Aus publishers’ latest acquisitions
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- 28 Feb 2023
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Among the latest children’s and YA acquisitions by Australian publishers:
Children’s
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has acquired two books by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
Releasing in June 2023, It’s the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people, is Clarke’s debut collection of poetry for children and teens. Aimed at upper primary through to lower secondary readers, the collection celebrates the joy of language and features ‘evocative, enticing’ poems about everyday life—the sounds of the block, the boredom of detention, the happenings in the schoolyard, a big brother’s messy room, a grandfather’s fading memory, a grandmother’s garden magic.
HGCP publisher Chren Byng said: ‘For all those young readers whose exposure to poetry is often via the words of generations past, this electric and eclectic modern collection will reinvigorate homes across the country.’ The poems in the collection will also be line-illustrated by Clarke in black and white, for older primary readers.
‘The aim of the book, apart from creating a really fun read for kids, especially after the last few years they’ve endured, is to provide a substantial collection of new contemporary poems for kids, to generate excitement about the many possibilities of language and poetry,’ Byng said. Read More…
