June News
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Wales Cymru Publication
From the amazing first light of dawn over the landscape, to the last shot of a setting sun, just before Nigel's bag was swept away by the incoming tide. Wales Cymru has an amazing number of new photographs from established photographer Nigel Forster.
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Discover the breathtaking beauty of Wales through the lens of photographer Nigel Forster in this stunning visual exploration. Capturing the essence of Wales across its four distinctive geographical regions, this collection showcases the country’s diverse and dramatic landscapes in all their natural splendour. The journey begins along the captivating South Wales coastline with photographs of a golden sunrise over Broadhaven beach, before moving inland to the rolling hills and rugged peaks of Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) along Fan y Big andCribyn at sunrise. In Mid Wales and the Borders, Forster highlights some of the nation’s most remote and tranquil areas, including the striking Elan Valley. Finally, the majestic scenery of North Wales, from the iconic mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park to the windswept coastlines of Anglesey, the northernmost point of the country.
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Nigel Forster is a commercial photographer based at Talybont on Usk in the heart of Bannau Brycheiniog National Park. Nigel specialises in landscape and architectural photography.
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Book Talk - 1000 Tudor People
12th June 2025
Author and historian Melita Thomas appeared in costume to discuss her recently published book 1000 Tudor People. Taking place after-hours in the Great Hall at Ordsall Hall, this event was enjoyed by history buffs and many Tudor fans, with copies of her book available for sale.
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The incredible lives and deaths of 1000 Tudor people are explored in this authoritative single volume. With alphabetical organisation allowing for easy reference, and specially designed family tree charts that link between prominent Tudor figures - every Tudor follower should have this as their companion.
Hardback | 576 pages | 254 x 203.2 mm | £40
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Melita Thomas is co-founder of Tudor Times, the online repository of information about the Tudor and Stewart period from 1485-1625. Her previous books include The King’s Pearl: Henry VIII and his daughter Mary (Amberley, 2017) and The House of Grey: Friends & Foes of Kings (2019).
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Our Dance in Resonate Voices
A beautifully written and insightful article exploring some of the many challenges, motivations and experiences that helped Circle shape her informative picture book Our Dance.
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Our Dance by Circle Yuen is a book about separation and those places that enable parent and child to connect and come together. Written in collaboration with the National Association of Child Contact Centres.
Hardback | 32 pages | 210 x 210mm |£12.99 | Ages 3-7 |Published 3 June
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Circle Yuen is a recent graduate from Cambridge School of Art having gained an MA in Children’s Book Illustration. Her work has previously been chosen for the dPictus Unpublished Picturebooks Showcase and has been longlisted for the Illustrators Exhibition at Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2024.
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Colours of Home Longlisted!
Five images from children's picture Colours of Home have been long listed in the 'Children's Fiction' category in the AO1 World Illustration Awards 2025!
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When Ana leaves everything she knows and loves to escape the turmoil of war, she struggles to settle into her new home with Olive and her family. Olive has some adjustment struggles of her own, but when the girls draw together. Olive realises what Ana has had to sacrifice for the simple right to be safe. Little by little, Olive’s kindness and love help bring colour back into Ana’s world.
Hardback | Pages 36 | 250x200mm | £12.99 | Ages 3-5
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Miriam Latimer is an award-winning illustrator, author and potter living on the North Devon coast with her husband and two sons. She studied Illustration at UWE in Bristol and has since illustrated over 25 books and worked with publishers including Hodder Children’s Books, Barefoot Books and Little Tiger Press. She has also worked with Bookstart, Devon Life and Saga Magazine, among others. Miriam creates bright, joyful, characterful, nature-inspired illustrations and previously won a Children’s Book Gold Award with the Association of Illustrators.
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Shortlisted for Cover of the Year!
The Shy Book being shortlisted in the Cover of the Year category at this year's The Week Junior Book Awards! With whispers of others to follow...
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A book wants to be read, it really does, but it has a problem. It’s feeling shy. It’s also worried that the reader will find it silly or, worse, boring.So the book recommends that the reader choose a different book, because surely another book will be better. But what if the reader keeps going? Ultimately, the book finds a way to tell its story while offering children a simple way to feel brave even when they, like the book, feel shy.
Paperback | 36 Pages | 230x230mm | £8.99 | Ages 5-7
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Howard Pearlstein is the author of nine picture books. His upcoming titles in 2024 and 2025 include This Book Is Not For You and The Bad Book for Good Kids, both published by Familius. Howard is based in the US
James Munro has been drawing since he could grasp a pencil. Since then, everything in his path has fallen prey to his doodles, from books and magazines to films and animations. He lives and works in a pile of pencil shavings and spilled ink in Liverpool
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Zac and Jac longlisted for The Little Rebel Award 2025!
Run by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, the Little Rebel Awards is an annual prize that celebrates children’s books that inspire social justice. Focused on progressive themes, the award recognises stories that encourage young readers to question inequality, and champion fairness, inclusion, and activism.
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Nine-year-old Jac sees his father as a hero, but when Jac joins a local football team with his best friend Zac, things start to get a bit weird at home. It’s not until a group of professional footballers come into school to talk about racism that Jac realises what his father’s problem could be. After a traumatic turn of events, Jac learns of the difficulties faced by Zac’s grandparents and the Windrush Generation and becomes determined to help make a change in society, starting with his own family.
Paperback | Pages 112 | 198 x 129 mm | Suggested Age Range: 7-11
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Cathy Jenkins is a secondary school English teacher from Swansea. She has been
heavily involved in the rolling out of the Arts Council for Wales’s Cynefin project, which is working towards helping schools to develop a more diverse curriculum, and she was a lead-teacher in the first cohort of schools to undertake the project. This is her first published book.
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Four of Graffeg's Books Nominated for Children's Literature Festival Book Awards!
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The Children’s Literature Festival Book Awards celebrate outstanding books that engage, inspire, and entertain young readers. These awards are part of the wider Children’s Literature Festivals initiative, which aims to promote a love of reading by bringing authors, illustrators, and children together.
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Titles include The Shy Book by Howard Pearlstein and James Monro, Peter the Cat's Little Book For Big Words by Zeb Soanes and James Mayhew, Zac and Jac by Cathy Jenkins and illustrations by Monique Steele, and Watch Them Grow by James Carter and James Monro.
