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Posted by Kate on Mar 04, 2011
World Book Day was the big books-and-reading news of yesterday, but it was also the publication day for the first two books in our Bizzy Bear series by Benji Davies, Bizzy Bear: Fun on the Farm and Bizzy Bear: Let’s Go and Play.
In celebration, Benji drew us the very fine crow:
We’ve got very cheering videos of a pair of two year-olds reading each of the books in the “extras” tab for each book.
These books have simple rhyming texts and really sturdy mechanisms and are really great for children from 18 months to 3.
We’ve got some to send to reviewers and bloggers. So, if toddler books float your boat, let us know: contact us on hello@nosycrow.com with the subject line, Reviewing Bizzy Bear.
And if you are in East London today (4 March), you could come to our Bizzy Bear event at 11.30am for 45 minutes of songs, stories and colouring at the Discover Centre’s Big Write festival, where we’re doing other events, too:
Nikalas and Tim will be doing a Mega Mash-up event at 3.30pm to 4.15pm on Sunday 6 March.
I will be doing an event with Neal Hoskins of Winged Chariot about apps at 6.30pm to 8.00pm on Thursday 10 March.
And Axel Scheffler is doing a Pip and Posy event at 1.00pm to 1.45pm on Saturday 12 March.
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Posted by Kate on Mar 02, 2011
March 3 is World Book Day!
For those who don’t know, World Book Day is run as a charity by the UK book industry to celebrate reading and to increase children’s access to books. It’s celebrated throughout the UK and Ireland, particularly by children (though, this year, there’s World Book Night for grown-ups).
At Nosy Crow we’re big supporters of World Book Day – I’m on the World Book Day Executive Committee. This year we are celebrating digital storytelling too. For 24 hours, beginning at midnight tonight and ending at midnight 3 March, our Three Little Pigs app for iPad will be available for £1.19 ($1.99 in the US and 1.59 Euros). The app’s normal price is £4.99 ($7.99 in the US and 5.99 Euros).
The app has received the most extraordinary reviews. Just this afternoon, The Times’ School Gate blog (@schoolgate on Twitter) called The Three Little Pigs “fresh and new. . . our favourite app of all” in their round up of Top Children’s iPad apps. You can read the full review here.
Many others agree:
TeachersWithApps.com
iLounge
The Literary Platform
FUTUReBOOK
Every year on World Book Day children dress up as their favourite character. Here in the office we are proud parents to children going to school tomorrow as Ruby the Red Fairy, the witch from Axel Scheffler’s Room on the Broom, Pippi Longstocking, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz... and, in a tribute to the BBC adaptation: Miss Flyte from Bleak House, (complete with clip-on birds.) Children are given £1 vouchers to take to bookshops to exchange for books, and there’s a range of special World Book Day £1 books to ensure that no-one’s left out. The brilliant Philip Reeve is even coming into my children’s school to talk about books, writing and reading.
Oh, and The Guardian’s chosen World Book Day 2011 to launch a website for children’s books.
Happy World Book Day!
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Posted by Kate on Dec 15, 2010
Yesterday, Kate met up with Neal Hoskins (pictured) of Winged Chariot in the Crow’s Nest to talk about the opportunities for collaboration amongst apps publishers, and, specifically, children’s apps publishers. For all of us involved in apps publishing, the challenge is how people – parents in our case – find good apps among the ever-growing sea of apps on the store.
They also talked about the Bologna Tools of Change Conference 2011, which Neal is heavily involved in, and at which Kate will be a keynote speaker.
Then Kate and Imogen left for the Bounce! Marketing sales conference for April to August titles in Islington, wrapping fizzy wine in the back of the car to give to the Bounce! reps so they could drink to Nosy Crow’s first book (Small Blue Thing) being published on 13 January 2011. Kate presented to an enthusiastic audience of 18, and it was great to see how many of the reps had already read many of the titles: Bizzy Bear and Pip and Posy were being enthusiastically read by one sales manager’s two year-old. The six year-old “reluctant artist” son of one of the reps had loved completing his first Mega Mash-up book. And one of the reps told everyone how much she’d LOVED Olivia’s First Term.
After a meeting at the Publisher’s Association about World Book Day 2012 (which’ll be the subject of another post), Kate met up with Imogen and Kirsty at Bounce!‘s Christmas Party, and Kirsty and Kate had to be asked to leave as the pub was closing. A fine time was had by all.
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Posted by Kate on Mar 04, 2010
World Book Day has – somehow, quickly – rolled round again. Having been very closely involved with World Book Day for years, Kate feels a bit sad that this time she’s managed to miss all the build up to it, after a year spent in adult publishing and then setting up Nosy Crow. Nosy Crow looks forward to being properly involved as a publisher next year, though, by which time we’ll have some books out.
As a parent, though, Kate has been involved, and this morning had all the tears, chaos and ultimate cheeriness of every previous World Book Day morning, as last-minute costume requirements emerged before Zaphod Beeblebrox (pictured, believe it or not) and Pippi Longstocking could be sent to school. There was particular hysteria when the full incompatibility of a swimming class and wash-out red hair-dye became apparent; and the Beeblebrox balloon head was a late addition, after the papier-mache head proved less robust than its maker predicted.
Meanwhile Camilla’s involved in an Angelina Ballerina-fest, after a tense discussion yesterday evening involving mouse-ears.
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