Walker Books nominated for Publisher of the Year

Walker Books has been shortlisted for Publisher of the Year 2009.
Here's some reasons why provided by some of your favourite authors;

Everywhere else in the world I meet caution and nervousness.
Walker Books has managed to escape some of this, leaving space for experiment, fantasy, risk, wildness, quirkiness, oddity, beauty, jazz, feeling.
It kinda reminds me why you got into this malarkey in the first place.
Micheal Rosen UK Childrens' Laureate.

I can honestly say that if it hadn't been for Walker Books, I would have given up writing for Children aout ten years ago - and Alex Rider would never have been born.
Anthony Horowitz

The people at Walker Books love children's books. Open any of their books and you will see it and feel it. What else is there to say?
Jez Alborough

Necropolis TV advertisement

Scholastic has produced a TV/on-line advertisement for Necropolis for the American market.
Click here for the youtube link.

Cassandra Clare

Walker Books will use the same cover art for the forthcoming City of Glass by Cassandra Clare as used in the USA and Australia. These covers have proved hugely successful in those territories and we are convinced that this approach will take Cassie's books to a new level in the UK & Ireland.
City of Bones and City of Ashes will be reprinted with the USA covers in the Autumn.

Symposium on Picturebooks

Patrick Benson, Bruce Ingman & Nimah Sharkey accompanied by Deirdre McDermot (Picturebook publisher) & Lizzie Spratt (editor - graphic novels) will discuss the art of producing picture books at the Church of Ireland College of Education on Saturday 25th april

New YouTube page

If you click on www.youtube.com/hackettflynn you can check out a few videos relating to Walker Books authors / illustrators and various books in the favourites section.

Bisto Prize Shortlist 2009

PJ Lynch has been shortlisted for the Bisto Prize for The Gift of the Magi.
Fans of Lynch's pictorial realism, his play of light and shade and the richly revealing body language of his characters will not be disappointed here. Robert Dunbar The Irish Times
ISBN 9781844280384 £10.99

Anila's Journey by Mary Finn has been shortlisted for the 2009 Bisto Prize
Every page flows with a grace of language unusual in a debut novelist. The Guardian
This is a story that reaches beyond time, culture and place to become a novel about humanity in a wondrous but imperfect world. Hanner Cymraes review.
A beautifully written story Robert Dunbar The Irish Times
ISBN 9781406306590 £6.99