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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 12/17/2007

| 12/14/2007 @ 07:00AM
Handmade Rowling Book Fetches Record Price

By Julia Eccleshare | 12/13/2007 @ 12:28PM

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a handwritten and illustrated book by J.K. Rowling, has been sold for a record-breaking £1,950,000 at auction in London.
'Girl' Gets a Makeover

By John A. Sellers, Children's Bookshelf | 12/13/2007 @ 12:00AM

Simon Pulse is hoping that a reissue of Blake Nelson's Girl, a 1994 adult trade title, can make a splash with today’s teens.
S&S Kids' Unit Adds Beacon Street Series

by Judith Rosen | 12/10/2007 @ 02:30PM

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing is adding the Beacon Street Girls series, produced by B*tween Productions, to its lineup beginning January 1.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 12/10/07

| 12/07/2007 @ 07:00AM
Can Children's Specialty Bookstores Survive?

by Judith Rosen | 12/07/2007 @ 07:00AM

The surprise closing of 23-year-old A Likely Story Children's Bookstore in Alexandria, Va., which shut its doors for the last time on the day before Thanksgiving, calls into question the viability of children's-only bookstores. But despite a whittling down from 750 stores in the early '90s to less than a quarter of that today, closings have leveled off in recent years—less than a handful ...
Licensing Hotline: December 2007

By Karen Raugust | 12/06/2007 @ 10:00AM

As part of Hooked on Phonics’ transition from direct-to-consumer sales to a retail strategy, the 20-year-old brand has signed its first group of licensees.
Levine’s Imprint Celebrates First Decade

By Sally Lodge, Children's Bookshelf | 12/06/2007 @ 07:00AM

Over the last decade, Arthur Levine’s imprint at Scholastic has published 125 books, successfully connecting young readers to an international spectrum of authors and illustrators, among them the once-unknown first-time novelist, J.K. Rowling.
Monti Joins Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

| 12/04/2007 @ 01:56PM

Joseph Monti has been named director of paperbacks at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 12/3/2007

| 12/03/2007 @ 07:00AM
'Twas the Day After Christmas…

by Judith Rosen | 12/03/2007 @ 07:00AM

While traditional wisdom says it's the days leading up to Christmas that count most for publishers and booksellers, some children's book people think otherwise. The week after Christmas, according to Joan de Mayo, senior v-p, director of sales for Random House Children's Books, is now a “prime time to release big books.
Pullman's Controversial Compass Sails into Theaters

by Shannon Maughan | 11/29/2007 @ 02:15PM

New Line Cinema’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel The Golden Compass had its world premiere in London Tuesday night and has already received a four-star review from The Guardian. The author and director have been under fire over the controversial religious content in Pullman’s books as well as the celluloid interpretation, which debuts here on December 7.
Children's Books: Week of 11/23/2007

| 11/23/2007 @ 07:00AM
Kaplan Early Learning Buys Gryphon House

| 11/16/2007 @ 01:51PM

Kaplan Early Learning Company has acquired Gryphon House, a purchase that unites two leaders in publishing for the early childhood edcuation market.
Alloy Makes a Go of It in Hollywood

by Rachel Deahl | 11/16/2007 @ 07:00AM

Anyone who's been watching The CW this fall is intimately familiar with the tangled lives of a certain upper-crust group of New York City teenagers. But the penthouse-living, private-school-attending, alcohol-swilling high schoolers portrayed on Gossip Girl were already popular with America's teens, thanks to the bestselling book series of the same name that Alloy Entertainment created.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 11/19/2007

| 11/16/2007 @ 07:00AM
Toon Books: Comics for Kids

by Calvin Reid | 11/16/2007 @ 12:00AM

Françoise Mouly, New Yorker art director and wife of acclaimed cartoonist Art Spiegelman, announced plans to launch a new line of book format comics called Toon Books, aimed at readers ages four and up.
Moving On Up: Pinkalicious

By Shannon Maughan | 11/15/2007 @ 07:00AM
Lookybook Site to Promote Picture Books

By Bridget Kinsella, Children's Bookshelf | 11/15/2007 @ 07:00AM

A California-based startup company unveils Lookybook, an interactive book community Web site that enables people to browse through hundreds of picture books and post comments about them before deciding whether to purchase the book on Amazon.
RDR Books Agrees to Delay Potter Title

By Shannon Maughan | 11/09/2007 @ 02:13PM

On November 8, RDR Books proposed an order to the New York Federal Court agreeing to temporarily withhold publication of its planned title The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steve Vander Ark. Judge Robert Patterson accepted the order to delay publication of the book until he can determine the merits of a lawsuit filed on October 31 by Potter author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. which claims that the Lexicon violates Rowling’s copyright.

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