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Licensing Hotline: April 2025
Read on for news about Laurence King’s children’s books with the Van Gogh Museum, upcoming Choose Your Own Adventure titles starring SpongeBob SquarePants and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Thunder Bay Press’s Deddy Bears coloring and activity titles, Chronicle’s expanding Studio Ghibli program, and more.
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In Brief: April 10, 2025
Recently, a local community came together to support a school visit, a publisher commemorated a late writer’s birthday, graphic novelists discussed a new release, the CBC hosted a panel, an author took a quick tour, and a middle grade novelist celebrated a launch.
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Harry Lerner, Founder of Lerner Publishing Group, Dies at 93
Lerner launched his children’s publishing company in 1959 and built it up over the next 50 years into one of the country’s largest independent publishers of books for young people. He died in Minneapolis on April 8.
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: ‘Good Business Mixed with Changing Tides’
The 2025 edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair ended on an upbeat note, despite a volatile global political situation, impending tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, and concerns over declining readership.
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Found in Translation
Literary translation and cross-cultural exchange—two themes at the heart of the Bologna Fair—were the focus of several panels at this year’s BCBF.
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TV Alert: Kwame Alexander's 'Acoustic Rooster'
PBS Kids in collaboration with GBH Kids is releasing a slate of short-form episodes and an hour-long special adapted from Kwame Alexander’s picture book 'Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band.'
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Audiobook Publishers Look to Balance Growth with Creativity
At a panel at this year’s BCBF, audiobook executives from Germany, Poland, and the U.S. discussed the expanding children’s audio market, evolving rights structures, cross-format opportunities, subscription models, and AI concerns.
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Children's Job Moves: March 2025
New Job Announcements in children’s publishing for March 2025.
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Global Publishing Outlook
International publishers attending the fair were delighted to find solidarity in their shared mission to entertain and educate children—while keeping a close eye on AI, America, and world events.
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Going Graphic
The global graphic novel market is getting more attention in Bologna this year, with an expanded number of exhibitors and panels dedicated to the topic.
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Spring Brings Hope for Sustainability and Solidarity
The 62nd edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair opened to sunny skies on March 31. Many of the conversations among publishers and onstage in panels underscored the interconnectedness of children’s books and global politics.
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Marion Brunet Wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
French author Marion Brunet is the winner of the 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book prize. The award was announced live from Stockholm on April 1 and broadcast simultaneously at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
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Bologna Children's Book Fair 2025: Six International Publishers Take Home Prizes
The winners of the BOP – Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year were announced on Monday at a ceremony at the historic Palazzo Re Enzo.
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Ten Speed Introduces a Young Readers Imprint
Crown Publishing Group has announced Ten Speed Young Readers, a children’s imprint and offshoot of Ten Speed Press, to be headed by Ginee Seo.
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In Brief: March 27, 2025
Recently, an author held a launch in New York City, a publisher celebrated the birthday of a late author, collaborators went on tour, and an author enjoyed an after party.
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'Dysolving' Dyslexia with Autonomous AI
The Dysolve platform uses computing technology to identify the unique inefficiencies in a student’s linguistic system and then generates individualized games and tasks to target the problem.
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Reading Across the Curriculum: Three Educators Tie Reading into Multiple Subjects
PW spoke with three educators who are committed to integrating reading across the curriculum to elevate literacy and readers in their classrooms and libraries.
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DK Announces First Children’s Fiction Imprint
Having published nonfiction for younger readers for more than 50 years, DK is poised to launch its first children’s and young adult fiction imprint, DK flip.
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Licensing Hotline: March 2025
Read on for news of the 20th anniversary book tie-ins for 'Avatar: The Last Airbender,' DK’s Warhammer expansion, recent comics successes and new publishing ventures from Hasbro, a new title in HarperCollins’s Wow in the World series, shoe designer Kat Maconie’s new children’s book, and more.
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On Tour with Adam Gidwitz
Author Adam Gidwitz traveled to nine cities to present 'Max in the Land of Lies,' the second book in his middle grade duology that started with 'Max in the House of Spies.'



