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Author Jesse Klausmeier on Her Childhood Sketch Turned Published Book

By John A. Sellers | 01/31/2013 @ 03:00PM

A story that debut author Jesse Klausmeier wrote when she was five, growing up in Madison, Wis., helped form the basis for her picture book Open This Little Book, just published by Chronicle.
This Week in Children's Apps: January 31, 2013

| 01/31/2013 @ 02:00PM

This week in children's apps features an adaptation of the bestselling picture book The Kissing Hand, starring Chester Raccoon. Also this week is the newest Little Critter app, Just Shopping with Mom. The newest Berenstain Bears app is also out this week, teaching players a lesson about anger and the curative functions of laughter.
Could 'Timmy Failure' Spell Success for Candlewick?

By Sally Lodge | 01/29/2013 @ 03:00PM

Candlewick is rolling out a $250,000 marketing campaign for the debut of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, the first children's book from Stephan Pastis, creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine.
American Girl Expands Bestselling Advice Book

By Claire Kirch | 01/29/2013 @ 03:00PM

American Girl Publishing has updated one of its bestselling titles, now called The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Younger Girls, for readers ages 8 to 10. A second volume, The Care & Keeping of You 2: The Body Book for Older Girls, is aimed at an audience ages 10 and up.
Author Celebrates Good Fortune by Paying It Forward

By Alexis Burling | 01/29/2013 @ 03:00PM

To celebrate the publication of her first picture book, author Brenda Ferber has taken a cue from her story's pages and is hosting a "Random Act of Kindness" contest in the weeks leading up to Valentine's Day.
Delirium Trilogy Heads to the Small Screen

| 01/23/2013 @ 01:00PM

The Fox Network has ordered a pilot based on Lauren Oliver's popular Delirium trilogy, just ahead of the release of book three, Requiem (Harper, March).
Random House to Reissue Ruth Chew's Fantasy Oeuvre

By Sally Lodge | 01/17/2013 @ 03:00PM

Random House Books for Young Readers has acquired the rights to Ruth Chew's 29-book canon of middle-grade fantasy novels including No Such Thing As a Witch and What the Witch Left.
Abrams Announces Activity Book for Origami Jedi-Knights-in-Training

By John A. Sellers | 01/17/2013 @ 03:00PM

Just as the Star Wars empire has grown well beyond three films, Tom Angleberger's Origami Yoda series is set to expand, when Abrams's Amulet Books imprint releases Art2-D2's Guide to Folding and Doodling: An Origami Yoda Activity Book in March 26.
Cover Reveal: 'The Kicks: Saving the Team' by Alex Morgan

By Sally Lodge | 01/15/2013 @ 03:00PM

Here is a first look at the cover of Saving the Team, the kickoff title in a middle-grade series by Alex Morgan, member of the 2012 U.S. Women’s Olympic gold medal-winning soccer team, who joins the National Women’s Soccer League’s Portland Thorns this spring.
Galley Talk: 'Eleanor & Park'

| 01/10/2013 @ 03:00PM

Hannah Moushabeck, children's department director at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Mass., shares her impressions of Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell.
Nancy Farmer Returns with 'Scorpion' Sequel

By Shannon Maughan | 01/10/2013 @ 03:00PM

Dick Jackson, editor-at-large at Atheneum Books for Young Readers, has acquired The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer, the long-awaited sequel to Farmer's 2002 SF novel, The House of the Scorpion.
Serendipitous Discovery Leads to Timely Reissue at Albert Whitman

By Claire Kirch | 01/10/2013 @ 03:00PM

As the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address approaches, Albert Whitman & Company is marking the date by reissuing a picture book that lay forgotten in the company's archives for more than half a century.
Nate the Great Titles to Be Released as E-books

| 01/10/2013 @ 02:00PM

Random House is launching an e-book program timed to the 40th anniversary of the launch of Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's Nate the Great mystery series. Five books, including the first in the series, will be released on January 30; by the end of 2013, all 26 titles will be available in e-format.
Scholastic to Roll Out New Multi-Platform Series

By Sally Lodge | 01/10/2013 @ 09:00AM

Scholastic has announced the fall 2013 launch of Spirit Animals, the company's first multi-platform series in the fantasy genre. As with the publisher's 39 Clues and Infinity Ring series, the Spirit Animals books will be written by different authors and will be linked to a simultaneously released online game.
Big Online Push for New Gayle Forman Novel

By Sally Lodge | 01/03/2013 @ 03:00PM

Penguin Young Readers Group has set in motion a multifaceted social media marketing campaign to promote Gayle Forman's Just One Day.

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