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Gecko Press
Gecko Press is an independent publisher of children's books based in Wellington, New Zealand. The company was founded in 2005 by Julia Marshall, formerly of Appelberg Publishing Agency, winner of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal 2021. Marshall was appointed New Zealand Order of Merit, Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in 2025. Gecko Press publishes English translations of popular books from countries including France, Taiwan, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. Gecko Press also publish 2–4 original titles each year. Authors and illustrators Gecko Press has published and translated a wide range of children's book authors and illustrators. These include: *Barbro Lindgren *Dorothée de Monfreid *Eva Eriksson (illustrator), Eva Eriksson *Frida Nilsson *Gavin Bishop *Gitte Spee *Grégoire Solotareff *Joy Cowley *Juliette MacIver *Kate De Goldi *Margaret Mahy *Michal Shalev *Rose Lagercrantz *Sarah Davis *Sarah Wilkins *Stéphanie Blake *Timo Parvela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lerner Publishing Group
Lerner Publishing Group, based in Minneapolis in the United States, U.S. state of Minnesota since its founding in 1959, is one of the largest private sector, independently owned children's literature, children's book publishers in the United States. With more than 5,000 titles in print, Lerner Publishing Group offers nonfiction and fiction books for grades K–12 (education), K-12. History Lerner was founded in 1959 by Harry Lerner. The company started as a one-room office in the old Lumber Exchange Building in downtown Minneapolis. Lerner's sister-in-law, Marguerite Rush Lerner, M.D., asked him to publish her stories about childhood diseases. These became the Medical Books for Children series (1959). The company has expanded to encompass four offices: the main Lerner building, Lerner Distribution Center, and Muscle Bound Bindery, all located in Minneapolis, and a New York City, New York office located in the Empire State Building. In 1963, Lerner was the first publisher to prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Shalev
Michal Shalev () is an Israeli author and illustrator of children's books. She has an MA in children's book illustration from the Cambridge School of Art. She is also a graduate of WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education. Select English bibliography *2016: ''How to be Famous'', 32pp., References Israeli children's writers Israeli women illustrators Israeli children's book illustrators Living people Alumni of Anglia Ruskin University Year of birth missing (living people) {{Israel-writer-stub he:מיכל שלו ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishing Companies Established In 2005
Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, comic books, newspapers, and magazines to the public. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include digital publishing such as e-books, digital magazines, websites, social media, music, and video game publishing. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as News Corp, Pearson, Penguin Random House, and Thomson Reuters to major retail brands and thousands of small independent publishers. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing, and academic and scientific publishing. Publishing is also undertaken by governments, civil society, and private companies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Book Publishers
A child () is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The term may also refer to an unborn human being. In English-speaking countries, the legal definition of ''child'' generally refers to a minor, in this case as a person younger than the local age of majority (there are exceptions such as, for example, the consume and purchase of alcoholic beverage even after said age of majority), regardless of their physical, mental and sexual development as biological adults. Children generally have fewer rights and responsibilities than adults. They are generally classed as unable to make serious decisions. ''Child'' may also describe a relationship with a parent (such as sons and daughters of any age) or, metaphorically, an authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "a child of n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards
The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are a series of literary awards presented annually to recognise excellence in children's and young adult's literature in New Zealand. The awards were founded in 1982, and have had several title changes until the present title was introduced in 2015. In 2016 the awards were merged with the New Zealand Library Association Inc., LIANZA children's book awards. the awards are administered by the New Zealand Book Awards Trust and each category award carries prize money of . History The awards began in 1982, as the New Zealand Government Publishing Awards, with two categories, Children's Book of the Year and Picture Book of the Year. A non-fiction award was presented in 1986, but not in 1987 or 1988, the final years of this incarnation of the awards. No awards were presented in 1989. In 1990, Unilever New Zealand (then the New Zealand manufacturer of Aim toothpaste) restarted the awards as the AIM Children's Book Awards. There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bologna Children's Book Fair
The Bologna Children's Book Fair or La fiera del libro per ragazzi is the leading professional fair for children's books in the world. Since 1963, it is held yearly for four days in March or April in Bologna, Italy. It is the meeting place for all professionals involved with creating and publishing children's books, and is mainly used for the buying and selling of rights, both for translations and for derived products like movies or animated series. It is also the event where a number of major awards are given, the BolognaRagazzi Awards, in four categories (Fiction, Non-fiction, New Horizons (for the non-Western world) and Opera Prima (for first works). During the fair, but separate from it, some major awards are announced, including the biannual Hans Christian Andersen Awards and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Since 1967, the Illustrators Exhibition within the Bologna Children's Book Fair presents the works of the illustrators selected by the jury which consists of five inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsh Award For Children's Literature In Translation
The Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation was a Literary award, literary prize awarded in the United Kingdom from 1996 until 2017 to the translator of an outstanding work of Children's literature, fiction for young readers translated into English language, English. The award was given every two years and is sponsored by the Marsh Christian Trust. The award was administered from 1996 by thNational Centre for Research in Children's Literatureat Roehampton University, and subsidised in its early years by the Arts Council of England. From 2008 the award was administered by the English-Speaking Union. Winners *2017 – Helen Wang for ''Bronze and Sunflower'', translated from the Chinese of Cao Wenxuan *2015 – Margaret Jull Costa for ''The Adventures of Shola'', translated from Spanish; originally Basque language by Bernardo Atxaga *2013 – Howard Curtis for ''In the Sea There Are Crocodiles'', from the Italian of Fabio Geda *2011 �Martin Cleaverfor ''Letters to Anyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck, Death And The Tulip
''Duck, Death and the Tulip'' (German title: ''Ente, Tod und Tulpe'') is a 2007 children's book by German author and illustrator Wolf Erlbruch. The book, which deals with death and the afterlife, has been translated into various languages, including Dutch and English, and was adapted in animated and movie format. Synopsis The story involves a duck who acquaints a character called Death who, as it turns out, has been following her all her life. The two become friends, discussing life, death, and what any afterlife might be like. They go diving together and sit in a tree, pondering what would happen to the duck's lake after her death. The duck reports that some ducks say that they become angels and sit on clouds, looking down on earth. Death says that this is possible since ducks already have wings. Then, she says that some ducks also say that there is a hell, down below, where bad ducks are roasted; Death replies that it's remarkable what ducks all think of, and says "who knows," ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulf Stark
Ulf Gottfrid Stark (12 July 1944 – 13 June 2017) was a Swedish author and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film '' Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen''). Stark has collaborated with the illustrators Anna Höglund and Mati Lepp. From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books. In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize. Career Stark was born and grew up in Stureby, Stockholm Municipality, which place features in several of his books. Stark's interest in writing started early; during his time at secondary school he was introduced to writing by his classmate , and in 1964 he wrote his first poetry collection, '. Following this, Stark's interest in writing for a career was greatly encouraged. Stark died on 13 June 2017 at the age of 72 after suffering from cancer. Selected bibliography English translations *2005 – '' Can You Whistle, Johanna?,'' (Gecko Press) ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulf Nilsson (author)
Ulf Lennart Nilsson (18 September 1948 – 22 September 2021) was a Swedish writer who published more than 100 books and picture books, geared mainly to children and adolescents. He was also the longtime president of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books. A number of his works have been translated into English by Gecko Press. Nilsson died on 22 September 2021, at the age of 73. Books *1979 – Pojkjävlarna *1982 – Älskade lilla gris *1983 – Lilla syster Kanin (together with Eva Eriksson) *1983 – En kamp för frihet *1985 – If You Didn't Have Me () *1985 – Den fräcka kråkan *1986 – Boeing 747 (together with Pija Lindenbaum) *1994 – Mästaren och de fyra skrivarna *1996 – En dag med mössens brandkår *2001 – Varg nosar och jagar *1998 – En frälsare är född *2002 – Adjö, herr Muffin (together with Anna-Clara Tidholm) *2004 – En ängel vid din sida *2005 – En halv tusenlapp (together with Filippa Widlund) *2005 – Liten mus trycker på ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timo Parvela
Timo Parvela (born 19 May 1964 in Jyväskylä) is a Finnish author of juvenile fiction. Parvela matriculated from secondary school in 1983 and graduated from Jyväskylä Teacher Training College in 1988.Timo Parvela, partial bibliography accessed 7 May 2011. He worked at a series of teaching posts for six years — first in in the sub-region and later in |
Stéphanie Blake
Stéphanie Blake (born 1968 in Northfield, Minnesota) is an author of children's stories who lives in Paris. She had been published by Random House Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the foll ..., ''l'école des loisirs'' and Gecko Press. Her works have been translated from French into English, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, German, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Māori and Italian. Simon Blake is best known for her children's picture book series "Simon", about the titular anthropomorphic rabbit, which in 2016 was adapted into an animated series, and has since been seen around the world. Books in English Published by Gecko Press: *2011 – ''Poo Bum'', 32pp., *2012 – ''Stupid Baby'', 36pp., *2013 – ''A Deal's A Deal'', 32pp., *2014 − ''I Don't W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
