Jen Campbell Bücher

Der Drache Franklin liest für sein Leben gern und wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher als einen Freund, dem er seine Lieblingsgeschichten vorlesen kann. Doch leider haben alle Angst vor ihm. Bis er bei einem Spaziergang im Wald auf ein kleines Mädchen namens Luna trifft, die Bücher über alles liebt, vor allem, wenn Drachen darin vorkommen. Sie werden beste Freunde und wollen ihre Leidenschaft für Bücher mit anderen teilen. Deshalb beschließen sie kurzerhand, auf Franklins Rücken eine Buchhandlung zu gründen und den Bürgern der Stadt so endlich die Angst vor Franklin zu nehmen.

Nicht selten führen Buchhändler absurd-komische Kundengespräche. Dieses Buch gewährt einen lustigen und amüsanten Einblick in den Buchhandelsalltag und ist ein absolutes Muss für alle Fans von Zitatesammlungen und Humorbüchern. Kostprobe gefällig? „Haben Sie auch Pop-up Bücher zum Thema Aufklärung?“ Kunde (hält ein Jamie Oliver Kochbuch hoch): “Würde es Ihnen was ausmachen, wenn ich dieses Rezept fotokopiere?„ “Haben Sie Taliban und Liebe?„ (gemeint ist: Kabale und Liebe) “Ich suche das Buch Nazis in Dortmund!"

Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologising trauma. Jen Campbell writes of Victorian circus and folklore, deep seas and dark forests, discussing her own relationship with hospitals - both as a disabled person, and as an adult reflecting on childhood while going through IVF.

In this collection, fourteen of fairy tales from around the world are retold for young readers, restored to their original, grisly versions. Do you dare read this collection of terrifyingly gruesome tales? In this gripping volume, author Jen Campbell offers young readers an edgy, contemporary, and inclusive take on classic fairy tales, taking them back to their gory beginnings while updating them for a modern audience with queer and disabled characters and positive representation of disfigurement. Featuring fourteen short stories from China, India, Ireland, and across the globe, The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers is an international collection of the creepiest folk tales. Illustrated with Adam de Souza’s brooding art, this book’s style is a totally original blend of nineteenth-century Gothic engravings meets moody film noir graphic novels. Headlined by the Korean tale of a carnivorous child, The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers is a truly thrilling gift for brave young readers.

A new adventure where Franklin and Luna follow their friend the tortoise into a dusty fairy-tale kingdom. Who will they meet there?

Every bookshop has a story.We’re not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We’re talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I’ve-ever-been-to-bookshops.Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the bookshop in Canada that’s invented the world’s first antiquarian book vending machine. And that’s just the beginning. From the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop Book examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over three hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we’ve yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole).The Bookshop Book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world.

Luna’s best friend, Franklin, is a dragon. They love to read stories about everything from trampolining to deep-sea diving. One day, they are reading about where werewolves live and Franklin begins to wonder where he is from. He is 605 years old and has no idea where to find other dragons!Luna suggests that they go on an adventure to find his family. They Google his family tree, they e-mail a princess, and along the way they find twenty yetis eating spaghetti, five vampires reading Shakespeare, not to mention disco-dancing unicorns . . . but no dragons!Where on earth could they be?Following the success of Franklin’s Flying Bookshop, Franklin and Luna Go to the Moon― a book about the joys of reading, exploring, and coming home― continues to bring the magic of classic fairy tales into the twenty-first century.

"Illustrated by the Brothers McLeod, this collection includes peculiar queries and incidents from bookshops (and libraries!) around the world, and even a section of Weird Things Customers Say at Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops Book Signings."---Front flap.

Stories of family and magic, lost souls and superstition. Spirits in jam jars, mini-apocalypses, animal hearts and side shows. Mermaids are on display at the local aquarium. A girl runs a coffin hotel on a remote island. A boy is worried his sister has two souls. And a couple are rewriting the history of the world.

Jen Campbell is already a bestselling author of children's picture books as well as a popular books vlogger with a big following on YouTube. Her debut poetry collection The Girl Aquarium explores the realm of rotten fairy tales, the possession of body and the definition of beauty.