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Big Online Push for New Gayle Forman Novel
Penguin Young Readers Group has set in motion a multifaceted social media marketing campaign to promote Gayle Forman's Just One Day.
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Station to 'Station': The Rebirth of a Foreign Cult Classic
In January, Zest Books is releasing a new translation of Christiane Vera F.'s Zoo Station, which has been a sensation in Germany for 35 years.
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New Wimpy Kid Crosses 1 Million Copies Sold
Book seven of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Third Wheel, has passed the million mark in physical copies sold, according to Nielsen BookScan. The book will end the year as the #6 bestselling book of the year, placing behind only the Fifty Shades trilogy, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay.
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Books of Wonder to Partner with City Bakery
After an Indiegogo fundraiser that raised $100,000 for New York City children's bookstore Books of Wonder, owner Peter Glassman announced the store is leasing its kitchen and bakery space to longtime neighbor City Bakery, which will open a pop-up store inside Books of Wonder possibly as early as this weekend.
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Self-Published YA Author 'Crash'es into the Big League
HarperCollins has scooped up rights to self-published writer Nicole Williams's Crash trilogy, and will release the three books in paperback as well as in e-book form.
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A Tribute to Picture-Book Pioneers Maud and Miska Petersham
This fall, 13-year-old WoodstockArts is looking to fulfill its mission "to shine a light on Woodstock, N.Y.," with a book on the life and work of Maud and Miska Petersham, leading picture book illustrators of the 1920s through the '50s.
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Caroline Cooney's Janie Books Come to a Close
More than two decades after publishing The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney concludes her Janie series with the fifth and final volume, Janie Face to Face.
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Illustrator Proposes Marriage in His Children's Book Debut
On the acknowledgments page of Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Start, debut illustrator Sam Zuppardi popped the question to Jade Amers, his girlfriend of five years.
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Young Staffer Recalls Gabrielle Giffords's Shooting in New Memoir
Daniel Hernandez, who interned for U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords when a gunman opened fire during a constituent event at a Tucson shopping center, tells his story in They Call Me a Hero: A Memoir of My Youth, written with Susan Goldman Rubin.
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Galley Talk: 'Just One Day'
Lauren Mayer, children's book buyer for University Book Store in Seattle, has high hopes for Gayle Forman's Just One Day.
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Controversy Follows Manic D's First Children's Book
Manic D, which specializes in anarchist publications, is used to attracting negative attention. But the company's initial foray into children's publishing is igniting just as much controversy as any of their books for adults.
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Clare, S&S Team Up for Shadowhunters Spinoff, in P and E
A “story cycle” is how Russell Galen, agent of bestselling author Cassandra Clare, describes the new project she’s just signed to do with Simon & Schuster.
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African-American Interest Young Readers Titles, 2012–2013
A list of African-American interest books for young readers publishing between September 2012 and March 2013.
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Porter and the Steads: An Unusual Three-Book Deal
A new as-yet-untitled collaboration from Philip and Erin Stead – the husband-wife team behind A Sick Day for Amos McGee and Bear Has a Story to Tell – would be noteworthy on its own. But it is just one of three recent Stead acquisitions by Neal Porter.
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Amelia Bedelia Turns 50
Greenwillow is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish's literal-minded housekeeper, with four releases in January.
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Lemony Snicket Hits the Road
Daniel Handler – or Lemony Snicket, if you prefer – just wrapped up a month-long tour that took him coast to coast (and back again) in support of "Who Can That Be at This Hour?"
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