some scary French children's books

How interesting! Check out some of these French children's picture books--so much darker than what you can find in North America.

A character who cut off his own head? Or did he PEEL off his own head?

Did that woman just turn Angela into a wooden puppet for stealing one of her cherries? Yes. Yes she did.

The rabbit's revenge--these rabbits are mad! More here! Thanks to Jenny Colgan for the info.

beautiful upcoming titles from Simply Read

I am pretty exited about some of our upcoming titles. We just put them up on our website. Here is a sneak peek at some of them: The Swing, poem by Robert Louis Stevenson and illustrated by the fabulous Julie Morstad. (Soon to be an amazing book trailer too ;)

Everyone Eats by Julie Kuo--a fun and pretty board book.

Lily Loves by Kai Luftner and illustrated by Judith Drews--such a cute picture book!

Wild Berries by Julie Flett--amazing beautiful work. (We are also publishing this book completely in the Cree language.)

And of course some super cuteness from Paola Opal, with new Simply Small titles including Zingy, a baby hummingbird.

chocolate lily nominations!

Congratulations to our nominees for the 2012-2013 Chocolate Lily Awards! They include: Pussycat Pussycat Where Have You Been? by Dan Bar-el and illustrated by Rae Mate

and I Want to Go to the Moon by Tom Saunders and illustrated by Cynthia Nugent

When I Was Small Book Trailer

We've just posted a beautiful trailer for Sara O'Leary and Julie Morstad's 2012 BC Book Prizes award-winning book, When I Was Small. Seriously, it's gorgeous! (Can you tell we're excited about it?) :) You can find it here!

yay- bc book prizes

We are very pleased to announce that "When I Was Small

" by Sara O'Leary and illustrated by Julie Morstad won the 2012 Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize. The BC Book Prizes Gala was held this weekend, and it was a fantastic event. Congratulations to all the other beautiful books nomination for the Christie Harris, especially our own "Pussycat Pussycat Where Have You Been" written by Dan Bar-el and illustrated by Rae Mate.

A cute image I spied on Betsy Bird's Fuse # 8 blog. It makes me think of how wonderful it would be to decorate a whole house as though it were a children's book.

beautiful thread covers