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| The new Ingram Spark print-on-demand edition of Ruby Flew Too! |
A few years ago, illustrator Rebecca Harry and I published a print-on-demand edition of our picture book Ruby Flew Too! (titled Ruby in Her Own Time in the US). As I wrote on this blog at the time, I've received more emails about this book than any of my other books, with many readers telling me how Ruby's story had touched their lives. You can read excerpts from some of these emails in this blog post. So when the book went out of print with its UK publisher, Rebecca and I decided to re-publish it ourselves. We originally published the book using Amazon's Createspace print-on-demand service as — at that time — it offered better print quality than its main competitor Ingram Spark. However in the last three years this gap has closed and we've now published the book on Ingram Spark as well.
The main reason for publishing the book on both print-on-demand services is that the Createspace (now KDP) edition is only available through Amazon, whereas the new Ingram Spark edition can be ordered through local bookshops as well as non-Amazon online stores like Hive and Wordery.
Here are couple of spreads from the new edition.
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| "Then one bright morning, the eggs began to hatch." |
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| "And sure enough, she did." |
And here is a read-along video of the book.
If this edition proves popular, Rebecca and I hope to make the sequels, This Way, Ruby! and Go For It, Ruby! available through Ingram Spark as well.
Order the Ingram Spark Edition with FREE DELIVERY from Hive
(Note: Because the book is print-on-demand it may be listed as "Out of Stock" at Hive,
but you can still order a copy which should be dispatched within a week).
Download the activity sheets for this book by clicking on the images below
 Board Game |  Draw Ruby |  Colouring Sheet |
