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Heartmines, one of the stories in
our series Living With Landmines, is re-printed in
Lines In The Sand, an anthology of writing
for children on the theme of war and peace. Published by Frances
Lincoln, and edited by Mary Hoffman and Rhiannon Lassiter,
the book includes contributions by Michael Morpurgo, Michael
Rosen, Tony Ross, Elizabeth Laird and many, many more. It
is available from Frances
Lincoln Ltd, and all royalties and profits go to UNICEF
to help children in Iraq.
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| NOVEMBER
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We launch Living With Landmines,
a series of hard-hitting stories to help primary school teachers
convey the impact of landmines on the lives of children in
Croatia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bosnia, Mozambique and Afghanistan.
To
read or print the first of the stories, click here.
We produced the stories for Adopt-A-Minefield (UK), one of
the leading groups raising awareness of landmines problem,
and funding de-mining work. To
find out how you can help Adopt-A-Minefield (UK), click here.
We promote the global dimension in the writing of our stories
as well as their subject matter, and in Living With Landmines
we're delighted to showcase original stories by international
authors Sabina Horvat (Croatia), Krisna Uk (Cambodia), Adna
Sabljic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and many more.
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| SEPTEMBER
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We celebrate the publication of our first
book! Save the Children (US) prints 5,000 copies of Zergai
& Jungai for use in its Library Boxes in Afghan refugee
camps. The stories are in Dari and Pashto.
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| JUNE
2002 |
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We pilot a webstory project with two Hackney
primary schools – Grasmere and Betty Layward – where we help
children in Years 1, 2 and 6 write and produce their own webstories.
We produce Telling Tales for the Stoke Newington
Festival. A ‘virtual library’ of four free stories appeared
on the Festival website, and our team of roving storytellers
read the stories to children at the annual Big Sleepover event
in Clissold Park. Telling Tales was sponsored by
Sunstone Health and Leisure Club for Women and Happy Computers.
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| MARCH
2002 |
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We get our first results from field trials
of Zergai & Jungai, a story we donated to children
in Afghan refugee camps. We produced versions of this story
in Dari, Farsi and Pashto and e-mailed them to Save the Children
Fund in Tajikistan and Islamabad for use in the refugee camps.
"In the last two weeks we have used the Zergai story
in different camps and the response was very good," wrote
SCF educational psychologist Wayne Bleier from Tajikistan.
"None of the children had seen a story book before. They
were able to get the message and we were able to use it to
illustrate that children need to stay with their parents to
prevent separation during migration."
Wayne distributed copies of the story to teachers and NGO
officers of UNICEF, IRC and HCR, and to children in the camps.
"Everyone loves the graphics," he said. "Yesterday
we had groups of children chanting "Zergai! Jungai!""
We launch our first Welsh story - Ana Lisa a'r Flanced
Fawr Las (Ana Lisa and the Big Blue Duvet) -
on World Book Day, Thursday 14th March.
We publish a Mothers Day Card to accompany Queen Molly
by Maggie Pearson. This is the first of many printable cards,
games and puzzles to be based on our stories.
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| FEBRUARY
2002 |
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We publish our first Pashto story, Zergai
& Jungai, by Afghan broadcaster and writer Najiba
Kasraee.
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| JANUARY
2002 |
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We publish With One Push an original
story by award-winning writer and broadcaster, Michael Rosen.
We publish Tickle and Patch Get Moving, a webstory
to mark the launch of their new TV series on Channel 5
We publish a new father-friendly story on FathersDirect.
The Twingles, Jungle Explorers.
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| DECEMBER
2001 |
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We celebrate Christmas with a special Christmas
story, The Last Parcel.
We publish our first story for 5-7 year olds on the website
of a new client Books For Children. |
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| NOVEMBER
2001 |
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We publish our first story without words:
Hugo is Flying High, by David Collier.
We publish This Is Chimp and Zee, an exclusive story
to promote Chimp and Zee, the new book by Catherine
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2001 |
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We launch our new series, Bedtime Stories
Online, with Wash Your Hands, an eight-page story
abridged with kind permission from Andersen Press from the
new Little Princess book by Tony Ross. Actress Adjoa
Andoh launches the series for us, and the event is covered
in The Times. The series runs from October 2001 to
April 2002.
We attend MIPCOM 2001 with our first cross-media property,
Trader and the Snowballs, written and illustrated
by Martin Olsson.
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| JULY
2001 |
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We secure sponsorship from Channel 5 for
Bedtime Stories Online, a weekly series of 24 pre-school stories
on e-parents.org, the parenting advice website run by the
National Family and Parenting Institute.
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| JUNE
2001 |
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We publish Caitlin at the Circus
on FathersDirect. We get 4,000 downloads in two weeks - enough
to sell out the first run of a children's book - and coverage
in The Times.
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| APRIL
2001 |
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We publish Analisa and the Baby Penguin
on the website of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's
Charity.
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| FEBRUARY
2001 |
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We publish our first webstory - Marmy
and her Fantastic String - on Mumsnet.
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