DAVID SALARIYA Book Creator • Designer • Author • Illustrator • Publisher
David Salariya was born in Dundee, Scotland. He is an author, artist, and book designer. He founded his children's publishing company The Salariya Book Company in 1989 later adding the imprints: Book House, Scribblers and Scribo. He has created and designed over seventy series of children's books, including the bestselling You Wouldn't Want To Be…! The Spectacular Visual Guides, A Very Peculiar History and many, many more.
DAVID SALARIYA
DAVID SALARIYA
Timeline
1954
A brief overview from 1954 to 2024: Young and vibrant to old and out of print - the highs, the lows, hits, misses, misfires & mistakes!
David Salariya Born, Dundee,
Scotland
1959
Ancrum Rd Primary School, Dundee
1966
Harris Accademy, Dundee
1973
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
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1978
Freelance Illustrator,
London
1981
Reader's Digest Field Guide To Trees And Shrubs Of Great Britain published
1973-1978 David Salariya studied illustration and printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, specialising in book design in his post-graduate year. He trained to be an art teacher at the University of Sussex.
1986
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Book Illustrator: The Reader's Digest Book Of Trees, History As Evidence: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greeks, Ancient Romans,
Pre-History. The Children's Book Of Domesday England. The Children's History
of Great Britain.
Magazine: Garden Answers - Monthly Article
Editorial Packager: Macdonald Young Books:
Giunti Marzocco: There & Then
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1989
Created & Designed
Children's non-fiction books created & designed by David Salariya published by Franklin Wats:
Timelines, New View, The X Ray Picture Book Series, World Wise, A Very Peculiar History (Version 1).
1990
Times Educational Supplement Award for Senior Information Book of the Year.
Inside Story Egyptian Pyramid, Created & Designed by David Salariya. written by Jacqueline Morley,
illustrated by John James & Mark Bergin. Published by Simon & Schuster Young Books.
The 'Inside Story' series was later republished by The Salariya Imprint 'Book House' as 'Spectacular Visual Guides'
Editorial packager:
Simon & Schuster, Macdonald Young Books, Franklin Watts and Macmillan are UK clients.
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The Salariya
Book Company
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1990: Poll tax riots – Protests against the Community Charge (poll tax) in London. 1991: Gulf War – UK forces participate in the liberation of Kuwait. 1992: Black Wednesday – The UK is forced to withdraw from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM).
In 1985 David Salariya began to conceive, create, design and commission children’s non-fiction books, working as a ‘packager’ creating books for the publishers: Franklin Watts, Simon & Schuster. The new series included: Inside Story, Timelines, The X Ray Picture Book’s, How Would You Survive, A Very Peculiar History and many more.
Milestones & Awards
2007
2007 English 4-11 Awards for the Best Children’s Books Runner-up WOW (World of Wonder) Rainforest, Created and designed by David Salariya. Written and illustrated by Carolyn Franklin. Published by Book House
2009
All About Me by David Salariya.
All About Me: A Baby’s Guide to Babies published by Random House. CCBC’s (Cooperative Children’s Book Centre, School of Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison. USA) choices 2009.
2009
2009 English 4 -11 Best Children’s Illustrated Book Awards (Shortlisted)
The Secret Journal of Victor Frankenstein: On the Workings of the Human Body
created, designed and written by David Salariya.
Salariya Imprints
In 1989 David Salariya founded Salariya and then its imprints: Book House 2002, Scribblers 2007 and Scribo 2009, building a small family independent children’s publishing house prizing innovation, inclusion, humour and quality above all else. In 1999 David created and designed the best selling You Wouldn’t Want to be…! series which went on to be translated into 36 languages.
Milestones & Awards
2009
Independent Publishers Guild. Publisher of the Year: The Salariya Book Company. (runner up).
2010
2013
Independent Publishers Guild, Children’s Publisher of the Year: David Salariya - The Salariya Book Company.
ALCS Information Writers Award.
The Danger Zone: Avoid Working on a Medieval Cathedral! (UK) You Wouldn’t Want To Work On A Medieval Cathedral (USA)
Created and designed by David Salariya, written by Fiona Macdonald and illustrated by David Antram (UK Book House, USA Scholastic)
Emerging Technologies
David, ever keen to embrace emerging technologies, collaborated on multi dimensional CD Rom’s in 1995 and Augmented Reality in 2010. In 2017, David inaugurated the Stratford-Salariya Children's Picture Book Prize with the Stratford Literary festival for unpublished picture book writers and illustrators.
Milestones & Awards
2014
ALCS Information Writers Award The Danger Zone:
Avoid Being Sir Isaac Newton! (UK) You Wouldn't Want to Be Sir Isaac Newton (USA) (Runner up) Created and designed by David Salariya, written by Ian Graham and illustrated by David Antram (UK Book House, USA Scholastic)
2015
2015 Junior Design Awards (Shortlisted)
You Wouldn’t Want To Live Without Antibiotics! UK Book House. Created and designed by David Salariya, written by Anne Rooney, illustrated by David Antram.
2021
Spark! School Book Awards (7-9 Fiction category).
The Long-Lost Secret Diary of the World’s Worst Samurai!
Series created and designed by David Salariya,
written by Tim Collins and illustrated by Isobel Lundie.