For International Women’s Day we asked some of our authors to write about this year’s theme Balance for Better, and here Sher Rill Ng looks at why balance is better for business, innovation, and the world.… Read the rest
To celebrate publication, we caught up with the terrific trio of picture book creators Davina Bell, Jane Godwin and Freya Blackwood about their latest offering, the delightful Birthday Baby, which perfectly captures and celebrates a baby’s birthday party!… Read the rest
In the third of our series on book cover design & redesigning a series, we explain how to find an illustrator to run with the ideas from The Covers Meeting…
It should be no surprise to anyone that we at A&U love the work of Sebastian Ciaffaglione – not only has he illustrated all of Lian Tanner’s covers so far, he has also done the very beautiful new illustrations for Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom series.… Read the rest
Craig Smith has illustrated over 380 books but for the first time ever, he has written as well as illustrated a story! It is called REMARKABLY REXY, and it is a very special book – based on Craig’s much-loved cat of days gone by, Rex.… Read the rest
To mark the launch of the re-jacketed Old Kingdom series, ahead of next month’s new book in the series with prologue Clariel, here’s cover artist Sebastian Ciaffaglione explaining his process in taking our initial design brief through various iterations to final sketches.… Read the rest
To celebrate Children’s Book Week, we thought we’d take you behind the scenes of one of our favourite children’s titles, as Kristy gives you a sneak peek at the forthcoming Tashi title!… Read the rest
