Life At Bonnier - Bonnier Carlsen

Hotell Gyllene Knorren Goes Multi-Media

By Bert Menninga on 2010-12-03
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Sweden's TV Christmas Calendar children's show includes a cooperation with book publishers Bonnier Carlsen and Bonnier Utbildning - and will become a feature film for SF.

On Dec. 1 Swedish Television's public channel started airing its annual Julakalender Christmas Calendar show – Hotell Gyllene Knorren (Hotel Golden Pigtail). The series is an annual TV advent calendar for kids with one 15-minute episode per day until Christmas. This year the program is based on the Bonnier Carlsen book series by Måns Gahrton and Johan Unenge about a wacky family that takes  over an old hotel.

Lasse-Maja Aids the Childhood Cancer Foundation

By Bert Menninga on 2010-11-22
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Bonnier Carlsen and Lasse-Maja author and illustrator donate three kronor for every book sold to the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation.

In the middle of November, the 19th book of the Lasse-Maja's detective agency children's book series was launched: Sjukhusmysteriet (the hospital mystery).

Bonnier Carlsen Tests New Interactive Channels for Readers

By Bert Menninga on 2010-10-19
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At boktipset.se, Swedish book publisher Bonnier Carlsen's blog engages the whole company - and readers can participate on their Facebook sites.

Several months ago children's book publisher Bonnier Carlsen started a company blog. Publishers, editors, graphic designers, authors and illustrators all write there about working with children's and young adult books. The target group is readers of the publishing house's books.

Meet Ellen Adolfsson

By Tora Bonnier on 2010-07-12
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GROW participant Ellen Adolfsson takes on the challenge of unusual and complex book design at Templar in the U.K.

The most exciting thing about Ellen Adolfsson's new position is learning about the abstract art of paper engineering.  "I didn't even know there was such a thing," says GROW participant Adolfsson, 45, who made a switch from being a graphic designer at Bonnier Carlsen in Stockholm to being a designer at Templar in Surrey, England. "This is a new way of thinking to me - books that fold out, things that pop-up off the pages and move.

Meet Lena Thunell

By Bert Menninga on 2010-04-07
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Bonnier Carlsen designer learns to work the opposite way on the other side of the earth.

Lena Thunell is a graphic designer at Bonnier Carlsen, where she came after starting out in the travel industry. At Weldon Owen in Sydney, Australia, as a GROW participant she is now working on a project that the publisher is putting out together with Discovery Education: the design of 64 titles, each with 32 pages and written for 10-13 year olds.