Simon & Schuster Children's has signed a two-book deal for an "epic" debut middle-grade series from SJ Poyton.

Scholastic has snapped up three new titles from breakout YA horror-thriller writer Bill Wood, the first a direct sequel to ...

Chicken House has signed The Horse Dreamer, from author-illustrator Holly Surplice. Editorial director Rachel Leyshon ...

Middle-grade star Jenny Pearson is to move to younger readers with a pirate-themed ’swashbuckling’ adventure series for ...

Miriam Robinson has been appointed head of strategy at the Booksellers Association (BA), starting on 5th June 2025.

The bestselling and award-winning YA and middle-grade author Catherine Doyle will write her first book for younger readers, ...

Walker Books has bought The Game of Oaths, a debut “high-stakes” historical YA fantasy set in a Belle Époque Paris magical ...

The Bookseller at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Day 1. March 31, 2025 Agents' hotlists The books agencies are backing to ...

Andersen Press has acquired Fred Fordham's comics adapation of Phil Earle's When the Sky Falls and Charley Rabbit's debut ...

Puffin Non-Fiction senior commissioning editors Tom Rawlinson and Phoebe Jascourt have made a series of middle-grade acquisitions, including a children’s version of art historian Katy Hessel’s The ...

Wendy Erskine's The Benefactors is a Belfast-set, polyphonic novel following three very different women, whose sons have all ...

HarperNonFiction has acquired Both Sides Now: Laughter, Grief and Everything in Between, a “moving” account of BBC Radio 2 ...