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February 7, 2017
Win a proof copy of The Jamie Drake Equation!
Next month we’ll be publishing The Jamie Drake Equation – the new book by Christopher Edge, author of the highly acclaimed, Carnegie-nominated The Many Worlds of Albie Bright. This is another phenomenal novel for 9+ year olds, combining great storytelling, popular science, and lots of heart.
And today, we’re giving you the chance to win one of five proof copies of the book – a month before the book will appear in shops!
To win one of these proof copies of the book, just head over to the @NosyCrowBooks Twitter feed, follow @NosyCrowBooks, and re-tweet this message.
Jamie’s dad is an astronaut.This is a good thing, because how cool is that? And a bad thing, because he’s orbiting Earth and Jamie misses him badly.
Doing his homework at the observatory one night, Jamie inadvertently picks up a weird signal on his mobile phone. Could it be from an alien civilisation? Turns out, they’re the only ones who can help Jamie bring his father back. But how do you rescue an astronaut without heading into space yourself?
Combining action and adventure with cutting-edge space exploration and a compelling emotional core, this is truly awesome storytelling.
Here’s a look inside the book:
We’ll pick five winners in our proof giveaway competition at random on Friday – good luck!
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February 6, 2017
My Brother is a Superhero is shortlisted for the 2017 Derbyshire Schools’ Book Award!
The shortlist for the 2017 Derbyshire Schools’ Book Award has been announced, and we’re absolutely thrilled that it includes My Brother is a Superhero, the debut children’s novel by David Solomons!
The award, run by the Association of Derbyshire Librarians in Schools, aims to get as many students reading and voting for their favourite book.
The recipient of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the British Book Industry Awards Children’s Book of the Year award, My Brother is a Superhero is an absolutely amazing story: super-exciting, laugh-out-loud funny, and with enough heart to fill an entire galaxy.
Luke is a comic-mad eleven-year-old who shares a treehouse with his geeky older brother, Zach. Luke’s only mistake is to need a wee right at the wrong moment. While he’s gone, an alien gives his undeserving, never-read-a-comic-in-his-life brother superpowers, then tells him to save the universe. Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zach is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends only have five days to find him and save the world…
Here’s a look inside the book:
You can find out more about the Derbyshire Schools’ Book Award here. The winner will be announced in just over two week’s time – good luck, David!
February 3, 2017
Get your ticket for the next Nosy Crow Illustrator Salon, with special guest Jamie Littler
Last week we announced the latest edition of the Nosy Crow Illustrator Salon, our programme of quarterly evening events celebrating the art of illustration – with special guest Jamie Littler, the fantastic illustrator of The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge, Medieval Knight in Training. And tickets are selling fast – if you’re interested in attending, book your place today!
We’ll be returning to The Book Club, in Shoreditch, for Jamie’s Salon, on the evening of Tuesday 30th May. After an interview with Jamie there’ll be a Q&A with the audience, followed by a book signing and drinks.
And you can save money on a signed copy of The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge, Medieval Knight in Training by buying one now with your ticket!
General admission costs just £4. £7 will include entry to the salon, PLUS a signed copy of the book.
Doors will open at 6.30pm for drinks and conversation, and the salon will start at approximately 7.00pm.
Booking is essential and tickets are extremely limited – save your place today!
Here’s a look inside The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge:
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February 2, 2017
It’s our February publication day!
It’s our February publication day! We’ve got a fantastic collection of new books out today – here’s a look at what you can find in shops now…
We’re publishing Can You Say it Too? Cheep! Cheep!, illustrated by Sebastien Braun, today- the latest book in the fantastic Can You Say It Too? series. As all parents know, very little children love to play ‘I-Spy’, but they also adore making animal sounds. So a flap book in which they can spot a bit of an animal, lift the flap to reveal the complete creature, and then make its noise is guaranteed to be a winner! Sturdy flaps and simple texts combine with friendly artwork in these fantastic first books that are great for sharing with children who are just starting to talk.
Flip Flap Dogs, illustrated by Nikki Dyson, is in shops now – a very silly but absolutely engaging doggy book that will charm the whole family. What do you get when you cross a Labrador with a Beagle? A Labradeagle, of course! What about a Terrier with a Dalmatian? Why, that’s a Terratian!
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We’re publishing Neon Leon, written by Jane Clarke and illustrated by Britta Teckentrup, today. Everyone knows that chameleons are the best at tting in. But not Leon. Leon is NEON! In fact, he’s SO bright that he keeps all the other chameleons awake. Poor Leon is lonely, so off he goes in search of somewhere he can blend in. In this delightful interactive book, filled with vibrant neon artwork, children can help Leon on his journey by counting his steps, suggesting colours for him to turn and giving him lots of reassurance when he’s feeling sad. But will he ever find a place to call home …? Here’s a look inside the book:
And we’re also be publishing a brand new paperback edition of Don’t Wake Up Tiger by Britta Teckentrup this month! Tiger is fast asleep, but – oh dear! – she’s completely in the way. Just how will the animals get past without waking her up? Luckily, Frog has an excellent idea – he holds his balloon and floats right over sleeping Tiger! Fox is next, followed by Tortoise, Mouse and Stork – but it will be tricky for them all to get past without Tiger stirring… This is an absolutely stunning, wonderfully interactive picture book – with a charming text, stylish art, and bright, shiny spot UV balloons throughout, its perfect for the very young. Here’s a look inside:
We’re enormously pleased to be publishing Rose Campion and the Curse of the Doomstone by Lyn Gardner today – the second gripping instalment in the THRILLING Campion series.
Business has never been better for Campion’s Palace of Variety and Wonders – and the music hall is about to open its doors to its biggest act yet: the Illustrious Gandini, the stage magician known as the Great Wizard of the North. But when the Doomstone Diamond – a priceless jewel with a disturbing history – is stolen during one of Gandini’s performances, Campion’s finds itself under threat once more, and Rose Campion and her friends will need all their wits about them as they dash across Victorian London – from high society gatherings to the depths of Newgate prison – in a desperate bid to solve the mystery of the stolen Doomstone Diamond, and save Rose’s beloved home, Campion’s Music Hall, from closure!
Set against a brilliant backdrop of smoky, foggy, fin-de-siecle London, filled with fantastic theatrical detail, and with a cast of rogues worthy of Agatha Christie, this is a can’t-put-it-down mystery from a master storyteller that will have you guessing until the final chapter. Here’s a look inside the book:
And finally, today sees publication of Zoe’s Rescue Zoo: The Scruffy Sea Otter – the latest brilliant story in the phenomenally successful Zoe’s Rescue Zoo series written by Amelia Cobb and illustrated by Sophy Williams.
Zoe is SO excited when Great Uncle Horace brings THREE gorgeous sea otter pups to live at the Rescue Zoo! The orphaned pups are very fluffy and cheeky – and the youngest pup, Sasha, is the cheekiest and fluffiest of all. Zoe uses her special skills to talk to the otters and gets to know them all very well. But Sasha feels sad when her older, more confident, siblings are chosen to take part in a special otter display. Can Zoe and Meep persuade Sasha the scruffy sea otter not to give up and to bring her own special skills to the show?
These are a great introduction to chapter books for 5-7 year olds – brilliantly-written series fiction with a fantastic premise. Here’s a look inside the book:
Congratulations to all of today’s authors and illustrators!
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February 1, 2017
There’s a week left to get our Jack and the Beanstalk app for just 99p!
Last week we launched a special sale to celebrate our Jack and the Beanstalk app‘s third birthday – and there’s just a week left to download the app at this special price!
You can download the app from the App Store for 99p here.
If you’re new to the app, here’s out trailer for Jack and the Beanstalk:
The recipient of a FutureBook Award, a Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award, a Parents’ Choice Award, a Kirkus Star, and 5-star reviews from The Sunday Times, Common Sense Media, Tech with Kids, and more, this is a truly fantastic app – we are incredibly proud of it.
Conceived and created with reading for pleasure at its heart, Jack and the Beanstalk rewards the reader’s success with more story, and encourages repeat play with endless variety. You can play games in different rooms of the giant’s castle, and collect keys to unlock more of the story – and every so often, Jack meets the sleeping giant, and your success (or failure) at collecting his treasure determines the outcome of the whole story.
It’s a brilliant re-telling of the story that contains all the familiar elements that everyone knows and love – along with lots of imaginative new features. We’ve made the app with an emphasis on reading for pleasure that we think will be especially good at encouraging reluctant readers (and reluctant boy readers in particular) who love on-screen gaming to participate in a reading experience.
This birthday app sale will end in one week’s time, on February 8 – so if you’d like to get Jack and the Beanstalk at this special price, don’t delay!
If you do download Jack and the Beanstalk, we’d be incredibly grateful if you’d consider leaving a review on the App Store – it makes a huge difference!
January 31, 2017
A day in the life of a bookseller – a guest post by Fleur Hitchcock
Today’s blog post is by author Fleur Hitchcock, on being a bookseller in Waterstones for a day.
A long time ago, I used to be in retail, and although I’d really had enough when I finished, sometimes, these days I really miss it. Particularly just before Christmas. Good retail is about putting two things together – a person seeking and a person offering. There’s something pretty fab about matching a person to the perfect present, and even fabber matching a customer to the perfect book. It’s a skill.
I’ve done it before, this extempore bookselling, (Mostly Books in Abingdon let me, Paula Harrison and Helen Peters loose in their fabulous bookstore,) but this time I persuaded Maudie Smith to accompany me and persuaded lovely Jo at Waterstones in Salisbury to indulge us.
She also indulged us by having a great stack of our books to hand as we arrived on that dark pre-Christmas afternoon, ready to take on those tired late night shoppers. Salisbury has the Children’s section at the back so we headed that way, donning antlers and Christmas pudding hats ready to help, advise, find and be excellent floor walkers.
And floor walk we did. The first customer was introduced to Goth Girl, and she very gratifyingly bought a copy of Murder in Midwinter. The next wanted “those books illustrated by Ardizzone” “Tim at sea? Tim all alone?” we guessed. “Oh yes,” he replied, gratified to find someone who knew what he was talking about – they didn’t have them, but they could order them in for Christmas. As we are Waterstones computer illiterate, we abandoned him to Jo. Then the requests came thick and fast – My Little Pony Christmas Album? Obama’s picture book – no title to hand? The book written by someone from the Xfactor (which turned out to be a little advanced for a new born). Watership Down? The new Harry Potter Book? Each Peach Pear Plum? How things Work have you got the one about The Body? “Those tongue in cheek books about sheds and that”?
Then there were the less specific requests: something for a teenager who reads, something for a teenager that doesn’t read. Something for a dyslexic boy with rugby in it. Something for a boy who loves Steampunk BUT WHO HADN’T READ MORTAL ENGINES! Picture books with penguins, picture books generally. Board books. Books for two sisters who had lost a parent that wasn’t too sad, but not too childish. Funny books for keen readers. Funny books for unkeen readers. Suduko books for kids. Books with pictures. Colouring books without Harry Potter. Anything with a badger in it? Anything with a zebra in it?
There were also some very fantastic children who without our help filled their arms with books – and some fantastic parents who would buy anything their children chose. Those people are golden and walk in the light.
When we weren’t selling, or talking or recommending, we tried to put books from trollies into shelves. This was fascinating – not least because I’d no idea how many yards of Enid Blyton there were in the average Waterstones. Nor how much Rick Riordan, nor how difficult it is to keep those massive stacks on the tables in place. And I was massively impressed by the ordering, and the willingness to order special titles for people. And the loveliness and knowledge of all the staff, especially, Jo.
So in no particular order – here are some of the books we recommended some of which our customers bought, some of which they didn’t. And there were more, but I wasn’t able to write them all down.
Tom Palmer’s series with Barrington Stoke. Mortal Engines, by Philip Reeve. Picture books by Jon Klassen. More Than This and The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. Flying Fergus by Sir Chris Hoy with Joanna Nadin. Dirty Bertie possibly Bogey’s Pants and Fleas – (the customer settled on Bogeys), by Alan Macdonald. Goth Girl by Chris Riddell. The Princess Disgrace series by Lou Kuenzler. There’s a Lion in my Cornflakes by Michelle Robinson and Jim Field. My Teacher is a Vampire Rat by Pamela Butchart. Ten Little Dinosaurs by Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty. The Pirates Next Door by Jonny Duddle. Cogheart by Peter Bunzl. Witch World by Emma Fischel. Beetle Boy by MG Leonard. Frost Hollow Hall by Emma Carroll. The Secret Henhouse Theatre by Helen Peters.
And of course, our own.
Thank you, Fleur! You can take a look inside Fleur’s latest book, the fantastic Murder in Midwinter, below:
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January 30, 2017
Flip Flap Dogs: “this simple, brilliant idea is beautifully executed”
This Thursday we’re enormously pleased to be publishing Flip Flap Dogs, illustrated by Nikki Dyson – a brand new Flip Flap book that will charm dog-lovers everywhere. With over 121 possible crazy canine combinations to make you giggle, a funny rhyming text and friendly illustrations, simply flip the pages to create some seriously mixed-up mutts.
And the book is already getting some fantastic reviews! Over the weekend it was featured in The Observer’s round-up of the best new picture books and novels of the new year. Imogen Russell Williams writes: “Picture book fans with a yen for crazy canines will be charmed by Nikki Dyson’s Flip Flap Dogs. With descriptive rhymes for every breed, energetic pictures and bisected pages enabling whimsical crosses – will you create a dachshoodle, a labradeepdog, or a whippihuaha? – this simple, brilliant idea is beautifully executed.”
You can read The Observer’s full round-up of the best new children’s books here.
Here are just a few of the hilarious combinations that you can make with Flip Flap Dogs:
You can find Flip Flap Dogs in shops from Thursday – and you can find out more about the book here.
January 27, 2017
Join us for the next Nosy Crow Illustrator Salon, with special guest Jamie Littler
We’re enormously pleased to announce the next edition of the Nosy Crow Illustrator Salon, our programme of quarterly evening events celebrating the art of illustration – and we’re absolutely thrilled that our next guest will be none other than Jamie Littler, the fantastic illustrator of The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge, Medieval Knight in Training, the first book in a brand new series written by Philip Ardagh.
We’ll be returning to The Book Club, in Shoreditch, for Jamie’s Salon, on the evening of Tuesday 30th May. After an interview with Jamie there’ll be a Q&A with the audience, followed by a book signing and drinks.
And you can save money on a signed copy of The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge, Medieval Knight in Training by buying one now with your ticket!
General admission costs just £4. £7 will include entry to the salon, PLUS a signed copy of the book.
Doors will open at 6.30pm for drinks and conversation, and the salon will start at approximately 7.00pm.
Booking is essential and tickets are extremely limited – save your place today!
Here’s a look inside The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge:
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January 26, 2017
Jack and the Beanstalk turns three!
Next week (Monday 30th, to be exact) our Jack and the Beanstalk app turns three years old. And we’re celebrating the birthday with a special sale – for the next two weeks, the app will be available to download on the App Store for just 99p!
You can find Jack and the Beanstalk on the App Store at this 99p special sale price here.
And that’s not all – we also have some exclusive sets of Jack and the Beanstalk postcards to give away! To be in with a chance of winning one of ten postcard packs, all you need to do is subscribe to our apps newsletter and send an email to apps[at]nosycrow[dot]com with “Jack and the Beanstalk postcards” in the subject heading – we’ll pick the winners at the end of next week.
The recipient of a FutureBook Award, a Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award, a Parents’ Choice Award, a Kirkus Star, and 5-star reviews from The Sunday Times, Common Sense Media, Tech with Kids, and more, this is a truly fantastic app – we are incredibly proud of it.
Conceived and created with reading for pleasure at its heart, Jack and the Beanstalk rewards the reader’s success with more story, and encourages repeat play with endless variety. You can play games in different rooms of the giant’s castle, and collect keys to unlock more of the story – and every so often, Jack meets the sleeping giant, and your success (or failure) at collecting his treasure determines the outcome of the whole story.
It’s a brilliant re-telling of the story that contains all the familiar elements that everyone knows and love – along with lots of imaginative new features. We’ve made the app with an emphasis on reading for pleasure that we think will be especially good at encouraging reluctant readers (and reluctant boy readers in particular) who love on-screen gaming to participate in a reading experience.
As with our other fairy tale apps, there’s rich, detailed artwork, animation, original music, sound effects, voice work and interactivity that will keep young children engaged every time they re-visit the app.
You can watch our trailer for the app at the top of this post – and here’s a quick preview:
If you do download Jack and the Beanstalk, we’d be incredibly grateful if you’d consider leaving a review on the App Store – it makes a huge difference!
January 25, 2017
Burns Night: our Scottish authors and illustrators pick their favourite Scottish children’s books
There is a Scottish proverb that goes: ‘A tale never loses in the telling’. At Nosy Crow, we’re always game for a good story, and we all have our well-loved favourites that we re-read over and over again. And in honour of the books that shaped us, and in honour of Robert Burns and Burns Night, we asked a few of our Scottish authors and illustrators to share their OWN favourite Scottish children’s books and Scottish authors and illustrators. Here are their contributions:
DAVID SOLOMONS: Peter Pan
author of My Brother is a Superhero and My Gym Teacher is an Alien Overlord
“For my favourite book by a Scottish children’s author I’m going to go with a story about a boy who can fly. No surprise there. It’s Peter Pan. (Oh no it isn’t!) Panto favourite, Disney classic, and one of the great meditations on childhood (with pirates!).
“Read it as a child and you’re in a world of magic, adventure (and pirates!) – ah, to be the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Reading again in later life, as a grown-up with children of his own, that phrase resonates in a whole different way. There are a couple of different endings that Barrie wrote. Whether it’s Wendy at the window, waiting and wishing for Peter to come back for her; or Peter returning to the nursery to find an aged Wendy whom he can’t take back to Neverland… Oh my.
“Last words to Mr Barrie: ‘Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.'”
Here’s a look inside David’s debut children’s book, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize-winning My Brother is a Superhero:
BARRY HUTCHISON: Captain Firebeard’s School for Pirates
author of the Benjamin Blank series
“As a children’s author working in Scotland, I’ve been lucky enough to meet dozens of great Scottish authors and discover their books. From the dark and gritty thrillers of Cathy MacPhail, to the whimsical, yet often thought-provoking picture books of Debi Gliori, Scottish children’s literature is a rich and broad canvas, where some truly fantastic writers make their marks.
“However, there is one book so good that my seven-year-old daughter refused to leave our Florida hotel to go to Disneyland until she’d finished reading it last year. It was Captain Firebeard’s School for Pirates by Chae Strathie, and both my daughter and I give it a full four-thumbs up between us.”
Here’s a look inside the first book in the Benjamin Blank series, The Shark-Headed Bear Thing:
ROSS COLLINS: Robert Louis Stevenson
author of There’s a Bear on my Chair
“It’s never a good idea to choose your favourite Scottish children’s author. Whoever you pick all the others will be scunnered (good Scottish word) that you didn’t pick them. Chances are they live not too far from me (it’s a small country) so they might let my tyres down or steal my dog while he’s tied up outside the supermarket. Scottish people are like that. I could pick my brother-in-law but then I’d be accused of nepotism and he knows how good he is anyway.
“Safest thing is to pick a dead person. Nobody can object to a lovely dead person – and nobody, not even my brother-in-law, should claim to be a better writer than Robert Louis Stevenson. Some of Stevenson’s lesser read works, ‘Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes’ or ‘A Child’s Garden of Verses’ still hold wee gems of humour and poetic writing. Stevenson’s donkey Modestine is one of my favourite donkeys in literature although to be fair it’s not a long list.
“However you can’t beat two obscure books called ‘Treasure Island’ and ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ – you may have heard of them. There aren’t too many books that are over a century old and still feel as fresh and exciting as these do.
“Stevenson wrote most of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ while feverishly ill in bed. The doctor’s transformation came to him in a nightmare which he called ‘a fine bogey tale’. My illnesses tend to only produce a great deal of phlegm and a Lemsip habit. Either way, this slim tale has been the source of millions of wonderful nightmares ever since. Who can resist the vague fearful descriptions of the mysterious Mr Hyde, half glimpsed down dark cobbled alleyways? Whenever I visit Edinburgh and the haar sets in from the Forth the city transforms once more into Hyde’s hunting ground – if you can ignore the tourists in their puffa jackets.
“‘Treasure Island’ is still just a wonderful adventure with some of the most iconic characters ever created. Long John Silver, Blind Pew and Ben Gunn obsessed me as a child as much as Gunn was obsessed with cheese. I’ve always loved a tale where you find yourself siding with the villain. Sure, you could probably rely on young Jim Hawkins to feed your cats and water your plants while you are on holiday – but who would you rather be marooned on an island with – dull Jim or smiling Silver?
“If you are too wee to read ‘Treasure Island’ yet then get a foot on the rigging with ‘Muppet’s Treasure Island’ – a furry classic:
‘Dead Tom’s dead! They killed Dead Tom!’
‘Dead Tom’s always been dead – that’s why they call him ‘Dead Tom’…'”
Here’s a look inside There’s a Bear on My Chair, recipient of the inaugural Amnesty Greenaway Honour:
PAMELA BUTCHART: the Harry Potter books
author of the Pugly series, the Petunia Perry series, the Wigglesbottom Primary series, and the Baby Aliens series
“I’ve often heard stories of mums and dads sneaking Harry Potter books away from their children so that they can read them (and in one case unwrapping and re-wrapping a Christmas gift!).
“For me, part of the magic of Harry Potter is its potential to reach and be loved by the whole family. Being able to share a book you love with a parent or older sibling (and it be genuinely reciprocated) is a very special thing.
“J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are the only fiction books my husband has enjoyed in twenty years! I hope one day we’ll be lucky enough to have children and I look forward to my husband sharing Harry Potter with our family (costumes not optional).”
Here’s a look inside Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies, the latest book in the award-winning Baby Aliens series:
ALISON MURRAY: Sandra Marrs
author of Fairy Felicity’s Moonlight Adventure and Princess Penelope and the Runaway Kitten
“My pick is for my favourite Scottish illustrator of the moment: Sandra Marrs. Originally from France but now Glasgow based, Sandra is the illustrator part of Graphic Novel creators Metaphrog.
“I loved the Louis books and am especially looking forward to her stunning work in their retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid out this April.
“I think her work is special because it blurs the boundary between what is a picture book and what is a graphic novel.”
Here’s a look inside Fairy Felicity’s Moonlight Adventure – available now in hardback:
KATE WILSON (a.k.a. Birdie Black): Too many to just pick one!
“Well, I am not exactly a proper author/illustrator, and, arguably, having lived in England for 34 years, not exactly a proper Scot, but a list of my favourite children’s books either written or illustrated by Scots would include, from my own childhood, Mollie Hunter’s ‘A Sound of Chariots’ (Lord, I loved that book); Allan Campbell McLean’s ‘The Hill of the Red Fox’; George McDonald’s ‘The Princess and the Goblin’ and, from my children’s childhoods, every single one of the Katie Morag books by Mairi Hedderwick. I claim Kenneth Grahame as a Scottish writer (he lived there until he was five), so ‘The Wind in the Willows’ makes it under the wire.”
Sláinte Mhath! Or in other words: Happy Burns Night, everyone!
We’d love to hear your favourite Scottish children’s books, authors and illustrators – do let us know in the comments below, or on Twitter!
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