{"id":190079,"date":"2025-06-16T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190079\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:25:12","slug":"affirm-press-acquires-minon-picture-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190079\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirm Press acquires MinOn picture book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tTuesday, 17 June 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the picture book Make Them Say Poo by Steve MinOn under the pen name Stephen, via literary agent Martin Shaw of Shaw Literacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Designed as a read aloud, Make Them Say Poo uses phonics and sounding words as the basis of the concept,\u2019 said the publisher, which will encourage young readers to \u2018break words into syllables and to anticipate rhymes\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>MinOn was the 2023 winner of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards for First Name Second Name (UQP 2025). Hi work has appeared in SBS Voices, Mamamia, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the book, MinOn said: \u2018Stephen is the name my mother used whenever I was naughty and Make Them Say Poo is definitely the work of my naughty alter-ego. But it\u2019s not written for mischief. I wrote it to give children agency over their reading time and to encourage them to have fun with words\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Simon &amp; Schuster Australia and Affirm Press children\u2019s publishing director, Tash Besliev said: \u2018I know I once vowed never to publish a \u2018fart book\u2019, but luckily, this one\u2019s about poo. Technically. It\u2019s clever, pun-packed, and delightfully self-aware. Think sophisticated toilet humour meets literary wordplay. Steve is elevating this genre in a most delightful way.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Affirm Press plans to release Make Them Say Poo in April 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Chris Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=rights-news\" class=\"catitem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights\u00a0and\u00a0acquisitions<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 17 June 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the picture book Make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[11410,186,29677,29680,29674,17976,3444,29679,29681,77,29676,704,29678,29675,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-190079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-author-interviews","11":"tag-book-awards","12":"tag-book-news","13":"tag-book-reviews","14":"tag-books","15":"tag-bookseller-jobs","16":"tag-ebooks","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-library-news","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-publishing-jobs","21":"tag-publishing-news","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}