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Unseen Sendak on Display
One day in the late 1960s, Maurice Sendak entered Justin Schiller’s Antiquarian Book Center in Rockefeller Center’s subterranean shopping arcade, wanting to see Schiller’s collection of 19th-century pop-up books by the German artist Lothar Meggendorfer.
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Frederator Hires David Wilk To Run New E-book Unit
Animation house Frederator is launching Frederator Books, a digital publishing imprint with plans to release 100 digital titles in 2013 and brought in publishing and distribution veteran David Wilk to direct the line of Kids illustrated e-books.
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Trajectory Inks e-Book Deals with Chinese Publishers at Bologna Book Fair
Trajectory announced partnerships with China’s People’s Education Press and Xiamen Bluebird Cartoon Company and in a separate deal released a One World Kids App and will publish Sally Discovers New York, a new digital picture book in the late Stephen Huneck’s kids’ series about a black Labrador retriever.
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First Look: 'All the Truth That's in Me'
Author Julie Berry's forthcoming book All the Truth That’s in Me, her first YA effort, features a girl who cannot speak. The title has generated so much in-house enthusiasm, its publisher is eager to get the word out.
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New Guide Helps Kids Coping with Parental Illness
My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks, by father-daughter team Marc and Maya Silver, draws on their family's experience and includes advice from medical professionals and stories of teens whose lives have been touched by cancer.
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Rights Report: Week of March 18, 2013
New deals for Michael Hague, Wendy Shang and Shelby Bach.
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Chicago Board of Education Defends 'Persepolis' Ban
In a letter sent to free speech advocates yesterday, a lawyer for the Chicago Board of Education defended the restrictions on students' access to Persepolis.
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Old Meets New in 'Going Vintage' Campaign
To spread pre-pub word of her new YA novel, author Lindsey Leavitt solicited friends and colleagues to send photos of their grandparents, parents, or themselves dressed in vintage garb, and is posting them on Tumblr.
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Protests Continue Over 'Persepolis' Ban
The controversy over the Chicago Public Schools restricting access to Marjane Satrapi’s memoir continues to roil the nation’s third largest school district.
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Chicago Schools Restrict Access to 'Persepolis'
Chicago Public Schools is under fire for pulling from classrooms Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s coming-of-age memoir of her youth in Iran.
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A Fresh Look for Rob Thomas's 'Rats Saw God'
Simon & Schuster is publishing repackaged editions of the Veronica Mars scribe's 1996 debut YA novel.
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Viz Launches Kids' Comics App with Pokemon Manga and More
Manga publisher Viz rolled out a new digital comics service last week that takes advantage of the publisher's kid-friendly licensed properties—not all of them Japanese.
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Scholastic Grabs New Graphic Novels from Gownley, Sturm, Widjaja, Maihack
Scholastic's Graphix imprint has acquired 5 new graphic novels from a variety of artists in a series of new deals negotiated with the Judy Hansen Literary Agency. The books are slated to be released beginning in 2014.
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Jump-starting an Old Favorite: The Return of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Author Frank Cottrell Boyce adds another installment to Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang series, following last year's sequel.
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Meet the Mother-Daughter Pair Behind the Cupcake Club
Carrie Berk, age 10, co-authors the three-books-and-counting Cupcake Club series with her mother, Sheryl Berk.
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Promoting a Late Author's Debut Novel: 'Poison' by Bridget Zinn
Friends and family are rallying in support of the newly published novel by Zinn, who died in May 2011 at age 33.
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Rights Report: Week of March 4, 2013
New deals for Brad Meltzer, Rebecca Serle and Kate and Jim McMullan.
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Unusual Chapter Reveal for New Cassandra Clare Novel
S&S Children's Publishing is launching Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Princess with some innovative marketing strategies, such as using tweets to unlock the opening chapter word-by-word.
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A Whodunit Anthology Promotes Youth Literacy
More than 80 big names in children's literature have contributed to Who Done It?: Investigation of Murder Most Foul, an anthology that rounds up alibis from a list of literary "suspects" in the death of a fictitious editor.



