Watkins Media launches new children’s imprint Moon + Bird

Watkins and Nourish publisher Fiona Robertson will supervise the imprint, with editors Brittany Willis and Gemma Creffield likewise acquiring for the list. Signing up with Robertson in leading the imprint are 2023 The Bookseller Increasing Celebrity and head of marketing and attention Laura Whitaker-Jones and head of style Karen Smith, who will direct their respective groups in developing out Moon + Bird’s branding and exposure, with a particularly eager eye on the college, collection and independent bookstore rooms.

Robertson claimed: “I’m really delighted that Watkins is releasing its own kids’s imprint, Moon + Bird! As a mum myself, I understand what a significant impact publications have on expanding minds, and I’m so ecstatic about this possibility to convert what we do on the adult side of Watkins in terms of wellbeing, personal advancement, nature, Paganism, magic, folklore, tales, and so on right into gorgeous books that speak directly to young visitors and open their eyes to our outstanding world and their very own amazing possibility.”

The author states the imprint will “draw on the staminas of the Watkins brand name to focus on producing attractive, revolutionary publications that motivate inclusivity, inquisitiveness and durability, and help children manage their very own sensations and find their own special course in life”.

Whitaker-Jones added: “We are so ecstatic to be developing a checklist of youngsters’s books which will have the very same positive impact as those on our adult listing, so we wanted to keep our brand name values even in the naming of the imprint. The Moon + Bird logo design includes the ibis and crescent moon, which are the signs of Thoth, the Egyptian god of creating, knowledge and magic. Thoth is the logo of our book shop Watkins Books, and Thoth’s ibis and crescent moon additionally feature in the logo of Watkins Publishing. To utilize these symbols in the name provides us a concrete web link to our bigger brand name whilst still keeping it fun and accessible.” The brand-new imprint’s internet site can be discovered below.

It will certainly release 10 to 12 books per year in hardback and paperback, with its very first three publications releasing in Spring 2025. These are: Nadia Finer’s Quiet Trouble: Real Tales of Softly Spoken Superheroes Who Altered the Globe (illustrated by Holly Farndell); Yussuf Rafik’s Just how to be an Eco Traveler: Enjoyable Activities for Exploring Nature and Saving the Earth (shown by Holly Astle); and Bérengère Demoncy and Victoria Ruiz y Lopez’s The Enchanting Wheel of the Year: A Story of the Pagan Festivals with Activities & Rituals.