Category: Children’s Books
TNPS Thought for Christmas: TV celebrity children’s authors will never match the magic of Rowling or Blyton
Fewer and fewer children are reading for pleasure, in large part because the education system has failed them, but also in no small part because a TV celebrity riding on a ghostwriter’s skills and a jovial TV persona will never match the magic of a JK Rowling or an Enid Blyton, that wrote for children, not for fame and fortune.
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Meet Malaysia’s youngest published author, seven years old
As a kid I filled exercise book after exercise book with stories, that on occasion impressed my teachers, but being a published author, or indeed any form of writing for a living, was never an option when it came to discussing my future with the careers officer, whose imagination ran the full gamut of job options from road sweeper to sweeper of roads to highway hygienist, with the promise of one day owning my own broom.
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Oman – 28th Muscat IBF attracts almost 400,000 visitors amid a “significant shift towards Arabic children’s literature”
Not, of course, that we in the west are in any position to assume the moral high ground, given the recent track record in the United States for banning children’s books.
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Frankfurt, New York, Guadalajara, London, New Delhi. The Bologna Children’s Book Fair will also be in Bologna in 2024!
Other book fair organisers would do well to look closely at how Bologna is transitioning from an...
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“Put down the iPad, pick up a book” is the wrong message for Arab kids as global publishing realigns
What is up with the youth of today? Don’t they understand that reading is something you have to do...
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Nigeria – Akada Children Book Festival “a Catalyst” for Nigerian Children’s Publishing
Per UNICEF, 75 per cent of children in Nigeria, aged 7 to 14 years, cannot read a simple sentence...
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The 14th Asian Festival of Children’s Content is hosting Vietnam, a country with more internet users than Germany
Issues of political censorship notwithstanding, Vietnam is an exciting emerging market looking to...
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The new Harry Potter TV series. Lazy and unneeded, or a chance to refresh a cultural icon?
The proposed new TV series is chance to refresh Harry Potter and create a wizard hero fit for the...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up # 7
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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HarperCollins, why does a $3 ebook produced and sold in India cost $13 in the US?
HarperCollins, is this deliberate obtuseness, unfathomable dumbness or just plain stupidity? 8...
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China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair confirms November dates for 10th anniversary incarnation
This will be the first year since the pandemic began that China’s big book fairs have...
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Spain: AI-created personalised children’s books – “the start of a major disruption in the children’s content industry”
This AI-created audio-visual format “will change the rules of the game in this...
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