Can of Worms Kids Press is thrilled to announce that our Mission:Explore books have been selected as a National Trust/Hay Festival Outdoor Book of the Year 2011, making it a truly perfect stocking stuffer.

For two months the public voted for their favourite “outdoor books” and we can now reveal that our Mission:Explore titles are among the winners announced at the Hay-on-Wye Festival.

Our congratulations to all of the other winners.

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And in celebration we have a special offer on prices for our winning books.

There’s been quite a rhythm to business at Can of Worms recently. Nine titles out in the last couple of months with Goodnight Keith Moon the latest to come in from the printers and publishing on June 17th just in time for some fathers.

If you were wondering what to get your dad for Father’s Day (June 19th in the UK) then this is the perfect gift. He will be over the moon. If like me he has read Goodnight Moon the children’s classic a thousand times plus, then Goodnight Keith Moon will provide a a great riff relief.

The New Yorker said this:

Morbidly funny … this book has something for all ages. For the grandparent, a nostalgic game of find the Who reference; the parent, a sad reminder of how cool things used to be; and for the kid, tucked into bed listening to the the most inappropriate bed time story ever, a lesson: old people are weird [and] alcohol kills.

You can pre-order your copy from Amazon now in the United States for $6.18 plus P&P or the United Kingdom £6.29 plus P&P or you can order it right now from Can of Worms for £6.99 inc P&P for addresses in the UK (we’ll send it out first class post).

Goodnight Keith Moon is published by our new Word of Mouth imprint. Word of Mouth has been set up to publish books worth talking about. So please tell a friend and while you are at it check out The Inkspot Monologues by Keith Pointing.

Simon Casson and Richard Adamson embark on a gruelling five-month horseback journey across 2,000 miles of high-plain wilderness. Through this dramatic account, they bring to life the exciting and violent lives of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and give a heart-warming description of the rancher families that live there today. This story is told with gripping detail and will inspire readers to dust off their long-forgotten dreams and make them come true.

Eye Books author, Alastair Humphreys‘ inspirational book Ten Lessons from the Road is set to come out in Greek from the publishers Dioptra. Dioptra is one of Greece’s leading publishers of inspirational books and we have every reason to believe that Alastair’s book, called Live the Dream in its Greek edition will be a tour de force. Congratulations to Alastair from everyone at Eye Books & Can of Worms.

You can Live the Dream with Alastair’s English edition by buying it here:
10 Lessons from the Road

We tend to strive for what we know we can achieve. What’s the point of that? Alastair learnt a thing or two as he cycled around the world. He learnt that big achievements come from big dreams, that they often start with big talk, and they guarantee some really big scares along the way. He also learnt that you only learn how far you can go by going too far.

Frigid Women

By Sue Riches and Victoria Riches

Foreword by Dawn French

In 1997, 50-year-old cancer survivor Sue Riches and her daughter

Victoria joined 18 other women to embark on the world’s first all female expedition to the North Pole. Incredibly intimate, inspirational and often hilarious, Frigid Women traces the team’s incredible journey through the snowy expanses of the world’s most hazardous terrain.

ISBN: 9781903070741