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Kingdom Under the Sea

These East European fairytales have it all: drama, magic, heroes, fairies, dragons, mermaids, adventure, bravery and beauty...

Folktales have never been so beautifully told or illustrated as in this reissued edition of the classic Joan Aiken short story collection illustrated with Jan Pienkowski's iconic silhouettes.

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Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2012

Jan has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2012.

Astrid Lindgren is one of Sweden's most important authors and to honour her memory and to promote interest in children's and young adult literature around the world, the Swedish government has founded an international prize in her name, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is presented every year to authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and those active in reading promotion work.

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Landscape Drawings

Jan has added a series of landscape drawings to the Studio.

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A River of Stories: Tales and Poems from Across the Commonwealth

Jan has illustrated this 160 page, full-colour anthology of diverse tales and poems from each of the fifty-four countries of the Commonwealth.

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New Posters

Some new posters have been added to the Studio.

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MEG & MOG - 3 Favourite Stories

This compilation contains 3 of the most popular MEG & MOG stories in a single edition, MEG at SEA, MEG'S EGGS, and MOG in the FOG.

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The Monster Pet - Interactive CD-ROM

This easy-to-use, interactive CD-ROM version of the popular Monster Pet book provides additional, fun material to support teaching and bring language to life.

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Alpha, bravo, charlie... Jan's Phonetic Alphabet

Learn your A-Z using this Phonetic Alphabet illustrated by Jan in his Nursery style. Print it out in full colour or try a black and white version to colour in yourself.

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New Posters

Jan has added some new posters to the studio.

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New Book - In the Beginning

In his distinctive bold colour and graphic style, artist Jan Pienkowski has created an extraordinary collection of Old Testament Bible Stories for very young children.

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New Book - MEG goes to BED

Jan and Helen Nicoll have just released a brand new MEG and MOG title.

Mog and Owl are hungry, so Meg makes a spell. It goes wrong and they all go to bed without any supper, but Mog and Owl are still hungry.

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Jan is on Facebook

If you're on Facebook then you can LIKE Jan's page to get the latest updates.

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Waldo Hunt Obituary by Jan Pieńkowski

Waldo Hunt was an entrepreneur and inventor of the modern pop-up book who died in 2009. He helped Jan create Haunted House, which became Jan's most successful pop-up book. Jan has written the obituary for Guardian.co.uk

Read the Waldo Hunt obituary on Guardian.co.uk

Advantage Bipolar

Join Jan Pieńkowski with Professor John Geddes and Emily Holmes in Oxford on Wednesday 19th May 2010 for a talk entitled 'Advantage Bipolar' about the disorder.

It starts at 5.45pm at The Mill, 46 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1HZ. Tickets are £5 on the door (no need to book, just turn up), all proceeds to Oxfordshire Mind.

Get more information on the Oxfordshire Mind website