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Rockpool Children’s Books, now established in the North East of England, are delighted to announce their publishing partnership with Albury Books. Albury Books is a subsidiary of Imago, a global leader in the provision of print and production services to the publishing industry for over 35 years.
Through Albury Books’ streamlined Print-On-Demand publishing platform, the Albury BookShelf, Rockpool Children’s Books are able to keep all of their extensive list available and in print, whilst retaining access to a host of more advanced print options and a global market-place. This means that we have more time to focus on what we love - developing quality, inspiring, well-designed children’s books in all formats, richly diverse in both stories and illustration that can be enjoyed by children of all ages. FOREIGN RIGHTS are available on all of our books!
Stuart Trotter - Publisher and Creative Director
I’m an experienced illustrator, author, designer and publisher of children’s picture books based in the Northeast,
illustrating and writing mainly for the children’s publishing industry. Regarding an illustration style, I’m very
versatile…skilled in pencil, pen, watercolour, digital, and usually all together.
Over the years I’ve worked for most of the UK’s children’s book publishers such as Walker Books, HarperCollins,
Heinemann, Victoria House, Treehouse, Egmont, Hodder Children’s Books, Usborne, Oxford University Press,
Random House, Pearson, Scholastic, Ladybird, La Coccinella in Italy, and Caramel in Belgium.
Being versatile, I’ve illustrated many classic characters such Winnie the Pooh, Wallace and Gromit, Noddy,
Thomas the Tank Engine, Topsy and Tim, Kipper, Postman Pat, and for the last 18 years I’ve been
the Rupert Bear author and illustrator for the Annual. It’s a privilege to write and draw for this iconic character.
In 2006 I created Rockpool Children’s Books, a publisher of quality children’s picture books, for which
I’m publisher, creative director, commissioning editor, author, illustrator, designer, producer and eternal optimist!
Rockpool Children’s Books have sold books worldwide and published over 70 titles, with more on the way
such as ‘bear’, ‘sloth’, ‘Jake the Snake’. In 2017 Rockpool published its first non-fiction picture book, The Coal Mine.
‘All about picture books’ is the talk and workshop I take into schools but is also suitable for any group interested in the writing, illustration, and production of children's picture books - from idea to publication of.
All books are available
to buy in the
Rockpool Albury Bookshop
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