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I Love You Book by Libby Hathorn / Heath McKenzie. Click here to read more
No Matter Who We're With by Robert Vescio / Cheri Scholten. Click here to read more
Bringing Down the Wall by David P Reiter / Sona Babajanyan. Click here to read more
Granny Rags by Janet Reid. Click here to read more
James Munkers: Super Freak by Lindsey Little. Click here to read more
Christina's Matilda by Edel Wignell / Elizabeth Botte. Click here to read more
A Penny in Time by Anna Bartlett. Click here to read more
Tiger Tames the Min-Min by David P Reiter. Click here to read more
Tiger Takes the Big Apple by David P Reiter. Click here to read more
Tiger Takes the Big Apple by David P Reiter. Click here to read more
The Sky Dreamer by Anne Morgan / Celine Eimann. Click here to read more
About Face by Robert Moore / Monkeystack. Click here to read more
There are lots of children’s publishers out there, but few who offer a multi-channel approach to print and digital work. We publish in eBook formats such as ePub and Fixed Layout Format as well as in physical print, and we're also creating titles that come alive with multimedia enhancements such as audio and video. Kids these days are quite savvy about screen content, so why not deliver the content to where the kids increasingly live?
IP Kidz has several established authors and illustrators on our list, including Libby Hathorn, Hazel Edwards, David P Reiter, Goldie Alexander, Edel Wignell, and Mark Carthew. But we're also on the lookout for emerging talent – illustrators as well as authors.
IP Kidz titles are on State Premier's Reading Challenges throughout Australia. Here's a selection of those on currently by State:
A Penny in Time (VIC)
Christina's Matilda (NSW, VIC)
Duckstar (Qld)
Global Cooling (NSW, VIC, SA)
Hedgeburners: An A~Z PI Mystery (VIC)
I Love You Book (NSW, VIC)
Lame Duck Protest (NSW)
Long Live Us! (NSW)
Lyli Meets the Stone-Muncher (NSW)
Newts, Lutes & Bandicoots (VIC)
Plato the Platypus Plumber (part-time) (VIC, NSW)
The Greenhouse Effect (NSW, VIC, SA)
The Handkerchief Map (VIC)
The Sky Dreamer (NSW)
Tiger Takes the Big Apple (VIC, SA)
Tiger Tames the Min Min (VIC, SA)
We'll update this list as new titles are added to the Challenges, so please check back.
IP Kidz
is open to collaborations between Australian and overseas creators. Our very first picture book, Real Guns,
by our Publisher,
David
Reiter, was illustrated by a well-known Irish artist, Patrick J Murphy. More recently, Anne Morgan's The Sky Dreamer was illustrated by Swiss artist Celine Eimann, who also published Lyli Meets the Stone-Muncher with us. Several of our titles have been translated into languages such as Spanish, German, French and Portuguese. We’re
excited by the prospect of bringing together artists from across the globe.
We do want the work to be relevant to Australian
children, but we will be marketing titles internationally
as appropriate. Our content is being distributed internationally through
partners such as Lightning Source, CreateSpace, Overdrive, Amazon and Apple, so we pay much more
than lip service to electronic rights. As well as in print, our picture books are also published in "fixed layout" eBook formats to preserve the layout we originally intended. Making the most of our content makes sense
to us and also benefits our artists.
We’re open from March - December to proposals from authors, illustrators, digital
artists and animators — or collaborative teams. After reviewing our Guidelines, please query us by email with your
creative bio, a synopsis of the work and a representative sample. For picture
books, you
should
send the complete work in storyboard layout (where the text is divided by page
or spread). The work can be in a Word, Pages, InDesign, or Acrobat pdf attachment,
with any images optimised for screen viewing.
Picture book authors don’t have to include illustrations. If we like your work, we’ll find an illustrator for it. However, if you’re one of those rare creative geniuses who can illustrate as well as write, or if you’ve teamed up with a visual artist pro, we're happy to consider the whole package.
If we think your work is exceptional and has a ready market, we’ll offer you a royalty contract. Then the fun begins!
Ready to send us that query? Click here.
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Updated 1 July 2015