David Fickling Books
David Fickling Books Ltd is a publishing company which was founded in 1999 and became an independent publishing house in July 2013 following 12 years with Scholastic and later Random House. They have published several prize-winning and bestselling books including Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, Bing Bunny by Ted Dewan, Pants by Nick Sharratt and Giles Andreae, Before I Die by Jenny Downham, Trash by Andy Mulligan and A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton.
They are the only other publishing house to have ever won the Branford Boase Award three times, other than The [Chicken House|Chicken House]’s Barry Cunningham.
DFB also works closely with The [Phoenix |The Phoenix], a weekly story comic for children which David Fickling founded.