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Grandma Bendy Summer Readings

  Children’s Author Izy Penguin will be reading and signing her new book, ‘Grandma Bendy’ in bookshops during this summer.     Saturday June 16th  from 12.30 to 4.00 at Waterstones, Putney Saturday June 23rd 12.20 to 4pm at Waterstones, Islington Saturday June 30th 3 to 5pm at Waterstones, Kensington Saturday July 7th  from 11.30 to 1.30 at Waterstones, Newcastle Saturday July 7th  from 2.30 to 4.30 at Waterstones, Hexham Saturday… Read More »Grandma Bendy Summer Readings

Summer Book Readings

      Children’s author Angela Mitchell will be reading and signing her new book, ‘The Jelly That Wouldn’t Wobble’ in bookshops during this summer.       Saturday June 9th  from 11.00 to 3.00 at Waterstones, Greenwich Saturday June 30th  from 11.00 to 12.30 at The Big Green Bookshop Saturday July 7th  from 11.00 to 1.30 at Waterstones, Bromley Saturday July 21st  from 11.00 to 3.00 at Waterstones, Ashford… Read More »Summer Book Readings

Aha, found out what the ‘Beastie’ has been after!

(It’s not children)  The Fearsome Beastie has recently been after! Its Votes, Votes , Votes… It all makes sense now… he has been working his way up to London to take part in the awards ceremony at The Stationers Hall on May 30th! To vote please click here. To buy the book from the Maverick Shop please click here.

Special offer for The Fearsome Beastie

Now till the end of May we have this fantastic children’s book on special offer. Normally £5.99 now £2.00. A People’s Book Finalist… Final round of voting from May 0th to May 30th. To buy The Fearsome Beastie from the publishers on the maverick shop please click here

Stratford-upon-Avon’s Literary Festival

Julie Fulton, author of Mrs MacCready Was Ever So Greedy, was invited to take part in Stratford-upon-Avon’s Literary Festival with three primary schools.  Julie was taking part in book readings and in workshops with the kids. Here is what Julie thought of the day: “I had a tiring but exhilarating day in the schools in Stratford! Six workshop sessions across the day. The children were great and we had fun with… Read More »Stratford-upon-Avon’s Literary Festival

Julie Fulton Wins a Place on a New Writer’s Scheme

Julie Fulton recently won a place in a brand new scheme for writers. Writing West Midlands is a Birmingham based organisation which aims to support the development of creative writing and participation in writing activities in the West Midlands area. They have started up a new scheme, Room 204, specifically to support and develop the careers of emerging writers in the area. Julie has two mentors and will have lots… Read More »Julie Fulton Wins a Place on a New Writer’s Scheme

Stratford-upon-Avon’s Literary Festival

Author Julie Fulton is giving workshops to children from three different primary schools in Stratford as part of Stratford-upon-Avon’s Literary Festival : Stratford Primary, Great Alne Primary and Bridgetown Primary. 180 KS1 children in all! Julie will be reading Mrs MacCready was ever so Greedy and then doing some work on rhyming/making a class poem etc – whatever path the kids lead  her down! Julie has also set up a… Read More »Stratford-upon-Avon’s Literary Festival

Maverick Book Launch Lunch!

Yesterday was our book launch for our four new 2012 titles.  Our first two, released in February, are Sparkle’s Song by Samantha Hale, illustrated by Mariana Ruiz Johnson and The Goblin and the Girl by Neil Irani and illustrated by Park Yun.  Unfortunately we didn’t have any authors/illustrators to present to as they are all outside of the UK. However here is Samantha’s response to receiving her book: “Oh my… Read More »Maverick Book Launch Lunch!

International Children’s Book Day

To promote reading and children’s books. Often, schools and libraries hold events in conjunction with International Children’s Book Day. You can see more about the event by clicking here. To see our children’s books, please click here and to see more about libraries and schools with Maverick please click here.

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