alice

One of the first books we published at Simply Read Books was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Iassen Ghiuselev. We have since reprinted it numerous times as well as even done a new edition. We are always on the look out of other beautiful illustrated versions of Alice, and this one certainly caught our eye: from Penguin UK and Yayoi Kusama, Japan’s most celebrated contemporary artist, comes a striking version with colorful dots and twisted typography.

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!

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.