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Slight Dip in Children's Book Sales for October 2012, Says AAP Monthly StatShot
Overall sales of children’s books fell by 2.6% overall in October 2012 compared with October 2011.
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For Children's Booksellers, Winter Institute Was a Blast – in More Ways Than One
Despite a paralyzing winter storm, almost 500 booksellers attended this year's Winter Institute in Kansas City.
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Jacquelyn Mitchard's New Venture Has 'Merit'
Author Jacquelyn Mitchard spoke with PW about Merit Press, the new teen imprint she's heading up for F+W Media.
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Promoting Literacy and Opening Libraries in Africa
The African Library Project – a nonprofit organization that coordinates book drives to build libraries in African nations – celebrated a significant milestone in January by sending its millionth children's picture book to Africa.
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Spring 2013 Children's Announcements: Publishers S-Z
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Spring 2013 Children's Announcements: Publishers N-R
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Spring 2013 Children's Announcements: Publishers F-M
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Spring 2013 Children's Announcements: Publishers A-E
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Consumer Shifts for Children's Books
As e-books claim a growing portion of the overall sales of children's books, the higher penetration of the format in the market is also affecting the way children's books are discovered and bought.
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Back in the Day: Industry Veterans Remember the Early Years
We asked industry veterans in children's books to reflect on memorable events from their early days in publishing.
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Princess K.I.M. Heads from Page to Stage
After three decades as a children's book author and illustrator, Maryann Cocca-Leffler is adding dramatist, set designer, and producer to her list of accomplishments, as she attempts to take her play, Princess K.I.M. The Musical – based on her books series – to Broadway.
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'Spreading the Knowledge' at SCIBA'S Children's Literacy Dinner
An exuberant group of children's booksellers, educators, authors, illustrators, and librarians gathered in Pasadena, Calif., for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association’s seventh annual Children's Literacy Dinner.
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Duluth Children's Authors Celebrate Books with Beer
In celebration of the second annual International Book Giving Day on February 14, Margi Preus, Chris Monroe and Lise Lunge-Larsen raised awareness for children's literacy while hoisting pints with about 30 patrons at Carmody Irish Pub & Brewery in Duluth, Minn.
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This Week in Children's Apps: February 21, 2013
This week in children's apps features Red in Bed, an app that lets players saturate the world with color. Also this week, A Troop Is a Group of Monkeys teaches players about collective nouns. Spatter & Spark is an interactive story that lets players create their own art. Finally, the latest apps in three bestselling series release: Dr. Seuss's Hunches in Bunches, The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Chores, and Little Critter's Me and My Puppy.
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Candlewick to Launch Big Picture Press
Candlewick Press, which began publishing the Ology series a decade ago, announced that it will be the U.S. publisher of a new imprint also from Templar, Big Picture Press, to debut this fall.
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Indiana's Mudsock Books & Curiosity Closing
Mudsock Books & Curiosity Shoppe, located in Fishers, Ind. an Indianapolis suburb, will close by mid-March.
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With New Plan, APP Works to Win Back Customers
After announcing it had discontinued sourcing paper from threatened Indonesian rainforests, a representative of Singapore-based Asia Pulp & Paper, the third-largest paper supplier in the world, was in New York last week to explain the policy to children’s book publishers.
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Debut Author Makes Her 'Way' Through a Blizzard to Her Launch Party
Despite the 28 inches of snow that fell in Cambridge, Mass., over the weekend, some three dozen fans turned out for the launch party celebrating Nicole Griffin's debut YA novel, The Whole Stupid Way We Are.
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Movie Alert: 'Oz the Great and Powerful'
Oz the Great and Powerful, a new adaptation based on L. Frank Baum's universe, premieres on March 8 and stars James Franco as Oscar Diggs, a Kansas magician with questionable morals who is whisked away to Oz when his hot air balloon is sucked into a cyclone.



