Aaron Blecha – Ten Monsters In The Bed

Ten Monsters in The Bed, illustrated by the super Aaron Blecha, is a humorous play on 10 Green Bottles/10 in a Bed, where 10 monsters are squished together on a bunk bed.

On each spread, a monster gets pushed out and tumbles to the floor. Readers can press the characters to hear the fun sounds they make; plenty of snoring, burping, sniffing and farting!

Aaron invited us to have a sneaky peek at a few early stages of the Ten Monsters in The Bed book design, check these out!

Character Development:

Black Dog wins the Greenaway!

Templar Publishing are very proud to announce that
Levi Pinfold's beautiful picture book Black Dog is the WINNER 

of the 2013 CILIP Kate Greenaway Award!

We are over the moon and so very pleased for Levi - it is thoroughly well-deserved!

‘Of all the books considered for this award, BLACK DOG was the one that I most hoped would be recognised. Levi is an outstanding talent and we are immensely proud to be publishing him.’ Amanda Wood, Templar's Creative Director.

Here is a clip of Levi talking to our Art Director, Mike Jolley about his win:

http://youtu.be/wLSpBdQaaX8

Huge congratulations are also in order for our sister company, Hot Key Books, as Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon is the winner of the 2013 Carnegie Award! A very proud day for Bonnier!

Introducing Maja Hermansson

The lovely Maja Hermansson from Bonnier owned Swedish bookseller Adlibris, is working in the Templar marketing team for 3 months. So we asked Maja six quick fire questions to get to know her a little better:

How do you take your tea/coffee? 
Very strong and with milk.

Who should we be following on Twitter?
@adlibris_com, @margretAtwood, @lenadunham, @SarahKSilverman

What super power would you have? 
Time travelling! Then I would go back to 1 June 1974 and go to Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico's concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1,_1974)

6 things you couldn't live without:
- Running shoes
- iPhone/music player
- Notebook
- Head phones
- Pen
- Pyjamas (this pretty much sums up my life)

What would your last supper be?
Liquorice and coffea

What's the biggest secret that you're willing to reveal on our blog?
I am bonkers at math, totally worthless at cooking and I talk in my sleep

Thank you so much Maja, you can read more about her experience working in the UK here!