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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.
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In Brief: February 14
This week, a debut novelist meets her superfans; another first-timer shows signs of nostalgia; and a third gets dolled up. Plus, a group of authors show their mysterious side; and a pair of literary amphibians have 'books for breakfast.'
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Digital Kids Conference Focuses on Content Creation
Computer and mobile device users view four billion videos on YouTube every day. That was one of the statistics used by Victor Lee, v-p digital marketing at Hasbro, to illustrate to attendees at the Digital Kids conference held earlier this week the type of competition they face in competing for children's time.
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Little, Brown's NOVL Approach to Reaching Readers Online
On Valentine's Day, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will officially launch NOVL, a new online hub for YA book fans.
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Philly's African American Children's Book Fair Marks 21 Years
Over 21 nationally known authors and illustrators, along with 2,500 people, attended the 21st Annual African American Children's Book Fair in Philadelphia.
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Should Booksellers Enter the School Library Business?
At last fall's regional trade shows, Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Book Shop and Turtleback Books each made the case that indies could and should offer a broader range of educational services aimed directly at school librarians, and subsequently took steps to make it happen.
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What's Selling at Bear Pond Books
Jane Knight, children's book buyer at Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, Vt., sends word of several books that she's especially pleased to be selling this season.
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In Brief: February 7
This week, the NAACP honors a b-ball star-turned-author; a debut writer stages a book launch; two tiny Brits 'tea' off; and St. Paul's literati fete one of their own.
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For Libraries, the Common Core Presents Extraordinary Opportunity
The Common Core was a hot topic at the ALA midwinter meeting in Seattle, specifically at a standing-room only "discussion group" where more than 80 librarians gathered to learn more about the new state standards, and to share their own experiences thus far.
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Peter Pauper Press Enters the Picture Book Market
Peter Pauper Press will expand its reach into the children's market in May, when it releases its first hardcover picture book, Hank Finds an Egg by Rebecca Dudley.
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Dr. Seuss's '500 Hats' – A Book as Well as a Lifestyle
For the 75th anniversary of Dr. Seuss's The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Random House Children's Books is launching Hats Off to Dr. Seuss!, a yearlong celebration of children's literacy and health, and the joy that creativity could bring them.
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First Book Launches OMG Books Initiative
First Book, which provides new books to children in need, has announced the launch of its OMG (Offering More Great) Books initiative.
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