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In Brief: May 26
In brief this week, books on TV: Trent Reedy visits 'The Today Show,' and Oprah and First Book team up for a big donation.
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BEA 2011: A BEA First: A Middle-Grade Buzz Panel
There’s a kind of inferiority complex at work in the middle-grade market, which is sometimes perceived as receiving less attention and respect than its YA older sibling (which, in turn, has its own self-esteem issues when compared to the adult publishing world). But while the first-ever Middle-Grade Editors Buzz Panel at BEA wasn’t an SRO affair as were the YA and adult panels, it was still quite full.
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BEA 2011: YA Buzz Panel Rocks Javits
As five editors talked up their favorite YA fall releases to a packed room of about 200 people during the YA Editor's Buzz panel at BEA, a few things became clear: these books are what happens when editors want titles that reflect elements of Twilight, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter.
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'Press Here' Off to Auspicious Start
Press Here is not only the title of the book, but the simple instruction that launches its readers on an engaging adventure on which they push, rub, jiggle, clap at, and even blow on dots printed on the page to make them rearrange themselves.
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In Brief: May 19
In brief this week: Sarah Dessen hits the road; the Forest of Reading Awards; music and books in Portland; and a Mother's Day author event in New York City.
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This Christmas Season, the Elf's Off the Shelf
This could be the year for children's book parodies—for parents. Next month Akashic Books is releasing the highly anticipated Go the F**k to Sleep, currently in the #1 spot at Amazon. And in October Adams Media is aiming to knock a holiday favorite off its perch with the publication of The Elf Off the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition Gone Bad by Horace the Elf.
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Points of Sale: Tips for Children's Booksellers
Kelly Justice, owner of Fountain Books in Richmond, Va., credits her relationships with bloggers like Rebecca Joines Schinsky (The Book Lady), who writes mostly about adult titles, and Susan Robertson (Wastepaper Prose), who specializes in YA, with giving her store a greater presence both nationally and internationally.
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Licensing Hotline: May 2011
Kung Fu Panda 2 opens on May 26, accompanied by a roster of traditional and digital books
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'Speak' Appears in New Paperback and E-book Editions
First published in hardcover by Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers in 1999, Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak is a YA novel that gave a voice to teenagers suffering their emotional trials in silence. With Macmillan Children's Publishing Group's May 10 release of an e-book and a Square Fish paperback edition, Speak has new presence in the marketplace.
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A 50th Anniversary Celebration for 'James and the Giant Peach'
First released in 1961, Roald Dahl's iconic James and the Giant Peach turns 50 this year.
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Tony Hawk Lands a Series
Thursday, May 12 is professional skateboarder Tony Hawk's birthday; he's celebrating it by announcing a literary collaboration with Capstone Publishing Group aimed at Hawk's core fan base – male preteens. This fall Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint, will launch Tony Hawk's 900 Revolution Series of SF adventure novels for readers ages 10-14.
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The Week in Children's Apps: May 12, 2011
This week, there’s an app based on children’s character Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, and one featuring six Tiger Tales stories.
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For Jay Asher: A New Book Deal, a Paperback, and an Online Initiative
It’s a busy time in the publishing life of Jay Asher, whose 2007 debut novel from Razorbill, Thirteen Reasons Why, was a break-out bestseller.
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'Ween'-ing Over Readers One Story at a Time
David Lubar has captivated kids with such wacky characters as Campfire Weenies, Red Hot Pepper Weenies, and Road Weenies, and he has even more humorous hotdogs up his sleeve. Tor's Starscape imprint recently announced it has acquired two more of Lubar’s Weenies story collections.
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In Brief: May 12
In brief this week: a Scholastic auction benefits two literacy organizations; a New York City nonprofit encourages reading and 'green' habits; and the launch party for The Time-Traveling Fashionista.
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What's Selling at Spellbound Children's Bookshop
Leslie Hawkins, owner of Spellbound Children's Bookshop in Asheville, N.C., spotlights a quartet of new titles that are selling briskly at her store.
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Kids Can and Open Road to Publish Franklin the Turtle E-Books
Canadian children’s publisher Kids Can Press and Open Road Integrated Media will digitally publish 25 classic Franklin the Turtle titles including the 25th anniversary edition of Franklin in the Dark. The e-books will go on sale May 17.
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The Week in Children's Apps: May 5, 2011
This week, there's an app spun off of the Five Little Monkeys tale, a new Dr. Seuss app, and an app for one of Aesop’s fables.
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In Brief: May 5
In brief this week: the Annual Please Touch Museum Book Awards; the launches of Veronica Roth's Divergent and Jenny Han's We'll Always Have Summer; and the second annual Great Neck Kids Read event.
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What's New: Six Spring Sequels
We check in with the authors of six highly anticipated spring sequels, to hear about what it was like to pick up the reins and resume a previous story, and about characters who insisted they had more to say. See our interviews with Gayle Forman, Maureen Johnson, Jeanne Birdsall, Gary Schmidt, Alison Goodman, and Jennifer L. Holm.
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