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Q & A with Susan Beth Pfeffer
With the release of her 75th novel, the dead & the gone (Harcourt), just a few days away, Susan Beth Pfeffer spoke with Bookshelf about her companion survival novels that trace how two families endure a global disaster.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/2/2008
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Lerner Publishes Holocaust Tale
Angel Girl by Laurie Friedman, illustrated by Ofra Amit (Carolrhoda, Sept.), is based on a real-life story: a boy in a German concentration camp was given food by a girl outside the fence each day; 10 years after the war ended, they met on a blind date in New York City, and have been married for 50 years.
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Trenton Lee Stewart's 'Mysterious' Path to Success
Trenton Lee Stewart’s debut children’s novel, The Mysterious Benedict Society, arrived on bookshelves last fall to critical praise, and it’s been selling steadily ever since.
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News Briefs: Weisberg to Head Penguin Kids
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/19/2008
This week: deep inside Abu Ghraib, fundamentalist politics, libertarian revolt, the inventing life, and paté. Plus: sentiment and the sportscaster; a sexual hobbyist tells all, again; healthy eating tips from a popular, underqualified web personality; and two short story collections for the young adults.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/19/2008
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Celebrating Children's Book Week
As Children’s Book Council board member Simon Boughton greeted the crowd at Tuesday night’s gala event at the New York Times, “Happy Children’s Book Week!” And what a week it has shaped up to be. Children’s Book Week, traditionally celebrated in November, was moved to May for the first time this year, with many events throughout the week and a renewed energy for promoting the joys of reading to the nation’s young readers.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/12/2008
Picture Books Such a Silly Baby! Steffanie and Richard Lorig , illus. by Amanda Shepherd. Chronicle , $15.99 ISBN 978-0-8118-5134-3 As preschoolers will undoubtedly note with glee, the title of this book should be “Such a Silly Mommy!” After all, it's Mommy who can't manage to go on an outing without bringing home an animal instead of her offspring.
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‘Looks’ Takes a Look at Teenage Body Image
Madeleine George’s debut novel centers on two teens who could not look more different from one another: obese Meghan and hauntingly thin Aimee. Looks, which explores the ways girls—on both extremes of the weight spectrum—use food and their bodies to express their isolation and loneliness, will be published by Viking in June. Yet it was George’s work in the theater that caught the attention of senior editor Joy Peskin.
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Patterson Aplenty
There's no stopping James Patterson—his appeal, that is. Even when the megaselling thriller writer with a record 39 New York Times bestsellers to his credit is writing for a narrower audience—in this case young adults—his readership has proven so loyal that the YA designation is almost meaningless.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008
Picture Books Sergio Makes a Splash! Edel Rodriguez . Little, Brown , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-06616-7 Sergio the penguin isn't afraid of all water—just “the very deep kind.” But with the help of floaties, a snorkel, a life preserver, he discovers that taking the plunge isn't so bad after all.
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Q & A with Kevin Henkes
Caldecott Medalist and Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes spoke with Bookshelf about his new novel, Bird Lake Moon, and how writing novels is different from writing picture books
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In the Studio with Matthew Van Fleet
Bookshelf visited with author/illustrator Matthew Van Fleet at his home in Chappaqua, N.Y., to see his studio and to hear about his new book, Alphabet.
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New Myers Novel Spotlights Iraq War
Two-time Newbery Honor author Walter Dean Myers has a deeply personal connection to the subject of his latest novel, Sunrise Over Fallujah, narrated by a teenage soldier deployed to Iraq. Next month, Scholastic will release the novel with a 50,000-copy print run, as well as a 20th anniversary paperback edition of Fallen Angels, set in the battlefield jungles of Vietnam.
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Barefoot in Manhattan
In a move that could push Barefoot Books further up Inc. magazine’s list of the top 5,000 fastest-growing private businesses (which it made for the first time last year), the Cambridge, Mass./Bath, England, children’s book publisher has reached an agreement with FAO Schwarz to create a dedicated Barefoot Books boutique in FAO’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008
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Belgium-Based Clavis Makes American Debut
Philippe Werck launched Clavis Publishing in Belgium back in 1984, and his company currently releases more than 180 Dutch-language titles annually. Now Clavis has opened its doors in this country with the establishment of a Manhattan office and the spring launch of its first 10 English-language titles.
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Truth Imitates Fiction for Bloomsbury Novel
In what Bloomsbury’s director of publicity, Deb Shapiro, calls “eerily fortuitous” timing, just as Cecilia Galante, the author of The Patron Saint of Butterflies (Apr.), was preparing for the last bookstore event on the first leg of her author tour, the news broke that a judge had ordered the removal of 400 children from a compound that housed the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a polygamous religious cult, in Eldorado, Texas.
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Rowling and RDR Meet in Court
Having filed suit against Muskegon, Mich.-based publisher RDR Books last fall, J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. saw their case tried in federal court this week. The trial centered around RDR’s intended publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steven Vander Ark, based on Vander Ark’s Web site of the same name, which included an alphabetical listing of and details about all of the characters, spells, places and creatures in Rowling’s Harry Potter universe.
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