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A Happy Ending for 'Sophie's Squash'
Sophie's Squash by first-time author Pat Zietlow Miller was plucked from the slush pile by a sharp-eyed assistant.
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This Week in Children's Apps: August 22, 2013
This week in children's apps features two Dr. Seuss apps, just in time for the new school year.
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Rights Report: Week of August 19, 2013
New deals for Paula Young Pinkney, Connah Brecon, Mark Pett, and Alice Schertle & Jill McElmurry.
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Kenneth Grahame's 'The Reluctant Dragon' Turns 75
Holiday House, which first published The Reluctant Dragon, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, in 1938, brings out a 75th anniversary edition on September 15.
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New Novel Coming from Ann Brashares
Delacorte Press has announced it will publish The Here and Now, a new novel by Ann Brashares, bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
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The Ologies Turn 10
A 12th title in the bestselling Ologies series, Dinosaurology: The Search for a Lost World, is due to be released in September with a 100,000-copy first printing.
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Helping Kids Make Sense of War: Military Books 2013
With news of violence in the Middle East dominating today's headlines, and many thousands of military parents serving overseas, it is impossible for children and young adults to escape the reality of war.
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After 25 Years, Michael Ende's 'Momo' Returns to Print
This week, McSweeney's McMullens brings Michael Ende's Momo back into print with a 40th-anniversary edition featuring a new translation and illustrations.
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Chronicle Expands Its Little Finger Puppet Books Menagerie
Launched in 2005, the Little Finger Puppet Books series now includes 33 titles and has sold close to 3 million copies in the U.S. and the UK.
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Rights Report: Week of August 12, 2013
New deals for An Na, David Potter, and Don Tate & Chris Barton.
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Chooseco Kickstarts Choose Your Own Adventure Series
Chooseco, publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure books, is reinventing the series once more with the help of a Kickstarter campaign.
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Penguin Signs 13-Year-Old Author
Penguin Young Readers Group's latest debut author is also one of its target readers: a 13-year-old boy.
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Scholastic Lands Baldacci's 'The Finisher'
Bestselling author David Baldacci has signed with Scholastic for his first standalone children's book, a fantasy novel called The Finisher.
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Galley Talk: 'The Year of Billy Miller'
Jennifer Green, owner of Green Bean Books in Portland, Ore., shares her thoughts on The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes, which she'll be eagerly handselling when it's released in September.
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Rights Report: Week of August 5, 2012
New deals for Julie Murphy, Thanhha Lai, and Antony John.
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Greg Heffley Faces 'Hard Luck' in Wimpy Kid #8
The eighth book in Jeff Kinney's bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Hard Luck, will go on sale November 5.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Bids Goodbye to Alice
After 28 years and 28 novels, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is wrapping up her series starring Alice McKinley with Now I'll Tell You Everything, out October 15.
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OddInt Media Launches with Little Book by Big Name
Ross C. Follett, former president and CEO of Follett Library Resources, makes his authorial debut with BeeBear.
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'Speak' to Be Adapted as a Graphic Novel
Author Laurie Halse Anderson will adapt the text of her novel, a 1999 National Book Award Finalist, and Emily Carroll will illustrate.
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Back in Print: 'Pat the Bunny' Author's Earliest Titles
The New York Review Children's Collection is reissuing paper-over-board editions of the Pat the Bunny creator's first two picture books.



