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The Week in Children's Apps: January 6, 2011
This week, some beloved characters from children's book series make their app debuts, including Clifford and the gang from the Magic School Bus.
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'Princesses' Series from Taylor Trade Nears 500,000 Mark
A down-to-earth princess who goes on hikes, plays soccer, and stomps in the mud stars in Carmela LaVigna Coyle's picture book series that debuted in 2003 with Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots? Last month, Taylor Trade released the latest installment, Do Princesses Have Best Friends Forever?, illustrated by Mike Gordon and Carl Gordon. This father-son team also illustrated the earlier books in the series, which in addition to the inaugural title include Do Princesses Really Kiss Frogs?, Do Princesses Scrape Their Knees?, and Do Princesses Count?, a board book. The questions posed in these titles—inspired by the inquisitiveness of Coyle's own daughter—have resonated with other real-life princesses: the books in the series have sold 470,000 copies.
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New Novel Cloaks Red Riding Hood Legend in Mystery
The residents of the sleepy village of Daggorhorn have long kept the local werewolf at bay with a monthly sacrifice. But now the Wolf has told Valerie—the only villager who can hear his voice—that she must surrender herself to him or everyone she loves will die. In Red Riding Hood, a novel that 22-year-old Sarah Blakley-Cartwright has written based on a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson, the plot of the traditional fairy tale has thickened substantially. On sale January 25, this Little, Brown/Poppy book ties into the Warner Brothers film that is set for March release.
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In Brief: December 23
In brief this week: Australia's Summertime Stories returns; a second Pretty Little Liars contest at DDG Booksellers; and a local authors' event in Tucson, Ariz.
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Licensing Hotline: December 2010
Penguin's Grosset & Dunlap imprint will launch its first children's books under license from World Wrestling Entertainment in the spring. Also in the news: Egmont U.K.'s licensed Waybuloo books, a new educational license for Zenescope’s Silver Dragon imprint, and a round-up of apps based on book-connected licensed properties.
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Bookseller Buys Dahl Story
The unfinished Roald Dahl children's story that went up for auction on eBay last week fetched $1,900 for Jerry Biederman, who has owned the document and the rights to the story since 1982 when he paid Dahl $200 for its use in the proposed Do-It-Yourself Children's Storybook. The two typed pages were purchased by Robert Utter, owner of the Other Tiger Bookstore in Westerly, R.I.
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Bloomsbury Nabs YA Series by Monica Seles
In a two-book deal, Bloomsbury Children's Books acquired world rights to a new YA series by former tennis star Monica Seles called The Academy. Melanie Cecka at Bloomsbury bought the titles from John Steele at IMG, who brokered the deal for Seles.
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Sterling Authors Sing in the Holidays in Six States
This fall, Sterling added six volumes to its The Twelve Days of Christmas in… series, which presents facts about specific states to the tune of the well-known carol. Each book is written and illustrated by individuals living in the featured locale, and the creators of all the new additions to the series—celebrating Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.—recently visited stores across their home states to promote their books.
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In Brief: December 16
In brief this week: Henry Knox the man meets 'Henry Knox' the book; a holiday party at Harper; Little, Brown's big Red Cross donation; and the launch of 'The Water Wars.'
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Scholastic Buys Selznick's 'Wonderstruck'
Scholastic has acquired the new book by Brian Selznick, author of the bestselling The Invention of Hugo Cabret. His new novel, Wonderstruck, is scheduled for a simultaneous release on September 13, 2011, in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. According to the publisher, it will feature more than 460 pages of original drawings and will intertwine two stories set 50 years apart.
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A Forgotten Dahl Piece Resurfaces on eBay
The first two pages of The Eyes of Mr. Croaker, a children's story written by Roald Dahl in 1982 that he sold to two young American writers with the intention of publishing it in the proposed Do-It-Yourself Children's Storybook have resurfaced in Los Angeles after nearly three decades and are being auctioned on eBay.
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTEREST CHILDREN’S/YA BOOKS 2010
The following is a list of African-American interest children's and young adult books, fiction and nonfiction, publishing between September 2010 and March 2011.
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Scholastic to Give Animorphs New Life
Scholastic announced on Thursday that it will begin re-launching the books in K.A. Applegate's original Animorphs series next May, featuring lenticular covers that appear to morph. Since the series debuted in 1996, it has sold 35 million books worldwide.
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Galley Talk: 'The Emerald Atlas'
Robert McDonald, children's buyer at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka, Ill., is looking forward to selling a book he wishes he’d discovered as a young reader.
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Ally Condie's 'Matched' Makes Auspicious Debut
Matched, the first book in a dystopian trilogy by Ally Condie, is off to a soaring start. Foreign rights to the novel, released by Dutton on November 30 with a 250,000-copy first printing, have been sold in 30 countries and film rights have been optioned to Disney.
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Children's Booksellers Share Early Buzz About Spring 2011
While scrambling to keep up with December's harried pace, children's booksellers are already thinking ahead to the next selling season. Four of them took a break from the holiday hoopla to share their thoughts on—and enthusiasm for—publishers' forthcoming offerings.
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In Brief: December 9
In brief this week: a holiday castle at Califon Book Shop; the final Vampire Academy book; and author events with Elizabeth Partridge and Sarah Beth Durst.
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Jeff Kinney and Rick Riordan Put the "Black" into Black Friday
Many independent booksellers contacted by PW earlier this week reported solid holiday sales over the Thanksgiving weekend. Two standouts, even at stores that don't typically boost a high percentage of children's sales, were the fifth Wimpy Kid title and the first book in the new Heroes of Olympus series.
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Adams Cooking Up a Very Harry Christmas
With the fall release of the penultimate film in the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, Harry Potter books have been, well, flying. But J.K. Rowling's books aren’t the only ones benefitting from the magic of director David Yates or actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson. Adams Media has also seen strong sales for its first children's hardcover, The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook by Dinah Bucholz.
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