornby wants to establish a national network of story centres for children, following a successful first year for the Ministry of Stories in Hoxton, London, which Hornby co-founded with Lucy Macnab and Ben Payne.

Hornby said: "The Ministry of Stories has had a happy, healthy and exciting first year, and there has...

Caroline Horn | children's | Minstry of Stories | NIck Hornby | Tins of Fear
Govt reading initiatives "impacting" sales

Publication Date: Mon, 24/10/2011 - 08:05

The Government emphasis on reading for pleasure could be behind an uplift in sales to school libraries, claims bookseller Marilyn Brocklehurst of the Norfolk Children's Book Centre.

She said: "The pronouncements by the government about reading for pleasure are having an impact; schools are asking us for support to develop...

Caroline Horn | Centre for Literacy in Primary Education | children's | Government | Nick Gibb | Norfolk Children's Book Centre