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'The Pregnancy Project' Due as Book and TV Movie
The widespread attention that then 17-year-old high-school honor student Gaby Rodriguez received when she announced that she had feigned a pregnancy as an experiment for her senior project led to a book contract with Simon & Schuster, as well as a TV movie deal with Lifetime.
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B&N and Laurie Berkner Invite Kids to a 'Party Day'
Barnes & Noble has released its first original NOOK Kids Read and Play e-book for NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet: a musical day-at-the-beach adventure entitled Party Day by wildly popular children’s singer-songwriter Laurie Berkner.
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Wimpy Kid Wins Restraining Order Against Comics Parody
The Wimpy Kid was not so wimpy in a Massachusetts court Wednesday when the company won a temporary restraining order against Antarctic Press, publisher of two Wimpy Kid parody graphic novels.
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B&N Ships Green's 'Fault' Too Early
In a blog post on Wednesday, author John Green revealed that Barnes & Noble has accidentally shipped copies of his forthcoming YA novel, The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton), a few weeks too early.
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Scholastic Unveils New Multi-Platform Series
Although the New York Times wanted to push it as the next Harry Potter, Scholastic's forthcoming multi-platform book series, Infinity Ring, is clearly the heir apparent to the publisher's more recent foray into transmedia storytelling, The 39 Clues.
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New Buzzboy Graphic Novel Out in Print, the Web, on iPad
Cartoonist John Gallagher, creator of the popular self-published kid’s comic Buzzboy, has released Buzzboy: Sidekicks Rule, a new graphic novel about the tween super sidekick, in three different formats this month.
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Penguin Postpones Release of Two Mortenson YA Editions
Penguin’s Dial Books for Young Readers imprint is not publishing two Greg Mortenson titles it had on its schedule, at least for now.
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'Book Thief' Hits Two Million in U.S. Sales
Markus Zusak's 2006 Printz Honor novel The Book Thief (Knopf) has just sold two million copies, across multiple formats, in the United States.
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In Brief: December 15
This week, Michael Morpurgo visits The Today Show; Jan Brett-inspired holiday windows at Neiman Marcus; a gathering of Arizona authors; a meeting of the National Ambassador of Young People's Literature and Ireland's Children's Literature Laureate; and Norton Juster visits Atlanta.
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Feiwel and Friends Rolls Out 'Cinder' in High Style
An extensive Facebook campaign, promotion on Tor.com, an exclusive pre-publication excerpt on USAToday.com, and a "Hollywood-style" book trailer are among the highlights of the marketing campaign launching Cinder, a debut novel by 26-year-old Marissa Meyer.
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Movie Alert: 'War Horse'
From page to stage, and now to screen, it’s been a long, storied journey for British author Michael Morpurgo and his epic novel, War Horse,first published in 1982.
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Teen Writing Site Figment Publishes First Print Title
Figment, an online writing community for people in their teens and twenties, is celebrating its first anniversary by releasing its first print title, a paperback edition of Blake Nelson’s Dream School, a sequel to his 1994 YA novel Girl, after serializing the book on the online site.
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African-American Interest Young Readers' Titles, 2011-2012
The following is a list of African-American interest books for young readers; compiled from publisher responses to our October PW Call for Information, these titles are publishing between September 2011 and March 2012.
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In Brief: December 8
This week, actor Ed Westwick helps launch Cassandra Clare's new book; Exquisite Corpse Adventure authors meet at MIT; and author events with Julia Sarcone-Roach and Jason Pinter.
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Macmillan to Mark 50th Anniversary of 'A Wrinkle in Time'
A year-long celebration of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time kicks off in January, when Macmillan Children's Publishing Group releases three 50th anniversary editions of the novel, with more on the way.
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A Short History of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals
Frederic Melcher, who edited Publishers Weekly for 40 years, was responsible for instituting the most coveted book awards in children's publishing.
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Book Trailer, Online Outreach Jump-starts New Cassandra Clare Novel
With an active presence on Tumblr, 81,000 Facebook fans, more than 50,000 followers on Twitter, and a popular blog, bestselling YA author Cassandra Clare has built a robust fan base online since her first novel, City of Bones, launched The Mortal Instruments series in 2007.
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'Helping Santa': A Christmas Book Inspired by Online Story
In what could be one of the first instances of a picture book publisher taking a story making the rounds on the Internet, tweaking it, and moving it offline, Bunker Hill Publishing in Piermont, N.H., has just released a print edition of Helping Santa: My First Christmas Adventure with Grandma, illustrated by Bert Dodson.
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Scholastic Shows Off Its 'Hunger Games' Tie-ins
Scholastic has revealed the covers of three of its four planned tie-ins to the upcoming Hunger Games movie, based on Suzanne Collins’s bestselling trilogy. All three will be published on February 7.
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In Brief: December 1
This week, Christopher Paolini tours for Inheritance; Brian Selznick attends the U.K. premiere of Hugo; Sarah Mlynowski helps the Girl Scouts celebrate their centennial; and author events around the country with Charlie Higson, Loretta Ellsworth, and Anna Staniszewski.
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