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Reading for Social Peace project launched

We’re delighted to announce that the Reading for Social Peace Project is now up and running.

‘You’ll laugh, sigh, giggle and be challenged’: Digital Orthodoxy

‘Davide Cali’s stories are beautifully written, innovative, simply structured, deep and touching tales’: an enthusiastic review of What is this thing called love? from Digital Orthodoxy

Cali ‘like a magician’ with kids: Melbourne’s Herald Sun

‘European author and illustrator Davide Cali is like a magician, keeping 100-odd preppies at Albert Park Primary School entertained with his hand-made books.’ – Herald-Sun

‘Working with somebody is cool’: blog tour day 10

Australian illustrator Ann James chats with Davide on her Books Illustrated blog about how he works with illustrators, his celebrated collaborations with French illustrator Serge Bloch and which other writers and illustrators inspire him.

Reading for peace and the storyteller’s craft: blog tour day 8

Exciting news of a new reading project for kids, Reading for Social Peace, which Davide Cali will be launching on 24 May. Also, popular children’s author and blogger Dee White examines Cali’s approach to creating picture books. Blog tour day 8.

Clunes Booktown Festival Top 10

Lila Prap’s ‘Why?’ lead our Top 10 books at last weekend’s Clunes Booktown Festival

Davide Cali: the banner

We’ve just completed a natty looking promotional banner for Davide Cali, who is touring in May.

Davide Cali coming to Australia in 2012

Davide Cali is going to tour Australia in May 2012.

The Enemy ‘extraordinary’ – Kids’ Book Review

‘The Enemy is a gorgeously-styled, extraordinary book that will touch an adult heart and stretch open the heart of a child.’ – Kids’ Book Review raves about ‘The Enemy’

Bloch gets political and green

One of our favourite illustrators, Serge Bloch, has contributed the piece below for a special exhibition in New York.

Top 10 sales for May 2010

Our top 10 bestsellers in bookshops in May were: The Bear with the Sword (1) The Red Piano (2) The Enemy (7) Piano Piano (-) A Dad Who Measures Up (8) Kampung Boy (-) Waiting for Mummy (-) Santa’s Suit (-) I Like Chocolate (4) The Goose Bath Poems (-) (*) denotes last months ranking.

March 2010 Bestsellers

Our top 10 bestsellers in bookshops in March were:

Media release: ‘The Enemy’ honoured in the US

Davide Cali and Serge Bloch’s powerful anti-war book for children, The Enemy, has been included in the US Board on Books for Young People’s 2010 list of Outstanding International Books.

Monsters and Miracles with Serge Bloch

Illustrator Serge Bloch‘s work is featured in an exhibition “Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books”, to be held at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday April 7. He will also participate in a panel discussion with a group of other distinguished authors such as Caldecott Medal winners Mordiciai Gerstein and […]