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

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  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.

• Perfect Piggies! by Sandra Boynton

  

  Format: Board book, 159 x 149 x 33mm, 24pp

  Publication date: 01 Jul 2010

  List Price: £5.99

  A new Boynton on Board book, in the amazing series that has over 11 million copies in print, Perfect Piggies! also comes with a song available free via a download from the Workman website. Reminiscent of a cappella swing, it's a celebration of the homey- of beauty in the eye of the beholder, of sunshine and fresh air, and a place to put up our hooves when the day is done. And, of course, the catching energy and rhythmic language of a beloved original: We are all perfect piggies and we know what we need. It's really very simple, very simple indeed: a troughful of food, a place in the sun, and a little bit of comfort when the day is done. That goes for the rest of us, too. Also available from Sandra Boynton: Fifteen Animals, Hey! Wake Up!, Pajama Time!, and Belly Button Book!

• More Bananagrams! by Abe Nathanson

  

  Format: Paperback, 178 x 127 x 16mm, 288pp

  Publication date: 26 Jul 2010

  List Price: £6.99

  Another wonderful collection of brain- twisting word fun from Abe Nathanson, a worthy follow-up to Bananagrams: The Official Book. Also just published by Workman is Bananagrams! for Kids by Joe Edley, with puzzles rated from one banana (simplest) to the fiendish new five banana. Other features are fun banana facts,helpful word lists, and, yes, an answer key.