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Keep up to date with the latest happenings at Andersen Press! Our authors and illustrators are always busy at events up and down the country.

21/03/2013 11:28:31 A Twist of Fortune

Do you think you could have survived as a poor child in 1850? Find out and test your knowledge of life in the Victorian times with these brilliant quizzes.

14/03/2013 11:00:28 John Fardell wins the Scottish Children's Book Awards!

The Day Louis Got Eaten wins the Bookbug Readers (3-7 years) category of the SCBA!

27/02/2013 16:55:59 Bookaboo is back! (And he's brought Jason Priestley with him)

Bookaboo chooses Andersen Press to kick off his new tour with!

15/02/2013 16:49:18 The Beast is Back!

Download your Beast is Back Activity Pack here!

28/01/2013 14:17:19 Andersen Authors at Imagine Children's Festival!

Two of our authors will be entertaining you and your little ones at the Southbank Centre on the 22nd of February

23/10/2012 17:23:45 Tony Ross meets Claude Ponti at the South Ken Kids Fest

12pm Sunday 25th November

25/09/2012 09:53:14 The Dragonsitter is one of the funniest books!

...according to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize Shortlist for Funniest Book for Children age 7-14!

05/07/2012 10:42:29 Run Rabbit Run wins Young Quills Prize for Historical Fiction

RUN RABBIT RUN has been awarded a Young Quills Prize for Historical Fiction. Barbara Mitchelhill’s WW2 novel was named as the winner of the Primary age group category for 2012.

04/07/2012 08:50:24 Bear Has a Story to Tell Gets Its First Starred Review!

We are thrilled to share that the newest title from Philip and Erin Stead has received its first starred review from Publishers Weekly! What’s not to love about this big, cuddly bear?!

27/03/2012 17:04:09 Everybody Jam by Ali Lewis is shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal

Everybody Jam by Ali Lewis is on the shortlist for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal. Congratulations to Ali from everyone at Andersen Press!

27/03/2012 17:00:02 Bookstart Pledge

Andersen has pledged for Bookstart 2012!

28/02/2012 09:07:30 The Lonely Beast wins the Bishop’s Stortford Picture Book Award!

Chris Judge’s debut picture book, The Lonely Beast, beat stiff competition to win the 2012 Bishops’s Stortford Picture Book Award.

21/02/2012 15:07:06 IMAGINE FESTIVAL!

It was half term last week and the South Bank was swarming with young people eager to catch a glimpse of their favourite authors.

21/02/2012 15:06:06 Yee-haww!! Will Gallows came to see y’all!!

We recently had the great pleasure of touring Derek Keilty for a week.

21/02/2012 15:01:26 It’s the scariest movie ever, and they’re stuck in it!

Philip Caveney, author of Night on Terror Island, is an author who’s very much in demand, and so we thought lets get him down to London!

17/01/2012 15:56:41 The Great Explorer trailer

Reach for your inner Shackleton...

16/01/2012 16:33:16 Lolly Luck blog tour launches today on Chicklish

Ellie Daines, author of Lolly Luck, has been busy answering bloggers’ questions and writing brilliant guest posts for the blog tour to celebrate the launch of her debut novel.

16/01/2012 09:29:21 The Oxford Literary Festival welcomes Mei Matsuoka and Andrew Weale

The week-long Oxford Literary Festival will be hosting two events with Andersen Press authors.

22/11/2011 14:57:55 Melvin Burgess inspires young readers on schools tour

Witches? Check. Wolves? Check. Scary stories? Check. Phenomenally inspiring author talking to young readers about his books? CHECK!!

22/11/2011 14:48:27 The Snow Merchant sets sail at The Kew Bookshop!

Last week, avid book fans wrapped up in winter woollies and spent a cosy evening at the beautiful Kew Bookshop to celebrate the launch of Sam Gayton’s debut novel, The Snow Merchant.

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