Posted by Tom on May 17, 2013
In July we’re publishing Just Right for Two, a beautiful new picture book written by Tracey Corderoy and illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw.
It’s an absolutely wonderful story – practically guaranteed to bring a tear to your eye – about the importance of friendship and the value of sharing, with a perfectly formed text and stunning illustrations. And you can see Tracey introduce the book, and discuss its inspiration, in the video above.
Here’s a look inside Just Right for Two:
And you can pre-order the hardback edition
here (the book will be available in paperback in 2014).
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Posted by Kate on May 16, 2013
Our lovely author, Paula Harrison, who’s done many events for children, and has been interviewed by her local press, had her first radio interview today, talking about her debut series, Rescue Princesses and her new series, Faerie Tribes.
You’ll be able to hear it for the next week, I think.
In may own experience, radio interviewing is a pretty nerve-wracking experience (though not as ghastly as TV), but Paula speaks with such aplomb on the BBC Three Counties radio show (you can find it here, 37 minutes and 12 seconds in, that it made us feel as impressed as we felt proud.
We think Paula’s is a really inspiring story for any aspiring author: she sent in the manuscript for her first Rescue Princess book to Nosy Crow completely speculatively. Adrian read it first, and then Kirsty, Camilla and I read it and felt that the combination of feisty princesses, friendship, magic jewels, ninja moves and animals in need of rescuing was a winner. We’ve sold US and Hebrew rights so far, and the books are available, as they say, in all good bookshops here and in Australia and New Zealand.
Paula followed up Rescue Princesses (we’re still publishing the series) with Faerie Tribes, which is just out, and aimed at older readers. You can read the first chapter of the first book, The Crystal Mirror, here.
Posted by Kate on May 16, 2013
Nosy Crow’s first new baby has arrived!
This morning, Giselle has given birth to an 8lb baby girl, sister to Samuel, delivered by dad, David, at home as they waited for the ambulance.
Everyone’s fine – including the baby, as you can see from photo above.
We’re pretty pleased and excited.
Many of us at Nosy Crow are parents, and our experience as parents undoubtedly influences our child-centric approach to publishing. We wrote about it here (I won the overall Inspirational Business Mum of the Year award, by the way, if you’re interested) and we refer to it in blogs like this one about packaging books for girl readers. We also try to enable people with children to work in ways that work for them – we wrote about it here.
Anyway, we couldn’t be happier for Giselle.
