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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/18/2008

| 02/18/2008 @ 07:00AM
Children's Books for Spring: M - Q

Compiled by Sally Lodge | 02/18/2008 @ 07:00AM

MAGICAL CHILD BOOKS (New Leaf, dist.) Watchers ($16.95) by W. Lyon Martin. Who's hiding in the dark? (3-6) Aidan's First Full Circle Moon ($16.95) by W. Lyon Martin introduces rituals at a Wiccan nighttime gathering. (4-8) McRAE BOOKS (Trafalgar Square, dist.) The Animal Atlas ($16.95) by Anne McRae, illus.
About Our Cover Artist

by Diane Roback | 02/17/2008 @ 07:00AM

Tad Hills never set out to be a children's book illustrator. “I really wanted to pursue acting,” he tells PW as he drops off the art work that is now our cover. After graduating from Skidmore College in 1986, where he studied art, Hills took on various freelance jobs—working on a screenplay, making marionettes and jewelry, and generally “doing art.
Prydwen Press Sets Sail

By Sally Lodge, Children's Bookshelf | 02/14/2008 @ 05:00AM

Incorporated in Wilmington, Del., and operating from an office in a Victorian house in Antwerp, Prydwen Press will release its debut title in May. The Vanities is written and illustrated by Terence Lawlor, who also founded the press. This is the first book created by the Los Angeles native, a collage artist who has worked in fashion and advertising as a designer and art director.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/11/2008

| 02/11/2008 @ 07:00AM
Veteran Bowen Starts Green

by Paul Wisenthal | 02/11/2008 @ 07:00AM

Last year on May 9, Rupert Murdoch summoned senior management of his News Corp. companies (including HarperCollins and MySpace) to a meeting in New York City to announce that all of his corporate holdings would become carbon-neutral. After the meeting, staffers at HarperCollins Children's Books began to brainstorm ideas about a book for teens interested in the environment, according to Susan Ka...
Licensing Hotline: February 2008

By Karen Raugust | 02/07/2008 @ 10:00AM

Licensing activity surrounding Simon & Schuster’s Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys properties has expanded in the last year or so, moving beyond nostalgic products for adults to more tween- and teen-targeted categories, especially electronics.
Wild Things All Over

by Matthew Thornton | 02/04/2008 @ 07:00AM

One of the more significant and highly anticipated literary collaborations of recent years isn't even a book—it's a movie. Where the Wild Things Are, based on Maurice Sendak's classic picture book, is slated for major motion picture release in mid-2009. The collaborators on the screenplay are director Spike Jonze and author Dave Eggers, though the pair consulted with Sendak throughout the...
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/4/2008

| 02/04/2008 @ 07:00AM
S&S Rejoins Children’s Book Council

By Rachel Deahl | 01/31/2008 @ 07:00AM

Turning what might have been a divorce into a brief trial separation, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing has rejoined the Children’s Book Council after pulling out of the organization last February.
Selznick and Schlitz Discuss Their Award-Winning Books

By Diane Roback, Children's Bookshelf | 01/18/2008 @ 04:15PM

An interview with Brian Selznick, winner of the 2008 Caldecott Medal, and with Laura Amy Schlitz, winner of the 2008 Newbery Medal.
Moving On Up: Spy High

By Shannon Maughan | 01/17/2008 @ 07:00AM

Cammie Morgan, who attends boarding school cum spy-training center Gallagher Academy, made her butt-kicking debut in I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter. Cammie’s second adventure, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy bowed last October. To date, combined sales of both books have topped 300,000 copies.
Knopf Announces Title, New Pub Date for Paolini’s Latest

By John Sellers | 01/16/2008 @ 02:09PM

Knopf Books for Young Readers has revealed the name and cover of the third title in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance series. The book, Brisingr, will have a first printing of 2.5 million, the largest initial print run to date for the Random House Children’s Books division.
Booksellers React to Top Children’s Prizes

By Diane Roback | 01/15/2008 @ 12:30PM

The results are in, and this year’s roster of American Library Association awards yielded a number of surprises. Children’s booksellers shared their thoughts on the winners named in Monday’s Newbery, Caldecott and Printz announcements.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/14/2008

| 01/11/2008 @ 07:00AM
Ditlow Joins Brilliance

By Shannon Maughan | 01/10/2008 @ 03:00PM

Tim Ditlow, former publisher of Listening Library and publisher at large for Random House Audio, has joined Grand Haven, Mich.-based Brilliance Audio.
Children’s Book Reviews

| 01/07/2008 @ 07:00AM

Picture Books Monkey and Me Emily Gravett . Simon & Schuster , $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5457-6 With a lot of imagination and some creative contortions, a little girl pretends that she and her adored stuffed monkey fit right in with tribes of penguins, kangaroos, bats, elephants and... monkeys.
Scieszka Named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

By Diane Roback | 01/03/2008 @ 10:58AM

Jon Scieszka, author of such bestselling picture books as The Stinky Cheese Man and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, has been named the country’s first national ambassador for children’s books.
Children's Books Reviews: Week of 12/24/2007

by Staff | 12/24/2007 @ 07:00AM
Ottaviano Gets Her Own Imprint at Holt

By Rachel Deahl | 12/20/2007 @ 07:42PM

Christy Ottaviano, formerly executive editor of Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, has been given her own eponymous imprint at the house.

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