Bologna Childrens Book FairNews

 

 

“Artists and masterpieces of illustration" on show in New York The exhibition “Artists and masterpieces of illustration” created by BCBF to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Illustrators Exhibition is now on show in New York, at the Society of Illustrators. The collective intends to record the evolution and the latest trends in illustrated children’s books through the work of fifty great artists from all over the world who participated in or made their debut at the Illustrators Exhibition. On November 8th, the collective will be one of the highlights at the opening ceremony of the annual Original Art, the prestigious award given by the Society of Illustrators to the best illustrated books for children. On December 13, “Artists and masterpieces of illustration” will be accompanied by a panel animated by some of the illustrators featured in the exhibition. Find out more

 

 

 

The semifinalists of the Strega Prize Ragazze e Ragazzi The two dozen titles in the two categories +6 and +11 have been announced for the fourth edition of the Strega Prize Ragazze e Ragazzi. The Expert Committee, chaired by the president of the Bellonci Foundation Giovanni Solimine, looked through 69 books, from publishers across Italy, to define the twenty-four semifinalist titles: it is interesting to see that 50% of them are books in translation by authors from different countries such as Canada, Norway, Greece, France, UK, Netherlands, Estonia, USA and Portugal. The Committee will meet again in the coming days to compose the two sections of five finalists that will be announced on November 6th. Find out more

 

 

 

Concurso Internacional de Álbum Ilustrado Biblioteca Insular de Gran Canaria In the past days, BCBF has been part of the jury of the Concurso Internacional de Álbum Ilustrado Biblioteca Insular de Gran Canaria that the Biblioteca Insular de Gran Canaria organizes with A buen paso, the independent Catalan publishing house, among the most interesting realities of our fair. The jury analyzed 156 projects from all over the world to select the winners and the mentioned ones of this edition. The winning book project is Almíbar, by Anna Mas Blasco and AnnaLina Mattar. There are also two special mentions: Cómo no ser devorado por una Baba Yaga by Clara Avedillo de Frutos and Dónde está Pongomari by Daniela Berti. Find out more

 

 

 

BCBF at the Semana del Álbum On the occasion of the Semana del Álbum in Barcelona (November 5-11), BCBF will bring its "voice" through the illustrators Andrea Antinori and Mariachiara Di Giorgio who will run workshops for illustrators and children. La Semana del Álbum is an important festival dedicated to picture books that involves numerous bookshops, schools and libraries, in several provinces of Spain, carrying out over three hundred activities around picture books, including meetings with writers and illustrators, exhibitions and workshops for artists and children. The organizer of the event is ¡Álbum!, an association formed by twenty-two independent children’s publishers, among which we can find some of our BCBF exhibitors such as Andana, A buen paso, Ekaré, Juventud, Flamboyant, El cep i la nansa, Libros del zorro rojo, NubeOcho, Takatuka and Thule. Find out more

 

 

BCBF and AAR promote the presence at the fair of young literary agents BCBF and AAR - Association of Authors' Representatives, the American professional organization with more than 400 literary agents, launched a new initiative this year to promote the presence of young agents at the fair: BCBF is offering to one of the interested members of AAR, a trip to Bologna, accommodation and a table at the Literary Agents Center. The winner of this first edition is Tamar Rydzinski, vice-president and head of the foreign rights department at the Laura Dail Literary Agency.

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BCBF at the Semana del Álbum On the occasion of the Semana del Álbum in Barcelona (November 5-11), BCBF will bring its "voice" through the illustrators Andrea Antinori and Mariachiara Di Giorgio who will run workshops for illustrators and children. La Semana del Álbum is an important festival dedicated to picture books that involves numerous bookshops, schools and libraries, in several provinces of Spain, carrying out over three hundred activities around picture books, including meetings with writers and illustrators, exhibitions and workshops for artists and children. The organizer of the event is ¡Álbum!, an association formed by twenty-two independent children’s publishers, among which we can find some of our BCBF exhibitors such as Andana, A buen paso, Ekaré, Juventud, Flamboyant, El cep i la nansa, Libros del zorro rojo, NubeOcho, Takatuka and Thule. Find out more

 

 

BCBF and AAR promote the presence at the fair of young literary agents BCBF and AAR - Association of Authors' Representatives, the American professional organization with more than 400 literary agents, launched a new initiative this year to promote the presence of young agents at the fair: BCBF is offering to one of the interested members of AAR, a trip to Bologna, accommodation and a table at the Literary Agents Center. The winner of this first edition is Tamar Rydzinski, vice-president and head of the foreign rights department at the Laura Dail Literary Agency.

 

 

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Judges 2019 NZ Book Awards for Childeren & Young Adults Announced

Judges for 2019 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults share a passion for the transformative power of books

A panel of judges combining deep knowledge of the children’s literature community with youthful wisdom and a shared passion for the transformative power of books has been selected to deliberate over entries to the 2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

 Highly respected reviewer and librarian Crissi Blair will convene the English language panel, which will also include poet and co-founding editor of The Sapling Jane Arthur, author and editor Raymond Huber, teacher and award-winning writer Tania Roxborogh, and librarian Simie Simpson, previously a popular children’s publisher sales manager.

Te Rōpū Whakahau, the national body representing Māori within the library and information profession, has reappointed the experienced panel of Moana Munro (convenor), Anahera Morehu and Jacqueline Joyce Snee to judge the Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award, which recognises and celebrates books written or translated into te reo Māori.

The English language judges will read and appraise an expected 150 or so entries in five categories: Picture Book, Junior Fiction (the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award), Young Adult Fiction, Non-fiction (the Elsie Locke Award) and Illustration (the Russell Clark Award). They will select five finalists in each category, as well as up to five finalists for a Best First Book Award and then a winner in each category. The overall winner, the Margaret Mahy Award for Book of the Year, will be decided by both panels.

Also a judge in the 2018 awards, Crissi Blair said she was delighted to have been invited back as the 2019 convener and honoured to be working alongside such an experienced group of passionate children’s literature advocates. "We are fortunate to have a judging panel from diverse backgrounds and many different aspects of the children's book world. I look forward to combining our skills as we explore this year's submissions."

 

The 2019 judges will once again seek input on each category during their deliberations from school advisory panels. “We found this not only to be an illuminating exercise in terms of what books interest children as opposed to adults, but it also created an opportunity for education in getting the groups to understand the criteria and to look at each book with a critical eye,” says Crissi of the 2018 process. 

Submissions for the 2019 awards are now open to books published between 1 April 2018 and 30 March 2019. The first deadline, for books published up to 30 November 2018, is 13 December 2018. More details about how to enter can be found here: http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults/how-to-enter/

 Category finalists will be announced on Thursday 6 June 2019 and the awards ceremony will be held in Wellington in early August 2019, preceded by a series of large-scale finalist author events in at least three centres around New Zealand.

The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are made possible through the generosity, commitment and vision of funders and sponsors Creative New Zealand, HELL Pizza, Wright Family Foundation, LIANZA, Wellington City Council, Te Papa and Nielsen Book. They are supported by Booksellers NZ.

For more information about the 2019 judges, see attached or go here: http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults/2019-awards/judges/

 Any queries about the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults should be directed to Awards Administrator Joy Sellen at childrensawards@nzbookawards.org.nz. 

Publishers Lunch

People, Etc.

At Doubleday, Margo Shickmanter has been promoted to editor.

Tara Feehan will join Harper Children's as vp, finance and administration, moving over from the operations & technology finance team, and reporting to Suzanne Murphy. Feehan succeeds Randy Rosema who will retire in January.

Shari Black has joined Harper Christian as senior director of marketing for the specialty publishing division. She previously worked in account sales and marketing for Warner Bros. Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, and Walmart.

At Workman Publishing, Constance Edmonds has been promoted to promotion coordinator across all imprints. Ashley McPhee joins as promotion coordinator for the Workman imprint. She was previous a children's book editor at becker&mayer!.

Laura Barrett has been promoted to production manager at Amazon Publishing.

Bookselling
There was a protest at the Amazon Books store on West 34th Street in Manhattan on Monday, with "dozens" entering the location to speak out about the new HQ2 company headquarters planned for Long Island City, Queens. (Now that the company has physical stores, it's easier to stage protests.) Those opposing the new headquarters have spoken out about potential transit and real estate problems it may cause, as well as the granting of $1.525 billion in incentives from New York to move in.

Legal
The initial conference for former Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s lawsuit against Moira Donegan, the creator of the S—-y Media Men list, has been rescheduled to February 8. It turns out that Donegan has not yet been formally served, and her attorney Roberta Kaplan notes that "she intends to seek a stay of discovery pending a motion to dismiss—whether with [Elliot attorney] Mr. Miltenberg’s consent or through filing a motion." Kaplan's letter to Magistrate Judge Sanket J. Bulsara references repeated failed attempts to reach Elliot's counsel to discuss the request.

Our Painted Stories - Exhibition Tour

WHEN?   Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 1 p.m. OR 5:30 p.m.

WHO?  Led by a member of Turanga’s Exhibitions team

WHAT?   Conducted tour of “Our Painted Stories” exhibition, which features original illustrations from books by Margaret Mahy and Gavin Bishop

AUDIENCE?    Anyone who is interested in Children's Literature.                          

WHERE?  Turanga – Christchurch City’s new central Library – at Southbase Gallery on Level 2 

 

and while you are at Turanga, look at digital exhibition "Every Picture Tells a Story", which is on the huge screen on Level 1.  See a selection of 20 different New Zealand illustrators work.

WeCreate wlcomes governement's Copyright Issues er

 

WeCreate, the alliance of New Zealand’s creative industries, has welcomed MBIE’s release of an Issues Paper on Copyright in New Zealand. The Intellectual Property Team at MBIE have conducted extensive engagement with stakeholders that have an interest in copyright and the paper is informed by this engagement.

 

New Zealand’s creative people and creative businesses generate high-value, environmentally friendly, often-digital products and services that are at the forefront of innovation, spearhead new technology and will underpin many future occupations that will enhance the prosperity and wellbeing of all New Zealanders.

 

Chair of WeCreate, Paula Browning, said, ”Future-proofing our copyright law to ensure our content creators and our creative businesses are the ones who derive value from their work, is essential for New Zealand’s future. Our future wellbeing will rely on nurturing a thriving creative environment that’s fit for the digital age, and where growing the contribution and competitiveness of our creative industries, as other highly developed creative economies are doing, is prioritised.

 

We applaud Minister Faafoi and the team at MBIE for taking this first step to review our copyright law. The terms of reference call for a copyright system that is effective and efficient, including providing clarity and certainty, facilitating competitive markets, minimising transaction costs, and maintaining integrity and respect for the law and WeCreate supports this approach.”

 

WeCreate’s submission to the work that has been done so far is based on four principles:

·         safeguarding the right of New Zealand creators to choose how they earn from their work;

·         continuing to ensure that our digital world provides consumers with plentiful access to the abundant content that is now available;

·         providing clarity and certainty for the authorised use of copyright works and accessible and effective mechanisms for addressing unauthorised use;

·         embracing and anticipating technological and market developments to ensure New Zealand creators can continue to compete effectively in a global digital marketplace.

 

“We believe this review should be about access, and about the value of our creative people and businesses in building innovation for the future social and economic prosperity of our country. Our members look forward to partnering with government in an economic development strategy that will deliver growth from our creative sector for the good of all New Zealanders.”

Publishers Lunch

People, Etc.

John Radziewicz, vp and publisher of Da Capo Press, is retiring on November 30. He has led Da Capo since 1999. Susan Weinberg, svp & publisher of Perseus Books, said in an announcement, "John's commitment and work ethic have been outstanding, and we will miss his erudite emails, his witty sotto voce remarks, and his enthusiasm for his authors, his colleagues, our books and the business of publishing." She also stated that "a succession plan is forthcoming."

Bria Sandford has been promoted to executive editor for Portfolio and editorial director of Sentinel. Leah Trouwborst has been promoted to editor of Portfolio/Sentinel.

Eric Duggan and Adria Martin have each been promoted to marketing manager at Amazon Publishing.

At Simon & Schuster Children's, Katherine Devendorf has been promoted to director, managing editorial; Chelsea Morgan to senior production editor; Julie Doebler to production director for Aladdin and Pulse; Elizabeth Blake-Linn to associate production director for Atheneum Books, McElderry Books, Beach Lane Books and Saga Press; and Sara Berko to senior production manager for Aladdin and Simon Pulse.

Hampton Ryan will join the independent sales team at Arcadia Books as field sales representative. He previously worked at Waldenbooks, Borders and Brentano's and Ingram Book Company in Nashville.

Rachel Gilmer is moving over to assistant content editor at Sourcebooks.

Stan Lee, 95, comic book writer, editor, publisher and former President of Marvel Comics, died on Monday.

Awards
John Carreyrou's Bad Blood won the £30,000 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize. At the same ceremony, Andrew Leon Hanna received the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize for the best proposal for a business book by an author under 35, for his proposal for Twenty-Five Million Sparks on "how entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ideas emerge from refugee camps and communities."

NZ author gets US deal

High Spot Literary is delighted to announce that New Zealand author, Tammy Robinson’s latest book PHOTOS OF YOU has just been acquired by Grand Central Publishing in the USA, one of America’s ‘big 5’ publishing houses.

PHOTOS OF YOU was part of a two-book deal originally signed with Piatkus Little Brown UK in 2017.

Due for release in New Zealand and Australia through Hachette Publishers in December 2018, the book is already garnering enthusiastic responses from readers who have seen advance copies.

The UK edition will be available in June 2019.

German and Czech rights have also been sold and other rights deals are expected after the book was a feature title at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair.

Leah Hultenschmidt, Editorial Director of Grand Central Publishing US noted with enthusiasm, “We’re thrilled to publish such a beautiful story that manages to be heartbreaking and joyful at the same time.”

 Alison Shucksmith, Product and Publishing Manager of Hachette New Zealand added,

“We are thrilled that PHOTOS OF YOU has been picked up by our US colleagues, helping get Tammy’s wonderfully captivating books into the hands of readers around the world.”

“Tammy Robinson remains one of our key authors and we are absolutely delighted to see that her talent has been recognized on an international level,” said Vicki Marsdon of High Spot Literary. “We are confident that PHOTOS OF YOU being published in the US, as well as the UK and Europe, will cement Tammy’s place as one of New Zealand’s most popular authors.”

Tammy Robinson lives with her husband and children in the Waikato. PHOTOS OF YOU is her eighth novel.

High Spot Literary is New Zealand’s only literary agency representing authors of adult fiction and non-fiction. A full service literary agency, High Spot Literary aims to find the widest possible audience for New Zealand authors both inside and outside New Zealand.

For more information, please contact:

Vicki Marsdon

Vicki@highspotlit.com
www.highspotlit.com

Storylines News

As we head towards the end of the year, there's still plenty happening in the world of children's literature. Read on to find out... Between our monthly newsletters, keep up to date with what's going on in Storylines and New Zealand children's literature on our Facebook page.

Storylines news

Northland Story Tour The final Storylines National Festival Story Tour for 2018 is in the Far North and Kaipara this week. Authors Kyle Mewburn, Fraser Smith, Melanie Drewery and Heather Haylock are visiting primary intermediate and secondary schools, as well as early childhood centres children at schools and libraries in Warkworth, Ruawai, Dargaville, Opononi, Kaikohe, Okaihau, Kaitaia, Kerikeri and Opua. They've also been the centre of attenti on at two events for adults in the afternoon, at Dargaville and Kerikeri libraries. We'll have a wrap on this and other tours in our next newsletter and on our website in December. Or you can check out the activities in the north on our Facebook page. Melanie Drewery toured the north with Kyle Mewburn, Fraser Smith and Heather Haylock

2018 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award presentation The Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award for 2019 will be presented to Northland librarian and children’s books advocate Jeannie Skinner on Sunday 2 December at 3pm at the National Library, The Strand, Parnell, Auckland. After Jeannie’s Spring Lecture presentation, light refreshments will be served. Seating is limited, so please register on the Storylines website. Storylines members are free, with a $15 a head charge for non-members. There is no charge for children. Jeannie Skinner

Christmas Books List on website The Christmas Book List, a useful buying guide for Christmas, is now available on our website. You will find personal recommendations from a team of Storylines members (authors, teachers, academics, illustrators, librarians, parents and grandparents) of New Zealand and international books in four genres: picture books, junior and young adult fiction, non-fiction.

Storylines Margaret Mahy National Awards Day 2019 Mark Sunday 31 March 2019, in your calendar for the Storylines Margaret Mahy Awards Day where awards and certificates will be presented for the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, the manuscript awards, the Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for a young illustrator, and the 2019 Notable Books. It will be held the University of Auckland Music Auditorium, Epsom campus, Epsom Avenue, Auckland. Nominations for the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award have now closed (31 Oct); the winner will be announced in January and will present his/her Margaret Mahy lecture at the Awards event. Janice Marriot, 2018 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal winner

Awards submissions closed The end of October was the final deadline for several key Storylines awards: Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award; Storylines Joy Cowley Award ; and Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award. Judges are now preparing to spend their summer break reading and re-reading the manuscript entries to make final decisions on winners.

Storylines Notable Books 2019  Submission Deadline The submission deadline for all Notable Books categories (Picture Book, Junior Fiction, YA fiction, Non-fiction and Te Reo Māori) is 30 November 2018. Submissions are welcomed from publishers, writers and illustrators. Details on our Notable Books page. Scholastic's poster with Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award winners to date

New Tip Sheet - Non-Fiction The latest Top Ten Tips sheet, by writer Maria Gill, is available for Storylines members on the website. Remember to log in as a member when you open the website so you can access it.   Maria Gill

Storylines Gavin Bishop Award deadline In addition to the Notable Books submissions, the deadline looms for the Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for illustration – 30 November 2018. Entry forms and details on the Storylines Gavin Bishop Award page on our website. Gavin Bishop

Yamada Books for Refugees event Books for young refugees in their own languages will be presented by Storylines/IBBYNZ at the AUT Mangere Refugee Education Resettlement Centre in late November. A $US5000 ($NZ6,633.23) grant from the Yamada Foundation has enabled IBBY NZ to source books from Iran, Singapore, Myanmar, and Palestine to meet the needs of refugee children arriving this year. They include books in Farsi, Arabic, Tamil, Punjabi, Burmese, Karen, Chin, and hopefully Rohingyan. For more information contact Libby Limbrick. Storylines chair Libby Limbrick, Maria Hayward (Director of the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre) and Frances Plumpton, chair of IBBY New Zealand sort books for teh refugee centre

Nami Concours Picture Book Illustration Award Congratulations to Brian Lovelock for achieving shortlisting in the 2019 Nami Concours Picture Book Illustration Award. He was selected from among 1844 entries from 98 nations and is one of just 106 shortlisted entries from 42 nations. There will be a final judging in January 2019. Read more: http://www.namiconcours.com/press/press_01.php?page=1&keyfield=&keyword=&num=19&re_num=0&mode=view Brian Lovelock

IBBY Honour List 2018 The IBBY Honour List 2018 was presented at the 36th IBBY Congress in Athens recently. The slide show is on YouTube. IBBY New Zealand’s selection of writer Kate De Goldi (From the Cutting Edge of Barney Kettle, Penguin Random House NZ); illustrator David Elliot  (Snark, Being a True History of the Expedition that Discovered the Snark and the Jabberwock ... and its Tragic Aftermath, Otago University Press); and translator Kawata Teepa (Whiti Te Rā!, Huia NZ) feature alongside other outstanding books selected by IBBY member countries. Read more about the IBBY Honour List. Kate De Goldi

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award nominees named Next year, 246 candidates from 64 countries will be in the running for the world’s largest and most prestigious children’s literature award, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and receive five million Swedish krona ($600,000, £430,000). This was announced today by ALMA jury chairman Professor Boel Westin at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Read more. Astrid Lindgren

Is your membership up to date? If you haven't yet paid your membership to March 2019, you can no longer log on to access resources available only to Storylines Members. If you are sure you have paid for 2018-19 and can no longer access your account, please contact membership@storylines.org.nz and we'll check your account. You can renew your membership through the website with your credit card, or as a direct credit to the Storylines bank account. Check out our instructions for renewal or new membership.

Answer & Win Congratulations to the winners of our October newsletter competition: Vaana Langdon of Epsom, Auckland, and Kirsten Elliott - Sacred Heart Girls' College, Hamilton. We have two more prize packs containing fabulous New Zealand children's books to give away this month. Email us at competition@storylines.org.nz with the answer to this month’s question: Please tell us the date and venue of the Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award presentation.

News on our Facebook and home pages Storylines' Facebook page is now accessible through the website, and we would love to increase our tally of ‘likes’. Content includes photos and reports from the 2018 Story Tours and much more. You'll also read other news items on our home page. Check in for updates. Raymond Huber and Raymond McGrath at Good Shepherd School in Auckland as part of the 2018 Storylines Story Tour

News from other organisations

Massey University Press (MUP) is joining forces with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris. Their company, Annual Ink, is to become MUP’s new children’s imprint — the first of its kind in New Zealand. The imprint’s first title, Hazel and the Snails, by debut author Nan Blanchard, will be published in March 2019 and it exemplifies everything the partnership plans to emphasise. Read more.