Calendar: Promotion

CHANGELING series trailer

Check out this this brand new trailer for the ferociously fantastic CHANGELING book series by Steve Feasey. CHANGELING is a compelling, spine-chilling adventure series packed full of high-octane adventure and a cast of despicable demons, werewolves and vampires. Book 3, BLOOD WOLF, was published on 5th February and follows on from DARK MOON and CHANGELING.

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Free Book Giveaway - Amy Green: Summer Secrets

Walker Books are delighted to offer your reading groups FREE reading copies of AMY GREEN: SUMMER SECRETS by Sarah Webb. First come, first served!

Everyone's favourite agony aunt is back solving problems for teen girls everywhere. Teen problem-solving supremos Amy and Clover are trapped in family holiday hell - a week in rainy Ireland with a neurotic aunt, nagging mum, crazy step-dad and irritating cousin. The summer seems set for disaster until Clover gets the chance to interview an American movie star for The Goss magazine. And there's no way she's leaving Amy behind! Look out, US of A-mazing - here they come!

For first chapter sampler, author blog, diary entries, downloads and much, much more, please visit www.askamygreen.com.

For your free copy of Amy Green, please contact Jo.humphreys-davies@walker.co.uk. All we ask in return is that you tell us what you think!

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POPPY LOVE ACTIVITY PACK

POPPY LOVE ACTIVITY SHEETS

Poppy Love loves to dance. Take a pinch of Strictly Come Dancing, blend it with Britain's Got Talent, add a girl who loves to dance more than anything in the world, and you've got Poppy Love!

Life at the Blue Horizon Dance School in Brighton is brimming with spangle, sparkle and cha cha cha, for Poppy and her dance partner Zac. It's a world of fabulous fun, tough competitions, dazzling dance festivals, music and make-up - not to mention all the family and friends to fit in too!

Step into Poppy's world of fabulous fun, dazzling dance competitions, spangle and sparkle with our free activity and colouring sheets. Please contact jo.humphreys-davies@walker.co.uk.

For more fun activity sheets and games, visit www.walker.co.uk

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GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU activity pack

GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU Activity Pack!

In this downloadable activity pack, you'll find everything you need to hold a Guess How Much I Love You activity day in your library. Containing activity and colouring sheets, greeting cards and games - this is perfect for Valentine's promotions!

For more information, packs and stickers, please contact jo.humphreys-davies@walker.co.uk

For more fun activity sheets and games, please visit www.walker.co.uk

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Online Content Available for Your Library Website!

Oxford Children's Books have trailers, games and author video clips to share! We have the following content to offer for your library website:
- Winnie the Witch's Looney Laundry Game
- Dinosaur Cove Fossil Hunting Game
- Trailers for Blade (Tim Bowler's gripping teenage series) and Hero.Com/Villain.Net (Andy Briggs' action-packed series and anti-series for 9+)
- Meet the Author clips for Where I Belong (Gillian Cross, publishing April 2010), The Death Defying Pepper Roux (Geraldine McCaughrean, 2009), Shark Island (David Miller, 2009), Bloodchild (Tim Bowler, 2009).

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LEVIATHAN TRAILER

An amazing trailer for the brand new series by Scott Westerfeld, LEVIATHAN, is online! Click to watch, or we have limited numbers of the trailer on disk that we can send to your library!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lGmAvH4lM

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FALLEN

Proofs available for FALLEN by new author Lauren Kate, an epic battle between Heaven and Hell, with echoes of Paradise Lost, and a story of a love doomed to fail over and over again.
"Sexy and fascinating and scary . . . I loved loved loved it!"--P.C. Cast

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Go Dutch! (Authors and samplers available)

Go Dutch is a promotion of new Dutch writing published in English. It features eight writers, many of whom will be available for events in the UK (with most costs being covered by the promotion). We also have quantities of a sampler of New Dutch Writing to make available at no cost to library authorities and readers groups. More details are on www.nlpvf.nl/godutch. The Go Dutch promotion runs until June 2010.

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Jenny Valentine Proofs

We have some wonderful proofs of Iggy and Me by Jenny Valentine (winner of the Guadrian Fiction Prize) to give away.
First come first serve!
Age range 6+ yrs

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CHANGELING by Steve Feasey samplers available

Macmillan Children's Books has samplers available of the second thrilling book in a new series for young people by Steve Feasey. CHANGELING: DARK MOON tells the story of fourteen-year-old Trey Laporte who discovers he is a hereditary werewolf. Suitable for boys and girls aged 11+, this is an action-packed fantasy adventure which will have you gripped from the very first page.

For more information on Steve Feasey and the CHANGELING series, see www.panmacmillan.com/children

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Frank Cottrell Boyce samplers available

Macmillan Children's Books have samplers of COSMIC by Frank Cottrell Boyce available for reading groups. Perfect for girls and boys aged 8-12 and anyone who loves funny, adventure books. COSMIC was shortlisted for the 2009 CILIP Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Roald Dahl Prize. Frank is also the author of FRAMED and MILLIONS.

For more information on Frank and his books visit www.bebo.com/frankcottrellboyce

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Find out more about your favourite authors on AuthorsPlace.co.uk!

Welcome to AuthorsPlace, a new website from The Random House Group. We've invited our authors to create their own unique profile pages on AuthorsPlace, the first of which are now live. Find out more about the authors and their books, read interviews, watch videos, browse picture galleries, and talk to them on their blogs and message board.
There will be more authors signing up with AuthorsPlace every week, so check here regularly to see who's new on the site!

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