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Faber is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its picture book list, which has been running since 2014 and has been home to writers and illustrators including John Agard, David Litchfield and Francesca Simon.
The publisher is marking the anniversary with celebratory activity across its social and online channels, including Faber Members and Faber Academy. In addition, a "Ten Years of Picture Books" exhibition launched in the foyer of Faber’s Farringdon-based office space, The Bindery.
Since the launch of the list, Faber has published titles including Eoin McLaughlin and Polly Dunbar’s The Hug series and While We Can’t Hug, and Al Murphy and Clare Foges’ Kitchen Disco. The publisher has also added a number of classic picture books to its heritage list, including Arthur Robins’s illustrated editions of T S Eliot’s Macavity, and other poems from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (Puffin/Faber/Martino Fine Books), and new editions of classic Richard Scarry titles.
In early 2025, the publisher will add more titles to the list, with picture book editions of Sylvia Plath’s The Bed Book, illustrated by Cindy Wume, and Ted Hughes’ The Coming of the Iron Man, adapted and illustrated for a new age of readership by Kate Greenaway Medal-winner, Mini Grey.
"Over the last 10 years we have built a boutique list of beautiful picture books, and have been lucky enough to work with some of the very brightest talents in the industry," said Faber publisher Leah Thaxton. "T S Eliot and Wanda Gág wrote and illustrated some of Faber’s very earliest picture book texts, and I think and hope they would be proud to see how the list has come on."