This week, Random House Australia announced the launch of a new series of classic children’s books, with the first twenty-one books to be published in August. It’s a wonderful list, including some of my favourite children’s books. Alice in Wonderland, Little Women, I Capture the Castle, What Katy Did, Treasure Island, Emil and the Detectives, The Railway Children . . . and guess what? One of the titles is A Brief History of Montmaray! It will have a lovely illustrated cover and will look like this:
Pretty, isn’t it? The other Australian title on the list is Deborah Abela’s The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Bonhoffen.
In other news, I’m still blogging away at Inside a Dog until the end of the month, so come over and say hello and read about life in wartime England.
What a lovely cover! So evocative, so very Sophie.
It is nice, isn’t it? You can find more of the illustrator’s work here.
When I read A Brief History of Montmaray, I was struck by how much it seemed like a classic. Lo and behold – now it is one!
I love the slight touches of colour on the cover art…very fitting.
Thanks, Tonks!
I think my favourite part of the cover is that little sailing ship on the spine (obviously the sea monster is lurking out of sight).
Such a pretty cover, I love it; but now I have to decide which version I am going to buy, too many lovely choices!
Clearly, the answer to your dilemma is to buy ALL of them! (But the Vintage Classics edition is a lot cheaper than the original Australian edition. The Vintage one’s not out till August, though.)
Don’t joke, it will probably happen! I have to wait for them to show up in the US anyway!