Melville House Books

The Ladybirds for Grown-Ups book series has been a crazy-successful phenomenon since its launch in 2015. So many of us (myself included) grew up reading Ladybird books—beautifully illustrated, slim children’s… Read more »

It has already teamed up with Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Jurassic Park. Now, Lego is taking the leap from screen to soul as it presents… Read more »

Hello American friends! Have you been keeping up with the epic political fiasco continuing to unfold in the UK? No? Let me give you a quick recap! This July, Theresa May… Read more »

A picture book about a young boy dressing up as a mermaid has won The Klaus Flugge Prize. Founded to honour publisher Klaus Flugge, who set up Andersen Press in 1976 and discovered… Read more »

Don’t you just hate it when you’re innocently performing an Accio summoning spell or trying to cast a Patronus and an evil spirit turns up instead, ready to drag you… Read more »

Earlier in the summer, we wrote about the Women’s World Cup and its potentially transformative impact on the way society views the sport. We speculated on whether more books on… Read more »

If you’ve been dreaming of the best way to introduce your little ones to the masters of such classics as “Seek & Destroy” and “Creeping Death,” look no further! Heavy… Read more »

It’s the dream isn’t it? Discovering you actually own a first edition that has quietly been sitting at the back of a shelf or the bottom of a box, collecting… Read more »

Books for Africa, an organization that works to end the book famine in Africa, has been collecting and donating books to African students of all ages since its founding in… Read more »

Back in July 2018 we reported that only 1% of children’s books in the UK depict Black And Minority Ethnic main characters (BAME), and almost a year later, it seems… Read more »