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Three Words: Free Ice Cream
Lemony Snicket and Maira Kalman, author and illustrator of a new picture book, 13 Words, will meet their fans this weekend at an impromptu ice cream social at Cones, a West Village retailer of handmade ice cream and sorbet. The store will give out free ice cream to attendees, while Snicket, a.k.a Daniel Handler, and Kalman sign books sold through special-event retailer Mobile Libros.
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Penguin 'Times' Ad Defends 'Speak'
Responding to an attack by an associate professor in Missouri who called Speak "soft pornography," the Penguin Young Readers Group took out a full page ad in Thursday's New York Times to defend the novel by Laurie Halse Anderson.
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Wimpy Kid Balloon Joins Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will have a new star in its lineup. A giant balloon bringing the title character of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series to 3-D life will be among the 15 helium spectacles in the legendary parade.
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Getting in Bed with SIBA
One of the central images of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance’s 35th annual trade show, held from Sept. 23-25 at the Plaza Resort & Spa and Plaza Ocean Club Hotel in Daytona Beach, was a double bed placed near the registration booth. If after walking past the bed there were any doubt that the SIBA board and executive director Wanda Jewell are convinced that bookselling’s future depends on social networking, a nearby monitor displayed live tweets throughout the show.
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Russell Hoban Celebrates 50 Years of Frances
A half-century ago, Russell Hoban introduced a decidedly not sleepy young badger in Bedtime for Frances, which featured illustrations by Garth Williams. Picture book readers and their parents took an immediate shine to this feisty character...
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Galley Talk: 'Tyger Tyger'
Kenny Brechner, owner of DDG Booksellers in Farmington, Maine, gives word of a forthcoming fantasy novel, Tyger Tyger by Kersten Hamilton.
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In Brief: September 30
In brief this week: the Baltimore Book Festival; 'Zombies vs. Unicorns' at Symphony Space; book events for Rich and Sandra Neil Wallace and Lisi Harrison; and a celebration of kids' books in Tarrytown, N.Y.
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In Brief: September 23
In brief this week: a 'Green Eggs and Ham' contest; author events for Kirby Larson, Liz Kessler, and Lesley M. M. Blume and David Foote; and the opening of a Walter Wick museum exhibit.
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Galley Talk: 'Annexed: A Novel'
Kathleen March, children's manager at Anderson's Bookshop in Downers Grove, Ill., praises a novel she initially picked up somewhat skeptically.
In her preface to Annexed: A Novel, Sharon Dogar writes, "Anne [Frank]'s diary is a vitally important part of our history." This is exactly why I approached Annexed with some hesitation. Could it do justice to Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl? The answer is a resounding "yes." -
Bat-ter Up! Lies and His Bats Are Back
Summer may be over, but it's still baseball season—especially for the stars of Brian Lies's third Bats book, Bats at the Ballgame. The Houghton Mifflin picture book went on sale September 6, and has spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. As he has for previous books, Lies hit the road in his brand-new "BATSmobile," touring bookstores in Cape Cod and Maine before heading west for a September tour that took him to stores in Colorado, Arizona, and California.
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Dunkle Launches Virtual Tour for 'Wuthering Heights' Prequel
What was Heathcliffe like before he showed up in the pages of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights? Clare B. Dunkle gives readers an answer to that question in The House of Dead Maids, published last week by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. Teen readers and Brontë aficionados can learn more about this prelude to the classic 19th-century novel, and the story behind its creation, by following the author’s 20-stop blog tour.
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Lois Duncan Thrillers Get an Update
A string of thrillers by Lois Duncan, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, and Don't Look Behind You, first sent shivers down the spines of teen readers in the 1970s and '80s. These three novels are the first of 10 Duncan titles that Little, Brown plans to reissue in trade paperback editions...
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David Baldacci on Author Roster for Second '39 Clues' Wave
The powerful Cahill family will be pitted against a ruthless cabal in Scholastic’s follow-up to its multimedia franchise, The 39 Clues. The new series, The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers, launches in April 2011 with Vespers Rising by Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman, and Jude Watson, and will wrap up in March 2013 with a seventh installment penned by bestselling thriller author David Baldacci. Vespers Rising has an announced first printing of 500,000 copies.
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Sfar's 'Little Prince Graphic Novel' Offers New Take on a Classic
Next month Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish The Little Prince Graphic Novel, adapted from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic illustrated novella, with drawings by acclaimed French cartoonist Joann Sfar.
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In Brief: September 16
In brief this week: Cornelia Funke's 'Reckless' Tour; Zombies in Austin; the Thalia Book Club Camp; 'Ghost Hunters' authors on the road; and writer Christina Gonzalez at the Decatur Book Festival.
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New Line from American Girl
American Girl Publishing, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2011, is going in a new direction by launching a contemporary middle-grade book line, Innerstar University, that is somewhat reminiscent of the Choose Your Own Adventure series. The Innerstar University books will be written from a second-person point-of-view, with the reader assuming the role of protagonist and making selections from among multiple story lines.
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Houghton to Publish 'Mysteries of Harris Burdick' Spinoff
One Pulitzer Prize, five Newbery Medals, three Newbery Honors, two Caldecott Medals, one Caldecott Honor, three National Book Awards, and five Coretta Scott King Awards. This is just a partial list of accolades that have been bestowed upon the contributors to a book due from Houghton Mifflin in fall 2011.
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Kids' Books in Brooklyn: A PW Photo-Essay
This past weekend marked the fifth annual Brooklyn Book Festival. And although Sunday's weather was less than cooperative, it didn't stop booklovers — including the very young ones — from coming out to see their favorite authors. See our gallery of photos from the festival's many panels, signings, and readings.
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Knopf to Publish Picture Book from President Obama
This November, Knopf Books for Young Readers will publish Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, a picture book by President Barack Obama, and illustrated by Loren Long. The book has a national laydown date of November 16, and will arrive with a 500,000-copy first printing.
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Komikwerks Adds New Actionopolis Series Via Kindle E-books
Komikwerks, an online comics site and digital comics provider, is expanding its line of Actionopolis adventure novels aimed at young people with a list of 16 new series delivered through the Kindle e-book platform and available for Kindle on iPad, iPhone, PC, Mac, Blackberry, or Android device.
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