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Kids’ Cookbooks Pick Up Steam
This fall brings a bountiful crop of cookbooks for kids to use in the kitchen. Many are standing on strong legs—whether authored by celebrity chefs or following successful first editions—while others are tied to well-known culinary establishments or have a standout visual element.
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Hoberman Picked as Poet Laureate
As part of its fifth annual Pegasus Awards, the Poetry Foundation has selected Mary Ann Hoberman as Children’s Poet Laureate. Hoberman inherits the two-year position, which comes with a $25,000 prize, from Jack Prelutsky.
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GLIBA Booksellers Dispense Advice
About 50 general booksellers gathered at the GLIBA trade snow to hear Kristen McLean, executive director of the Association of Booksellers for Children, along with booksellers Cynthia Compton of 4 Kids Books in Indianapolis and Rose Joseph of Magic Tree Bookstore in Oak Park, Ill., discuss the nuts and bolts of setting up a children’s section in a general-interest bookstore.
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GLIBA: A Weekend of Excitement
Children’s books were very much on booksellers’s minds at last weekend’s Great Lakes Independent Booksellers annual trade show, held in Dearborn, Mich.
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Turning Make-Believe into Real Success
Though the books might be about dolls, the creation of the Doll People series has been anything but child’s play. The Runaway Dolls is the third book in Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin and Brian Selznick’s well-received series that began with The Doll People in 2000.
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Q & A with Neil Gaiman
Children's Bookshelf spoke with Neil Gaiman about his new novel, The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins).
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Storyopolis: Balancing Art with Books
Storyopolis, Southern California’s premier children’s art gallery and bookshop, moved from Studio City to Sherman Oaks three weeks ago and has changed its name to The Gallery at Storyopolis.
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‘City of Ember’ Premieres in Manhattan
City of Ember, a film based on the book by Jeanne DuPrau, opens in theaters this Friday. The book's agent, Nancy Gallt, attended its premiere.
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Lose Weight by Reading
Ever wish reading could make you thin? According to a new study released last week by researchers at Duke Children’s Hospital, that just might be the case, at least for teen girls. In a pilot study of 81 girls between the ages of nine and 13, reading resulted in a lower Body Mass Index, which measures weight in relation to height.
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Sheff Takes His Drug Recovery Public
Nic Sheff’s bestselling memoir about methamphetamine addiction, Tweak, landed on bestseller lists earlier this year. Now, a new blog by the author, New Dawn Transmission, has quickly found a strong following.
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Workman ‘Kicks’ Out a Tweaked Sequel
Baseball may be America’s national pastime, but it doesn’t have as strong a following in other countries. So while Swing!, Rufus Butler Seder’s sports-centered follow-up to last year’s bestseller, Gallop!, goes on sale in the U.S. next week, other countries will see a slightly different version of the book.
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Tomi Ungerer Relaunched, via Phaidon
I have been heavily criticized. This idea of the ideal world for the ideal child has nothing to do with reality.” So said author/illustrator Tomi Ungerer, reached by phone in Ireland, whose 1962 picture book, The Three Robbers, about a trio of villains and a young orphan, returns to bookstores this month, as part of a relaunch program from Phaidon Press.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Peter Pan: A Classic Collectible Pop-Up Robert Sabuda . S&S/Little Simon , $29.99 ISBN 978-0-689-85364-7 Continuing to innovate, Sabuda enhances the already powerful enchantments of J.M. Barrie's classic 1902 tale with astonishing paper engineering. Illustrations suggest a hybrid of period styles, somewhere between arts and crafts, with their rich patterning, and art nouvea...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/29/2008
This week on the Web: a vaccine and pediatrics expert on the latest autism myths, an activist on America's fossil fuel addiciton, a bad-boy screenwriter's path to God, a Jewish typographer's memoir of survival in the Nazi counterfeiting operation, a French marine biologist explains the origins of life, and a multi-talented UK writer takes a trip through the human head. Plus: doughnuts, dogs, green cosmetics, farming, Richard Nixon and exquisite Chinese food.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Amandina Sergio Ruzzier . Roaring Brook/Porter , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-236-9 Amandina Goldeneyes, a shy, lonely, long-eared dog, is a talented performer, “but nobody knew that, because nobody knew Amandina.” Amandina decides to rent the rundown Teatro Ventura “in the old town” and spruce it up.
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‘Brisingr’ Breaks Random House Children’s Record
Brisingr (Knopf), the long-awaited third volume in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle, arrived last Friday night, September 20, at midnight. In a record for Random House Children’s Books, the book sold 550,000 copies in its first day.
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Temple Adds Children's Titles
It's never too late to go young: 40 years after its founding, scholarly Temple University Press in Philadelphia is broadening its children's book publishing. The press, which publishes between 50 and 60 new titles a year, will release two kids' books at the end of September: Marc Bekoff's Animals at Play: Rules of the Game, illustrated by Michael J.
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Girls Just Wanna Do Math
At one time, Danica McKellar was best known for her role as Winnie Cooper on the TV show The Wonder Years; more recently, she played a speechwriter on NBC’s The West Wing. But now the actress, a longtime mathematics advocate (not to mention the co-author of a physics theorem), is making herself known to a new generation, with two books about math for teenage girls.
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Children's Books
Picture Books Say a Little Prayer Dionne Warwick , David Freeman Wooley and Tonya Bolden , illus. by Soud. Running/RPKids , $17.95 (32p plus CD) ISBN 978-0-7624-3268-4 The title is borrowed from one of Warwick's timeless collaborations with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, but her book is a flat, pedestrian self-esteem primer.
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Small Beer, for Children
When Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, founders of Small Beer Press in Easthampton, Mass., first considered publishing children's books several years ago, they had a problem: the name of their press sounded like a brewery. And they had already faced having a book display taken down at Comic-Con because of a presumed alcohol connection, until the powers that be realized that the press actually special...
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