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Book Party at the Square Pig and Pen

Fantastic to see authors enjoying themselves at the Maverick book party.   Presentations were made to; Lucy Tapper and Steve Wilson for their ‘Hedgehugs’ Book, ‘Hedgehugs’  Family Organiser and ‘Hedgehugs’ 2015 wall calendar. Steve Howson for his book, ‘Hocus Pocus Diplodocus’ Rachel Lyon for her second rhyming book ‘I Wish I’d Been Born a Unicorn’ Amanda Brandon for her first book ‘A Scarf and a Half’ Alice Hemming for her… Read More »Book Party at the Square Pig and Pen

Bibble and the Bubbles

The second book by author Alice Hemming, a magical story about a little boy, Bobby who wonders where all the bubbles go? and 667 million miles away ‘Bibble’ wonders where all the bubbles are coming from? Beautifully, beautifully illustrated by Sara Sanchez. These are the endpapers!  Just imagine how the whole book looks! Alice is taking part with the SCWBI character blog tour, to see more   please click here. To… Read More »Bibble and the Bubbles

I Wish I’d been Born a Unicorn!

The second picture book by children’s author, Rachel Lyon. Out this September delightfully illustrated by Andrea Ringli, the story is about ‘Mucky’ a rather smelly horse who wanted to be a Unicorn believing it would bring him many more friends!  Rachel is one of our very best rhyming authors who brings the full range of emotions with her writing! We often find ourselves going from hilarious laughter to shedding a… Read More »I Wish I’d been Born a Unicorn!

Scarf and a Half

  A knitting loving granny proved the inspiration for an author’s new picture book ‘A Scarf and a Half.’ This is the first book by author Amanda Brandon, we are sure this will be very popular with young children in schools and libraries. To see more about Amanda  please click here. The illustrations are by Catalina Echeverri  who is represented by the illustration agency Plum Pudding. Catalina’s sense of colour… Read More »Scarf and a Half

‘Yuck Said the Yak’

  A picture book in just over 100 words of a conversation between a little boy called Alfie and a Yak! This is the first book by author Alex English, we are sure this will be very popular with young children in schools and libraries. To see more about Alex please click here. The illustrations are by Emma Levey a brilliant young illustraor who already has success with her book… Read More »‘Yuck Said the Yak’

Books on the Underground!

Children are in for more than one treat if they are travelling in London with Mums, Dads, friends  on the underground! Look out for copies of ‘Hedgehugs’ the new children’s picture book by Steve Wilson and Lucy Tapper. To see more about ‘Books on the Underground’ this please click here. To buy this lovely book please click here. Enjoy! (We know you will! ) Ha!

Possibly the ‘Best Landscape’ Calendar for 2015?

  With fantastic images by Kris Dutson, Jerry Cobb, Andrew Yu, Guy Richardson, Coltrane Koh, Lynn Cadger and the cover by James Grant. This could easily be one of the very best landscape calendars for 2015!  Copies will be in most Waterstone stores from late August and in Calendar Club stores during October to Christmas. The calendar makes a fantastic present to send to relatives and friends living overseas. Now… Read More »Possibly the ‘Best Landscape’ Calendar for 2015?

Lancashire Evening Post- Review New Maverick Books

Fantastic to see our new books heading the review section for the Lancashire Evening Post. “A Perfect Summer of Fun” To read all the reviews please click here. Both books are available at many good bookshops and online. Enjoy