News: childrens

Dino expands Football Heroes series with four new titles

Dino, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has expanded its Football Heroes series with four new titles - Kirby, Marta, Morgan and Smith – ahead of the Fifa Women’s World Cup ... Read more
HCG snaps up nature poetry anthology

Hachette Children's Group will publish Poems from a Green and Blue Planet, a uniquely inclusive anthology of poetry from around the world, on National Poetry Day... Read more
Penguin to publish sequel to McManus' One of Us is Lying

Penguin Books will publish a sequel to Karen M McManus’ bestselling YA thriller One Of Us Is Lying, entitled One of Us is Next. ... Read more
Puffin launches picture book subscription box

Puffin has launched its first ever subscription box service with boxes for children aged three to five-years-old. Read more
Firefly lands Killick's middle grade sci-fi horror

Firefly Press has landed a “scary and heart-warming” middle grade sci-fi horror by Jennifer Killick. Read more
Astrid Lindgren Company launches charity partnership for Pippi Longstocking anniversary

The Astrid Lindgren Company has launched a global partnership with Save the Children ahead of the 75th anniversary of Pippi Longstocking, aiming to generate more than... Read more
Guppy lands two books from Creech

Newly formed Oxford indie Guppy Books has bought two middle-grade books by American author Sharon Creech. Read more
Fisher wins Tir na n-Og children’s literature award

Catherine Fisher triumphed at the Tir na n-Og children’s literature award with her novel The Clockwork Crow (Firefly Press). Read more
Cunsolo and Taylor sign deals with Wattpad Books

Wattpad Books, the publishing arm of Wattpad, has acquired world rights to two YA novels by Jessica Cunsolo and Nandi Taylor. Read more
Fawcett Society looks for publisher input into gender study

The Fawcett Society, a charity that campaigns for gender equality, is looking for publisher input into a new study into gender stereotypes in early childhood.... Read more
Graffeg signs four-book deal with BBC broadcaster Jason Korsner

Welsh publisher Graffeg has acquired four picture books by Jason Korsner, a BBC broadcaster, film critic and photographer. Read more
David Walliams targets teachers with new short story collection

David Walliams’ next children’s book will be The World’s Worst Teachers, a short story collection about “splendidly sinister” pedagogues. ... Read more
Itchy Coo to translate Matilda into Scots

Roald Dahl’s Matilda will be translated into its 50th language this summer after Itchy Coo, an imprint of Black and White Publishing, signed a Scots language deal.... Read more
Bookbug app proves successful for Scottish Book Trust

Families have listened to more than 400,000 songs and nursery rhymes on the new Bookbug app, the Scottish Book Trust has revealed. Read more
Capital FM DJs Kemp and Hope sign with Scholastic

Scholastic UK has acquired a middle-grade fiction title by Roman Kemp and Vick Hope, DJs on Capital FM’s Breakfast Show, written in collaboration with Chloe... Read more

Children’s blogs

Books beyond the shadow of Brexit

By Charlotte Eyre

Children's editor at The Bookseller

Brexit may have cast a shadow over the UK’s relationship with Europe but children’s publishers are maintaining an international outlook when it comes to business.... Read more
Getting children reading

Hilary Murray Hill C.e.o. at Hachette Children's
From blog to bookshelf

Estelle Maskame Author at Black & White Publishing
Announcing the Oscar's

James Ashton Chairman at Oscar's Book Prize
Always look to the future

Vanessa Harbour Author at Firefly Press