Maverick Books News & Media
Last night the Maverick team invited authors, illustrators, friends and book lovers to come and celebrate the launch of all of our titles this year. We’ve had a lot to celebrate – the fourth title in the Ever So series, the second George the Giraffe book and 4 brand new Maverick authors, 2015 has been an amazing year for Maverick. We celebrated at the lovely Square Pig and Pen in… Read More »A launch and a half!
Our new 2016 cat calendar featuring moggies attempting various different selfies with different degrees of success has been featured in the Daily Star! “The photogenic felines have been made to mimic real-life photo poses for a wacky new calendar. Steve Bicknell, a spokesman for the calendar maker Maverick Arts, said self e-loving Kim Kardashian helped inspire the calendar.” Check out the sparkling review on the Daily star website!
It’s our favourite day of the month – it’s publication day! Happy publication day to our brand new Maverick authors and illustrators : Clare Helen Welsh and Sophia Touliatou - Aerodynamics of Biscuits Captain Sneaky McSqueaky and his crew of pirate mice are trying to fly to the moon to steal moon cheese, but to get there they need some help from Oliver and his biscuits. A quirky story for children with big… Read More »Happy publication day to our September authors!
A really wonderful review for our early readers from Catherine who writes at the blog Storysnug. Catherine is both a parent and a primary school teacher so she really knows what she is talking about when it comes to learning to read. We’re pleased that our early readers got her endorsement! “We are really impressed with Maverick’s Early Readers […] They are the perfect size for Key Stage One readers, have lovely shiny… Read More »“A great addition to a class reading scheme or a home library”
We’ve had another great endorsement for our early readers, this time from Madhouse Family Reviews! The Early Readers have retained the atmosphere, fun stories and appealing illustrations of the originals, just in a simplified, more accessible form. As Pierre already knows the stories from listening to me read him the originals, he’s been really excited about trying to read them himself. The fact that he already knows the essence of… Read More »Big thumbs up for our Early Readers from Madhouse Family Reviews
Last Friday, everyone at Maverick got some lovely good news which put us in amazing spirits for the weekend! Two of our authors have had their first picture books nominated for the Heart of Hawick Children’s Book Award.           Amanda Brandon’s first Granny Mutton Yarn story, A Scarf and a Half and Tracy Gunaratnam‘s first story Preposterous Rhinoceros have both been nominated. It is… Read More »Praising scarves and rhinos!
It’s Friday people and I don’t know about you, but we’ve got that Friday feline! We mean feeling… No, actually we do mean feline because our amazing Cat Selfies 2016 calendar is now available to buy! The calendar features every type of selfie executed perfectly by a cast of self-obsessed cats. We have: The solo selfie The ‘I don’t know how to take a selfie’Â selfie The squad selfie The… Read More »Have you got that Friday feline?
The British Wildlife Photography Awards 2015 winners were announced 2 days ago and as always we have been given more proof that British wildlife is full of outstanding beauty. Maverick publish a beautiful calendar featuring some of the winning and highly commended photos from the competition. 2016’s calendar features classic barn owls, dancing starlings, playful stags and majestic hares to name but a few. The winning photos are now on display… Read More »British Wildlife Photography Awards 2016 calendar
Clare Helen Welsh’s first picture book, Aerodynamics of Biscuits, will be released in just a few weeks and everyone is getting very excited! Clare’s local paper, the Plymouth Herald, has written an article on her soon to be published book and the story behind the story… “The story, based on my son, his love of midnight feasts and his wonderful imagination, has been beautifully illustrated by Sophia Touliatou. “Although she’s… Read More »Sneaky McSqueaky makes the Herald!
Lovely to see our early readers making an appearance in the Primary Times book reviews page! Buy your own copies by clicking the links below: A Scarf and a Half The Black and White Club Hocus Pocus Diplodocus Preposterous Rhinoceros Yuck! said the Yak
© 2020 All rights reserved
You can view our privacy policy here