Bounce!
Sales and Marketing
REPRESENTING
THE BEST INDEPENDENT CHILDREN’S PUBLISHERS
Merlin
Publishing are the sole agents for the Bounce! Sales and Marketing
Agency throughout Ireland. We offer the book trade a professional
sales representation of the very best independent children’s
publishers from the U.K and beyond! Titles from over a dozen top
children’s publishers are presented to the Irish books trade,
making a wealth of innovative, educational and fun books available
to the Irish public.
The
publishers represented are: Barrington Stoke, Book House, b small
Publishing, Birdcage Books, Catnip/Happy Cat, Image Books, Innovative
Kids, Jane Nissen Books, Little Hare, Miles Kelly, Panini Books,
Pupfish, Red Robin, Rising Stars, TAG, Templar, Treehouse.
Please
note that these books are not sold directly to the public but
are available from bookshops throughout Ireland.
Bounce!
publishers are distributed by Macmillan Distribution, UK.
Barrington
Stoke
Barrington Stoke offer a large fiction list developed specially
for reluctant readers and children with learning difficulties
such as dyslexia. They are well known for their high quality authors
such as Michael Morpurgo, Mary Arrigan and Teresa Breslin. www.barringtonstoke.co.uk
Book
House
This is a non-fiction list well know for its unique and fun approach
to learning. The Danger Zone series is very popular for its witty
and informed cartoon style depiction of historical events.
www.book-house.co.uk
b
small Publishing
b small publish a wide variety of activity books ranging from
Make and Colour Christmas Cards to Halloween Activity books. They
also have a very successful bilingual list including French and
Spanish.
www.bsmall.co.uk
Birdcage
Books
Birdcage Books offer a range of art books and games about Van
Gogh, The Renaissance and Impressionism. Perfect for children
who want to learn about the theory behind art.
www.birdcagebooks.com
Catnip
Happy Cat
A list of favourite children’s picture books and fiction
by authors such as Satoshi Kitamura, Michele Coxon and Hilda Offen
amongst others. Happy Cat also publish Althea’s groundbreaking
Talking it Through series.
www.catnippublishing.co.uk
Image
Books
The creators of the Mysti series, the 4 Aces series and Hoo Haa
House. A fresh hybrid of traditional fiction and graphic novels
told in stylish images with fast-paced witty dialogue.
www.mysti.co.uk
Innovative
Kids
American publisher of award winning Hands-On Minds-On Books. Every
book is crafted to feed the desire for fun and the need for knowledge.
Every title is jam-packed with learning and most importantly with
Hands-on fun!
www.innovativekids.com
Jane
Nissen
Jane Nissen Books bring classic children’s books back into
print. Popular titles include Mistress Masham’s Repose by
T.H. White and The Woods of Windri by Violet Needham.
www.janenissenbooks.com
Little
Hare
Australia’s hottest new publisher of picture books and fiction.
Star authors include Leigh Hobbs, Simon French, and David Bedford.
They also have an extensive range of fun and clever maze books
by Anna Nilsen and Rolf Heimann.
www.littleharebooks.com
Miles
Kelly Publishing
Miles Kelly publish an extensive range of popular non-fiction
for children, including the 100 Things You Should Know series
and the Bulletpoints series.
www.mileskelly.net
Panini
Books
Publishers of licenced character products such as Art Attack and
Scooby Doo Activity books, Marvel Pocket Books and a wide range
of popular Annuals including Spiderman, Dr Who, Marvel Heroes
and X-Men. www.paninigroup.com
Pupfish
Creating beautiful books for children that are more than just
a good read! Each book dives deep into the Bible for inspiration
and surfaces with treasures that will open the child’s mind,
heart, and spirit to the wonders of God and his amazing world.
www.pupfish.co.uk
Red
Robin
Books and learning materials aimed at teachers and parents with
young children encouraging them to learn through interaction and
play.
www.redrobinbooks.com
Rising
Stars
Mainly publishers of study and revision guides for the key areas
of the curriculum. Their main series being Achieve, which covers
Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 6. They also have an early years fiction
list called Boys Rule.
www.risingstars-uk.com
TAG
Tag Learning are an educational publisher who develop multimedia
resources that work alongside their books. Key titles are Real
Victorians and 101 Fantastic Things to do With Your Computer.
All titles include a CD-Rom.
www.taglearning.co.uk
Templar
Publishing
Templar publish high quality illustrated books including novelty,
picture books, non-fiction and gift titles. Bestsellers include
Dragonology, Wizardology, Piratology and the Snappy series, as
well as Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram.
www.templarco.co.uk
Treehouse
Children’s Books
Creators of unique and popular board books, novelty books, picture
books, pop-up books and gift books for children of 7 years of
age and below. www.emmatreehouse.com |
