Month: May 2015
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Total Food 2: The story behind the cover
Total Food 2, published in January 2015, was nominated for Best Designed Educational Primary/Secondary Book at the 63rd Australian Book Design Awards, and we are proud to announce the book won its category. Cover Designer Kim Ferguson Internal Designers Kim Ferguson, Aisling Gallagher & Sue Dani Now Kim Ferguson, the cover designer, talks us through the cover Total…
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Consumer Behaviour in Action: The story behind the cover
Consumer Behaviour in Action, published in January 2015, was nominated for Best Designed Educational Tertiary Book at the 63rd Australian Book Design Awards, and we are proud to announce the book won its category. Now Regine Abos, the designer, talks us through the cover and internal design process of Consumer Behaviour in Action: What was the brief you…
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Oxford wins at the 2015 Australian Book Design Awards
The 63rd Australian Book Design Awards were held in Sydney on Friday 22nd May. Three Oxford titles were nominated across two categories: We are proud to announce that Oxford won both categories with Total Food 2 and Consumer Behaviour in Action. Details of Oxford’s winning and shortlisted titles in each category can be found below: Best…
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Arthur Conan Doyle was born on this day
Arthur Conan Doyle was born 156 years ago today in Edinburgh, Scotland. The third of ten children, Conan Doyle studied medicine at Edinburgh University and worked as a ship’s doctor before setting up his own practice in Southsea. He later gave up practicing medicine to pursue a literary career full-time and penned one of fiction’s…
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Children’s literature quiz: answers
The wait is over, the answers to our children’s literature quiz are here. Find out if you’re a children’s literature expert or whether you need to scrub up on your knowledge, by checking the answers below: When was The Very Hungry Caterpillar first published? ANSWER: A counting book by Eric Carle in 1969, this was…
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Children’s literature quiz: test your knowledge
The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children’s books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature provides an indispensable and fascinating…
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Memorable Mums in Literature
Mother’s Day is coming up and here at OUP we’ve got a question: who is the most memorable Mother in literature? Is it a woman like Marilla Cuthbert who came into motherhood late when she adopted a strange little redhead, or one like Mrs Bennet whose poor nerves only desire is to see ‘one of…
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The greatest enterprise of its time – The Oxford English Dictionary
It’s Wednesday 6 June 1928 and Stanley Baldwin, the British Prime Minister, is officially launching a book that has taken 70 years to complete. ‘Our histories, our novels, our poems, our plays – they are all in this one book,’ he says. ‘It is true that I have not read it – perhaps I never…