Who we are
All children's publishers within the PA are invited to join the Children’s Book Group. The group is steered by an executive committee which meets 10 times a year and runs occasional seminars and open meetings.
We work with other parts of the book trade and with the education and library sectors to promote children’s books and reading. We also run a number of joint promotions of children's books and advise on the children's books element of World Book Day. The group also consults regularly on initiatives such as the Children's Laureate, Booked Up , and Children's Reading Partners.
An important function of the group is to contribute to an improved understanding of the size and shape of the children's book market, including sales to schools. The group are keen to support wider use of the Children's Book Marketing Codes classification scheme, developed in partnership with Nielsen..
Members of the executive committee are:
Chair: ELAINE McQUADE Scholastic)
JON APPLETON (Orion)
ANNA BALDWIN (Oxford University Press)
CORINNE GOTCH (Hachette Children’s Books)
ROSANNA BORTOLI (A & C Black)
MIKE RICHARDS (Egmont)
FRANCESCA DOW (Penguin)
SUSAN HOLMES (Faber)
EMMA HOPKIN (Macmillan)
IAN LAMB (Bloomsbury)
ELISA OFFORD (Simon & Schuster)
GERALDINE STROUD (HarperCollins)
Alternately PHILIPPA DICKINSON, CLARE HALL-CRAGGS, ANNIE EATON AND FIONA MACMILLAN(Random House)
Secretary: KATE BOSTOCK