'Breaking Dawn' and 'Brisingr' in a Post-Harry World By Judith Rosen - 07/14/2008
Last summer, as town squares filled with thousands of families celebrating the final Harry Potter volume, customer expectations were forever changed for big children's book releases. Many kids and parents now expect an activities-packed evening that peaks at the stroke of midnight with a coveted new book.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/30/2008 06/30/2008
Picture Books Fanny Holly Hobbie . Little, Brown , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-16687-1 Poor Fanny—she has one of those mothers who will never let her daughter have a Connie doll. Her best friends have them, but “They're just too... much,” says Mom, who, in fine children's book tradition, is seen only from the neck down.
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Spring Flying Starts 06/23/2008
Sarah Prineas has a young reader of the children's magazine Cricket to thank for the impetus that led to her very splashy debut—a three-book contract, two starred reviews for the first volume, and 13 foreign rights sales. Prineas had written only three lines of a story—A thief is a lot like a wizard.
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Children's Book Reviews 06/23/2008
Picture Books Ten Tiny Babies Karen Katz . S&S/McElderry , $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3546-9 Kicking off with “1 tiny baby starts to run” and ending with 10 sleeping babies tucked into their cribs, Katz (Princess Baby) once again puts her kewpie doll crew through their paces, this time enumerating all the fun things that babies do, from toe wriggling and noisemaking to eati...
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Notes From the Bookroom Elizabeth Devereaux, , September 25, 2007 Jenna's Story
I’d like to thank HarperCollins for making me a tool of the Bush administrati... More
