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Capstone Publishing Adds YA Imprint
Capstone Young Readers, Capstone Publishers Group's two-year-old trade publishing division, is launching its fifth imprint this fall, a YA imprint called Switch Press.
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First-Time Exhibitors Target Toy and Specialty Retailers at Toy Fair 2014
This year's New York International Toy Fair was characterized by steady traffic on the show floor, key customers roaming the aisles of the Javits Center, orders being written, and meetings being accomplished.
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Landoll Relaunches Into Coloring Category
Landoll, a former coloring and activity book powerhouse whose name disappeared from the market shortly after McGraw-Hill Education purchased the company, is relaunching.
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Children Are Welcome at the Angoulême Comics Festival
When comics fans invaded the town of Angoulême, France, two weeks ago for the Angoulême International Comics Festival, children were well represented. That's not surprising: Children's comics are big business in France.
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This Week in Children's Apps: February 13, 2014
This week in children's apps, we feature one app that allows kids to travel the world with an international adventurer, two apps that explore the world of the dinosaurs, and another that takes users for a ride with a very famous cat.
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Chronicle Launches Twirl Books Imprint
Chronicle Books has partnered with Paris-based Éditions Tourbillon to distribute Twirl Books, a new English-language list of interactive books and games for very young readers.
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Children's Book Challenges: An NYPL Panel on Censorship
An impassioned conversation about the censorship of children's literature in the U.S. took place during a panel called This Censorious World: Books for Children and Their Challenges.
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Improving Skills and Exploring New Themes: Children's Books at the Taipei International Book Fair
At the Taipei International Book Fair, children's publishers presented Taiwan as a market open to exploring new authors, imported titles, and innovative themes.
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DreamWorks Forms In-House Book Imprint
DreamWorks Animation is launching DreamWorks Press as an internal umbrella for digital and print books.
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YA Novel 'When Mr. Dog Bites' Causes Stir
A new novel has prompted conversation about what language is appropriate in children's books.
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Northern California Booksellers Group Is Revived
Nearly a year and a half after voting to become part of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, the Northern California Children's Booksellers Alliance is relaunching its children's bookseller meetings this month.
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Saddleback's TERL Series Breaks New Hi-Lo Ground
Saddleback Educational Publishing is taking its publishing strategy a step further with the Teen Emergent Reading Libraries (TERL), which is designed to offer teenagers content on three reading levels.
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Rachel Williams to Head New NF Imprint in U.K.
Aurum Publishing Group has added a new strand to its children's publishing with the appointment of Rachel Williams as publisher of a nonfiction, design-led imprint that will sit alongside Frances Lincoln Children's Books.
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Nominees Announced for 2014 Pannell Award
The nominees for the 2014 Women's National Book Association's Pannell Award have been announced.
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Henson Forms Publishing Division; Signs Bloomsbury For First Franchise
The division’s first project, the chapter book series Enchanted Sisters, is launching with Bloomsbury Children’s Books this fall.
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The Can-Do Spirit: Four Decades of Kids Can Press
As 2013 drew to a close, Toronto-based Kids Can Press wrapped up its 40th anniversary celebrations. In light of this milestone, PW took the opportunity to look back on the publisher's development, from its early days as a summer project for a group of idealistic artists to the present.
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ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia: A PW Photo-Essay
We spotted a number of authors and illustrators at the ALA midwinter conference in Philadelphia, and we've rounded up some of the photographic highlights for you.
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Wi9 Panel: Starting Tween and Teen Advisory Boards
The children's panels Winter Institute offered a lot of practical advice for booksellers, but perhaps none more so than a one on how three bookstores of very different sizes created successful teen advisory boards.
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Wi9: Booksellers Recharge at Upbeat Winter Institute
This year's ninth annual American Booksellers Association Winter Institute, held January 22–24 in Seattle, gave booksellers a chance to take stock of their business after the holiday selling season.
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WI9 Panel: Seasonal Promotions Do the Trick Year-Round
A Winter Institute seminar called A Year of In-Store Promotions led booksellers on a tour of the seasons with ideas about holiday-specific children's book promotions.
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