There’s lots of lovely new books in our store at the moment… Here are a few favourites…
Il Sung Na’s stunning A Book of Sleep
The quirky and cool Big Rabbit’s Bad Mood
Gyo Fujikawa’s gorgeous board books
We’re celebrating all these lovely new books with a giveaway. Spend $50 (excluding postage) in the We Heart Books store from now until the 14th of March and get a gorgeous Maisy apron free (value $16.95). Quote MAISY APRON in the comments to qualify.
We’re very excited that We Heart Books was mentioned on Romona Koval’s The Book Show on Radio National on Monday…
Romona was discussing with Gideon Haigh and Andrew Wilkins (Director of Wilkins Farago Publishing) the standard of literary reviewing in Australia. Gideon Haigh has recently been published in the new journal Kill Your Darlings, which claims that the book pages of Australian newspapers and magazines have become ‘hodgepodges of conventional wisdom and middlebrow advertorial.’ They discussed the future of reviewing and the role that blogs may have…
Here’s what Andrew had to say:
The positive thing from my point of view is that there are now communities of people saying this isn’t enough and we can actually set up our own thing… The cost of setting up anything on the internet [means] you can actually produce a vibrant, interesting, blog – I’m thinking of Inside a Dog which does Young Adult fiction for example, We Heart Books, which does kids’ literature. These are people with no budgets, negative budgets, and yet they’re able to get good quality material out online and build a community of people who actually care about similar things.
We’re quite chuffed! You can listen to the whole interview with Gideon and Andrew here.
I just had to share this sweet illustration by Trafalgar Square on etsy.
I adore the little rabbit perched on the arm of the chair. Trafalgar Square is illustrator and mum, Kit, she also has a rather lovely blog here. Check out her etsy stores section called Book Love for more sweet illustrations of readers.
The beautiful 24 minute film based on the book Varmints by Helen Ward and Marc Caste was nominated for a BAFTA and shortlisted for an Oscar last year. You can buy the book from we heart books and find out more on the film at the studio aka website here.
This really is a very important book and film, it’s message is something special to share with our children as our environment continues to be something we all strive to protect.
One of the most beautiful self published books I have seen has arrived in our store. I Hear Two Birds is a counting book and a work of art written and illustrated by Brisbane local Kathy Panton.
Kathy has a Bachelor of Visual Art, and has recently given up her job as a special education teacher to be a fulltime artist. She told us … ‘I really believe in following your passion and that is why I am an artist.’
‘I can’t say I have any specific influences, but I have long studied the work of other artists who illustrate children’s books. A lot of people say my work is like Eric Carle’s, and that is a great compliment, as I think he was a real innovator in children’s book illustration.’
Kathy actually paints first and then cuts up her work which she uses in a collage technique to make her exquisit pictures. We are so lucky to have these photos of Kathy’s studio to share…
You can see here where she keeps her cut up paintings for use in her pictures…
I believe that Kathy has really captured the essence of what all the great, classic children’s books have. I Hear Two Birds works on so many different levels, it has beautiful flowing, rhythmic text, counting, recognition of colour, shape and everyday objects including animals and nature. It truly is a stunning book and we are very proud to have it.
Kathy also sells her beautiful prints, which are perfect art for a child’s room, from her Etsy store here.
Afternoon tea with a copy of the new edition of Shop 4 Kids, what could be better?
And this edition is even more super exciting because We Heart Books has been included as one of the sites that Shop 4 Kids LOVES – how cool is that!
There is also some of our most beautiful books included as well as all the best clothes, toys and essentials for babies and children and a really great feature on art for kids.
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