It's been less than 8 months since we published our first ever book Pigs Might Surf. As publishers, we've taken on the role of marketing, distributing and selling the books which as a small team has been a little tricky at times, especially while juggling our Ollypop duties too.
But I'm pleased to say it looks like our gamble has been worth it, selling our 2,000th book this week, shops re-ordering and motivating feedback from our lovely customers.
On Monday, I did a book signing at Waterstones,
Waterstones were brilliant and put on some fun colouring activities for the children with free pig sweeties for all. We brought our friend Finn along who bravely donned the pig costume. He got a little hot at times and complained of sand in the eyes (it's still full of sand after I surfed in it last October!), and here he is looking a little grumpy!
Finally, we saw this inspiring review on Amazon from 'Jimmy' who bought the book last month ...makes it all worth it, better get writing the sequel!
So glad I found it, the story is charming and the illustrations are excellent. I can't wait to read it to our little one whenever they get here and I can already tell this will be a book that will get a lot of use. You might be thinking, 'But he's never had a child read it so what does he know?' Well I gave the book to my 4 year old nephew and he loved it. He was wide eyed and giggling throughout the whole story, pointing at the excellent artwork on every page, which is saying something as he usually has the attention span of a goldfish!
Another excellent feature is that after the story they have included some games in the back revolving around the story for the kiddies to complete, which I though was a nice touch.
I put the order through amazon with Ollypop themselves (authors and publishers of the book) and the service was excellent. The book arrived a day or so later and was even signed by Olly the writer, how cool is that!
As I said, I can't wait to start reading this book with my little one. If you have kids and like surfing or even if you don't this book is definitely worth a space in your bookshelf.
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