17 September 2013 To an audience of 300 Rastamouse fans, Macmillan Children’s joined Wembley Library to launch RASTAMOUSE AND DA MICESPACE MYSTERY by Michael de Souza and Genevieve Webster at Brent Civic Centre. The authors performed Rastamouse and Da...
“Babette had a wonderful time in Zurich at the International Storytelling Conference. She was treated like a queen! “Thanks to Regula Fuchs and everybody who organised the event. Thanks also to Claudio for looking after me and taking me to the airport....
Babette sets off today for International Story Telling conference in Zurich where she is lecturing and holding workshops. 13 and 14 September 2013 Zurich University of Teacher Education Story-telling is more than a powerful educational tool – it’s a way of being...
“Can Babette be any naughtier.” quote Candy Gourlay Oh yes she can ! You just wait until “The Wildest West Country Tale of James Rabbit and the Giggleberries” is out next Spring published by Mabecron Books “Further tales of Peter...
…..that was quick ! (or words to that effect!!) Loads of people wrote in with an answer. 12 got it right. It is Beryl Cook of course! Polly Dunbar won by seconds so she gets the book ! Off to Schilly Isles with mad tree elf and Michelle Cartlidge for Champagne...
Name a famous painter of fat naughty ladies who was born on the same day and win a free Babette Cole book ! Email your entries to babette@babette-cole.com, Kitty@babette-cole.com or reply@babette-cole.com by midnight 10th Sept ! Happy Birthday Babette! Love from...
Yesterday, I went to the US Embassy in London to get a tax form stamped so I don’t get double taxed for a book I’m doing for Harper Collins N.Y. What a palava! They would not let me in with my folio and Lee Scratch Perry shopping trolly so they sent me...
Bags of ways to back your local bookshop According to research commissioned by the Booksellers Association, 88 per cent of British book buyers are concerned that there are fewer bookshops on the high streets than five years ago, 91.7 per cent of book buyers are...
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are to return to the small screen, in a new Channel 5 series made using computer-generated animation. Based on the adventures of the loveable London litter-pickers, the 52, 11-minute shorts will air on the channel’s pre-school...
Amazon Publishing head Laurence Kirshbaum sexually assaulted prospective employee Teresa McCoy in public — not once, but twice — she charges. Comments (9) By Dareh Gregorian / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A Manhattan publishing big is 50 shades of depraved, a shocking lawsuit...