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It Takes a Village to Finish a Trilogy
To conclude the trilogy she began with 2003's A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray required coffee, chocolate, a coterie of writing buddies coaxing her on, a few all-nighters, and an “intervention” by her publisher to overcome a pernicious case of writer's block. “I can honestly say I've never worked so hard on anything in my life.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 11/12/2007
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Children’s Book Reviews: Week of 11/5/2007
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/29/2007
Picture Books Out Came the Sun: A Day in Nursery Rhymes Heather Collins . Kids Can , $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55337-881-5 Collins arranges 45 mostly familiar nursery rhymes in a sun-up to sundown romp starring a multi-species stuffed animal family, who made similar appearances in her Traditional Fairy Tales series of board books.
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Six Authors, and Colin Farrell, Click at Borders
Click turned out to be an apt title for a new children’s novel, as several of the book’s contributors found themselves in the middle of a photographer feeding frenzy this past Monday, thanks to film star Colin Farrell.
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The Book That Takes Off Running
Over the years, innovative advances in children's book publishing—books that light up, books that talk, books for the bathtub—have become almost commonplace. But this December, Workman will offer a new twist on how to show and tell with Gallop! by Rufus Butler Seder, a paper-over-board children's title that utilizes a trademarked, patented technology called Scanimation to seemingly ...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/22/2007
Christmas Books We Three Kings Gennady Spirin . S&S/Atheneum , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82114-1 Opulence befitting royalty characterizes Spirin's (The Tale of the Firebird) lush, jewel-hued watercolor-and-colored-pencil interpretation of the beloved carol about the three wise men (and their extensive entourages) who traverse afar.
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Disney Heads to White Plains
Employees of Disney Publishing Worldwide have started to make the move from their current offices in New York to a new location in White Plains. The editorial teams of Disney Press, Hyperion Books for Children and Disney Editions will remain in Manhattan.
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The Great Read Draws Thousands
to ColumbiaYou’d expect thousands of readers to throng the quad at New York City’s Columbia University on a beautiful October day, but you might not expect those readers to be under the age of eight. That’s just what occurred Sunday, however, as parents and small children--and authors such as Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton--flocked to Columbia, lured by the New York Times Great Children’s Read.
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New Voyage for Little Toot
Working in his Manhattan studio in the late 1930s, magazine illustrator Hardie Gramatky often watched boats maneuvering on the East River. He was especially drawn to one small tugboat that seemed to have a mind of its own and appeared never to be in the right place at the right time. This appealingly errant vessel inspired the artist to create watercolors and sketches of tugs and to pen an acco...
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Children's Book Reviews: 10/15/2007
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Licensing Hotline: October 2007
Henry Holt has announced a deal with Lego artist extraordinaire Sean Kenney for three 32-page picture books—one per season starting in spring 2009—that will instruct readers how to build Lego models designed by Kenney.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/8/2007
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On the Road with Deborah Wiles
Author Deborah Wiles tells PW that touring for a YA novel is not just about selling books: it’s about getting kids interested in reading them.
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Macmillan Acquires Kingfisher
Holtzbrinck’s Pan Macmillan division has acquired British children’s publisher Kingfisher from Houghton Mifflin for an undisclosed sum.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/1/2007
Picture Books The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! Steve Martin , illus. by Roz Chast. Doubleday/Flying Dolphin , $17.95 ISBN 978-0-385-51662-4 Actor, playwright and novelist Martin (Shopgirl) branches into picture books for this nutty abecedary. No humdrum “A is for apple” list, this volume faces outrageous, alliterative couplets with full-page cartoons approximating th...
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Entering 'Dangerous' Territory
Even before Steve Ross became president and publisher of HarperCollins's Collins division, he had to look no further than his own home to see the potential that U.K. bestseller The Dangerous Book for Boys had in the U.S. market. Ross bought his copy at a local bookstore, not knowing he'd be joining the company in a few months' time.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 9/24/2007
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Still Klutzy After All These Years
If Willy Wonka had gone into publishing he might have created Klutz Press, the company co-founded 30 years ago by John Cassidy in Palo Alto, Calif., as a way of having fun at making a living. About the same time as the debut of the Pet Rock, Cassidy and Stanford buddies Darrell Lorentzen and B.C. Rimbeaux decided they wanted to produce a “scam” product of their own and created an in...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 9/17/2007
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