Nosy Crow partners with Radley to create the company’s first book

We’re very pleased to announce that Nosy Crow has worked alongside Radley to create Radley’s Twelve Days of Christmas – a picture book featuring Radley, the loveable Scottie dog long-associated with the brand, and illustrated by Steven Lenton.

Radley’s Twelve Days of Christmas takes the reader on a story through the well-loved Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas, and its collaborative origins mirror the creation of The Snowman’s Journey – the picture book created by Nosy Crow from last year’s John Lewis Christmas advert, The Journey. The book is available exclusively in Radley stores and online at www.radley.co.uk with £2 from each book sold being donated to Kids Company, the charity founded by Camilla Batmanghelidjh to provide practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children.

Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder and Chief Executive of Kids Company, said: “I am extremely touched that the team at Radley has created such a beautiful book to help support our children. Sadly, for many children Christmas is not a time of joy but one of fear and loneliness. Every year at Kids Company we hold a party for over 4000 exceptionally vulnerable young people, providing them with a gift, a hot meal and the chance to have some festive fun. By buying this book you are giving the gift of a Christmas to remember to children who deserve to know we care.”

Xavier Simonet, CEO at Radley, comments: “We are delighted to announce the launch of our first ever book published in partnership with Nosy Crow, and are proud to be once again supporting the inspirational charity, Kids Company”

Kate says: “It’s been a real pleasure to work with Radley, taking them through the various stages of making a book for the first time. Radley contacted us because they’d heard about The Snowman’s Journey, the book we devised and published based on the 2012 John Lewis Christmas advertisement, and the idea of a contemporary twist on The Twelve Days of Christmas came to me in the course of our first telephone conversation. But it took Nosy Crow’s editorial director, Camilla Reid and head of design, Stephanie Amster, to give it proper shape. For the final illustrations, we were very happy to be able to commission dynamic new illustrator, Steven Lenton, whose first picture book, Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam, we published earlier this year, on the basis of his combination of wit, charm and sophistication, and his love of dogs!”

Radley’s The Twelve Days of Christmas is on sale now in Radley stores or from www.radley.co.uk. You can watch a trailer for the book at the top of this post – and here’s the full cover and an “outtake” video: