The firm was set up in 2005 by Malcolm and Vanessa Robertson, who also opened Edinburgh's one dedicated Children's Bookshop in November 2007, and in 2010 a general bookshop in the same street.[2]
Fidra Books specialises in reprinting children's books that it believes to be wrongly neglected.[3] Fidra Books enables collectors to acquire books they have been searching for and for new readers to find older stories. Its books range from 1930s adventure stories to 1960s fantasy novels.[3]
fidra, books, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, january, 2021. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Fidra Books news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2021 Learn how and when to remove this message Fidra Books is a publisher based in Edinburgh specialising in reissues of bygone children s books mainly those from the 1940s onwards 1 Contents 1 Foundation and range 2 Publishing 3 References 4 External linksFoundation and range editThe firm was set up in 2005 by Malcolm and Vanessa Robertson who also opened Edinburgh s one dedicated Children s Bookshop in November 2007 and in 2010 a general bookshop in the same street 2 Fidra Books specialises in reprinting children s books that it believes to be wrongly neglected 3 Fidra Books enables collectors to acquire books they have been searching for and for new readers to find older stories Its books range from 1930s adventure stories to 1960s fantasy novels 3 Publishing editThe firm s first publication was Margot Pardoe s The Far Island in 1936 4 Its other output has covered pony books by authors such as K M Peyton and Josephine Pullein Thompson and titles in classic genres such as adventure and school stories 4 Other Fidra Books authors have included Olivia FitzRoy Anne Digby 5 Victoria Walker Primrose Cumming Elinor Lyon 6 Mabel Esther Allan and Ruby Ferguson These books have reappeared as larger format paperbacks with thick paper and stiff card covers 3 Fidra Books uses in its reprints elements of the original dust wrapper all contain a foreword 3 References edit Open Library Retrieved 26 January 2021 The Bookseller a b c d Fidra books n d Fidra Books Publishers of Classic Children s Literature Retrieved 7 October 2021 http www fidrabooks com publishing index shtml a b Pardoe biography Overview of Trebizon series Reissued titles described External links editFidra Books Website Fidra Book List Goodreads nbsp This article about a company of Scotland is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Fidra Books amp oldid 1187325495, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
