Hot Off The Press
June 23, 2010
Sleepydog’s range of eBooks for the iPhone and iPod touch are the latest cover feature for industry journal, The School Librarian.
‘New Books, New Technologies, New Challenges’ is the theme of the issue, which includes an article written by top children’s authors Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore.
Speaking about the benefits of electronic publishing, Skidmore said:
“…kids who are turned off reading and wouldn’t dream of going to a library or bookshop, can get hold of eBooks easily and cheaply and think they are cool. It gets them reading!”
The magazine also includes a feature entitled ‘Our iPod Touch Experiment’ in which Pembroke School Librarian, Liz Smith looks at how children responded to Sleepydog’s eBooks.
Smith reported that:
“Cerys declared it was ‘cool’ and gave it ‘infinity out of infinity’… she loved the idea that you would never be without a book and commented that she liked being able to flick the page over like a ‘normal’ book.”
The School Librarian is the journal of the School Library Association (SLA). For more information please visit the SLA website.
New eBook Available on iTunes
June 10, 2010
Our latest eBook for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available to buy on the App Store.
‘The Toilet Seat Has Teeth‘ is a delightful collection of poetry written by Paul Cookson and illustrated by Carl Flint.
Priced at just £1.19, this eBook includes 53 poems and also includes a fun, interactive quiz to test your knowledge!
Click here to launch iTunes and see our full range of eBooks on the App Store.
Online Q&A With Malcom Gladwell
May 12, 2010
Times Online today hosted a live Q&A with best-selling author and journalist, Malcom Gladwell.
Best known for his books, The Tipping Point (2000), Blink (2005), Outliers (2008), and What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009), Gladwell has also been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.
Sleepydog CEO, Toby Moores took the opportunity to ask a few questions on social media, effectiveness vs. efficiency and the self-referential nature of a media-celebrity-political complex.
Visit Times Online to catch up on the conversation.
Young Writers’ Award 2010
April 28, 2010
Sleepydog is proudly supporting The Usborne Young Writers’ Award 2010, and will publish the five winning entries as an eBook for the iPhone and iPod touch.
To enter the competition, aspiring young writers are invited to choose one of five ’story starters’ and complete the story in no more than 1000 words.
Sleepydog’s own published authors, Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore are amongst the top children’s writers who have supplied a story starter, which each come with writing tips and videos from the authors themselves.
For full competition details, visit www.usborne.com/youngwritersaward
Wake Up To Weird & Wonderful
April 13, 2010
Early risers in Australia were treated to a preview of Weird & Wonderful Hotels, when we featured on Channel 9’s morning show, Kerri-Anne.
The segment included clips from our visits to the Null Stern Hotel, Marqués de Riscal, The Tea Factory, Hostel Celica and Tongabezi Lodge.
For those of you not from Down Under, you can watch the clip from Kerri-Anne’s show here.
Weird & Wonderful Hotels is being broadcast throughout April and May on the Nat Geo Adventure channel.