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Autobiographical Suzanne Collins Picture Book Slated for Fall 2013
Bestselling author Suzanne Collins will examine the effects of war for a much younger readership than that of her Hunger Games series with the autobiographical picture book Year of the Jungle, which Scholastic will publish on September 10, 2013.
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New Facebook Game Immerses Players in Marie Lu's 'Legend'
Last November, debut author Marie Lu introduced readers to the dystopian world of Legend. In January, the story continues with Prodigy; fans looking for a pre-release fix can delve into Cities of Legend, a Facebook game launching in December.
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Open Road Gives New Life to Dan Gutman Series
Funny Boy, Dan Gutman's superpower-lacking superhero who uses his sense of humor to defeat bad guys, will soon be back on his beat.
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Remembering Madeleine L'Engle
The following excerpt from Listening for Madeleine (FSG, Nov.) focuses on some of the key publishing relationships of author Madeleine L'Engle, who died in 2007.
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Little, Brown Expands License with Hasbro
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is expanding its licensing relationship with Hasbro, launching a publishing program in spring 2013 tied to My Little Pony and more Transformers books.
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39 Clues for Christmas
Scholastic is launching an original e-book, The 39 Clues: Cahill Files: Silent Night, on Christmas Day, following greater-than-expected sales of The 39 Clues: Rapid Fire, a series of original e-books released last Christmas season.
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'Reach'-ing Ally Condie Fans, Online and in Person
When author Ally Condie hosted a chat on Twitter on September 25, her fans were eager to hear about the final book in her bestselling Matched trilogy.
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Middle-Grade Authors Go Back to School with the Class Act Tour
A little competition can be healthy, as HarperCollins proved on its Class Acts tour, the publisher's first middle grade group tour, which visited schools and bookstores in 11 national markets and pitted a dozen authors against one another in friendly competitions.
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Scholastic Releases Baby-sitters Club E-books with Classic Covers
Ann M. Martin's bestselling middle-grade series from the 1980s, The Baby-sitters Club, will gain a new incarnation on December 1, when Scholastic publishes e-book versions of the series' first 20 titles with original covers by Hodges Soileau.
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'Steam Train, Dream Train': The Evolution of a Cover
Author Sherri Duskey Rinker and illustrator Tom Lichtenheld's second collaboration, Steam Train, Dream Train (after Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site), features animals riding the rails at nighttime. We reveal the cover, and the process behind it, here.
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Launching 'Days of Blood & Starlight' with Days of Touring & Online Promotion
On Election Day, Little, Brown released Days of Blood & Starlight, Laini Taylor's sequel to Daughter of Smoke & Bone, while the author began a seven-city tour.
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Cozy Board Book Classics in 12 Words
Bored by board books – color primers, shapes, and numbers – which they read with their young children, twin brothers Jack and Holman Wang decided to create their own series for children and adults by distilling adult classics like Moby Dick and Pride and Prejudice into 12 words and images to launch Cozy Classics.
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Jeff Kinney Heads West (Midwest, That Is)
Unlike his previous tours, Jeff Kinney is heading to the Midwest for The Third Wheel, the seventh book in his bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
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Dork Diaries Hit the Road in Texas
To celebrate the release of Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All, author Rachel Renée Russell, along with her daughters, Nikki and Erin, spent last week traveling around Texas for Russell's first major book tour.
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Solving a Halloween Mystery with R.L. Stine
What better way to celebrate Halloween than spending the day with Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine?
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