We’re so proud to be representing such an extraordinary children’s publisher!  For full details on this prestigious award, and why The Bookseller judges chose Usborne as the recipient, read here

Storytime is a portable bookshelf app, exclusively for iPad, that is filled with a growing number of quality interactive children’s books.

For a limited time iTunes customers can download Storytime free of charge and receive a free download of picture book Hush Little Beachcomber when entering “UBAM Code” H0240.

Complimentary review of a Steampunk YA novel by BooksYALove blogger Katy Manck, MLS

http://booksyalove.blogspot.com/2012/02/bloomswell-diaries-fiction.html

The International Reading Association’s Notable Books for a Global Society Award for 2012 includes The No. 1 Car Spotter as one of 25 outstanding trade books for enhancing students’ understandings of people and cultures throughout the world. The book will be featured with the other award winners in the spring issue of The Dragon Lode Journal as well as the IRA Reading Today online journal, and the new list will appear on the Award website.

Carisa Kluver is the editor of Digital-Storytime.com, an iPad children’s book review site. Here’s a link to her take on how adding ebooks to a child’s literary diet may affect their literacy skills.

http://digital-storytime.com/wp/?p=114

Dying to Tell Me by Sherryl Clark has been selected for the VOYA Top Shelf for Middle School Readers 2011 list! This fully annotated annual list of titles for middle school students, highly recommended by the selection committee, is included in the February 2012 issue of VOYA Magazine. http://www.voya.com/

Once again EDC Publishing is featured on the cover of Publisher’s Weekly with the page turning, suspense driven adventure series for YA readers, Conspiracy 365 from Kane/Miller Books! Don’t have yours yet? Order online at www.FindTheDuck.com.  Book 13 in the series, Revenge, is coming spring 2012!

See the article here:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20111114.html

Listen in as Atinuke talks about what moved her to write the Anna Hibiscus series and reads an excerpt from book 1 in the Anna Hibiscus series.

Anna Hibiscus Book 1

Ages: 5-9

5.99 paperback 12.99 library bound

Save 7.20 with the set of all 4 Anna Hibiscus books

All the fun of sticker dolly books, for your iPhone or iPad – Check it out on iTunes for just 5.99.

A sticker dressing app for girls based on the bestselling and much-loved Usborne Sticker Dolly Dressing books. Little girls can dress up the dolls again and again and create scenes with nearly 200 stickers. 

• Drag and drop the stickers to dress the dolls

 

• Create dozens of pretty outfits with different tops, skirts, jeans, leggings, dresses, shoes and accessories

• Choose from eight colourful scenes, including a wedding, a day at the beach, going shopping and a disco

• Name each doll and select her hairstyle and skin tone

• Customise the clothes with a range of striped, polka dot and floral patterns

• Enliven the scenes with dogs, cats, butterflies and birds, drinks and ice creams and dozens of other objects

• Email and print out pictures to send to friends and family 

Little girls will love creating imaginative outfits, or carefully dressing the dolls for different occasions.

Additional features
• Add up to five dolls to each scene
• Pinch the dolls and objects to resize
• Save scenes to play later
• Ambient sound adds atmosphere to each scene

 

Available on iTunes for just $5.99.