Frankfurt Buchmesse
Frankfurt Book Fair is done and dusted for another year. Numbers were marginally down but we were splendidly represented by Petula Chaplin Rights Agency. Middle grade fiction and fun, humorous junior fiction series proved to be the sweet spot this year, which is great...
Empathy Festival
Wacky Bee is proud to be an Empathy Builder with EmpathyLabUK and we want you to Go All In and join 1000s of children and young people nationwide for the FREE Empathy Day Festival, 4-11 June. Join the Empathy Day Festival in schools, libraries, bookshops or at home,...
Children’s Book Project
We’ve sold out of our two early readers – Geronimo, the Dog Who Thinks He’s a Cat and Philomena, the Cat Who Thinks She’s a Dog – again! So we’re reprinting. The Children’s Book Project are a charity that aims to put books in...
Loving Indies
Us Indies have been at it again! March is the month of International Womens’ Day so we’ve been celebrating stories about women and girls. Give a shout-out to Book Island, Scallywag Press, Red Robin, Lantana, Dinosaur Books and Old Barn Books. And of course...
Vietnam & Slovenia
Geronimo and Philomena are really getting around these days. Both books have been sold to Vietnam and Slovenia respectively. The Vietnamese publisher is Kim Dong Books. Xin chào Geronimo! Xin chào Philomena! The Slovenian publisher is Zalozba Skrivnost. Zdravo...
Catalogue 2026
We are delighted to announce that our brand new catalogue is now available to view. Just in time for London Book Fair, which takes place 10th – 12th March. Our lead title is the beautiful follow-up to Grandpa Kuma by Michelle Maiden, which was nominated for...
Publishers All In
Children’s publishing is a competitive world so we love it when us small, independent publishers work together. With the help of inclusive publisher, Lantana, we teamed up with Book Island, Old Barn Books, Red Robin Books and Scallywag Press to put together a...
Inclusion Pledge
As proud members of the Publishers’ Association, we are proud to support their Publishing Inclusion Pledge 2026-28, a new initiative which recognises and celebrates that diverse perspectives strengthen the UK’s publishing sector. As a signatory to the pledge,...
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