Posted by Tom on Feb 01, 2012
Olivia’s First Term by Lyn Gardner has been selected for the Richard and Judy Kids’ Book Club.
The title is Nosy Crow’s first to be included and will be promoted in WH Smith stores across the country. You can read more about the news here, a round-up of reviews for Olivia’s First Term here, the full list of selected titles here, and download our press release here.
Posted by Tom on Jan 31, 2012
Earlier this month, Kate went to Las Vegas to attend CES and collect our KAPi award for Cinderella. There’s a video of her accepting the award, for the Best Children’s Book App or eBook, on YouTube:
Posted by Tom on Jan 30, 2012
Cinderella has received a great review in a USA Today piece, “Five amazing apps for kids”.
Jinny Gudmundsen writes:
“This modern rendition of the classic fairytale demonstrates just how far children’s book apps have evolved […] it is the playfulness within the story that makes it delightful […] Reading this fairytale is a charming experience filled with wonder.”
You can read the full review here.
Posted by Tom on Jan 27, 2012
In a thoughtful and engaging response to James McQuivey’s claim at the Digital Book World conference that “the love affair with apps is officially over”, Sam Missingham (who tweets as @samatlounge), writing for FutureBook, points to Nosy Crow as one of the publishers who are defying this assessment:
“[The] need to be nimble naturally plays into the hands of smaller publishers (like Nosy Crow) who can keep applying the marketing pressure and adjusting their strategy as and when the market shifts.”
Read the full piece here
Posted by Tom on Jan 24, 2012
Our Cinderella app has won a Publishing Innovation Award from Digital Book World.
Cinderella won in the Juvenile App category. You can read the full list of winners here and our blog about it here.
Posted by Tom on Jan 23, 2012
Bookslinks is a brand new project by the organisers of the Pop Up Festival, bringing together schools in Hackney, East London, through books and stories, and our Mega Mash-Up series are among the participating books!
Posted by Tom on Jan 23, 2012
Mega Mash-Up: Romans v Dinosaurs on Mars, the first in the series by Nikalas Catlow and Tim Wesson, has been included in TESCO Kids’ Book Club’s A Year in Books.
Cathy Olmedillas, founder of Anorak Magazine, writes:
“You can tell the authors have had a great time making this book because it is really funny. What I also love about it is that it is interactive so the readers can add their own drawings and finish chapters. They can colour it in if they like, and to me, that’s lovely because it’s not only fun but it also extends the life of the book.”
Posted by Tom on Jan 17, 2012
Kate was in Las Vegas last week, attending CES, collecting our KAPi award from Children’s Technology Review, and speaking at the Kids@Play Summit. The Digital Shift have reported on some of what went on here.
“Wilson says that the process of creating story apps requires more collaboration than that of a “straight ebook.” But no matter the end product, “If children are spending times on screens, than we need to be making reading on screens at least as compelling as other experiences,” she says.”
Posted by Tom on Jan 16, 2012
It’s not out until April, but The Secret Hen House Theatre, by debut novelist Helen Peters, has had its first review.
Writing for Ham & High, Kate Agnew calls the book:
“absolutely delightful … Astonishingly accomplished for a first novel, it is on one level an engaging story about a group of children determinedly staging a play in a disused old henhouse and, on another, a warm-hearted and compassionate account of a family coming to terms with loss. I enjoyed the proof so much that I read it in two sittings”
