Kaisei-sha to exhibit at Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2010
February 2010
Kaisei-sha is delighted to be once again exhibiting at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which will be held in Bologna, Italy between 23rd and 26th March. Please do pop along and visit us if you have time, you can find us in Hall 29 A18. We’ve also completed our Foreign Rights Catalogue 2010 in time for the Book Fair. The catalogue showcases around 90 titles, with a focus on new titles. We’ll be distributing the catalogue at the Book Fair, so make sure to pick up your copy. If you can't make it to the Book Fair, you can still get your hands on a copy by downloading it via the link at the top of the page.
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MORIBITO II: Guardian of the Darkness awarded a Mildred L. Batchelder Honor 2010.
February 2010
Nahoko Uehashi’s ‘MORIBITO II: Guardian of the Darkness’, as translated into English by Cathy Hiroano and published in 2009 by Arthur A. Levine Books, has been awarded the Mildred L. Batchelder Honor 2010. The Mildred L. Batchelder Award, established in 1966, is a citation awarded annually to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States. The Honors are awarded simultaneously to three other outstanding books. This is the second triumph in two years for the exceptional MORIBITO series; last year, ‘MORIBITO: Guardian of the Spirit’, also translated by Cathy Hirano, won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award.
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An Underground House of 100 Stories close to selling its 200,000th copy whilst A House of 100 Stories reaches the 350,000 mark!
February 2010
‘An Underground House of 100 Stories’, the follow-up to the smash success of ‘A House of 100 Stories’, was first published in November 2009. In just three months, the book has sold an incredible 180,000+ copies.
Such roaring success is the exception rather than the rule in the children’s book industry. Its popularity is thanks to a successful Christmas season and the influence of its predecessor, ‘A House of 100 Stories’, which has reached the 350,000 mark since being published in March 2008.
Foreign rights have been sold to China, Korea and Taiwan, with the book apparently doing particularly well in Taiwan.
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| A House of 100 Stories by Toshio Iwai 22 x 31 cm, 32 pages Full-colour illustrations |
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An Underground House of 100 Stories by Toshio Iwai 22 x 31 cm, 32 pages Full-colour illustrations |