PPA Independent Publishing Company of the Year, 2015

The Chelsea Magazine Company has been named Independent Publishing Company of the Year 2015 at the Professional Publishers Association Independent Publisher Awards 2015. Celebrating the dynamic contribution made to the publishing industry and the entrepreneurial...

Babette Cole and Her New TV Series

The latest Hot Gossip about Babette Cole and Her New TV Series. Babette is currently in France on holiday but making her way down to Toulouse for Cartoon Forum where she is presenting her new TV series produced by Spider Eye all about The Trouble With Mum. You will...

You are a really good teacher Babette

Dear Babette Thank you so much for your help. I am very thankful. You are a really good teacher, and you should teach more as well. It inspired me a lot, and helped me to get back to drawing again:) I just sent Val some drawings. Thanks for sending her an email. Is it...

Five on Treasure Island

On my desk this morning advanced copies of The Famous Five! A beautiful colour edition of the first ever classic Famous Five Adventure by Enid Blyton, FIVE ON A TREASURE ISLAND, with artwork by two of today’s most popular children’s book illustrators....

The Twits turn 35

PRH Children’s to release app as The Twits turn 35 Published July 16, 2015. By Charlotte Eyre Penguin Random House Children’s and the Roald Dahl Literary Estate will next week release the first ever Dahl app. Twit or Miss is based on The Twits. Developed with Aardman...

Invention and reinvention

Growing the children’s market The Bookseller Children’s Conference :: Milton Court, Barbican, Tuesday 29th September 2015 Children’s books are the fastest-selling sector in publishing and have out-performed the overall market consistently for many years. For new...

Walker acquires Weinstein trilogy

Walker Books will in 2017 publish The City of Secret Rivers, the first book in a London-set children’s adventure trilogy by US writer Jacob Sager Weinstein. The City of Secret Rivers is about Hyacinth Hayward who, recently arrived in London from America, accidentally...

Grandpa’s Great Escape

Walliams’ next title to be Grandpa’s Great Escape David Walliams’ next children’s book, due to be published by HarperCollins Children’s Books in September, will be titled Grandpa’s Great Escape. In the book, which will once again be illustrated by Tony Ross, Grandpa...

Almost trampled to death

Children’s author’s terror as she’s almost trampled to death by cows while walking her dogs By John Coles Babette Cole, 65, was walking her dogs when one beast from a herd with their calves “tossed me in the air”, The Princess Smartypants writer said...