One reads a lot about book launches. At Can of Worms we are hoping that the official book launch of Mission:Explore will catapult it into best sellerdom. Following is a brief look at last weekend’s book launch: mebooklaunch

Can of Worms Kids Press is joining up with the fantastic folks behind the Crystal Palace Children’s Books Festival to be held on 23rd October. Two missions are being published in the October issue of The Transmitter magazine, and anyone completing the missions will get a prize or great Love Outdoor Play sticker.

IT’S TIME TO EXPLORE! Mission:Explore contains 102 missions that challenge you to (re)discover our world. Become a guerilla explorer and extreme missioner with missions that defy gravity, see the invisible and test your mental agility. CLICK HERE to see a sample

Buy a copy for just £6.00 including P&P (normal price £7.99 plus P&P). Each illustrated mission will challenge you in daring new ways. Draw, rub, smear, write, scrape and print your findings and achievements as you complete each mission. LOOK INSIDE…if you dare!

Get Mission:Explore for only £6 including UK P&P using the button below.

Why not check out the Geography Collective’s other book, the Journey Journal as well?

We are delighted to announce that the GeoCollective, Can of Worms and Workshop collaboration for a GeoVation award has been shortlisted. Presentation of our MISSION:EXPLORE based London iPhone application venture will be made to judges on January 26th at the Royal Geographic Society. To find out more about the GeoVation awards and our entry visit their site here: https://challenge.geovation.org.uk/ventures/54 . Fantastic news!

Many of you who are fans of extreme adventure may have been watching the new series: On Thin Ice which follows Ben Fogle and James Cracknell as they prepare to take part in the 2009 Race to the South Pole. It’s cracking stuff! The challenges, the imminent dangers that such an adventure entails, and the emotional roller coaster that these two “fit” men go through in order to prepare for a most daunting task.

Tess Burrows at the South Pole issuing forth her peace messages

Of course they did not go alone, there were other teams. Teams we have yet to meet. One member of another team is our very own Eye Books author – Tess Burrows. I would like to argue that Tess is the better story in this. She is not a former Olympian, SAS trooper or TV celebrity. Tess, if she does not mind my mentioning it, has her bus pass and is a grandmother. What Tess had to accomplish in order to meet the challenge of racing to the South Pole far surpasses anything that our Ben and James had to muster. Her story demonstrates yet again what humankind is capable of physically and mentally whatever your age. Happily for Eye Books Tess is finishing up writing about her adventure – challenging the way we see things! Next time you tune in to the BBC for On Thin Ice spare a thought for Tess, and when the book is out – we’ll let you know – we expect an avalanche of sales.

Tom Holman kindly acknowledged the heroics of our intrepid duo in yesterday’s Bookseller (16th October):

“The most committed visitors I’ve met so far are the intrepid duo from Can of Worms Press (that would be Paul and Helen), who set out by car from London late on Monday, crossed the Channel during the night, drove across France though Tuesday morning and set up their stand by late afternoon. About 40 hours since they last slept, they were still going strong on Tuesday night. Go easy on them if you meet them.”

Do of course visit the intrepid duo at our stand: Hall 8.0 L972 before they make their way back across La Manche.

We have a great array of new titles:
The Inkspot Monologues written and illustrated by Keith Pointing
Good Morning Afghanistan written by Waseem Mahmood
The Tempest illustrated by Oscar Grillo
Ten Lessons from the Road (by another intrepid traveller – this one cycled around the world) Alastair Humphreys
100 Ways to Change the World by Michael Meegan photos by Manuel Scrima
Each Day A Small Victory by Chips Hardy

And a tremendous back list of titles and services for other like minded publishers. Have a great Fair!