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The Waterstones Children's Book Prize is an annual award given to a work of children's literature published during the previous year. First awarded in 2005, the purpose of the prize is "to uncover hidden talent in children's writing" and is therefore open only to authors who have published no more than two or three books, depending on which category they are in. [1] The prize is awarded by ...
Billabong Books (also known as: Billabong Series) Concorde Gardening Books; Fair Britain; The Family Gift Series; The Good Tone Library; The Good Worth Library [13] The Lily Series [13] Library Editions of Standard Works [13] Little "Cousin" Series (author: Mary Hazelton Wade) [15] The Little Wonder Books; Lives Series (Ward Lock Educational ...
Grosset & Dunlap obtained permission from Little, Brown, to reprint Thornton Burgess's many children's books, and began issuing the Bedtime Stories series (20 books originally published 1913–1919, including such titles as The Adventures of Reddy Fox and The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel) in 1949. The original Little, Brown editions ...
The Waterstones Book of the Year, established in 2012, [1] is an annual award presented to a book published in the previous 12 months. Waterstones' booksellers nominate and vote to determine the winners and finalists for the prize. Award winners receive "full and committed backing" from Waterstones both in-person and online. [2]
Beginning in 1916 Columbia took full control of Little Wonder, and in 1917 it began issuing small illustrated children's books called "Bubble Books", and were also best sellers. [10] Much later Columbia also issued various promotional discs in the same "small disc" numerical series, but these should not be confused with the Little Wonder label.
The Spotlight Wonder Book series focused on famous people or institutions as opposed to science topics. They were identical to How and Why Wonder Books in terms of their size (8 1 ⁄ 2 × 11 inches, or 21.6 × 27.9 cm) and the fact that they also contained the standard 48 pages. Titles included the following:
Draw: 2-1 Away: 5-1. These odds can be represented as implied probabilities (or percentages by multiplying by 100) as follows: Evens (or 1-1) corresponds to an implied probability of 1 ⁄ 2 (50%) 2-1 corresponds to an implied probability of 1 ⁄ 3 (33 1 ⁄ 3 %) 5-1 corresponds to an implied probability of 1 ⁄ 6 (16 2 ⁄ 3 %)
Similar to the "lost diary specials", Samantha also had a two book special #65 Bridal Dreams and #66 Samantha's Irish Luck which were published within the regular series. . These books are not distinguished with a separate title indicating their "special" status within the series, but are generally regarded as such and were included within the regular series also in attempts to explain ...