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Children’s Books Top the Bill at SCIBA
A recap of the children's events and authors at the annual Southern California Independent Booksellers Association trade show.
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Reflections on a First Trip to Frankfurt
A children's book editor attends her first Frankfurt Book Fair, and shares her impressions.
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Harper Vamps Up a Teen Promotion
With Halloween fast approaching, HarperTeen has embarked on a suitably eerie promotion for three of its authors with vampire-themed novels. Pitch Black is an online/offline campaign that involves a content-heavy Web site, a sweepstakes giveaway and a five-city author tour for authors Ellen Schreiber (the Vampire Kisses series), Nancy A. Collins (the Vamps series) and Claudia Gray (Evernight).
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Seo Stepping Down at S&S
Ginee Seo, v-p and editorial director of Ginee Seo Books, an imprint of Atheneum Books for Young Readers at Simon & Schuster, has resigned from her position with the publisher, according to an internal memo sent earlier this week by Atheneum v-p and publisher Emma Dryden.
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Movie Alert: 'Twilight'
The film based on Stephenie Meyer's bestselling novel Twilight will premiere on November 21.
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Bad News - Gerbils Dead
A children's book editor attends the Frankfurt Book Fair, and receives an email from her husband.
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Poetry Book Has Readers Feeling the Beat
Hip Hop Speaks to Children (Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky, Oct.), a collection of 51 songs and poems edited by Nikki Giovanni, isn’t only turning children on to poetry; the book and its companion audio CD is resonating with adults, too.
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'Nerd' Night in NYC
Author John Green kicked off his national tour for Paper Towns (Dutton) last Thursday evening at the Barnes & Noble in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood.
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Q & A with Zoë B. Alley and R.W. Alley
Bookshelf spoke with R.W. Alley and Zoë B. Alleyabout their new picture book, There’s a Wolf at the Door (Roaring Brook/Porter).
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Two ‘It Girls,’ 20 Interviews
Having been in the public eye most of their lives, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have spent plenty of time as the subjects of photographs, interviews and media scrutiny. But in Influence (Razorbill), which goes on sale next week with a 150,000-copy first printing, the actresses/entrepreneurs turn the tables, interviewing and photographing 20 creative figures.
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School Librarians Connect Kids with Galleys
It’s a win-win situation: publishers get middle-grade and young adult galleys into the hands of middle-school librarians, who share them with students in hopes of fueling their interest in reading. The kids’ enthusiasm for a title then creates buzz about the book that can have a positive effect on sales. It’s a chain reaction that is beneficial to all concerned—and one that appears to be happening with increasing frequency.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books The Baby in the Hat Allan Ahlberg , illus. by André Amstutz. Candlewick , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3958-7 Ahlberg and Amstutz (previously paired for The Shopping Expedition) overlook few opportunities for humor in this tall tale (even the copyright includes jokes), which gains extra punch from the narrator's repeated insistence that the story is a true one.
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Cornelia Funke 'Inks' Her Final Chapter
This month sees the release of Inkdeath (Scholastic/Chicken House), the third and final book in Cornelia Funke's Inkheart trilogy, which began in 2003 with a book of the same name.
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All Ears on ‘Paper Towns’
When John Green’s third YA novel, Paper Towns (Dutton), hits shelves this week, it will be attended by the type of fanfare expected to accompany a much-anticipated book from an award-winning author, including a national tour, an extensive online promotion and a mobile text messaging campaign. But as part of the launch, audiobook fans can expect something groundbreaking: Paper Towns will be released simultaneously with the print book in a range of different audio formats.
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A New Stage for Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg steps into a new role next week, when Disney’s Jump at the Sun imprint publishes the debut novel in her first chapter-book series, Sugar Plum Ballerinas.
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Portrait of an Artist by a Like-Minded Artist
As a child, Deborah Kogan Ray read Millions of Cats, Wanda Gág’s 1929 Newbery Honor Book, as well as her other picture books. Several years ago, she came across excerpts from Gág’s diaries and immediately recognized a kindred spirit. That inspired Ray to create a picture-book biography, Wanda Gág: The Girl Who Lived to Draw, out this month from Viking.
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A Book (and Contest) for ‘Wimpy’ Fans
Last week, the latest addition to Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Do-It-Yourself Book, went on sale with a 500,000-copy first printing.
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The ABCs of Buzz
This past Tuesday, Roaring Brook Press turned up the volume to celebrate the release of ABC3D, a new alphabet pop-up book by Marion Bataille. The publisher hosted a lunchtime concert outside its new digs at the Flatiron Building in Manhattan featuring local band Not Waving But Drowning, which performed an original song they wrote about the book.
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Q & A with M.T. Anderson
M.T. Anderson’s The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume I: The Pox Party (Candlewick, 2006), about the coming of age of a young, classically educated slave at the outset of the American Revolution, received both a National Book Award and a Printz Honor. The sequel, The Kingdom on the Waves, is in bookstores.
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Cavendish to Launch Line of Classics
Beginning next March, Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books will publish a line of formerly out-of-print picture books and novels under the name Marshall Cavendish Classics.
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