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In Brief: February 2

| 02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM

This week, A Wrinkle in Time is featured on Jeopardy!; Little, Brown highlights some of its forthcoming picture books; Norman Bridwell checks out a traveling theatrical production starring Clifford; and author Chris Butterworth receives a "Book of the Year" honor for How Did That Get in My Lunchbox?.
'No Crystal Stair' Spotlights Legendary Harlem Bookseller

By Sally Lodge | 02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM

Coretta Scott King Award-winner Vaunda Micheaux Nelson offers a fiction-laced memoir of her great-uncle and his legendary Harlem bookstore in No Crystal Stair: A Novel in Documents, Based on the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller.
New Stiefvater Series Due in September

| 02/02/2012 @ 10:00AM

More good news for Maggie Stiefvater fans: hot off the author's Printz Honor for The Scorpio Races at last week's ALA Youth Media Awards, Scholastic has announced the publication of a new four-book series from Stiefvater.
Capstone, DC Comics Ink Licensing Deal

By Calvin Reid | 01/30/2012 @ 12:00AM

Capstone, a children’s educational and library publisher, has reached a licensing deal with DC Entertainment to create library hardcovers and paper-over-board editions of DC Comics titles.
In Brief: January 26

| 01/26/2012 @ 03:00PM

This week, Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman tour for Why We Broke Up; Chronicle hosts an art auction at ALA Midwinter; Grace Lin launches Dumpling Days; co-authors Silas House and Neela Vaswani head south for Wi7 and ALA; and a library event for Monica Carnesi's Little Dog Lost.
In Brief: January 19

| 01/19/2012 @ 03:00PM

This week, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is named a cultural ambassador by the U.S. State Department; James Patterson speaks at Winter Institute 7; Robin LaFevers promotes her forthcoming book, Grave Mercy; Matt Tavares and Boston Red Sox players sign autographs to fight cancer; and Sunny Seki celebrates the Japanese New Year.
A Witch's Brew of Early Chapter Books from S&S

By Pamela Brill | 01/19/2012 @ 03:00PM

Simon & Schuster is stirring up a witch's brew of books with the release of Heidi Heckelbeck, a chapter book series starring an eight-year-old witch whose appearance provides Junie B. Jones and Judy Moody fans with a new alternative.
Q & A with Jacqueline Woodson

By Sally Lodge | 01/19/2012 @ 03:00PM

Jacqueline Woodson, winner of numerous awards including three Newbery Honors and the 2006 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement, talks about her latest novel, Beneath a Meth Moon.
Hungry for More About the Hunger Games? A Q&A with Amandla Stenberg (aka Rue)

By Karen Springen | 01/19/2012 @ 03:00PM

Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy ended in 2010, but it gets a new lease on life with the release of the big-screen version of the first novel on March 23. Eighth-grader Amandla Stenberg, 13, who portrays Rue, talked with PW about her role in the movie.
New Life for 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind'

By Sally Lodge | 01/12/2012 @ 03:00PM

Just off press from Dial is a picture-book adaptation of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, teenager William Kamkwamba's remarkable story of bringing electricity and life-saving water to the famine and drought ravaged village of Wimbe, Malawi.
Scholastic Announces the Return of Captain Underpants

By Sally Lodge | 01/12/2012 @ 10:00AM

After six years without appearing in a new adventure, Dav Pilkey’s indomitable Captain Underpants will be back in all his caped, alliterative glory next August when Scholastic will release Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers.
Antarctic Press Wins Extension in Wimpy Kid Suit

| 01/11/2012 @ 10:00AM

Antarctic Press, the small manga publisher that was sued for copyright infringement by Wimpy Kid, Inc. over the sale of its parody of the popular children's series featuring zombies, was given more time to negotiate.
Director Chris Columbus to Write Three-Book Middle-Grade Series

| 01/05/2012 @ 03:00PM

HarperCollins has announced it has preempted rights to a three-book middle-grade series by director Chris Columbus, to be called House of Secrets.
Nick Bruel's Bad Kitty Hits Her Stride

By Sally Lodge | 01/05/2012 @ 03:00PM

Since making her debut in 2005 in Bad Kitty, Nick Bruel's feisty feline has caused additional trouble in two subsequent picture books, Poor Puppy and A Bad Kitty Christmas, and in four early chapter books, the success of which have helped boost the in-print tally of the Bad Kitty series to almost four million copies.
Looking for John Green? Find Him on Tour

By Karen Springen | 01/05/2012 @ 03:00PM

An abundance of fans will see Printz Award-winning author John Green on his 17-city tour for The Fault in Our Stars beginning Jan. 10) when the Looking for Alaska writer and his younger musician brother, Hank, will launch their three-week road trip.

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