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Shaun Tan Wins Lindgren Award
Australian author/illustrator Shaun Tan has won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize, the largest award for children’s and young adult literature with a prize of five million Swedish krona. This marks the second major award that Tan has won in just over a month—in late February he took home an Academy Award for The Lost Thing, an animated short film he directed, based on his book of the same name.
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Sesame Street, Impelsys Produce e-Bookstore App for iPad
Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit producer of the Sesame Street TV show, has joined with digital content vendor Impelsys to produce a Sesame Street e-bookstore app for the iPad. The Sesame Street iPad app is free to download and offers subscription access to more than 150 Sesame Street books.
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Random Uncovers 'New' Seuss Stories
Dr. Seuss fans are in for a treat this fall: Random House Children’s Books has announced that it will publish seven Seuss stories that appeared in magazines in the 1950s but that have yet to appear in book form. The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories by Dr. Seuss, who died in 1991, will be available September 27.
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NECAC: Using Comics To Make Kids Love Reading
The First New England Comic Arts in the Classroom Conference was held this past weekend at Rhode Island College in Providence, RI. Targeted more toward educators rather than comic book fans, this event sought to provide rationales for using graphic novels in the classroom and expose teachers to the vast array of meaningful, engaging comics available.
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In Brief: March 24
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First Peek at Cover of Brian Selznick's 'Wonderstruck'
Scholastic Press has just released the cover art for Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick, winner of the 2008 Caldecott Medal for The Invention of Hugo Cabret. His new novel expands on the heavily illustrated format of the earlier novel.
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Paolini's Final 'Inheritance Cycle' Book Revealed
More than a decade in the making, Christopher Paolini's bestselling Inheritance Cycle draws to a close this fall with the publication of the fourth and final book, Inheritance, which Knopf Books for Young Readers will publish on November 8.
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Rights Report: March 17
Emily Meehan at Disney-Hyperion has acquired the seventh and final installment of Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods series, along with two companion novels. Christy Ottaviano has bought world English rights to Lisa Schroeder's first foray into YA fantasy, Impossibly Small, for her imprint at Henry Holt.
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Cover of Harlan Coben's Debut YA Book Revealed
Today we unveil the cover of Harlan Coben's first novel for teens: Shelter: A Mickey Bolitar Novel, due from Putnam in September.
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Patrick Carman Launches New Digital Storytelling Project
This week—quite fittingly on March 15—novelist Patrick Carman debuted "3:15," an app for Android and iPhone that introduces nine spooky stories and involves listening to an audio introduction, reading a text story, and watching its conclusion on video—the three components represented in the app's title.
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In Brief: March 17
In brief this week: a rainy celebration for 'Cloudette'; Subaru donates science-themed books; and a launch party for 'Clarity.'
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Patricia MacLachlan to Pen Boxcar Children Prequel
Albert Whitman & Company announced on Tuesday that it has signed Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan to write a prequel to Gertrude Chandler Warner's The Boxcar Children series, which has sold more than 50 million copies since its debut in 1942.
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What's Selling at The Briar Patch
Annie Kuhn, a bookseller at The Briar Patch in Bangor, Maine, reports on strong sales for a series of chewable books, which customers are literally eating up.
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Reach Out and Read's New Literacy Guide for Children with Disabilities
Reach Out and Read, the Boston-based nonprofit that prescribes new books for children at pediatric checkups, is piloting a guide for the parents of children with disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, and low vision, at 57 hospitals and clinics.
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NPR Feature Brings Spike in Sales
Sales of You Can Count on a Monster, which uses monster-themed geometrical designs to introduce prime and composite numbers, had been humming along since the picture book's February 2010 release. Recently, the sales volume increased dramatically after the book was serendipitously spotlighted on NPR's Weekend Edition.
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In Brief: March 10
In brief this week: a karaoke fundraiser for Children's Book Press; the Book Maker's Dozen at Sparkhouse Toys and Books; Lisa Yee on tour; 'The Wednesday Wars' on stage; and an author event for Andrea Alban.
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Random House Gives Debut YA Novel a Big Sendoff
A Facebook game and three tie-in original e-book short stories are among the features of the extensive marketing campaign Random House Children’s Books has in place for Starters, a futuristic thriller by debut novelist Lissa Price, due from Delacorte on March 13 with a 100,000-copy first printing.
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'Marcel the Shell,' Picture Book Star
Based on the popular web video by Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On: Things About Me, will be published on November 1 with a 100,000-copy first printing.
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S&S Signs Up Trilogy by YA Collaborators
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers announced this week that it will publish a new YA trilogy co-written by authors Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian. The novels are told from the perspectives of three high-school girls who overcome their differences and band together to seek revenge on those who have wronged them.
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Elizabeth Berkley Brings Messages of Her Teen Workshops to the Page
Matters of the heart, body image, self-esteem, friendships, and family issues are some of the topics explored in Ask Elizabeth by actress Elizabeth Berkley.
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