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Remembering Craig Virden
Craig Virden, who headed the children’s division of Bantam Doubleday Dell and then the combined Random House children’s group, died suddenly on May 6, at the age of 56. Here, colleagues, friends and authors pay tribute to his literary acumen, his warmth and generosity, and his joie de vivre.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/18/2009
This week's reviews include novels by Robert B. Parker, James Rollins, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, and Jake Wizner, along with round-ups of new pop-up books and picture book sequels.
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Josalyn Moran to Run Chronicle Children's Division
Josalyn Moran, who has been v-p of children’s books at Barnes & Noble for the past nine years, will oversee and spearhead the growth of the company’s children’s publishing program, encompassing books and other formats.
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Lerner Celebrates 50 Years with Big Bash
Claire Kirch, PW’s midwest correspondent, attended Lerner’s 50th anniversary celebration last Wednesday.
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Schroder to Leave Candlewick
Candlewick Press continues to realign its sales and marketing areas and will bring its digital development and theatrical/marketing liaison work in-house. As a result, Friday will be the last day for Charlie Schroder, who has worked with Candlewick on licensing and development for the past three years.
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Q & A with Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker’s bestselling novels about his iconic Boston private investigator Spenser have sold millions of copies worldwide. The author moves back in time in Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel, which stars this character as a 14-year-old living in a small western town with his father and two uncles, due this month from Philomel with a 150,000-copy first printing.
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The Cat in the Hat Heads to TV
In fall 2010, PBS Kids will debut The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, the first animated TV series based on a Dr. Seuss character. Inspired by the nonfiction Beginner Books series The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library, the show will focus on natural science and will complement PBS’s other science-themed preschool programming.
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McElderry to Publish ‘A Little Princess’ Sequel
News is just in from Margaret K. McElderry Books that the house has acquired the rights to publish Wishing for Tomorrow, a sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1905 classic, A Little Princess., to be written by British author Hilary McKay. McElderry Books will release the novel in January 2010.
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Eden Ross Lipson Dies
Eden Ross Lipson, forner children’s books editor of the New York Times, and a tireless champion of children's books and literacy, died of complications from pancreatic cancer on Tuesday, at the age of 66. She had been an editor at the New York Times Book Review for 31 years, and had served as the children’s editor from 1984 until retiring in 2005.
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Simon & Schuster Prepares for Last Book in Pendragon Series
S&S's children's division is gearing up for a multi-platform publicity and marketing campaign to coincide with the release of the 10th and final book in D.J. MacHale’s bestselling Pendragon series, The Soldiers of Halla, which goes on sale today.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/11/2009
Appearing in this week's reviews: dinosaur/truck hybrids, a magical box, musically-inclined swamp animals, aliens with an appetite for people, a teen trying to hide his superpowers, re-imagined classic Greek myths, a round-up of concept books and more.
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Little, Brown Announces Twilight Publishing Schedule
More titles set for the mega-selling Twilight books.
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Alloy to Adapt "Private" for Web TV Series
Alloy Entertainment, which created and produced Gossip Girl, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and other hits, is producing and financing its first online entertainment program and web series, based on its bestselling book series Private. The series will debut on Alloy Media + Marketing’s Teen.com network.
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Emily the Strange: From Fashion to Fiction
On June 2, HarperCollins’ HarperTeen imprint will release Emily the Strange: The Lost Days, the first in a series of four novels starring Emily, a quirky, independent 13-year-old who got her start 15 years ago as a design on a line of t-shirts and skateboards.
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PEN World Voices: The Evolution Revolution
Two hundred years after Charles Darwin began a discussion of human evolution, people are still talking. The discussion, and specifically the issue of teaching evolution to children, continued Sunday at a PEN World Voices panel held at powerHouse Books in Brooklyn. Entitled, “Evolution for Children: The Fight Goes On,” the panel brought together authors Vicky Cobb, Tijs Goldschmidt, Deborah Heiligman and Mary Ann Hoberman.
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BookExpo America 2009: BEA Children's Checklist: What to See and Where to Be Seen
This year’s BookExpo America convention, being held in New York City at the end of this month, will feature a host of programs and events for those interested in children’s books. In addition to our previous roundup of activities and our extensive listing of Galleys to Grab at the show, here are a few more tidbits to know about.
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PEN World Voices: Discussing Kids and Reading, Online and on Page
Whether picture books are “exempt” from the digital questions facing the publishing industry, and the perennial issue of how best to engage kids in reading, were just a few of the topics discussed during “The Voyage of the Reader: Using Children’s Books to Create a Love of Reading”at the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival.
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Surprises About Men: Unexpected Lessons from the Other Side
Garret Freymann-Weyr's novel After the Moment, about a teenager haunted by a past relationship and the events that drove them apart, comes out this month from Houghton Mifflin. I didn’t set out to write a book from a young man’s point of view, but once Leigh’s story began forming in my mind and on the page, I knew I had some work to do.
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Q & A with Jenny Han
Bookshelf spoke with Jenny Han about her new novel, The Summer I Turned Pretty (S&S, May).
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PEN World Voices: When I Grow Up…
Shaun Tan was a small kid who compensated for his short stature by aspiring to be the best artist in school. Mariken Jongman was a shy girl who had only an imaginary friend to keep her company. Neil Gaiman was an energetic mischief-maker who excelled at the school subjects that interested him, and failed miserably at those which did not. Though they came from different backgrounds and had vastly different childhoods, they all grew up to become celebrated children’s book authors.
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