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The French Connection: Children’s Books in Translation
Children’s books in translation—from France to the United States, and much more often from the United States to France—were the topic of a lively panel hosted by the French Publishers’ Association this past Tuesday, which took place at NYU’s La Maison Française in New York City.
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Candlewick Launches Templar Imprint
In spring 2009, Candlewick Press will debut its first imprint, Templar Books. A partnership with Britain’s Templar Publishing (which was recently acquired by Bonnier Publishing), the line will bring selected Templar titles to the U.S. market, including picture books, novelty titles and board books.
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Remembering James Marshall
Earlier this week more than 100 booksellers, librarians, and other children’s book devotees attended a panel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., to mark the publication of James Marshall’s George and Martha: The Complete Stories of Two Best Friends Stories (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Sept.).
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NBA Finalists Take Teens Behind Their Books
For the 11th year running, the National Book Foundation held a National Book Awards Teen Press Conference, which allows the five nominees in the Young People’s Literature category to read for and field questions from their books’ audience—teenagers.
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Blundell Wins NBA in Young People’s Literature
The National Book Award for Young People’s Literature was given Wednesday night to Judy Blundell, for her novel What I Saw and How I Lied (Scholastic Press), a noirish coming-of-age mystery set just after World War II.
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India-Based Author Takes a Virtual Tour
Even before the economic crunch, large publishers might have had trouble bringing over an author from India to promote a picture book. For Tilbury House in Gardiner, Maine, which publishes eight books a year, funding a U.S. tour for Katia Novet Saint-Lot would have been out of the question. Instead Saint-Lot (author of Amadi’s Snowman, illustrated by Dimitrea Tokunbo) and Tilbury publicist Sarah McGinnis came up with the idea of touring virtually.
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Anthology Reflects a Devotion to Poetry
After struggling with reading for years, Martin was so captivated by a college professor’s poetry recitations that he sought out poems and discovered a love of reading. He went on to earn a doctorate in education and write more than 300 children’s books. Due in November from Simon & Schuster is a tribute to Martin’s legacy, The Bill Martin Jr. Big Book of Poetry, which he compiled with his longtime collaborator Michael Sampson.
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Scholastic to Publish New ‘Star Wars’ Series
Scholastic, a decade-long licensee of Lucasfilm’s Star Wars franchise, will debut a new 10-book series, Rebel Force, based on the characters and world portrayed in the original 1977 film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
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Q & A with Ann Brashares
In 2001’s The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares introduced four best friends with whom young readers soon made fast friends: that first novel and its three sequels together have sold more than eight million copies. Brashares returns to these characters’ hometown in 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows. Delacorte will launch the novel with a 500,000-copy first printing and a six-city author tour.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books How to Build an A Sara Midda . Workman/Artisan , $17.95 ISBN 978-1-57965-378-1 Offering a hands-on approach to learning the alphabet, this small-format book comes with 11 off-white foam shapes (as well as a mesh storage bag). In the book, miniature, stylized people (and the occasional dog) work together to construct each letter of the alphabet, using rectangular blocks and arcs...
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The Next Dead Thing
Ever since Stephenie Meyer's vampire romances became a smash success among teen readers, particularly girls, all things dead have been given a new life—at least in the minds of children's editors hoping to take advantage of the trend. But that's not to say that every project with a supernatural cast is being green-lighted.
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Q & A with Anita Silvey
Bookshelf spoke with Anita Silvey about her new book, I’ll Pass for Your Comrade (Clarion).
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‘Free to Be’ 35 Years Later
A generation of children grew up with Free to Be... You and Me by Marlo Thomas, first published in 1974 by McGraw-Hill. Now, with a 35th-anniversary edition just out from Running Press, which acquired rights in 1998, the book looks set to continue to spread its influence.
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Movie Alert: The Tale of Despereaux
Next month, the big screen is making way for a little mouse. The Tale of Despereaux, based on Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery-winning novel about the adventures of a brave, big-eared rodent, hits theatres December 19. Sam Fell (Flushed Away) and Robert Stevenhagen (his directorial debut) direct the CGI film from Universal Pictures, which was written by Gary Ross (Seabiscuit; Pleasantville).
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Hornik Named President and Publisher of Dial and Dutton
Lauri Hornik, president and publisher of Dial Books, has been appointed president and publisher of Dial Books and Dutton Children’s Books.
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'Three Cups of Tea' to Reach Younger Audience
In Three Cups of Tea, published by Viking in 2006, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin reveal how Mortenson built 78 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Due next January is a young readers’ version of this story, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time . Dial will simultaneously issue a picture book told in the voice of Korphe’s children, Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and'Three Cups of Tea'.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Hush Little Polar Bear Jeff Mack . Roaring Brook , $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-368-7 In his first solo outing, Mack (illustrator of the Bunnicula series) sends an eager-looking polar bear on a series of dreamtime adventures: “Swim through a waterfall./ Splash in a stream./ Paddle past rainbows/ that glisten and gleam.
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read this b4 u publish :-)
I am of that population segment that is constantly derided as “not reading anymore,” and is therefore treated by publishing companies as a vast, mysterious demographic that's seemingly impossible to please. Kind of like the way teenage boys think of girls. The reason we read so little in our free time is partially because of the literary choices available to teenagers these days.
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There's a New Gang in Town: Austin's Delacorte Dames and Dudes
DDD—no, it’s not a heavy-duty new battery. It’s the acronym for an informal group of Austin, Tex., writers all published by Delacorte Press.
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Strega Nona Pops Up on Bookstore Shelves
Family, friends, eating together, patience, celebration and amore are the essential ingredients for a magical life, according to Tomie dePaola’s wise Strega Nona. She celebrates all six elements in Brava, Strega Nona!: A Heartwarming Pop-Up Book, featuring paper engineering by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart.
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