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Bob Dylan, for a New Generation
For illustrator Paul Rogers, the spirit of collaboration was the key to his work with jazz musician Wynton Marsalis on Jazz A-B-Z: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits, which Candlewick published in 2005. So it initially seems surprising that Rogers’ new project is illustrating the words of a notoriously uncompromising, self-contained and often inscrutable artist, Bob Dylan, in Forever Young (Atheneum/Seo, Sept.).
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Rowling Wins Potter Lexicon Suit
Author J.K. Rowling won her lawsuit against Michigan-based publisher RDR Books on Monday, blocking the publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steven Vander Ark. Rowling and Warner Brothers Entertainment held that the planned publication of the book, based on a Web site of the same name maintained by Vander Ark, would infringe on Rowling’s copyright to her bestselling Harry Potter series.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Dinosaur vs. Bedtime Bob Shea . Hyperion , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1335-5 Shea (New Socks) makes a hilarious commentator as his hero, a small red dinosaur, elevates everyday encounters into a series of matches worthy of the WWF. “Dinosaur versus... a bowl of spaghetti!” announces Shea and, with a trio of bold typographic roars (and two chomps), the bowl is vanq...
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Meyer's 'Midnight Sun' On Hold
Stephenie Meyer has postponed finishing Midnight Sun, the latest title in her Twilight Saga, after a rough draft appeared online.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Welcome to the Zoo Alison Jay . Dial , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3177-6 Working in the burnished, crackle-varnished surfaces that are her signature, Jay (1-2-3: A Child's First Counting Book) takes the idea of a cageless zoo to the extreme, imagining humans and animals mingling with all the privileged coolness of habitués of a five-star resort.
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Digital Technology Brings Kids' Books to Life
A computer isn't the only place to look for new takes on books that use digital technology. A new generation of interactive children's books featuring pen-like devices that trigger voiceovers, sound effects, music and activities on the pages of books are now hitting store shelves. Simon & Schuster's Follow the Reader debuted in fall 2007; LeapFrog's Tag reading system came out this summer; a...
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A Cubano Huck Finn
Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos . Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, $16.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4804-9 Hijuelos, the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, has said that his first YA novel is a novel he wished he'd read as a teen. His themes are classic—alienation, the search for identity—but his approach is pure Hijuelos: Cuban-American, musical an...
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Licensing Hotline: August 2008
Stone Arch Books launches a licensed book line, Walter Foster and Giddy Up add new licenses, and there’s news about Martha Speaks and a trio of other book-based entertainment properties on the horizon.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books What a Trip! Arthur Yorinks , illus. by Richard Egielski. Scholastic/di Capua , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-03611-5 Taking a tip from MAD magazine’s fold-ins, longtime collaborators Yorinks and Egielski (Hey, Al; Sid and Sol) create a book with two trick spreads. Their title refers to a boy’s mysterious drop “into another dimension” after tripping on the...
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Kids' Galleys to Grab
Fans of the paranormal will find plenty to get their hands on at this fall's regional shows. Also up for grabs: conclusions to trilogies by Cornelia Funke, Cassandra Clare and Virginia Euwer Wolff. Debuts to Watch Dark Dude by Oscar Hijuelos (S&S/Atheneum). A Latino teen struggles with his identity in this YA debut from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Queen of Style Caralyn Buehner , illus. by Mark Buehner. Dial , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-803-72878-3 A bored royal turned overzealous cosmetician provides the spark for the husband-and-wife Buehners' (Snowmen at Night) quirky fable about empathy and gratitude. Fed up with nothing to do, Queen Sophie heeds her exasperated jester's advice to learn something.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa Jeanette Winter . Harcourt , $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-206545-4 Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner whose Green Belt Movement has planted 30 million trees in Kenya, is the subject of Winter’s (The Librarian of Basra) eloquent picture biography.
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True-Crime Memoir Revives 30-Year-Old Shooting Case
Like Nic Sheff’s recent Tweak, Cylin Busby and John Busby’s young adult memoir The Year We Disappeared (Bloomsbury, Aug.) is getting the kind of pre-pub buzz that shows it could have wider appeal.
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Word for Word
Back in 2003, at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, Colleen MacMillan, associate publisher of Vancouver-based Annick Press, and Erica Wagner, children's publisher at Australia's Allen & Unwin, both found themselves pursuing a German medieval fantasy novel called Mimus. Translation costs, both publishers knew, would be especially burdensome in this case, due to the novel's nearly 400-page len...
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Children's Books
Picture Books Pete & Pickles Berkeley Breathed . Philomel , $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-399-25082-8 A pig named Pete leads a perfectly predictable and sensible existence until Pickles, the runaway circus elephant, turns it upside-down. Pickles possesses the joie de vivre of Auntie Mame (and the extensive wardrobe to carry it off with élan).
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Rowling’s Rare Book to Hit Shelves in December
Just when it looked to be a dull summer with no Harry Potter hoopla, the boy wizard’s fans have something new to celebrate on this, Harry’s (and J.K. Rowling’s) birthday. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a collection of wizarding fairy tales handwritten and illustrated by Rowling, will be published December 4, 2008 by Children’s High Level Group.
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Candlewick Revamps Sales and Marketing, Launches Templar Imprint
Given the tough economic climate, Candlewick Press in Somerville, Mass., has begun to diversify its revenue stream, according to president Karen Lotz. Lotz announced the first of several new partnerships. Starting in spring ’09, Candlewick will launch its first book imprint in conjunction with British publisher Templar.
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Children's Books for Fall: T - Z
TANGLEWOOD PRESS (NBN, dist.) Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully ($16.95) by Audrey Penn, illus. by Barbara Gibson. Chester from The Kissing Hand learns to deal with a bully. (3-8) The Miracle Jar ($16.95) by Audrey Penn, illus. by Lea Lyon. A snowbound modern-day family experiences a miracle when oil runs short during Hanukkah.
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Children's Books By The Numbers
$3.66 billion: Total children's book sales, 2007 0: Projected increase in sales, 2008 $4.02 billion: Projected total sales, 2012 900.9 million: Total units sold, 2007 1.3%: Projected decline in unit sales through 2012 $1.89 billion: Hardcover sales, 2007 $2.09 billion: Projected hardcover sales, 2012 $1.
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Children's Books for Fall: S
SAINT MARY'S PRESS Paperbacks Walking with the Word: Daily Ventures into 15 Books of the Bible ($12.95) by Larry Schatz collects 366 reflections. (14-up) I'm Glad You Asked: 60 Common Questions Catholics Have About the Bible ($12.95) by Mark Pierce answers questions on various topics. (14-up) SCHOLASTIC/BLUE SKY PRESS Into the Volcano ($18.
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