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Then another feline is up for grabs for the totz in your life. Pookie Pop Plays Hide-and-Seek is illustrated by Jannie Ho. Too cute, right?
Watch for these felines, readergirlz!
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Candlewick Press, Feb. 24, 2015
illustrated by Jannie Ho
Nosy Crow, Feb. 24, 2015
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My First Post for an Awfully Big Blog Adventure
Hello! I can’t quite believe this is happening. It seems only yesterday when I was on an Arvon ‘Writing for Children’ course with Linda Strachan and Cathy MacPhail, but in fact it was back in 2010 - four and a half years ago.
Linda and Cathy can be seen discussing it here:
I was on that week. It was wonderful. It was great to learn from Linda and Cathy, and to hear the work of the other writers and to write some things myself. I knew already that I loved children’s books - I had an M.A. in Children’s Literature, had been a bookseller, and had four children of my own ranging from 13 to 10. However, the love I felt for children’s books, combined with the awe I felt for those who wrote them, meant that I hadn’t dared to think I could write any of my own stuff. It was ‘having a go’ that week, and the encouragement and detailed feedback Linda and Cathy gave us all, that gave me confidence. I felt at home in that world, where it was normal to discuss pirates and monsters, for example, and see events through children’s eyes! I remember Linda talking about the Scattered Authors’ Society and am so amazed and happy that I am a member now myself.
There were many wonderful writers on that week, and on another subsequent week run the next year by Joyce and Polly Dunbar at Lumb Bank. I hope that all of us get published eventually. My own breakthrough came in 2013, when Nosy Crow Publishers accepted my picture book text, which is now ‘The Fairiest Fairy’, due to be published in June this year.
2013 is also the year when my lovely agent, Anne Clark , took me on. This transformed my life! It led to my novel ‘Girl with a White Dog’ being published by Catnip in March 2014, and me writing ‘Lucy’s Secret Reindeer’ for O.U.P. , published in October 2014. Now, in 2015, ‘Dog Ears’ will be published in April for Catnip, ‘The Fairiest Fairy’ (Nosy Crow) in June, and ‘Lucy’s Magic Snowglobe’ (O.U.P.) probably in October. There should be another Nosy Crow picture book for Christmas too, but perhaps that’s for 2016.
Next month I will be 50! This time last year I had no books published, and suddenly, by the end of this year I will have had 5, maybe 6! It feels like when you are waiting at a bus stop for ages, (in my case = years!) and then suddenly all the buses come at once!
So my message to anyone out there reading this, who loves reading children’s books so much that they do not not feel worthy to write them is - go on - have a go. It’s never too late. Sign up for a course with people as inspiring, encouraging and enthusiastic as Linda and Cathy, Joyce or Polly. Follow writers and illustrators and agents and publishers you like on Twitter - I have had such lovely conversations with fellow enthusiasts - and found out about so many wonderful children’s books there. It was because of Twitter that, without an agent at that time, I submitted to the new publisher Nosy Crow in the first place. It is because of Twitter that I learnt that a new agent, Anne Clark, was looking for clients. There are THOUSANDS of amazing children’s books out there waiting to be discovered on all sorts of subjects, by all sorts of authors, for all different age groups, but there’s always room for more! There’s a world of loveliness to enjoy as a reader AND as a writer, and if you’d like to combine the two - GO FOR IT! It’s the best job in the world!
And if you are an experienced writer like Linda or Cathy, please think about being a tutor. That course changed my life.
Anne Booth www.bridgeanneartandwriting.wordpress.com @Bridgeanne on twitter
Literary Agent Gemma's best picks ... and a BONUS! Nosy Crow publisher Kate Wilson tells us what she's looking for
Gemma Cooper is a children’s literary agent with The Bent Agency, representing authors here in the UK and in the US. More information about her and how to submit
I’ve read some truly spectacular novels in 2012 and I would love to find some similar manuscripts in my New Year
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious does not even begin to describe the week I’ve been having! I know, I know, why should YOU care? Frankly, I don’t know. The fact that anyone other than my mother reads this blog blows my mind.
First, on Friday, my agent said she loves the 900-word picture book I just wrote. Who knew that many words was possible? I tend to stick to the 500-is-best rule, but this story was too ambitious to fit in such a tiny space. So it’s busting out into the world and I hope it writes home soon. Au revoir, dahlink!
Next, I spoke at the RUCCL One-on-One Plus conference. And people thanked me for my speech! To know that I helped a few mentees feel less nervous that day—whoa! Mission accomplished.
And now, I have an announcement!
Drum roll please….
Oh, you’re an animal, Animal!
I have an illustrator for I THOUGHT THIS WAS A BEAR BOOK (Aladdin/S&S, 2014)!
And he is full of awesome sauce! (Although he’s from the UK, so that might be called “admirable gravy” across the pond, I dunno.)
Without further ado (and I do a lot of ado), it’s…
(No, that’s not Benji in the picture. Although I think that may be me on a non-showering day.)
Benji is the admirable gravy behind such books as DINO PARADE and HODGE THE HEDGEHOG (which I mistakenly thought was about John Hodgeman), plus the delightful interactive book app series from Nosy Crow, BIZZY BEAR.
So can you tell I’m absolutely tickled to have him working on my book?
This is one of the most exciting parts of being a picture book author—finding out who your illustrator will be and falling in book love. (Not to be confused with marriage love, as I am already taken by a dashing computer geek. And yes, you can use the words “dashing” and “computer geek” in the same sentence. Although to the computer geek, it may have a programming connotation.)
So check out Benji’s work, congratulate him, and also give him fair warning that he’s working with an absolute nut. He may require counseling after the book launch.
After all, I called him “admirable gravy”!
The Cinderella App by Nosy Crow is one of finest, funnest, lushest things on our family iPad these days.
It's a really charming retelling of a classic, with a clear story and just enough interactive elements to make for fine replay.
I love Ed Bryan's illustrative style - the images glow in a way a fairy tale should, not garish but magical.
Enjoy the short making-of video featuring Ed below. Then pick it up in the
app store - it's on sale for the jubilee this week (normally it's a few dollars more).
by Maureen Lynas
Hi Maureen, thanks for having me on Notes from the Slushpile. I’m very excited to be here!
Welcome to Paula Harrison, our latest debut author, who has not one, not two, not three, not four but FIVE books coming out this year. The Rescue Princess series is a great concept with lively characters and I'm desperate to emulate her amazing success. So I jumped at the chance to be
Managing Director of Nosy Crow, Kate has 25 years’ publishing experience. She started her career as a rights seller, before becoming MD of Macmillan Children’s Books, Group MD of Scholastic UK Ltd, and then (briefly!) CEO of Headline. She cares about good books, design, literacy and technology.Since starting Nosy Crow, she likes waking up in the morning.In September 2011, she won the title of
Children's publisher Nosy Crow has been shortlisted for the best start-up business in the Mumpreneur awards.
The awards celebrate the best parent-run businesses. Managing director Kate Wilson said: "I am really proud that Nosy Crow is on this particular shortlist. It is a terrific acknowledgement of the speed with which Nosy Crow has come into being from a standing start."
The awards will be announced at a ceremony on 25th September.
By Addy Farmer
Kate Wilson, founder and MD of Nosy Crow, landed at the Lincoln Book Festival on Saturday 14th May.
Refusing all offers of food and rest, Kate flew up the stairs and perched on her seat to talk about what Nosy Crow was all about.
Enough with the bird analogies and down to the Nosy Crow business and Kate's passion for children's stories. A Scot with a peculiar accent and a mean
Kate Wilson publisher for NOSY CROW and I had a terrific interview & afternoon tea in Allen & Unwin’s Sydney offices
Loved the afternoon tea Anzac biscuits.
Loved the booky and apps conversation and Kate persuaded me to twitter.
That’s funny – a CROW teaching me to twittering. Thankyou Kate! Love twittering!
So who’s NOSY CROW?
It’s a new independent company creating and publishing children’s books and apps- for kids aged up to 14. There’s the young adult book ‘Small Blue Thing’ by S C Ransom – the start of series. Beautiful cover that sparkles and I’m reading it now. Check out the digital support.
I’m writing an article for READING TIME on NOSY CROW – it’s exciting that publishing is moving into interactivity – with traditional feely touchy books like:-
NOODLE Loves to Cuddle – I opened flaps and patted the duck
PIP and POSY by Axel Scheffler – love the feel and colour of this picture book
to
Apps where the Three Pigs speak in German, French and English and you can play around- loved it!
Books are changing and Kate Wilson and NOSY CROW are embracing it, offering new opportunities for creators and readers.
Website: www.nosycrow.com
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I know a certain SCBWI_BI critique group (come on, Picture Book Too!) who will be very excited to learn that Nosy Crow is looking for new picture book texts!<br />Two very interesting wish-lists - thanks.
Wow, what a fabulous double-helping! Thanks Gemma and Kate.
Kate's contribution reminded me of a constant water cooler discussion we used to have back when I was a journalist. Are we simply FOLLOWING the twists and turns of the news with our coverage? Or are we LEADING it by seeking opportunities, plugging gaps in reporting, venturing where it hasn't occurred to other news organizations to go? <br /><br />Thanks to Gemma and Kate - lots of food
Would it be ridiculous to send Kate something today? So close to Christmas? But if I wait then it won't be in her stocking. Hm.<br />Thanks to both Kate and Gemma. And the request for a mystery is there again - there's even a SCBWI Bulletin article on the subject http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Past-Issues in the Nov/Dec issue
Thanks for a great post. I'm really interested in the kinds of picture books that Kate's looking for. And it was good to have mention of The Secret Hen House Theatre, which my nine-year-old and I finished reading last Sunday (and she had to take over at the points where I was crying too much to read). She absolutely loved it and is writing a review of it this weekend. And my six year old
What's just given me food for thought is a Christmas book request from a teen ('not one of those teen books that's all about romance'), SO I wondered if NFTS could do a 'What The Readers Want' on *next year's seasonal post list? <br /><br />*Assuming the Mayans were wrong.
Three books sent. Kissy Wissy, There's No Such Thing as a Monster and Wolf! Merry Christmas to all at Nosy Crow.
Doesn't Gemma say it all when she says: 'A character that springs to life on page one'.
Gemma - your choices are all fictiony ... no picture books then? if so, can you tell us why?
The Secret Hen House Theatre is all those wonderful classics we read as children (Little Women, The Secret Garden) all rolled into a modern tale. Love it.
Aw, thank you so much, Clare and Candy. So glad your daughter enjoyed it, Clare - and please thank her in advance for the review!<br /><br />This series of posts has been great - so interesting and inspiring to discover what editors and agents are looking for and how passionate they all are about finding books they can fall in love with.
Of course, David. I love picture books, but am taking a little break from representing them at the moment, so didn't want to confuse people! Favourites this year are My Grandpa by Marta Altes, Red Cat Blue Cat by Jenni Desmond, Oliver by Birgitta Sif and Croc and Bird by Alexis Deacon. All wonderful stories with beautiful illustrations.
Check out today's Nosy Crow Blog too, more wishlists!
Oops, meant to add the link http://nosycrow.com/blog/what-do-you-want-in-2013
I agree with Gemma. Maggot Moon is my tip for next years Carnegie. Totaaly amazing. Really hope to find the time to read it again over the holidays.