{"id":7490,"date":"2011-09-28T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.priddybooks.com\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:09:19","slug":"the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/news\/the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

My older kids laugh at me when I talk about my office, I think they see me as a ‘David Brent who makes books’ type…maybe they are right. But that’s where the similarities end, as we have just moved into our new offices and they are a lot nicer than that other Office in Slough (having said that I think we have the same desks!). The bright green carpet, pillars painted in bright colours and white walls make it a good space to continue making great children’s books.<\/p>\n

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To start us off in our new surroundings, I am pleased to announce that we have just won the two main book prizes at the Practical Pre-School Awards. We won the Overall\u00a0Winner Award\u00a0in preschool Books and Publications with the My Big Board Book Series<\/a>, and the\u00a0Overall Winner\u00a0Award\u00a0in 5-7 Books for our\u00a0Animal A-Z<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We also picked up a Gold Award for our Make and Do Science<\/a> book and a Silver Award for our Wipe Clean Workbook series<\/a>, which particularly pleased me as it is a series that I am passionate about. I just love the idea of children learning new skills from our books, it’s probably because I always wanted to be an early years teacher that I get such a kick out of it.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0These awards are great because they are voted for by children, teachers, nurseries and primary schools – the very people that use the books every day. Here are a few of the nice things they said about our books:<\/p>\n

My Big Board Books<\/strong> – “excellent for improving communication, language and literacy. Very durable and great value for money”.<\/p>\n

Workbooks<\/strong> – “Successfully supports early writing and phonics, fine motor skills development, pen holding and cutting. Clear, nice books that the children loved!”.<\/p>\n

Make and Do Science<\/strong> – “experiments were explained clearly and concisely, great for use with the whole class and demonstrated scientific principles that were suitable for young children”.<\/p>\n

And if all that wasn’t enough, we’ve just found out that another one of our Workbooks – Cutting and Pasting<\/a> – has been selected by the Independent Newspaper as one of its Top Ten Best Activity Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And three of our classic early learning books have just passed the 1 million mark for worldwide sales, they are Wipe Clean Letters<\/a>, First 100 Words<\/a> and Bright Baby Words.<\/p>\n

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It just goes to\u00a0show that you don’t have to publish books about wizards to sell millions of copies – although I wish I had JK Rowling on my list, too, that would make me a super hero with my 6 year old son! We are reading The Chamber of Secrets and are both loving it, thirteen years after I first read\u00a0it to Sam and Rose, Gabriel’s big brother and sister, and the stories are just as exciting, even though I have seen them as films in between.<\/p>\n

…not bad for a week, plus the sun is shining and Crystal Palace won last night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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