New 2025 Signing

New 2025 Signing

We’re delighted to announce a brand new signing for 2025. ‘Panjir & the Bike with Golden Handlebars’ will be published as part of our Buzzy Reads series in May this year. This charming early reader is a book in translation from Dutch publisher,...
Festive Greetings

Festive Greetings

It has been an exciting year which saw us return to Bologna Children’s Book Fair for the first time in a few years. We published two new titles…Grandpa Kuma by Michelle Maiden and a brand new edition of Double Felix by Sally Harris. Double Felix now...
Happy Birthday SRC!

Happy Birthday SRC!

On Wednesday 6th November, Queen Bee, Louise Jordan, had the pleasure of attending the 25th birthday celebrations of the renowned Summer Reading Challenge. Hosts, The Reading Agency, put on a magnificent event at The Terrace Pavillion, Houses of Parliament. There was...
Kuma Goes to Uganda!

Kuma Goes to Uganda!

Wacky Bee author, Michelle Maiden, is reading her picture book, Grandpa Kuma, and making origami bears at the amazing Kumurasi Demonstration Primary School in Masindi, Uganda. She’s there to support her sister-in-law’s charity, Children of Masindi, which...
Summer Reading Challenge

Summer Reading Challenge

We are delighted to announce that our fabulous early reader, Jacob’s Music, is a selected title for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge, organised by The Reading Agency. This year’s theme is Marvellous Makers and is all about getting creative.The...
Empathy Day 2024

Empathy Day 2024

Empathy Day is approaching fast and this year takes place on Thursday 6th June. At Wacky Bee we are proud Empathy Builders and publishers of books which encourage empathy. As well as a great collection of books, Empathy Lab UK have a collection of free resources for...
Grandpa Kuma Event

Grandpa Kuma Event

Michelle Maiden continues her publicity tour of her brilliant debut picture book, this time at Godalming Library on Saturday, 25th May at 2.30pm. Join Michelle as she reads her new book “Grandpa Kuma” for children aged 3 to 6 years old, followed by an...
Storytime!

Storytime!

We’re delighted to announce that fabulous, new Wacky Bee author/illustrator, Michelle Maiden, is starting on a round of publicity readings for her gorgeous new picture book, Grandpa Kuma. On Tuesday 28th May she’ll be at Woking Library, 10.30 –...
Double Felix Again!

Double Felix Again!

Following on from the phenomenal success of the first Double Felix (now out of print), we will be publishing a brand new edition later this year. Together with a new-look cover, it also includes a whole extra section on how to make your own comic. Put together by the...
On the Move!

On the Move!

From 1st March 2024 we’re moving back south of the river. We’re now going to be based in shared offices alongside Impact in Brixton. We’re very excited about this move and hope it will be the last for a while. We are also scaling back our email...

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