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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Hush Little Polar Bear Jeff Mack . Roaring Brook , $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-368-7 In his first solo outing, Mack (illustrator of the Bunnicula series) sends an eager-looking polar bear on a series of dreamtime adventures: “Swim through a waterfall./ Splash in a stream./ Paddle past rainbows/ that glisten and gleam.
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read this b4 u publish :-)
I am of that population segment that is constantly derided as “not reading anymore,” and is therefore treated by publishing companies as a vast, mysterious demographic that's seemingly impossible to please. Kind of like the way teenage boys think of girls. The reason we read so little in our free time is partially because of the literary choices available to teenagers these days.
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There's a New Gang in Town: Austin's Delacorte Dames and Dudes
DDD—no, it’s not a heavy-duty new battery. It’s the acronym for an informal group of Austin, Tex., writers all published by Delacorte Press.
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Strega Nona Pops Up on Bookstore Shelves
Family, friends, eating together, patience, celebration and amore are the essential ingredients for a magical life, according to Tomie dePaola’s wise Strega Nona. She celebrates all six elements in Brava, Strega Nona!: A Heartwarming Pop-Up Book, featuring paper engineering by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart.
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New Notes for Peter Yarrow at Sterling
A member of the legendary 1960s trio Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Yarrow remains as passionate as ever about folk music, and is committed to sharing this genre with youngsters. Last year, Sterling Puff, the Magic Dragon, a picture book of the classic song, which has sold close to 750,000 copies. This month, Yarrow follows up that hit with the first two books in the Peter Yarrow Songbook series, also from Sterling.
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Q & A with Marcia Williams
Bookshelf spoke with Marcia Williams about her new book, My Secret War Diary by Flossie Albright: My History of the Second World War, 1939—1945 (Candlewick).
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Goodnight Goon, Hello Hit
As bedtime books go, Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, 1947), remains one of the gold standards. But author/illustrator Michael Rex thought the classic tale could use a healthy dose of spookiness, so he set to creating Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody (Putnam).
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Two Publishing Homes for Yarrow
Peter Yarrow’s Puff, the Magic Dragon has been a breakout bestseller for Sterling Publishing, and the book world is about to see a lot more of the musician/author. In addition to launching the Peter Yarrow Songbook series with Sterling this month, Yarrow has several other titles signed up with the company, as well as an eponymous imprint, Peter Yarrow Books, at Imagine Publishing, recently founded by Charles Nurnberg, former publisher and CEO at Sterling.
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On the Scene with Darren Shan
It’s the right time of year for books about demons, vampires and other creatures of the night, making the recent U.S. tour for Cirque du Freak and Demonata series author Darren Shan particularly well-timed.
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Hope for the Holidays: A Bookseller Survey
Despite the difficult economic climate, children’s booksellers nationwide expressed cautious confidence in the upcoming holiday sales season in our pre-holiday survey, though they were less certain about the prospects for early 2009. And several felt that children’s books, as a category, might fare better than adult.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Do You Love Me? Joost Elffers and Curious Pictures . HarperCollins/Bowen , $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-166799-2 Elffers (Food Play) teams up with Curious Pictures, producer of such TV shows as Little Einsteins, to introduce Snuzzles. Amorphous and solid-colored, the Snuzzles look a lot like rubber squeak toys, with their heads defined only by protrusions for noses and ears and ...
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On Tour with Dave and Ridley
Science Fair, the seventh collaboration between Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, pubbed with a 250,000-copy first printing. The pair then embarked on an eight-city tour over 10 days, including a visit to Good Morning America.
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Q & A with Ellen Klages
TheGreen Glass Sea, winner of the 2007 Scott O’Dell Award, tells the story of the creation of the first atomic bomb through the eyes of Suze and Dewey, two children of scientists working on the project. Bookshelf spoke with Ellen Klages about her sequel, White Sands, Red Menace (Viking), set in Alamogordo, N.M, after the war.
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Peachy Performance for a YA Series
Three very different teens forge a friendship one summer while working in a Georgia peach orchard in Jodi Lynn Anderson’s Peaches, published in 2005 by HarperTeen. The girls were reunited in 2006’s Secret of Peaches and meet once again in Love and Peaches, which was released this week with an initial print run of 100,000 copies.
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Letter from London
Children's publishing news from London for October 2008.
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An Encore for Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers’s Dance Sequence, six novels with shared themes (though not characters) debuted 30 years ago with the publication of Breaktime. This month, Amulet Books is releasing paperback reissues of this young adult novel, as well as the second installment, Dance on My Grave. The publisher will reissue the third and fourth books, Now I Know and The Toll Bridge, in spring 2009.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books I Got Two Dogs John Lithgow , illus. by Robert Neubecker. Simon & Schuster , $17.99 (32p with CD) ISBN 978-1-4169-5881-9 Lithgow’s (I’m a Manatee) singing tribute to a couple of canine ne’er-do-wells named Fanny and Blue strives for the kind of goofy, bouncy simplicity of Burl Ives’s classic Little White Duck album.
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Lauren Thomas
You won't find Dora the Explorer at Ladels Children's Book Boutique, though you will find Fancy Nancy. That's because, owner Lauren Thomas says, Dora the Explorer books are spun off from the television cartoon series, created primarily by corporate marketers to make money. And Fancy Nancy, despite the games, the dolls, the accessories, “speaks to the child.
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Lemony Snicket Redux
The Baudelaire orphans' sad story may be over but, like a post-apocalyptic cockroach, Lemony Snicket persists—to the great delight of booksellers, children, HarperCollins and Daniel Handler himself. “I miss them,” Handler admits of Violet, Klaus and Sunny, whose adventures concluded in 2006 with The End—60 million copies from his Unfortunate Events series have sold world...
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Licensing Hotline: October 2008
A compilation of recent licensing news.
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