The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.
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Neal Layton's marvellous new book, The Invincible Tony Spears is out now! This is the first in a new series that Neal has been working on for nearly 3 years, the culmination of a life long interest in space exploration and science fiction.
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Congratulations to Alex T. Smith for winning the 3-6 year old category of the UK Literacy Associations Book Award with his charming picture book, Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion, published by Scholastic.
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Blue Peter Best Story Award-Winners, Thomas Flintham and author Pamela Butchart, continued their winning streak when they were named overall winners of The Children's Book Award 2016, for My Headteacher is a Vampire Rat, published by Nosy Crow.
Emily Fox's collaboration with author, Adam Frost, continues in their third book in this charming series of Fox Investigates, A Taste for Adventure published by Stripes this month.
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This month we're celebrating all things CLAUDE!
We're very excited to announce that Alex T. Smith's Claude will be adapted into an animated series by BAFTA-winning Belfast-based animation studio, Sixteen South, for Disney Junior EMEA. The new series has just gone into production and is due to air in 2017 - there will be 52 episodes for boys and girls aged 4 to 6 and Sixteen South are keen to evoke the unique visual style of Alex's original pictures.
Neal Layton's new children's book, The Tree, is published by Walker Books this month.
Congratulations to Levi Pinfold for winning the English Association's 7-11 years Picture Book Award for his haunting and thought-provoking fable, Greenling. Established in 1995, the awards are presented to the best children's Fiction and Non-Fiction picture books of the year.
We are thrilled to introduce Joe Lillington, an exciting new talent to our roster. Joe is a recent graduate from University College Falmouth and already has two picture books under his belt.
Debut author Amber Lee Dodd's recently published book, We Are Giants, is beautifully illustrated by Arena illustrator Kristyna Litten, whose gorgeously subtle colour palette really compliments the heartwarming story of Sydney and her mum Amy.
The winners of the Blue Peter Best Story Award, author Pamela Butchart and Arena illustrator Thomas Flintham are back with their fifth book in the series, To Wee or Not to Wee. Our heroine, Izzy can't wait to tell her friends what happens in Shakespeare's exciting, scary and humorous plays, full of battles, loads of gore, witches, ghosts and even talking trees - they are the best stories ever.
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