Salariya Book Company
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| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1989 |
| Founder | David Salariya |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Brighton |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Publication types | Books |
| Nonfiction topics | Children's non-fiction, fiction and baby books |
| Imprints | Book House, Scribblers and Scribo |
| Official website | salariya.com |
The Salariya Book Company is an independent publishing company based in Brighton, United Kingdom, which publishes children’s non-fiction, fiction and baby books both domestically and internationally.[1] Salariya books are published in the UK through its Book House, Scribblers and Scribo imprints.
History
The Salariya Book Company was founded by David Salariya as a book-packaging company in 1989 in Brighton, England. In 2002 it started publishing under its imprint Book House, going on to launch the imprint Scribblers (designed to develop key learning skills for babies and pre-school children)[2] in 2007 and the children’s fiction imprint Scribo in 2009. In 2009, The Salariya Book Company was one of three publishers shortlisted for the Independent Publisher’s Guild’s Children’s Publisher of the Year award.[3]
Books
Notable book series publishing by The Salariya Book Company include You Wouldn’t Want To Be (published as The Danger Zone in the UK), a series of over fifty illustrated historical non-fiction titles told using a first-person narrative,[4] and Graffex, classic novels adapted into the graphic novel format.[5] In 2009, the company bought the rights to the popular French-Canadian fantasy fiction series Amos Daragon,[6] an animation of which is being developed by Spectra Animation in Canada.[7]
Founder
David Salariya was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1954. He studied illustration and printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, specialising in book design in his postgraduate year. He worked as a freelance illustrator and designer before founding The Salariya Book Company in 1989. He lives in Brighton with his wife Shirley and their son Jonathan.
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External links
References
- ^ http://www.salariya.com/about/pages/about.html
- ^ http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/375
- ^ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/75041-ipa-shortlist-introduces-new-award.html
- ^ http://snipesville.blogspot.com/2008/04/book-time-1-you-wouldnt-want-to-miss.html
- ^ http://www.book-house.co.uk/Graphic/Graffex/Pages/oliver.html
- ^ http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/4043/Amos-Daragon:-The-Mask-Wearer-by-Bryan-Perro.html
- ^ http://www.spectraanimation.ca/spip.php?article24
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