4EYESBOOKS

Creating Children and Young Adult Stories, Armed with Imagination and a Pen

Congrats to the winners!

Our summer blog hop giveaway has ended and we are pleased to announce the winners: 

A signed copy of The Nutt Family:  An Acorny Adventure and the crystal acorn salt and pepper set will be going to Erma Hurtt.  A signed copy of The Pig Princess and a plush pig will be going to Natasha Donohoo. 

Our other big announcement is that the illustrations for our next children’s story, The Bee Bully, have been completed so you will get to meet him later this month.  This grumpy little bee learns the error of his bullying ways and it changes how he treats others.

 

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Ebook Sales Surge for Children’s/YA in 2012

I came across this really cool article on GeekDad that was posted in April.  It talks about the increase in ebook sales for children’s/YA from 2011 to 2012.  There was a 475% increase over this period…..WOW!  I know some kids have their own ereaders, but I’m sure parents and grandparents are loading up their ereader devices too to get kids reading while traveling, running errands, etc.  This is an incredible time to be a children’s book author and I’m proud that we are reaching so many children with our books.

This is great news and certainly something to celebrate!  Reading is so important so encourage your kids to read a book today whether paperback or in electronic form.

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