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December 5, 2016
Goldilocks and Little Bear has won the FutureBook Award for Children’s Digital Book of the Year!
The Bookseller’s FutureBook conference and awards took place on Friday, and we’re incredibly pleased and proud that our Goldilocks and Little Bear app won the award for Children’s Digital Book of the Year!
Goldilocks and Little Bear was part of an incredibly strong shortlist (including Harry Potter Enhanced Editions and Pottermore Presents, both from Pottermore) and it is an enormous privilege to have the app recognised in this way. And we’re also very proud to have won this FutureBook award for a fifth year running: last year, our Snow White app won the prize; in 2014, it was awarded to Jack and the Beanstalk; in 2013, to our Rounds: Parker Penguin app; and in 2012, Cinderella won the award.
Our Goldilocks app features a unique, interactive new form of storytelling: you can rotate your device at any point and experience the dual stories of Goldilocks and Little Bear. It’s the classic story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears – as you’ve never seen it before! While Goldilocks is in the bears’ home, eating their porridge, sitting in their chairs, and sleeping in their beds, Little Bear is in Goldilocks’s family’s home – eating their pancakes, wearing their clothes, and reading their books. You can enjoy each story in parallel, individually, or however you’d like – you can toggle between the two narratives at any point.
If you’ve not yet discovered Goldilocks and Little Bear, you can watch our stop-motion animation trailer below – here’s a quick look at the app:
You can download Goldilocks and Little Bear from the App Store here – and if you’d like to stay up to date with all of our app news, you can sign up to our apps newsletter at this page, or with the form below.
You can read more about the awards, and a full list of the winners, here. Thank you to FutureBook for this incredible honour!
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December 2, 2016
A Hubble Bubble bundle!
Last week we launched our first book bundles, for the Zoe’s Rescue Zoo and Rescue Princesses series – and today we’re very pleased to share another fantastic book pack at the Nosy Crow shop: a Hubble Bubble fiction bundle, featuring the first five books in the amazing Hubble Bubble illustrated fiction series, written by Tracey Corderoy and illustrated by Joe Berger.
Featuring three fabulously funny stories in each book, and glorious two-colour illustrations, this series is ideal for newly independent readers (and particularly for fans of the Hubble Bubble picture books!), and makes for bewitching bite-size bedtime reading. And you can get all five books at an unbeatable price – more than 30% off!
The pack contains:
The Super-Spooky Fright Night!
You can buy the Hubble Bubble bundle here.
And if you’re new to the series, you can take a look inside the first Hubble Bubble illustrated fiction book, The Glorious Granny Bake-Off, below:
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December 1, 2016
Take a look inside The Jamie Drake Equation – the new book from Christopher Edge
Next March 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, for the first time, you can read an early preview of The Jamie Drake Equation: we’re sharing the first two chapters of the book.
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 observation lab 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 very first look inside the book:
The Jamie Drake Equation will be in shops in January – if you’d like to stay up to date with all of our book news, you can sign up to our newsletter at this page, or with the form below.
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November 30, 2016
Come to the next Nosy Crow Reading Group – we’re discussing re-imagined classics
Would you like to come along to the next Nosy Crow Reading Group?
After a Christmas break, the Nosy Crow Reading Group will be back in January to discuss two re-imagined classics – The Best Bear in All the World, by Kate Saunders, Brian Sibley, Paul Bright, and Jeanne Willis, and Mary Poppins: Up, up and Away, by Helene Druvert.
We’ll be meeting on Wednesday, January 18th at 6.30pm, here at the Nosy Crow offices – 10a Lant Street, London, SE1 1QR – for a discussion of the books (along with wine and crisps). If you’d like to come along, just register for a place with the form below, or at this page.
You can order The Best Bear in All the World online here and Mary Poppins: Up, up and away online here.
If the book group is full, you can add your name to the waiting list and we’ll let you know if a place opens up. We’ll post some discussion points for the book a little closer to the date – we hope you can join us!
November 29, 2016
Dr Pamela and the Wonderfully Weird World of Children’s Books!
Today’s blog post is by Pamela Butchart, award-winning author of the Baby Aliens series, the Pugly series, the Wigglesbottom Primary series, and Petunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon.
When my journey as a children’s author began I had a sneaking suspicion that life as I knew it was about to get even more BIZARRE!
I wasn’t wrong!
A lot of exciting (and slightly bonkers!) things have happened over the past couple of years…
I officially opened a Reading Igloo (made entirely from recycled milk cartons!):
Book research led me to attend my first ever Pug Party:
I dedicated ‘Pugly Bakes a Cake’ to 17 pugs (who were then the VIP guests at the book launch):
I wrote a shakespeare book called ‘To Wee or Not to Wee!’:
I was given a BLUE PETER BADGE (and was on TV!!):
I dressed up as a pimento-stuffed olive on World Book Day:
I even did the first ever wedding day book shop signing (our wedding day coincided with publication day):
However, something happened a couple of weeks ago that TRUELY takes the crisp!
The University of Dundee decided to award me an HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREE!!
Here’s me BARELY able to contain my excitement, looking over at my husband and family as I become ‘Dr Pamela’!
My mum was chuffed when the uni sent a car to collect us on the Big Day. On the way there she told me that she thought this graduation was even better than my first one (awww).
When I asked her why she said it was because she didn’t have to pay for this one!!
It was great having a Stage Seat! GOOD POINTS included getting to watch the faces of all the excited graduates come up on stage to collect their degrees (one of them was an ex-pupil!).
NOT-SO-GOOD POINTS (1) dropping my doctorate hood in the middle of the ‘Serious and Quiet Bit’ when we were all standing up (of course) and (2) clapping so much I sort of forgot how to use my hands (which must’ve looked a bit weird).
And then I had to give a SPEECH.
It’s all a bit of a blur. I’m told I mentioned Kanye West (twice), the X Factor and chips and cheese. (Don’t worry – there was some serious and hopefully inspiring stuff in there too!).
The rest of ceremony was FULL of surprises! Including the wonderful (and HILARIOUS!) Dean of Education’s speech which included him reading out ‘Rate My Teacher’ reviews he’d found about me online!!
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(Tim is awesome! I’m so pleased that the person who leads some of our future teachers is someone who is down-to-earth, kind and full of FUN!)
On stage surprises continued as the Chancellor, Lord Patel, randomly whipped out a copy of my book, ‘To Wee or Not to Wee!’ and asked me to do a surprise reading of my retelling of Macbeth to the hall full of new graduates!
The reading went down well (phew!). The crowd seemed to like the bit where Lady Macbeth (Bethy) is RAGING because she has to go to the shops and do a buffet at the last minute when Macbeth tells her the King’s invited himself over for a party.
I decided to forgive the lovely Lord Patel and sign his copy of the book in the fancy Robing Room after the ceremony.
It was an honour to meet Lord PateI. He’s probably one of the most inspiring people I’ve ever met.
Plus I LOVE his party trick! (He has an uncanny ability to remember if he was at someone’s birth during his 30 years as Head Obstetrician at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.
Lord Patel also became my Mum and Gran’s BFF for the day (and I think my gran might have even asked him for a date!).
Backstage, EVERYONE was talking about my mum’s fascinator since they’d all seen my Tweet about how she’d run off to buy one as soon as she’d heard the doctor-y news! (Bless her.) It really was a beautiful piece of headwear and everyone was suitably impressed!
For me, a personal highlight was being the first ever person to sign the Honorary Graduate Roll with an orange Sharpie. (The Queen Mother used a normal pen when she was the first person to sign it in 1967 – I checked).
My mum got so excited she even went home and did a costume change before the evening reception!
Pamela Lawrence, from the Alumni team, took excellent care of me all day! We had loads of fun visiting a creative writing class on campus where we had to make up stories on the spot (my husband absolutely stole the show with his random monologue of a disgruntled florist!)
And although I’m yet to find my Crisp Twin, my dad DID keep mistaking ‘The Other Pamela’ for me all day!
I had a FANTASTIC day! Principal Pete Downs, and all the university staff were absolutely outstanding (and SO much fun!).
A huge thank to the the University of Dundee for awarding me this honour. And for all you did for my family and friends on the day.
You guys ROCK!
Love & pugs
Dr Pamela x
Thank you, Pamela! You can read the opening chapters of Baby Aliens Got My Teacher, the first book in the Baby Aliens series, below:
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November 28, 2016
Nosy Crow to sponsor the UKLA Literacy School of the Year Award
We are very happy to share that Nosy Crow will be the new sponsor of the UKLA Literacy School of the Year Award.
The UKLA Literacy School of the Year Roll of Honour celebrates schools providing rich, exciting, innovative curriculums in English whilst achieving good outcomes for their pupils. From a number of strong submissions for the UKLA Literacy School of the Year 2017, four are selected for the Roll of Honour 2017.
The schools are:
Altmore Infant School and Children’s Centre, East Ham, London
Hill Mead Primary, Brixton, London
Horfield Church of England Primary School, Bristol
Woodside Primary School, Aberdeen
The winning school will be announced on July 1st at the UKLA International Conference, at the University of Strathclyde.
UKLA President Andrew Lambeth said: “This award has become an aspirational and recognised kite mark for schools of excellence in literacy.”
Kate Wilson, Managing Director, Nosy Crow, said: “We are delighted to be working alongside the UKLA to sponsor the UKLA Literacy School of the Year 2017. Every year, at the UKLA International Conference, we are delighted by the level of enthusiasm for children’s literature and literacy. As a publisher of both books and apps, it’s a pleasure to know that what we create with our authors and illustrators is in such skilled hands and that, as a result, children are getting the very best out of them in the classroom. Of course, as well as their enthusiasm for literature and literacy we also have to mention the profound understanding and knowledge of both topics exhibited by UKLA members – topics we at Nosy Crow feel are profoundly important to children both in and outside the classroom, during their school years and far beyond.”
November 25, 2016
A Rescue Princesses bundle!
Earlier this week we launched our first book bundle, featuring the first ten books in the fantastic Zoe’s Rescue Zoo series.
And today we’re very pleased to share another fantastic book pack at the Nosy Crow shop – a Rescue Princesses bundle, featuring the first ten books in the amazing Rescue Princesses series, written by Paula Harrison.
Like Zoe’s Rescue Zoo, this series is a GREAT introduction to chapter fiction for 5 – 7 year olds – featuring a winning combination of plucky princesses, animals in danger and magic jewels. And you can get the first ten books at an unbeatable price – 40% off!
The Rescue Princesses bundle includes:
You can buy the Rescue Princesses bundle here.
And if you’re new to the series, here’s a look inside the first Rescue Princesses book – The Secret Promise:
If you’d like to stay up to date with all of our book news, and find out more about new book bundles, you can sign up to our books newsletter at this page, or with the form below.
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November 24, 2016
Take a look inside The Secret Rescuers: The Star Wolf
Next January we’re publishing the next book in the fantastic Secret Rescuers series, written by Paula Harrison and illustrated by Sophy Williams – The Secret Rescuers: The Star Wolf. And today you can read the opening chapter of the new book!
Set in a fantasy world populated by dragons, unicorns, and firebirds, this superbly-realised series for 7+ year olds is packed with magical adventures and baby creatures in peril.
In a magical kingdom far, far away it’s up to a small group of secret rescuers to keep magical creatures safe from the grasp of the evil Sir Fitzroy and to keep passing on the secret challenge to new girls.
The beautiful forest that Emma lives in is home to the star wolves. Each evening, the wolves’ magical song makes the stars appear in the sky. One autumn day, Emma rescues a star wolf pup from a trap. She begins a search for the little pup’s family. But mean Lord Hector is trying to catch all the star wolves – he hates magical creatures and has a horrible potion to prevent the star wolves from singing. Can Emma rescue the star wolf pack from Lord Hector before the stars stop shining at night?
Here’s a very first look inside The Star Wolf:
The Star Wolf will be in shops in January – if you want to stay up to date with all of our book news, you can sign up to our newsletter at this page, or with the form below.
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November 23, 2016
Nosy Crow and Skylark Literary Agency sign exciting new middle-grade fiction deal
Nosy Crow fought off fierce competition to buy world rights in a funny middle-grade series from Skylark Literary Agency. The deal for TOADSPIT TOWERS! by Em Lynas was appropriately sealed on Halloween. Daisy Wart refuses to believe she’s a witch and is furious at being sent to witch school. While constantly trying to run away, she becomes involved in all sorts of magical mayhem…
Kirsty Stansfield, Head of Fiction at Nosy Crow, says, “Aside from the strength of Em’s writing, the thing we all immediately fell for was the voice. Daisy is a great character, and her adventures learning to be the witch she knows she really absolutely isn’t are a joy.”
Em Lynas says, “I never dreamed that one day I’d have to choose between publishers but Nosy Crow bewitched me with their incantations of enthusiasm, their spells of imagination, and their tasty witchy cupcakes. I’m absolutely thrilled to be working with them!”
Amber Caravéo, Skylark Literary, says, “I’m delighted that Nosy Crow will be publishing Em’s marvellously magical witchy series. Em is such a talented author and her funny, feisty heroine won a lot of hearts, but the Nosy Crow team really impressed us with their passion and creativity.”
Catherine Stokes, Head of Sales and Marketing at Nosy Crow, says, “We already have a large and spell-binding marketing campaign planned out for this exciting new series. Em’s writing had us enthralled (and full of promotional ideas) from the very first page.”
November 22, 2016
A Zoe’s Rescue Zoo bundle!
Today we’re launching the first of several new book bundles from the Nosy Crow shop – collections of books at unbeatably good prices! Our first book bundle is a Zoe’s Rescue Zoo pack – featuring the first ten books in the fantastic Zoe’s Rescue Zoo series, written by Amelia Cobb and illustrated by Sophy Williams.
These are a GREAT introduction to chapter books for 5-7 year olds – brilliantly-written series fiction with a fantastic premise.
When Great-Uncle Horace brings back lost and homeless animals from his travels around the globe, it falls to Zoe and her mum, the zoo’s vet, to settle them into their new home. And Zoe also has an amazing secret… She can actually TALK to the animals!
The pack contains:
You can buy the Zoe’s Rescue Zoo bundle here.
And if you’re new to Zoe’s Rescue Zoo, here’s a look inside the first book in the series, The Lonely Lion Cub:
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