In this episode of Off the Shelf, Kghia and Simeon interview British children’s publisher, Jane Nissen, who has been responsible for restoring so many classic children s books to print.
She started as a reader for Kaye Webb of Puffin Books and worked for a number of publishers before starting her own imprint on her retirement. The breadth and depth of her knowledge of the field is remarkable, and it was a privilege to have interviewed her.
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Show Notes
Publishers’ Website: http://www.janenissenbooks.co.uk/
This week’s music: Take me to your Library from the album Take me to your Library by Monty Harper
Puffin Books- Kaye Webb
- So Much to Tell
- Picadilly Press
- London College of Printing
- Francis Lincoln Books
- Methuen Children’s Books
- Hamish Hamilton
- Mistress Masham’s Repose
- The Wind on the Moon
- Brendon Chase (“A glorious book” – Simeon)
- Philip Pullman
- The Little Duke
- The Cuckoo Clock
- Bounce Marketing
- Julia Donaldson
- The New York Review Children’s Collection
- Rumer Godden
- Lucy M Boston
- Dick Bruna
- Mrs Cockle’s Cat
- The Shadow Cage and other Tales of the Supernatural (Kings and Queens)
- Quentin Blake
- My Friend Mr Leakey
- Fattypuffs and Thinifers
- Fritz Wegner
- E. H. Shepard
- The King of the Copper Mountains
- The Story of Ferdinand
- Old Peter’s Russian Tales
- Amanda Craig
- Faber & Faber
- Oxford Children’s Books
- Marigold in Godmother’s House
- Bunchy
- Eleanor Farjeon Award
- A Vicarage Family
- Noel Streatfeild
