2012 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalists

It's award time in the publishing world and we couldn't be more thrilled to announce another group of books and authors from Insight Editions that are included in this list of the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalists by Independent Book Publishers Association.

 Biography:                                                                       

House of Cash: The Legacies of My Father, Johnny Cash
by John Carter Cash

Coffee Table Large Format:                                                

All Access: The Rock 'N' Roll Photography of Ken Regan
by Jim Jerome

Art and Photography:                                                        

Amazing Everything: The Art of Scott C.
by Scott Campbell

Interior Design: 3 or More Color; Children’s/Young Adult:    

Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Film Making Journey

by Bob McCabe

Congratulations to our authors, the photographers, illustrators and the Insight Editions creative team that helped design the layouts of these books.

2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards

We are so pleased to announce that Insight Editions has four titles that appear on the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

2012 Award-winning books from Insight Editions: 

 

Biography
Gold: House of Cash: The Legacies of My Father, Johnny Cash, by John Carter Cash
 

Holiday
Gold: Christmas with the First Ladies: The White House Decorating Tradition from Jacqueline Kennedy to Michelle Obama, by Collen Christian Burke

Humor
Silver: Goodnight Husband, Goodnight Wife, by Eric Stangel & Justin Stangel; Illustrated by Adam J. Raiti

Graphic Novel/Drawn Book – Humor/Cartoon
Gold: Amazing Everything, by Scott Campbell

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The Dickens Bicentenary

Charles Dickens was an intriguing personality. He was a man far ahead of his time, a Victorian whose ideals and outlook on life were better suited to the modern world. With beautiful photographs and artworks, and many never before seen facsimile documents from Dickens's own archives, Charles Dickens brings to life this extraordinary and complex man, whose name remains internationally revered and whose work continues to inspire us today.

Charles Dickens is the definitive interactive illustrated guide to the man and his works. Produced in association with the Charles Dickens Museum, London, it follows Dickens from early childhood, including his time spent as a child labourer, and looks at how he became the greatest celebrity of his age, and how he still remains one of Britain's most renowned literary figures, even in the twenty-first century. It is an intimate look at what he was like as a husband, father, friend and employer; at his longing to be an actor, his travels across North America, his year spent living in Italy and his great love of France. It introduces Dickens's fascinating family and his astonishing circle of friends, and we discover when and how life and real-life personalities were imitated in his art.


Charles Dickens: The Dickens Bicentenary 1812 - 2012
by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley with The Charles Dickens Museum
Hardcover | $39.99 | 124 pages

Lucinda Dickens Hawksley is the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens and a patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She has written more than 20 books, including Lizzie Siddal, The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel (2004) and Katey, The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter (2006). A lecturer as well as a writer, Lucinda is an expert in Dickens' family life and has been awarded a fellowship to study the life of Augustus Dickens (Charles's brother and the original "Boz") at the Newberry Library in Chicago.