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Sourcebooks Gives 'Embrace' a Big Marketing Push
In a world where angels seek vengeance and humans are warriors, a teen must choose her destiny in Embrace, the launch title of a fantasy series by debut author Jessica Shirvington.
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Want to Get Published? Take the F Train
In a classic, serendipitous New York City moment, a book deal for a debut YA novel, Trafficked by Kim Purcell, was set in motion one evening on the subway.
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Standing the Test of Time: Celebrating a Milestone for 'A Wrinkle in Time'
It’s been 50 years since a troublemaking math-whiz, a pensive basketball player, and a child genius first "tessered" across time and the universe in Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time which was celebrated at an event on February 11 at Manhattan’s Symphony Space and was simulcast to select locations.
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Barron's Brings Meerkat Bestseller to the U.S.
The pyramids of Egypt, the canals of Venice, and the Great Wall of China are some of the sites visited by a spirited family of meerkats in Where's the Meerkat?, a search-and-find picture book that has caught the fancy of young readers in the U.K.
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S&S Acquires Self-Pubbed 'Life's a Witch' in Three-Book Deal
Brittany Geragotelis's YA novel Life’s a Witch, self-published this fall via Amazon/CreateSpace, has been acquired at auction by Simon & Schuster in a three-book, six-figure deal.
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Final Artemis Fowl Book to Get 1 Million Copy First Printing
Disney Publishing Worldwide has announced that the final book in Eoin Colfer's bestselling children's series, Artemis Fowl, will go to press for 1 million copies.
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Pear Jam Books Teams with MyLi.com
New Zealand-based publishing startup Pear Jam Books is teaming with MyLi.com, a U.K.-based online startup e-book and reading site for school children, to release its list of titles to young readers in Britain.
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More 'Hunger Games': Scholastic Adds Movie Tie-Ins to the Franchise
Who said a trilogy had to stop at three books? On Tuesday Scholastic released a trio of new Hunger Games titles linked to the March 23 movie, which is based on the first story in Suzanne Collins' series.
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Rizzoli Reissues Saul Bass Picture Book
This month, Rizzoli will release a facsimile edition of Henri's Walk to Paris, long out of print and the only children's book illustrated by celebrated graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass.
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In Brief: February 9
This week, a trio of book launch events for Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Peter H. Reynolds's Plant a Kiss, Ann Hood's The Treasure Chest series, and Scott Starkey's How to Beat the Bully Without Really Trying.
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Galley Talk: 'The Fourth Stall: Part II'
Valerie Stadick, owner of Main Street Books in Minot, N.D., is eager to introduce her customers to The Fourth Stall: Part II, due this month from HarperCollins's Walden Pond Press.
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New Snicket 'Autobiography' Series Announced
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has announced a new four-book series from author Lemony Snicket (a pseudonym for Daniel Handler), set to launch this fall.
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In Brief: February 2
This week, A Wrinkle in Time is featured on Jeopardy!; Little, Brown highlights some of its forthcoming picture books; Norman Bridwell checks out a traveling theatrical production starring Clifford; and author Chris Butterworth receives a "Book of the Year" honor for How Did That Get in My Lunchbox?.
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'No Crystal Stair' Spotlights Legendary Harlem Bookseller
Coretta Scott King Award-winner Vaunda Micheaux Nelson offers a fiction-laced memoir of her great-uncle and his legendary Harlem bookstore in No Crystal Stair: A Novel in Documents, Based on the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller.
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New Stiefvater Series Due in September
More good news for Maggie Stiefvater fans: hot off the author's Printz Honor for The Scorpio Races at last week's ALA Youth Media Awards, Scholastic has announced the publication of a new four-book series from Stiefvater.
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Capstone, DC Comics Ink Licensing Deal
Capstone, a children’s educational and library publisher, has reached a licensing deal with DC Entertainment to create library hardcovers and paper-over-board editions of DC Comics titles.
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In Brief: January 26
This week, Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman tour for Why We Broke Up; Chronicle hosts an art auction at ALA Midwinter; Grace Lin launches Dumpling Days; co-authors Silas House and Neela Vaswani head south for Wi7 and ALA; and a library event for Monica Carnesi's Little Dog Lost.
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