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Way Cool: Marketing and the Internet
It's a typical weekday after school. Do you know where more than 21 million teenagers are?
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The Young and the Graphic Novel
When it comes to graphic books for kids, it's no longer just manga.
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Movie Alert
Meet the Robinsons, an animated film that is loosely based on William Joyce's 1993 picture book A Day with Wilbur Robinson, will be released by Disney on March 30.
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From Sparkles to Sales, Nancy Is Fancy Indeed
She's an exuberant young lady with a fondness for all things fancy—and a book character whom readers certainly fancy.
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Chooseco Embarks on Its Own Adventure
Placing young readers smack-dab at the center of the action—and in control of the plot twists, the Choose Your Own Adventure series found an eager audience when Bantam launched the first of these paperbacks back in 1979.
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Licensing Hotline: January 2007
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Licensing Hotline: October 2006
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Two Decades of Fun and Learning on the Magic School Bus
It's been quite a ride for wacky science teacher Ms. Frizzle and her students, who have been enthusiastic passengers on the soaring Magic School Bus for two decades. Launched in 1986, this spirited science series by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen encompasses 131 titles over a variety of formats and has sold more than 58 million copies.
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Spring 2006 Flying Starts
Profiles of six authors making their children's book debuts this spring.
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'Cathy' Causes Foreign Frenzy for Running Press
Although Cathy's Book may not, as its press materials note, be the start of a new genre in YA fiction, it's a pretty inventive take on the category.
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Moving On Up: Warriors
The Warriors cat-centric fantasy series by Erin Hunter (HarperCollins) has quietly crept onto bestseller lists via grassroots fan support on the Internet.
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Children’s Bookshelf talks with Julie Just
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Spring 2005 Flying Starts
Teens already rule at the multiplex and the music store. Now, more than ever, they're also showing their clout at the bookstore.
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Movie Alert: Don't Miss Don't Move
Here's the hopeful Hollywood hook for Don't Move, which opened last Friday, October 11, in a few arthouse theaters here: in the movie, Penelope Cruz is beautiful and gives the best performance of her career--despite being made up haggard, despite having been raped by the lead, despite not speaking in English.
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Movie Alert: Odd Girl Out Back In Spotlight
Odd Girl Out will be the center of attention on Monday, April 4, at 9 p.m., when Lifetime Television airs its original movie based on the 2002 bestseller by Rachel Simmons.
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Fall 2004 Flying Starts
Five acclaimed fall children's book debuts.
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Spring 2004 Flying Starts
Five authors and artists who made noteworthy debuts this spring.
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Spring 2003 Flying Starts
Six first-time children's authors and illustrators talk about their road to publication
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Licensing Hotline: February 2003
HarperEntertainment will publish a series of Beginner Reader Books, starting in May, based on the toy brand Li'l Pet Hospital, created by Kenn Viselman presents....
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Licensing Hotline: October 2002
Viacom Consumer Products is extending several of its African-American television series into books. "[Viacom subsidiary] Paramount is the single largest supplier of African-American TV programming," said Risa Kessler, Viacom's publishing representative. "We've all been spending a lot of time on the African-American properties, thinking about the right way to merchandise them.
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