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Sadie the Air Mail Pilot is a new children’s
picture book by Mr. Kellie Strøm.
(That’s me for short.)
Published in the USA and the UK by David Fickling Books.
You can order the book online from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, and lots of other places, though your local bookshop might be faster. See the sidebar for more online shops.
Sadie news, updated 4th May 2008:
Now in paperback!
The new UK paperback edition is now in shops, and online at Amazon UK and other online stockists.
Events:
Art at the Science Museum, London
The Science Museum Bookshop in Kensington is currently showing some of the original Sadie paintings.
The Science Museum has a great collection of aircraft on display, including some seen in the pages of Sadie the Air Mail Pilot. I’ve made a plane spotter’s guide to help find them all, and you can colour it in too.
Book reviews
You can read the Publisher's Weekly review here. Snippets of other reviews are to be found on rBooks.
Here’s a couple of online reviews, one from the Times Educational Supplement website, and another from the Write Away website.
For those of you who can read Danish, there’s a six star (out of six) review from the daily Berlingske Tidene.
Now if only I could find the complete Dutch reviews online, ("een magistraal prentenboek," Maarten Moll, het Parool, "een verpletterend prentenboek," Monique Snoeijen, NRC Handelsblad,) then we could open a Sadie language school!
Wonderwalls
A choice of Sadie paintings are now available as wallpaper murals from Wonderwalls.
They’ve also got a range of other children’s book art, including some very nice Rupert Bear images. Their Sadie selection can be found here.
Foreign editions
Sadie is also being published in Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish!
Here’s a full list of foreign editions.
Lots of thanks
Sadie’s first months in the world were good fun with lots going on.
Thanks to the amazing people at Rubinstein, publishers of the Dutch edition, who got things off to an early start last December with an exhibition of the art at The Cat Cabinet, Amsterdam -
-- and many thanks to everyone at Daunt Books, where I read the book at their weekly children’s story sessions in the South End Green and Holland Park shops -
- and thanks to the children and parents of Eleanor Palmer Primary School who queued for copies at two friday cake sales,
- and thanks to everyone at the Merlin School, Putney, London, especially all the children in years one and two who asked loads of questions and had some great ideas of their own for characters and stories,
 - and thanks to the staff at Owl Books, Kentish Town, London, for a very enjoyable Saturday morning reading.
- AND thanks to all at Borders Kingston-upon Thames, and all at Waterstone’s Hampstead and Kensington branches for the fun children’s storytime events. I hope to be back soon.
Contact
For more information about Sadie, contact me at mail@balsko.com.
And finally, here are some children’s books by other authors that you might also enjoy.
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Quick links to other sites:
An interview with Sadie’s publisher, David Fickling.
Sadie’s best friends, children’s authors Ted Dewan, Helen Cooper, and Aidan Potts.
Here’s an interview with Aidan.
Some London shops selling Sadie:
Ian Logan Design Shop
Daunt Books
Gosh Comics
Owl Books
Waterstones, Hampstead
Waterstones Kensington
Waterstones, Covent Garden
Books go in and out of stock, so check with your local shop! This is a partial list of a few shops I know have recently had the book in stock. If your local shop is selling the book, I’d love to hear about it - please e-mail me. Any UK bookshop should be able to order it for you easily.
UK Distributors: TBS
Buying the UK edition online:
Amazon UK
You can also buy the UK edition from Amazon USA or Amazon Canada.
Blackwell
Foyles
Play.com
Powells
Random House UK
Tesco UK
Waterstones
UK price comparison by Bookkoob
Buying the US edition online:
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Powells
Tower
Kinokuniya Japan
Unless otherwise stated, all contents copyright © Balsko Film Ltd.
Kellie Strøm art copyright © Kellie Strøm.
Website published by Balsko Film Ltd,
10 Lupton Street, London NW5 2HT, England, tel +44 20 7267 3148, web www.balsko.com
e-mail: mail@balsko.com
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