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Simply Read Books
Simply Read Books is a children's specific publishing house situated in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Awards (incomplete list) Books published by Simply Read Books have won the following awards: *Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature, Illustration *Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award *Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada by the Alcuin Society Authors and illustrators (incomplete list) Duncan Weller* Kari-Lynn Winters *Shaun Tan *John Marsden (writer) * Iassen Ghiuselev *Elisa Gutiérrez *Matthew Porter *Sara O'Leary *Julie Morstad *Thomas Aquinas Maguire Thomas Aquinas Maguire is an American writer and illustrator of children's picture books. His first book '' A Growling Place'' was published by '' Simply Read Books'' in August 2007. His second release from Simply Read Books '' Three Little Drea ... *Ryan Heshka *Dan Bar-el *Tamara James *Christine Dencer * Ashley Spires Controversy * Simply Read Books has had complaints of late payments, breaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingram Publisher Services
Ingram Content Group is an American service provider to the book publishing industry, based in La Vergne, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of Ingram Industries. Shawn Morin is CEO, and John R. Ingram is chairman of Ingram Industries. History The Ingram Content Group was formed, in 2009, when Ingram Lightning Group merged with Ingram Digital Group. Ingram Content Group's operating units are Ingram Book Company, Ingram International Inc., Ingram Library Services Inc., Ingram Publisher Services Inc., Ingram Periodicals Inc., Ingram Digital, Lightning Source Inc., Spring Arbor Distributors Inc., and Tennessee Book Company LLC. During 1999 and 2000, Ingram Industries negotiated a sale to Barnes & Noble which was ultimately withdrawn after pressure from independent bookstores and the American Booksellers Association. In July 2006, Ingram Industries acquired VitalSource Technologies, Inc, which it later sold to Francisco Partners in April 2021. In June 2014, the company, in conjunction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcuin Society
A voluntary association established in 1965 by Geoff Spencer, the Alcuin Society is a non-profit organisation founded for the book arts. It is located in Canada. It should not be confused with the Alcuin Club, an Anglican publishing society. Among the other six founding members is Basil Stuart-Stubbs. The society is named after Alcuin of York. Awards Since 1981, the society has awarded an Annual Award for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. It is the ony national book design competition. In 2007, the society started awarding the Robert R. Reid Award and Medal for lifetime achievement or extraordinary contributions to the book arts in Canada. Robert R. Reid Award and Medal winners *2020 Odette Drapeau *2019 Tim & Elke Inkster *2018 Robert Bringhurst *2017 Denise Lapointe & David Carruthers *2015 Rod McDonald *2015 Jan & Crispin Elsted, Barbarian Press *2013 William Rueter RCA MGDC *2012 Stan Bevington *2011 Glenn Goluska *2010 Jim Rimmer *2009 Frank Newfeld *2007 Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kari-Lynn Winters
Kari-Lynn Winters, née Moore (born 1969) is an award-winning Canadian children's author, playwright, drama educator, and literacy professor. She taught children's literacy, literature, dance and drama education at the University of British Columbia from 2004 to 2009. In 2010 Winters assumed the post of Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University (Ontario) and co-editor of ''Teaching and Learning.'' She advanced to the position of Associate Professor in 2014, and to Full Professor in 2021. Biography Born in St. Thomas, Ontario, Winters has studied or taught in schools across North America. Her master's thesis "Developing an Arts-Integrated Narrative Reading Comprehension Program for Less Proficient Grade 3 and 4 Students," on exploring the efficacy of using the arts to strengthen less proficient students' reading comprehension, was selected as best Master's Thesis in Literacy in Canada, 2005. Winters completed her PhD from the University of British Colu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated include '' The Red Tree'' and '' The Arrival''. Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel ''The Arrival'' won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award in 2007. and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006. Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Marsden (writer)
John Marsden (born 27 September 1950) is an Australian writer and unlicensed alternative school principal. Marsden's books have been translated into eleven languages. While working as a teacher, Marsden began writing for children, and had his first book, ''So Much to Tell You'', published in 1987. Since then, he has written or edited over 40 books and has sold over 5 million books throughout the world. In 2006, Marsden started an alternative school, Candlebark School in the Macedon Ranges. Marsden has since reduced his writing to focus on teaching and running the school. In 2016, he opened the arts-focused secondary school, Alice Miller School, also in the Macedon Ranges. He is also the patron of youth media organisation Express Media. He has no academic education in pedagogy and is not state licenced. Early life Marsden was born in Victoria and spent the first 10 years of his life living in the country towns of Kyneton, Victoria, and Devonport, Tasmania. He is a great-great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iassen Ghiuselev
Iassen Ghiuselev (born 1964) is a Bulgarian illustrator of many classic stories including Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland and The King of the Golden River. Ghiuselev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1964. His father is the Bulgarian opera singer Nicola Ghiuselev. Iassen Ghiuselev attended the School of Art in Sofia and then studied at the National Academy of Arts. He graduated in 1990 and started work as a freelance illustrator. Ghuiselev creates cover pictures, graphics and other illustrations for some of the best-known publishers and magazines in Sofia. He also works with the magazines ''Vanity Fair'' and ''Vogue'' in Italy. Awards Die Zeit and Radio Bremen awarded him the LUCHS 93 prize for his illustrations in ''The Queen Bee'', published by Esslinger. The American Institute of Graphic Arts designated ''Pinocchio'' as one of the Fifty Best Books of 2001 in its annual juried contest. ''Pinocchio'' also won the 2002 Independent Publisher award for juvenile fiction, and was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Aquinas Maguire
Thomas Aquinas Maguire is an American writer and illustrator of children's picture books. His first book '' A Growling Place'' was published by ''Simply Read Books'' in August 2007. His second release from Simply Read Books '' Three Little Dreams'' is a collection of three fold-out books, it was released in the summer of 2010. In 2011 Simply Read Books released Maguires' third picture book '' The Wild Swan''. Books '' A Growling Place'', Simply Read books, 2007. A traditional storybook about a girl who rescues a stuffed bear. The book features a simplified chapter system. The table of contents show the color-coded chapter names and the chapter names appear directly in the text of the book as the story is told. '' Three Little Dreams'', Simply Read books, 2010. This is Maguires first attempt to create stories as single long images. This storytelling technique is taken to an extreme in "The Wild Swans". ''Three Little Dreams'' is a box set of three small unfolding books; each book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Spires
Ashley Spires is a Canadian children's book author and illustrator. She is the creator of the ''Binky the Space Cat'' graphic novels series and the 2014 bestseller, ''The Most Magnificent Thing''. Biography Spires was born and raised in Tsawwassen, British Columbia. She studied photography at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she was inspired to pursue illustration after taking a class on book-making. After graduation, she earned a contract with Lobster Press, for which she illustrated Peter Kuitenbrouwer's 2004 book, ''Our Song: The Story of O Canada, the Canadian National Anthem''. She later attended a postgraduate illustration program at Ontario's Sheridan College. Spires is the author and illustrator of the ''Binky the Space Cat'' graphic novel series, about a cat who believes his house is a space station. The first book in the series, ''Binky the Space Cat'', won the 2011 Silver Birch Express Award, presented by the Ontario Library Association. On Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
