New tie-up will continue throughout Christmas lead up and into 2021.
Hornby has joined forces with Macmillan Children’s Books for a new official partnership.
The tie up is celebrating the launch of the second book in Macmillan’s Adventures of Trains series – Kidnap on the California Comet.
As part of the partnership, a special Hornby/Macmillan webpage is now live at hornby.com, with visitors being able to meet the authors (M.G Leonard and Sam Sedgman), read about the two Adventures on Trains stories, listen to extracts from the series, download activity sheets and enter a competition to win the books.
A special event with the two authors is also being planned for later in the autumn.
Both companies are also working with ten UK independent book stores, which are stocking the book and also have a special Hornby window display in place featuring its Industrial Freight train set.
The partnership will continue in the lead up to Christmas and into 2021 to celebrate the launch of Murder on the Safari Star, the third book in the series.
“I’m over the moon to be partnering with Hornby, who have filled my heart with joy ever since I was old enough to play with my dad’s train set,” commented Sam Sedgman. “We wrote Adventures on Trains to share the fun and excitement of trains with young readers everywhere – and nobody understands that feeling better than Hornby.”
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