The author of Dr Dog and Mummy Laid An Egg gives us a fascinating insight into how she created her latest comedy masterpiece The Wildest West Country Tale of James Rabbit and the Giggleberries. Win a limited edition print by Babette Cole plus a copy of her new book...
I am selling all the James Rabbit originals as the book is out now and available in all good bookshops and AmazonKeep an eye open on this site as these beautiful works are coming online for sale very soon!! The pictures are on exhibition and for sale at our...
A note from Babette Cole The big tent at Hay is the ultimate pop-up bookshop – and its figures are enough to make grown booksellers weep. Gareth Howell-Jones reflects on the unique challenges of managing it. “HENRY WINKLER gave me a fiver!!” The...
FREE to good home. Beautiful part Belgium Warmblood brood mare. Approx 16.1hh, bay 17 years old. Contact Babette here She has bred some cracking foals which are now eventing. She will be PUT DOWN shortly if a home is not found so to help save her I am offering a FREE...
Whoopee new book out on InkySprat today! (17th June) My first book I ever wrote and illustrated, Promise Solves The Problem, was published all those years ago in 1976! A graphic novel for children it was ahead of it’s time thanks to my clever publisher, Rosemary...
The Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop, which has traded successfully for 40 years in the “vibrant, book-loving community” in North London, is seeking a new owner “to take it forward for the next generation”. The store – on a road...
See if your poem has been long or short-listed. LONG & SHORT LISTS The ten poems chosen by competition judge Ruth Padel will be published in the 2014 Fish Anthology. First: Pacific Rim by Chris Stuart Andrews Second: Alice Like the Wind by Jacqueline Haskill...
Penguin Random House UK has created a single children’s division, led by Francesca Dow. Dow will be MD, Penguin Random House UK Children’s, and will report to Tom Weldon, CEO, Penguin Random House UK. Philippa Dickinson, currently MD of Random House...
Owing to reconstruction at Random House Puffin I have heard the very sad news today that my publicist, Care Hall-Craggs, (Publicity Director) at Random House for the past 15 years is leaving on 13th May. This is sad news indeed as she has been vital in the promotion...
Due to changes made owing to the merger of Random House and Puffin Children’s Books my old friend Fiona Macmillian and M.D of Random House Children”s Books just told me she is leaving on May 13th. My present editor for my new book for RHP *GRRR!”,...
