News Alerts: 10 – 21 October 2016 – Francesca Lombardo, responds to Mayor Khan call #londonIsOpen campaign with her book series sister educational project “London Meets its children” , assigning top educational prizes worth thousands of pounds to 120 inner-city children thanks to the support of major kids brands: Coca Cola London Eye, The London Transport Museum, KidZania, The Classic Tour.
News Alerts: 2 October – Coca Cola London Eye, KidZania, The Classic Tour and the London Transport Museum partner with Daily Fairy Tales by offering top educational prizes to the winning schools of the Beatrice and the London Bus drawing Comp, part of LONDON MEETS ITS CHILDREN educational project.
News Alerts: 27 October – Francesca Lombardo present her book series and ran the drawing workshop with Lambeth children at the TIME OUT south London award winning bookshop: Travelling Through bookshop.
News Alert: 15th of October 2016 – The London Transport Museum gift shop starts selling the Beatrice and the London Bus book series
News Alerts: 25 September – Daily Fairy Tales adds another Foyles bookshop to its London Distribution: Foyles Waterloo and another bookstore from the Waterstones branch: Waterstones Clapham.
News Alerts: 26 September – Daily Fairy Tales announces the winners of the first London Borough to have taken part to the London Meets its children project and Beatrice and the London Bus drawing competitions and assign the prizes of the Comp to four inner-city London Schools
News Alerts: 14th September – Daily Fairy Tales and Francesca Lombardo meets the Mayor of London’s and LGA’s educational team about the London Meets its children project in relation to the London Curriculum
News Alerts: 10th of May – Beatrice and the London Bus is now available to be reserved for free in 12 SOUTHARK LIBRARIES (London)
News Alerts: 30th of May 2016. A new shop for Beatrice and the London Bus! GIFT OF LONDON by the Tower of London will soon be stocking Beatrice and the London Bus book series and its spin offs: The London Map, The London Map colouring book, The London Map booklet, the London Map stickers and T-shirts!
News Alerts: 19th of May, 2016 Beatrice and the London Bus available from WATERSTONES – TRAFALGAR SQUARE (London)
News Alerts: 15th of May 2016, Beatrice and the London Bus is now available from – FOYLES – ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL. (London)
News Alerts: 5th of May 2016 –New Mayor of London’s dad was a BUS DRIVER!! Beatrice’s dream job and dream N.1 in her DREAM LIST (Vol 1 – pag. 21)
News Alerts: 5th of April – 2016 PARENTS IN TOUCH.co.uk requests the book series for their book review section.
News Alerts: 5th of May –
Beatrice and the London Bus is featured as book of the MONTH in the MAY Newsletter of LONDON MUMS MAGAZINE.
News Alerts: 5th of May 2016 –
Brick Lane Book Shop first book in London to stockBeatrice and the London Bus book series and the London Map colouring book!
News Alert: 22nd April 2016 – Southwark Councils places an order with Askews to stock Beatrice and the London Bus book series making it available to be reserved for free in 7 Southwark libraries.
News Alerts: 23rd of April 2016 – Canada Water library- Daily Fairy Tales wraps up the SOUTHWARK BOOK TOUR AND DRAWING COMP with a COLOURING EVENT at Canada Water: Colour London with Beatrice and the London Bus
News Alerts: 15th of April 2016
Interview with the author about the Beatrice and the London Bus drawing competition and the southwark book tour is featured on My Weekender (70.000 copies)
News Alerts: 15-23 April 2016 Author Francesca Lombardo meets 560 kids from Lambeth and Southwark Schools (Archbishop Sumner, St. Paul Catholic, Crampton School, St. James the Great, Camelot School, St. John’s Catholic School, Goldsmith Oliver, Heber Schools, St. Anthony’s School and three Peckham libraries – Canada Water, Peckham Library, Dulwich Libraries for the Beatrice and the London Bus Southwark Book Tour and Drawing Competition 2016
News Alerts: 5-6 April 2016 – Daily Fairy Tales is the official sponsors of the BEATRICE AND THE LONDON BUS DRAWING Competition, which will see the author delivering book events, drawing workshops to children from schools and libraries of the busiest London boroughs till the end of 2106, when the winning team (class) for the school and library category is announced.
The prize is a day out in London for the winning team and a monetary prize (tbc) for the winning school and library.
News Alerts: 15th of April, 2016 Daily Fairy Tales titles are available for ordering in the UK through Gardners Books and Bertrams. .
News Alerts: 3-5 April, 2016 – Beatrice and the London Bus attends the Bologna’s children books fair.
News Alert: 27th of February 2016 – Author Francesca Lombardo presents her children’s book series at Tower Hamlets Library – IDEA STORE TOWER HAMLETS, Watney Market.
News Alerts: 18th of April 2016 – Daily Fairy Tales partners with top end TOUR Company – BIG CITY – SMALL CARDS and makes Beatrice and the London Bus books and its spin offs (the London Map, the London Map Colouring Books and the London Stickers) the official product for their “kids tours and treasure hunts”
News Alerts: December 2016 – 5 stars hotel – The Grand Trafalgar Square in Northumberland avenue is the first London hotel to include the Beatrice and the London Bus book series and London Map as part their children’s gift bag for the hotel’s guests.
News Alerts: August 2015 – Beatrice and the London Bus is featured among the top ten children’s books about London by London Mums Magazine – a wonderful magazine and online community officially supported by the Mayor of London
News Alerts: February 2015 – Beatrice and the London Bus partners with Londonita – largest online Italian platform about London events arts and launches online editorial column BEATRICE’s COLUMN, where the main characters of the book series talks about London for children.
