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Scholastic Media Has Big Plans for Clifford
“It only takes a little…to BE BIG!” The motto for Scholastic Media’s new Clifford The Big Red Dog BE BIG! campaign delivers the message at the heart of this initiative: small actions based on Clifford’s Big Ideas—among them sharing, helping others, being responsible, playing fair and working together—can make the world a better place.
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HarperCollins Closes Bowen Press
On Tuesday, in response to rapidly declining sales and earnings, HarperCollins closed its Collins imprint and cut a rumored 60 positions. As part of the cutbacks, The Bowen Press, a children’s imprint that was set to launch this month, is closing, and publisher Brenda Bowen has left the company
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‘The Year We Disappeared’ to Appear on National TV
This Saturday, February 14, at 10 p.m., CBS News’s 48 Hours will air an investigation of the case chronicled in The Year We Disappeared (Bloomsbury, Aug. 2008), in which Cylin Busby and her father, John Busby, describe the chain of events that occurred 30 years ago when John, then a police officer in Falmouth, Mass., was shot in the face, and he and his family were forced into hiding.
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Q & A with K.L. Going
Children's Bookshelf spoke with K.L. Going about her new novel, King of the Screwups (Harcourt).
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Huzzahs for Humphrey
It’s not unusual for rodent characters to make it big in the world of children’s books. Currently, a humble hamster named Humphrey is riding his yellow hamster ball to popularity as star of a series of books by Betty G. Birney.
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Page to Screen: A 'Cookie Club' & a Gal's Canine Companion
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/9/2009
Picture Books Hello, Good-bye Arlene Alda . Tundra , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88776-900-9 Alda (Here a Face, There a Face) attempts to enter a very crowded shelf with her photography book of opposites. For “push” and “pull,” she uses the example of a street crew trying to move a huge stone statue of Buddha; on the left side of the spread, they're shown exerting their w...
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Still Hungry After All These Years
Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar turns 40 this spring, and Philomel is commemorating its birthday with the first-ever pop-up edition of this international bestseller.
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Q & A with Virginia Euwer Wolff
With the much anticipated release of This Full House, the final installment of the Make Lemonade trilogy, award-winning author Virginia Euwer Wolff spoke about creating the three books featuring LaVaughn, a teenage girl growing up in the projects, and Jolly, a young, single mother.
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Deluxe Young Adult Series Delivers
Dangerous gossip, star-crossed lovers, backstabbing friends, a notorious cad, an upstairs-downstairs romance. All are woven into Anna Godbersen’s The Luxe, set in 1899 Manhattan, which HarperCollins published in 2007.
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Los Angeles Conference Focuses on Children’s Holocaust Literature
“The truth of the Holocaust shatters the idea that the world is a trustworthy place and that we’re here to protect children. When it comes to literature, we must first tell the truth to the age of the child,” said Sinai Temple librarian Lisa Silverman in her opening remarks on Sunday, February 1, at the Jewish Literature for Children Western Conference in Los Angeles.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/2/2009
Picture Books Mama Says: A Book of Love for Mothers and Sons Rob D. Walker , illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon. Scholastic/Blue Sky , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-93208-4 A sure-fire hit for Mother's Day, this elegantly designed book pairs a series of poems with stunning illustrations to celebrate the bond between mothers and sons.
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Licensing Hotline: January 2009
News of new licensees for The 39 Clues, Random House’s latest Pixar tie-ins, the first-ever VeggieTales Bible, the latest on Lucy Cousins licensing, a new brand from author Todd Parr, and merchandise and broadcast plans for Gaspard and Lisa.
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Newbery, Caldecott Announced in Denver
Neil Gaiman has won the 2009 Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins). Beth Krommes has won the 2009 Randolph Caldecott Medal for The House in the Night (Houghton Mifflin), written by Susan Marie Swanson.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/26/2009
Picture Books Good Night, Baby Ruby Rohan Henry . Abrams , $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-8323-6 Her parents say it’s bedtime, but preverbal Ruby is proving elusive. With her pet cat at her heels, she runs away to play with the newspaper, hide in the closet and make mischief with the flowerpots.
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'Hunger Games 2': A First Look
When readers of the bestselling fantasy novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins turn the last page, many of them are left to wonder, “But what happens next??” Unfortunately, we can’t tell you yet, but we can show you, for the very first time anywhere, the cover for the sequel, Catching Fire. Scholastic is publishing the book on September 8 with a 250,000-copy first printing.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/19/2009
Picture Books Same Same Marthe Jocelyn , illus. by Tom Slaughter. Tundra , $15.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-88776-885-9 Jocelyn and Slaughter (previously paired for Eats) strikingly introduce the concept of classification. Slaughter's graphic cut-paper compositions command attention with their paint-box—bright colors.
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Children’s Bookseller Opens Store of Her Own
After working in children’s books at several Vermont independents, Natacha Liuzzi has opened Brown Dog Books & Gifts in Hinesburg, Vt.
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Scholastic Rolls Out Carman’s Multimedia Venture
Skeleton Creek -- conceived, written and produced by Patrick Carman, author of the Land of Elyon, Atherton and Elliot’s Park series -- is a new ghost mystery from Scholastic that plays out on the page and in online video footage.
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Movie Alert: ‘Coraline’
Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed 2002 novel, Coraline, about a girl who ventures through a door into a strange, parallel world, hits theaters February 6.
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