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June 11, 2009

In the News

• Licensing 2009: Hello, Las Vegas!
  This year’s edition of Licensing Expo International attracted fewer exhibitors and fewer attendees than in past years—many publishers brought smaller teams than usual—due to a combination of the poor economy, a tough licensing landscape and the show’s move to Las Vegas from its longtime home in New York City. But most attendees and exhibitors said they were happy with the level of business and the quality of contacts, especially given low expectations.  more » » » 
• Browne Named Children's Laureate in U.K.
  Anthony Browne has been appointed the sixth Children’s Laureate in the U.K. Browne, who won the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Medal, is only the second illustrator chosen as Children’s Laureate. The two-year position recognizes the contribution an individual has made to children and reading. more » » » 

• Sourcebooks Adds to New York, Connecticut Offices
  Sourcebooks is expanding its satellite offices in New York and Connecticut with some new hires in both locations. The company has added three new people in New York, with another hire in children’s marketing still in the works; Rebecca Frazer, who has acquired and edited children’s books for HarperCollins, S&S, and Random House, has been hired as acquisitions editor for the publisher’s Jabberwocky children’s book imprint. more » » » 
• HC Children's Does Mobile Promotion for Lauren Conrad Novel
  HarperCollins is launching viral mobile content, accessible by scanning 2D barcodes, for a promotion for Lauren Conrad's YA novel, L.A. Candy. The promotion coincides with the book's June 16 release; through it, readers can download book-related content, including a Q&A with the author, by downloading an application to their smartphones. more » » » 
• 'Blood Ties' Takes Red House Prize
  Sophie McKenzie's Blood Ties, a YA thriller that explores genetic engineering, has won Britain’s Red House Children's Book Award, the only prize voted for entirely by children (this year, more than 143,000). U.S. rights, which are held by agent Rosemary Canter, have not yet been sold. more » » » 

Blogs

• ShelfTalker: A Children's Bookseller's Blog
  Alison Morris, Children's Book Buyer, Wellesley Booksmith, Wellesley, Mass.
  On the Street Where You Read
  Picture a world comprised of book covers, book spines, and people cut from actual book pages. That's the world created by Apt Studio and Asylum Films in the stop-motion video "This Is Where We Li...
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• A Fuse #8 Production
  Elizabeth Bird, Children's Librarian, Children's Center at 42nd Street
  Review of the Day: Creature ABC by Andrew Zuckerman
  Creature ABC By Andrew Zuckerman Chronicle Books $19.99 ISBN: 978-0-8118-6978-2 Ages 3-9 September 1, 2009 Each year there's a spate of alphabet books that flood the market willy-nilly. And...
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• Good Comics for Kids
  Brigid Alverson, ,
  Links: Archie is everywhere!
  At Comic Book Resources, Alex Dueben talks to Derek Kirk Kim and Gene Luen Yang about working together on The Eternal Smile. And America.gov does a video interview with Gene. (Via Journalista.) Tim...
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Book News

• A Tweet Treat?
  Forget watching The View. On Wednesday morning, plugged-in booksellers, writers and fans instead viewed a live, one-hour Twitter exchange between Nancy Mercado, executive editor of Roaring Brook Press, and Nan Marino, author of Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me. Are author-editor tweet-fests the marketing wave of the future? Perhaps. more » » » 
• I Spy... a Series with Legs
  Aimed at readers who like heroines that are more concerned about pulling off covert operations than pulling off the perfect outfit, the first two books in Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls series have been steadily gaining fans for the past few years. This week, the third book, Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover, also starring teenage spy-in-training Cammie Morgan, went on sale with a 250,000-copy first printing. more » » » 
• A New Role for ‘Nanny Diaries’ Authors
  In 2002, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus suddenly found themselves in the spotlight when The Nanny Diaries, their debut novel based on their experiences as Manhattan nannies, hit the bestseller lists. Now, seven years later, they have published their first YA novel, The Real Real (HarperTeen), centering on a 17-year-old whose life takes a similarly dramatic turn when she is cast in a reality show filmed at her Long Island high school. more » » » 
• Full Steam Ahead for The 39 Clues
  Scholastic Media will promote its multimedia book series The 39 Clues through a promotion with Amtrak that will run July 1 through August 31. The partnership will feature two million branded ticket jackets, dining car placemats and seatback signage in trains. more » » » 

In the Media

• From the Wall Street Journal:
  In a feature that has kicked off some chatter and skepticism in the blogophere, the WSJ says that YA fare has recently taken a “dark turn.” more » » » 
• From the Guardian:
  YA author Melvin Burgess’s memoir has been dropped by his longtime publisher, Andersen Press, because of concerns over Europe’s far-reaching invasion of privacy laws. more » » » 
• From the Bookseller:
  A children’s poem written by Ted Hughes, lost for decades, has resurfaced and will be published this fall by Thames & Hudson, called Timmy the Tug. more » » » 
• From the Albany Times Union:
  Children’s literature professor and bookseller Frank Hodge is closing Hodge Podge Books, his children’s bookstore in Albany, which has been open since 1982. more » » » 
• From the Easton (Ct.) Courier:
  A profile of local writer and artist James Prosek, whose latest picture book, Bird, Butterfly, Eel, was published this spring. more » » » 

Q & A

• Q & A with Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  Q: Why did you choose Kentucky for the novel’s setting?
  
  A: Sometimes books are long in the coming. Many, many years ago I received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and used it to visit West Virginia and Kentucky and I just soaked up the atmosphere. My father came from Mississippi and I’ve always been drawn to southern culture. more » » » 

Did You Know?

• The Two Worlds of Annie Barrows
  Did you know that Annie Barrows, author of the popular Ivy and Bean series of children's books (Chronicle) and Annie Barrows, co-author of the bestselling adult novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, are one and the same person? "Bless the booksellers’ hearts, but you could knock some of them over with a feather when I tell them about the connection,” says Barrows, currently wrapping up a 15-city tour for the paperback release of Guernsey. more » » » 

Featured Reviews

• Georgia Rises: A Day in the Life of Georgia O’Keeffe
  Kathryn Lasky, illus. by Ora Eitan. FSG/Kroupa, $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-32529-9
  Collaborators Lasky (One Beetle Too Many) and Eitan (Scuba Bunnies) offer a quietly stirring tribute to the artist Georgia O’Keeffe. The illustrations, which cast the desert landscapes and O’Keeffe’s adobe residence in boldly colored block-print-style paintings, don’t so much resemble O’Keeffe’s own work as they imaginatively capture the unfolding creative process. more » » » 
• Strange Angels
  Lili St. Crow. Razorbill, $9.99 paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-59514-251-1 Dru has always known about the poltergeists, vampires and werwulfen that inhabit the Real World since her father has traveled the country battling them, often with Dru’s help. But when he is killed after they move to the Dakotas—and sent back as a zombie to kill her—Dru digs deeper into her history, trying to find out who murdered her mother and who is after her. more » » » 
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