HarperCollins UK has acquired the list of children’s publisher Miles Kelly at auction following the business going into ...

Author and illustrator Emma Farrarons has signed a four-book deal for a new character-led young fiction series with Simon & Schuster Children’s Books.

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Magic Cat will publish cookery star Jamie Oliver’s first non-fiction kids’ books, a ’groundbreaking’ preschool series aimed ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Hachette Children’s Group’s rights team has announced a number of deals for Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon School ...

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