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David Fickling Books
Founder	David Fickling
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	Oxford
Publication types	books
Official website	www.davidficklingbooks.com

David Fickling Books

British publishing house

David Fickling Books Ltd (DFB) was founded in 1999^[1] and became an independent publishing house in July 2013 following 12 years (2001-2013) with Scholastic and later Random House.^[2]^[3] They have published several prize-winning and bestselling books including Lyra's Oxford (from the world of His Dark Materials) 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 (shortly to be a major movie with script by Richard Curtis) and A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton.

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They are the only other publishing house to have ever won the Branford Boase Award three times, other than Chicken House’s Barry Cunningham.^[4]^[3]

DFB also works closely with The Phoenix, a weekly story comic for children which David Fickling founded.^[5]

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Date	Title	Author	ISBN
2002
August 7	Poochie-poo	Helen Stephens	ISBN 0-385-60410-6
2005
November 3	Celandine	Steve Augarde	ISBN 0-385-60562-5
2006
January 5	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	John Boyne	ISBN 978-0-385-60940-1
January 19	Pants	Giles Andreae and Nick Sharratt	ISBN 978-0-385-61039-1
January 19	Shark in the Park	Nick Sharratt	ISBN 978-0-385-60812-1
March 2	A Swift Pure Cry	Siobhan Dowd	ISBN 978-0-385-60969-2
April 6	The Penderwicks	Jeanne Birdsall	ISBN 978-0-385-61034-6
May 4	Set in Stone	Linda Newbery	ISBN 978-0-385-60748-3
July 6	Kat Got Your Tongue	Lee Weatherly	ISBN 978-0-385-60780-3
August 31	Into the Woods	Lyn Gardner	ISBN 978-0-385-61035-3
October 5	Uneversaurus	Aidan Potts	ISBN 978-0-385-60892-3
November 2	Blue Skies and Gunfire	K. M. Peyton	ISBN 978-0-385-61041-4
2007
February 1	Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling	D. M. Cornish	ISBN 978-0-385-61148-0
February 1	Sadie the Airmail Pilot	Kellie Strom	ISBN 978-0-385-60506-9
March 1	Butterfingers	J M Trewellard	ISBN 978-0-385-61208-1
	Charlie Small: Gorilla City	Charlie Small	ISBN 978-0-385-61122-0
	Charlie Small: The Perfumed Pirates of Perfidy	Charlie Small	ISBN 978-0-385-61123-7
May 3	More Pants	Giles Andreae and Nick Sharratt	ISBN 978-0-385-61077-3
June 7	The London Eye Mystery	Siobhan Dowd	ISBN 978-0-385-61266-1
July 5	Before I Die	Jenny Downham	ISBN 978-0-385-61346-0
July 5	The Lost Art	Simon Morden	ISBN 978-0-385-60964-7
August 2	Charlie Small: The Puppet Master	Charlie Small	ISBN 978-0-385-61124-4
September 6	The Inferior	Peadar Ó Guilín	ISBN 978-0-385-61095-7
2008
January 3	Winter Wood	Steve Augarde	ISBN 978-0-385-60563-2
January 3	Charlie Small: The Daredevil Desperados of Destiny	Charlie Small	ISBN 978-0-385-61125-1
February 7	Bog Child	Siobhan Dowd	ISBN 978-0-385-61426-9
April 3	Time's Chariot	Ben Jeapes	ISBN 978-0-385-61450-4
	Once Upon a Time in the North	Philip Pullman	ISBN 978-0-385-61432-0
	Flightsend	Linda Newbery	ISBN 978-0-385-61407-8
May 1	Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter	D.M. Cornish	ISBN 978-0-385-61192-3
May 1	Grizzly Dad	Joanna Harrison	ISBN 978-0-385-61019-3
June 5	The Penderwicks on Gardam Street	Jeanne Birdsall	ISBN 978-0-385-61375-0
June 5	Red Spikes	Margo Lanagan	ISBN 978-0-385-61322-4
2009
September 3	Boom!	Mark Haddon	ISBN 978-0-385-61629-4
September 3

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