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Spring 2007 Flying Starts
Three fresh voices make their YA debuts.
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Children’s Book Reviews: Week of 6/18/2007
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Licensing Hotline: June 2007
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Gossip Girl’s Got Legs
Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl series (Little, Brown) first hit the YA book scene in 2001, touted as fun chick lit for the younger set—Sex and the City for teens.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/7/2007
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First Kids Comic-Con a Big Hit
Kids' interest in comic books is healthy and strong if the first annual New York City Kids Comic Con was any indication.
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Hot Galleys for Kids
As you're weaving through the aisles, keep your eyes peeled for these offerings from children's book publishers.
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Selznick’s ‘The Invention of Hugo Cabret’ Is Al Roker Choice for Kids
Today Show segment encouraging kids to read throughout the summer makes Scholastic novel its first choice.
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Kelly Link Brings YA Collection to Viking
Acclaimed literary fantasist and publisher of her own work signs deal with Viking for children’s book
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New Pottermania Titles Exclusive to Borders
Borders is selling two exclusive, original Harry Potter-related titles as part of its promotion for the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 4/16/2007
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Licensing Hotline: April 2007
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Danger Was Their Game
The Dangerous Book for Boys may hit on two cultural taboos—sexism and endangering children—but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming a U.K. bestseller. Co-author Conn Iggulden talks about his nostalgia for the good old days, when boys raced go-carts and hunted rabbits.
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In Celebration of Poetry
Children's poetry has been getting more exposure recently, making headlines at the end of last year when Jack Prelutsky was named the first-ever Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.
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Children’s Paperback Backlist
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Chronicle Names Children’s Publishing Director
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Audio Renaissance Launches Children's Division
Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck, makes its debut April 3 with the release of The One and Only Shrek!
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London vs. Bologna, 2007
This year, due to scheduling issues, the London Book Fair will be held just a week before the Bologna Fair, causing problems for children's publishers who have in the past attended both.
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Kids’ Comics on the Rise @ New York Comic Con
With Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese winning the 2007 Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature and Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto, Volume 7 getting a Quill Award last fall for graphic novels, coupled with recent announcements like Scholastic's, that it will release lesson plans for its graphic novels starting this spring, it's clear that the market for graphic novels for kids is expanding rapidly.
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Are Picture Books Back?
In 2005, when a beleaguered picture-book market had many publishers cutting their lists in half, Chip Gibson, president of Random House Books for Young Readers, took bold action, launching a new imprint devoted solely to picture books.



