Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Big prediction for charity book
23.12.08 Victoria Gallagher writing in The Bookseller

An international charity book is predicted to sell over three million copies when it comes out in September 2009. Bombadil, a Swedish publishing group has worked alongside Norwegian Charity, Echo 2012 to create a book which portrays children's views on friendship. Children from 27 countries were part of the project to write and illustrate the theme of 'What does a friend do?'.
The book will be translated into 12 languages and will be released in September 2009. The proceeds for the book will go towards helping other charities work to improve understanding and communication around the world and help combat illiteracy.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for linking to my blog. The book sounds very exciting given all the negatives of the past year.

My best,
Irene