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Penguin Children is joining the throng of publishers marking the Royal wedding, with two of its imprints publishing souvenir editions to commemorate the event.
Ladybird will release a full-colour picture book, William and Kate: The Royal Wedding priced £4.99. It will be released in February 2011 in a square paperback format, and will track the relationship from when the couple met.
It will include information on the wedding venue, and other Royal weddings. It follows on
from the publisher's souvenir editions for Prince Charles and Diana's wedding in 1981, and Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's in 1986. It also produced books to celebrate the Queen's 80th birthday in 2006, and published Diana Princess of Wales to mark her death in 1997.
Will and Kate's Dress-Up Dolly Book will be published by Sunbird in March, priced £5.99. A cut-out-and-keep paper doll book, it will feature illustrated paper dolls of William and Kate with various paper outfits based on actual clothes worn by the pair, and will include Kate's engagement dress.
Category publisher for brands and licensing Eric Huang said: "Ladybird has a huge history of publishing Royal titles, and Sunbird is a new imprint aimed at older kids, and we wanted to be part of that history, and make a more fun, kitschy, tongue-in-cheek title for older kids. This is quite unique, it's not word heavy."
He added: "I think there is the appetite for it [and the other Royal titles]; I think that with the run up to the Olympics as well there is going to be a great 'Britain' moment too."