CELEBRATIONS August 2017
Charlotte Comley shares this month's round of SCBWI success stories.
Prizes
Claire Barker and the wonderful Knitbone Pepper Ghost Dog have been nominated for the
prestigious Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award for Fiction 2017. The
series is illustrated by Ross Collins. The award ceremony will be on the 23rd of August.
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| Claire Barker |
Books
Sophie Anderson, a Cumbria SCBWBI member has just found out that her middle grade novel, The House with Chicken Legs, will be published by Usborne in
April 2018. The rights have also sold to USA, Italy and Germany, and her amazing agent Gemma Cooper arranged the details.
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| Sophie Anderson |
Rohini Chowdhury is a children’s writer, and an established
literary translator and has two celebrations to share. Her translation
into English of the ancient Sanskrit classic Panchatantra, which
was brought out by Puffin India in March 2017, has been chosen by Amazon India
as one of their 'Editor's Pick for Children from 2017' under their ‘Best
of children's books from summer 2017’.
And Rohini’s first ever book, Three Princes of Persia, also
published by Puffin India, in 2005 is now being translated into Tamil, by Tamil
publishers Ethir Veliyedu.
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