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Maverick Arts Publishing 2016 Calendars

Maverick Arts Publishing has a reputation for producing high quality calendars, which are printed in the UK.  Maverick publishes a mixture of funny animal and photographic calendars.  All calendars are available to buy on Amazon, click on the image to be redirected to the Amazon page.                          

World Book Day – 6th March

Just one week to go until the 17th World Book Day on 6th March. One of the main aims of World Book Day is to encourage children to get reading and show them the pleasures reading can bring. Schools are sent book tokens and resources, increasing children’s accessibility to books, no matter what background they’re from. Watch this space for info about what our authors are up to to celebrate….… Read More »World Book Day – 6th March

Fearsome Beastie is Leaping off the Page. Quick, hide!

Work is well underway on The Fearsome Beastie animation. Slurpy Stories are adapting the terrifying tale with the help of University for the Creative Arts (UCA) Farnham. The estimated completion date is Summer 2014. Click here to read about the process of The Fearsome Beastie moving from the page to animation.    

A Royal Recommendation.

                    More exciting news – Princess Stay Awake by Giles Paley-Phillips hits the literal and cyber shelves today. Read all about Princess Layla’s adventures in the Kingdom and her parent’s mission to get her to go to sleep! Available from Amazon now so get yourself a copy, but don’t stay up too late reading it!

Horrace and Hattie have landed!

Hedgehugs, a wonderfully illustrated and endearing book by Steve Wilson and Lucy Tapper is out now and available on Amazon. Read about the adorable Horrace and Hattie and their adventures, as they find a way to overcome their prickly predicament. This little guy is super excited…              

International Book Giving Day 2014

                                            Forget Valentine’s Day, it’s International Book Giving Day on February 14th! The idea is to give a book as a gift, donate a book (or three) to charity, or leave a book somewhere like a waiting room or somewhere public where it will be read. One of the… Read More »International Book Giving Day 2014

Cbeebies Bedtime Stories.

Very hoppy to have seen The Bunny That Couldn’t Be Found on Cbeebies Bedtime Stories yesterday evening. A fun and lively story that deserves this kind of recognition. Available to watch until 22nd January.

MMS representing Maverick Books

We are pleased to announce that from January 1st we are now represented by the sales agency MMS (short for Macmillan Marketing Services). Starting in 1994 their past client publishers have included Walker Books, Grub Street, Cassell, Random House and Zero to Ten. MMS  provides sales and marketing support to a number of children’s publishers bringing a huge expertise in different sectors: trade, education, libraries and specialist sales in both… Read More »MMS representing Maverick Books

Pandora Books supporting ‘Princess Stay Awake’

Delighted to announce that the specialist school book supplier ‘Pandora Books’ have placed a very good advance order for Giles Paley-Phillips new book ‘Princess Stay Awake’ to be published this January.  If you are a school or nursery and would like to know more about Pandora Books, please click here. Enjoy.