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Roger Duvoisin's Granddaughter Pens Debut Picture Book
Each season, plenty of authors have their first book published. But not many of them have a Caldecott Medalist for a grandfather.
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Little, Brown to Publish YA Novel from Chris Colfer
Having found success earlier this year with his middle-grade novel The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell, actor turned author Chris Colfer, best known for his role as Kurt Hummel on Glee, will publish his first book for teens later this year. Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal will be released by Little, Brown on November 20, ahead of the film on which the book is based.
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A Fantasy Author Debuts – But First, the Prequels
It's publication week for Sarah J. Maas's first novel, Throne of Glass, but Bloomsbury has been publishing the author's work all year, thanks to an innovative marketing scheme: beginning in January, four e-novella prequels were released every other month in the lead-up to the novel's August 7 publication date.
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And Chewie Makes Three: Light Speed Ahead for Origami Yoda
The Force is strong with this one. On Tuesday, August 7, the third book in Tom Angleberger’s middle-grade Origami Yoda series, The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee (Abrams/Amulet), went on sale with a 500,000-copy first printing, and the author marked the occasion with a trio of events in the New York City area, before heading out on tour.
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After Seven Decades, the 'Boxcar Children' Get a Prequel
Seventy years after its debut, the Boxcar Children series is finally getting a prequel – and by a Newbery Medalist to boot. In The Boxcar Children Beginning: The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm, Patricia MacLachlan, author of Sarah Plain and Tall, provides what she calls "the beginning before the beginning" of Gertrude Chandler Warner's popular series.
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'Find Waldo Local' Promotion Ends on High Note
"Wow! We cannot tell you what an impact our Where's Waldo? summer event is having on our community," says Victoria Irwin, events coordinator at Eagle Harbor Book Company in Bainbridge Island, Wash. She's not alone. Nationwide, 250 booksellers participated in July's month-long Find Waldo Local promotion,
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James Patterson Wraps Up Maximum Ride, Launches Two Series
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will soon add a trio of new James Patterson titles to its list – one a series finale and two marking series debuts.
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Two Publishers, One Series: The Latest Tale of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea
In a venture that all involved agree is unusual, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Simon & Schuster have joined forces to reissue Ursula K. Le Guin's seminal six-book fantasy series set in the realm of Earthsea.
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Wimpy Kid Partners with Walmart
In preparation for the latest theatrical release, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, on August 3, Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products has launched a national retail campaign with Walmart.
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D&Q to Publish Tavi Gevinson’s ‘Rookie Yearbook One’ in September
Montreal graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly is teaming up with Tavi Gevinson, the talented teen founder of Rookie, a popular online magazine for teen girls, to publish Rookie Yearbook One, a new book collecting content from the magazine’s first year of publication.
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Artemis Fowl Takes His Final Bow
Eleven years ago, Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl first introduced readers to the eponymous, 12-year-old criminal mastermind, and to fairy police captain Holly Short. On July 10, Disney-Hyperion released The Last Guardian, the eighth and final installment of the series.
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Galley Talk: 'Safekeeping'
Carolyn Anbar, children's manager at Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, N.J., talks up a novel she's especially looking forward to selling in September, when it pubs from Feiwel & Friends: Karen Hesse's Safekeeping.
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New Reinhart Pop-Ups Feature Simpler Designs, Original Characters
On August 7, Random House’s Robin Corey Books will publish two 8x8 paperback pop-ups by Matthew Reinhart – A Princess Like Me: A Royal Pop-Up and Rumble! Roar! Dinosaurs!: A Prehistoric Pop-Up – featuring a variety of pop-ups, pull-tabs, and moving parts, and a $6.99 cover price.
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Sourcebooks Launches Hear It Read It E-Books
Sourcebooks has launched e-book editions of eight Hear It Read It Classics, which are abridged versions of stories, including King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and Peter Pan, which Sourcebooks published in 2008 in hardcover with an audio CD.
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Scholastic Announces New 'Hunger Games' Numbers
The Hunger Games train keeps on rolling: Scholastic has just released updated figures for Suzanne Collins's bestselling trilogy: more than 50 million copies of the books are currently in print in the U.S. The books have been bestseller list staples since their release, with new readers being drawn to the books with the release of the Hunger Games feature film earlier this year. The books are available in 50 languages and 55 territories worldwide.
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Brain Quest Celebrates 20 Years of Challenging Kids
For two decades, Brain Quest’s curriculum-based question-and-answer game has entertained kids – lots of them. Workman, which launched the line in 1992, reports sales of close to 37 million copies of Brain Quest editions for children at the pre-K through seventh grade levels.
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