2019 Crichton Award for New Illustrators
Congratulations to Samantha Metcalfe for being shotlisted for the 2019 Crichton award for best new illustrator for her stunning new picture book Carmichael's Journey. Carmichael's Journey Cover
BBC’s CBeebies presents “Is It The Way You Giggle?”
It was great to see Is It The Way You Giggle? (written by Nicola Connelly and illustrated by Annie White) presented on the BBC as a Bed Time Story for children by CBeebies! Helen George (currently staring as Trixie Franklin in Call the Midwife) does a fantastic job at reading the story and the CBeebies production team [...]
World’s best bookshop?
If you could design a bookshop from the ground up, how would it look? That question is one that few of us will ever have to answer, but one that Tadao Ando, the self-taught Japanese architect answered in spades when he designed the Xinhua bookshop in the Aegean Mall in Shanghai. See through staircase [...]
Shanghai International Children’s Bookfair
At the conclusion of the Shanghai International Children's Bookfair, we look back over three amazing days of meetings with China's top publishers and give a special thanks to the Australia Council who hosted Alc Agency for the event. This fair, in such an amazing city, has been the highlight bookfair of the year so far! [...]
ALC Agency at the Indonesian International Bookfair
ALC Agency is pleased to welcome Alda Trisda as our new agent in Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines. ALC Agency will be represented at the Indonesian International Bookfair by Alda Trisda from Yayasan Trisda Literatur. The bookfair is being held in Jakarta from 12 - 16 September. [...]
Publisher Focus: Dirt Lane Press
The changing face of retail sales of Children’s Books across the world is giving rise to a new style of publisher, one that uses not only the benefits of online selling and marketing but also the opportunities of funding development costs through crowdfunding platforms. These publishers are not restricted to book formats designed for retailer’s [...]
Author Illustrator Focus: Peter Carnavas
This month, Peter Carnavas becomes our best-selling Author or Illustrator of all time! With the license of his novel The Elephant to Mann, Ivanov, and Ferber in Russia, Peter’s books have now been licensed 91 times in 18 languages in 22 countries around the world. If that isn’t impressive enough, we are currently delivering [...]
MIPTV 2018
April is a busy month, however between all the book fairs (Milan, Bologna, and London), Mary headed to Cannes for MIPTV to meet with a number of children's program producers and to demonstrate the latest version of Birde, the new interactive media player being launched by our client Lyrebird Interactive in Australia this year. Although [...]
London Book Fair
Following hot on the heels of the Bologna Bookfair is the London show, which attracts a cross-section of Adult and Children's publishers, but with a strong weighting to adult books. Having attended the fair for a number of years, the event seemed sum what subdued this year, a little flat if you like. Perhaps it [...]
Bologna Childrens International Book Fair
Alc Agency stand Bologna Book Fair 2018 2018 Bologna Book Fair Alc Agency exhibited at the Bologna book fair last week where we met with 89 publishers from 18 countries presenting the latest picture books, fiction and information titles from our growing stable of publishers. It was especially pleasing to have Fu [...]