News: childrens

Angelina Jolie and Amnesty International collaborate on children's book

Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie and Amnesty International have announced at Bologna Children’s Book Fair that they will collaborate on a children’s book, with themes based... Read more
Go Getten: Kereen’s début leads a flurry of diverse books bagged at Bologna

Diversity and inclusion is high on the agenda at this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair, with US and UK publishers keen to snap up stories... Read more
Andersen makes Ross its biggest fiction buy in years

Andersen Press has signed a Middle Grade fantasy series from Blue Peter Book Award-winner Ross MacKenzie, in what it called its “biggest fiction acquisition in... Read more
Green dream for Leventhal as new Jewish-interest kids’ imprint launches

British indie publisher Greenhill Books is to make its first foray into children’s with Green Bean Books, a new imprint of Jewish-interest titles.... Read more
Xiron Pools funds to bag McFall series

Beijing-based publisher Xiron Books has acquired a new Young Adult series by Claire McFall for a six-figure sum. Read more
Maciver is a cut above for Knights Of

Knights Of has acquired world rights to a book on entrepreneurship and business for teens by celebrity barber and Instagram star Mark Maciver, a.k.a. SliderCuts.... Read more
Butterfly Brain takes flight with Piccadilly

Bonnier Books UK imprint Piccadilly Press has acquired a picture book by Laura Dockrill about "how magical our brains can be". Read more
Pounder signs up for Ibbotson sequel

Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) is to publish a 25th anniversary follow-up to Eva Ibbotson’s classic The Secret of Platform 13, written by Witch Wars author... Read more
Walker picks up podcaster’s YA début

Walker has pre-empted a YA début novel billed as "‘Stranger Things’ meets ‘Sabrina The Teenage Witch’" in a six-figure deal. Read more
Martial arts and superpowers for OUP

Oxford University Press has acquired four books in a martial arts-inspired young fiction series, and six books about Kitty, a girl with cat-like superpowers.... Read more
Ghost sighted in Stoke

Barrington Stoke has acquired a "super readable" First World War story by Emma Carroll about siblings who find an ancient burial chamber. Read more
Nine lives for Egmont duo McLachlan and Jackson

Egmont has struck multiple deals for Jenny McLachlan’s middle grade tale The Land of Roar and Holly Jackson’s début YA novel A Good Girl’s Guide... Read more
Freddie Yates continues Journey across Europe

Usborne has sold rights to Jenny Pearson’s “hilarious” début The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates in Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Hebrew, Romanian and German.... Read more
Bunzl’s walk on the Wild side to Usborne

Usborne has snapped up a Middle Grade standalone from The Cogheart Adventures author Peter Bunzl, inspired by the true story of a feral child brought... Read more
From Pages to screen: James’ series optioned

Element Pictures has optioned Anna James’ Middle Grade series Pages & Co for TV. 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