Articles tagged with: crows
Posted by Kate on Apr 30, 2011
I’m leaving today for an action-packed trip to Australia.
The main purpose of the trip is to meet the sales and marketing teams at Allen and Unwin and present our books to them. The cockatoo in the picture above is part of their logo. The bird looks to me a lot like a sulphur-crested cockatoo – but correct me if I’m wrong, as I am not an expert in the family Cacatuidae. It’s found in wooded habitats in Australia and New Guinea, an is a very intelligent bird with a distinctive raucous call. On an ornithological basis alone, Allen and Unwin would, therefore be compatible with Nosy Crow. Their Sydney office is in a part of the city called Crow’s Nest; they are independent, friendly, and committed to publishing great books; and they like cake. Sometimes I think this partnership was written in the stars.
I would very much recommend their blog, The Alien Onion, and they have up, at the moment, a very nice blog post about princess books inspired by the Royal Wedding (about which we blogged too).
Anyway, they start selling Nosy Crow’s books next month – by which I mean May, and I am going there to present Nosy Crow’s autumn 2011 titles and to talk about how our titles for 2012 are shaping up. I’m also meeting several customers and doing a number of interviews.
So, unflattering flight-socks at the ready, off I go, so wish me luck!
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Posted by Kate on Feb 14, 2011
Author/illustrator Leigh Hodgkinson, whose picture book, Goldilocks and Just the One Bear, will be published by Nosy Crow in 2012, sent us this hearty crow, and we thought that we’d share it with you.
We are proud, too, to have found a suitably romantic “bird brain quote of the day” on our home page.
So Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Posted by Imogen on Jun 30, 2010
Now, Kirsty could never be described as a lover of football but she does like a bit of the World Cup. There’s something strangely comforting about it, the global village and all that, the unifying power of competitive sport… Or maybe she’s been drinking too much Coca-Cola. Anyway, it’s been an enjoyable experience, the bits she’s seen, and she’s even starting to like that weird buzzy noise.
Crows probably aren’t very good at football, their legs are too spindly. But expectations in the Nest are high, very high. We want the best fiction, the best illustrations, the best the best the best. And, unlike a certain team, we promise to deliver. So if you’ve got a brilliant novel for 8-12 year olds, let us take it under our wing. The Crow shoots, the Crow scores!
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Posted by Kate on Mar 12, 2010
We’ve received two illustrations to mark the launch of Nosy Crow. The first we received was this one, from one of our favourite illustrators, Axel Scheffler.
Thanks to those of you who suggested favourite illustrators in public comments to the web, and to those of you who wrote in directly, after yesterday’s House of Illustration post.
We said we’d do a Who’s your favourite children’s book illustrator survey, so click on the link to let us know what you think. The illustrators listed are all ones that appeared in the original post, or that you’ve suggested to us subsequently. Of course, we think all the illustrators we’re working with are great, but we felt that it wouldn’t be entirely democratic if our own choices were over-represented. We’ll tell you who your top five are next week.
Kate went to the hilariously-named Society of Bookmen dinner last night with that nice Carly Cook from Headline. The debate was, “We (or this house, or something formal like that) believe that celebrity publishing is good for the booktrade.” Carly knows her celebrity onions and no mistake. It’s a funny old society, and Kate was told that she can’t tell you the result of the debate, or she’ll have to kill you. She thought that the speakers – Mark Booth for and Liz Thompson against – seemed to hold views that were pretty similar, actually … but, of course, she’s bound by the rules of the society to conceal from you exactly what those views were. In fact, what with the secrecy thing, it all turns out to be less good post-fodder than she’d hoped …!
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