Workman Publishing

Books, calendars, trends, Workman is a publisher that's always around big ideas - with many landmark best-sellers reflecting a knack for publishing books and calendars that lead. Featuring high standards of design, authors who are authorities, unexpected formats, care and innovation in production, and above all value through conscientious and aggressive pricing, each title embodies a style of publishing synonymous with the Workman name. The company is equally pasasionate about its calendars: lush wall calendars, desk diaries and the ground-breaking Page-a-day calendar line.

Over two-thirds of all the books published by Workman since its first title in 1972 are still actively in print. But this is a company that works just as hard to launch the new idea as it does to keep the proven title selling. And it works just as hard to publish the best calendar as it does to publish the best book.

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Featured Titles

• Scanimation series

  Created by Rufus Butler Seder, an inventor, artist and filmmaker fascinated by antique optical toys, Scanimation™ harkens back to the kinetoscope, and the effect is astonishing. It’s impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again.    
  Titles in the Scanimation series:
  Gallop!
  Gallop! Cards
  Kick!
  Waddle!
  STAR WARS 

   

  To show how it works, Workman have created a website for the whole Scanimation Books line, www.scanimationbooks.com.

• The Wizard of Oz: A Scanimation Book by Seder, Butler, Rufus

  

  Format: Hardback

  Publication date: 01 Sep 2011

  List Price: £10.99

  The magic of Scanimation meets the wonderful Wizard of Oz, bringing life to 10 memorable scenes from the motion picture classic that's enchanted generations of readers.Like Star Wars before it, The Wizard of Oz is a marriage of phenomenal Scanimation and one of the most beloved movies of all time

• Pocket Book of Pocket Billiards by Mike Vago

  

  Format: Hardback

  Publication date: 01 May 2011

  List Price: £11.99

  A cleverly designed package that contains a miniature pool table, along with instructions for more than 40 pool and billiard games. It's also got fun facts about the game and its famous players. Modeled on a real pool table, it comes with tiny cues, pool balls and a rack.

• Unlikely Friendships by Holland, Jennifer

  

  Format: Paperback

  Publication date: 01 Sep 2011

  List Price: £9.99

  It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . ” Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster. The well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten; and the hippo Owen and the tortoise Mzee.