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Licensing Hotline: April 2007
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Danger Was Their Game
The Dangerous Book for Boys may hit on two cultural taboos—sexism and endangering children—but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming a U.K. bestseller. Co-author Conn Iggulden talks about his nostalgia for the good old days, when boys raced go-carts and hunted rabbits.
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In Celebration of Poetry
Children's poetry has been getting more exposure recently, making headlines at the end of last year when Jack Prelutsky was named the first-ever Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.
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Children’s Paperback Backlist
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Chronicle Names Children’s Publishing Director
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Audio Renaissance Launches Children's Division
Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck, makes its debut April 3 with the release of The One and Only Shrek!
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London vs. Bologna, 2007
This year, due to scheduling issues, the London Book Fair will be held just a week before the Bologna Fair, causing problems for children's publishers who have in the past attended both.
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Kids’ Comics on the Rise @ New York Comic Con
With Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese winning the 2007 Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature and Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto, Volume 7 getting a Quill Award last fall for graphic novels, coupled with recent announcements like Scholastic's, that it will release lesson plans for its graphic novels starting this spring, it's clear that the market for graphic novels for kids is expanding rapidly.
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Are Picture Books Back?
In 2005, when a beleaguered picture-book market had many publishers cutting their lists in half, Chip Gibson, president of Random House Books for Young Readers, took bold action, launching a new imprint devoted solely to picture books.
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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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