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The Importance of Classic Characters to the Licensed Book Market

Classic characters are big business in the children’s book market. Read More

Mystery Solved! – Good Girl, Bad Blood Reveal

If you've been keeping an eye on Electric Monkey's Twitter and Instagram accounts you will have noticed some mysterious activity going on this week. Read More

Creating the Once We Were Witches cover with Fabi Santiago

This week we revealed the magical cover for Once We Were Witches - the brand new fantasy series from author of The Huntress trilogy, Sarah Driver. Read More

Cover Reveal! – Once We Were Witches

We are so excited to finally reveal the magical cover for the brand new fantasy series by Sarah Driver, Once We Were Witches, illustrated by Fabi Santiago. Read More

Watch the brand new trailer for Netflix’s Last Kids on Earth series!

We're so excited to share the epic, apocalyptic trailer for Netflix's adaptation of Max Brallier's The Last Kids on Earth book series. Read More

Author Aisha Bushby’s top four video games for kids

In the middle-grade fantasy A Pocketful of Stars, protagonist Safiya finds herself transported from her mum's hospital bedside and into a dream world, landing in her mum's childhood home in Kuwait. Read More

Idea to Page: drafting a book with Aisha Bushby

Aisha Bushby, the author of A Pocketful of Stars, took to our website with a very special feature detailing her writing process, and showing us what goes into drafting her sequel. Read More

Electric Monkey signs LGBTQ romantic comedy from CWIP Prize Winner Laura Steven

Electric Monkey are delighted to announce that we have snapped up two more books from award-winning author Laura Steven, whose novel The Exact Opposite of Okay was a bestselling YA debut in 2018 and was awarded the inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize (Published Author category) in 2019. Read More

Inclusive Farshore books in celebration of Pride

This June marked Pride month and to celebrate a month of LGBTQ+ history, awareness, celebrations and love, we’ve put together a list of books from the Farshore library – from picture book to fiction and YA - featuring LGBTQ+ themes and characters. Read More