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Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day on Saturday
This Saturday marks the third annual Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day, to encourage other parents to share the joy of being in a bookstore with their children.
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In Brief: November 29
This week, the Obama family supports Small Business Saturday; Ivy and Bean come to life; Little, Brown gets color-coordinated; Andrea Cremer sees the light; an author is ambushed by his would-be nemesis; and a U.S. author learns how "swede" meeting fans can be.
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This Week in Children's Apps: November 29, 2012
This week in apps features the choose-your-own-story Pirates, an app that puts the player in control of the story.
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Books of Wonder Fundraising Update
Late last month, New York City children's bookselling mainstay Books of Wonder turned to Indiegogo to raise $100,000 toward the financial cushion it needs to stay in business and it looks like it could meet its fundraising goal.
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Taking the Pre-Holiday Temperature: Boston Store Checks
Earlier this month, John Mendelson of Candlewick Press let PW tag along on store check visits to an indie bookstore, three chain stores, and a price club in the Greater Boston area.
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Macmillan's Priddy Books Debuts Early Learning Apps
Priddy Books, an imprint of the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, is releasing Play and Learn with Wallace, a series of children’s early learning apps for the iPad.
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Eric Carle Museum Celebrates Its First Decade
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., kicked off a year-long celebration of its 10th anniversary earlier this month with a weekend of events around the opening of Iconic Images: Ten Years of Collecting.
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Industry Insiders Talk Young Adult Blockbusters
A recent panel called "Pop Culture Publishing: Young Adult Megahits" examined the way in which blockbuster children's books like Harry Potter and Twilight have changed the industry.
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Charleston's YALLFest Grows Its Audience
The second annual YALLFest in Charleston, S.C., held on November 10, brought together 47 authors – and their readers – for the largest festival in the South specifically devoted to young adult literature.
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YA and Middle Grade Authors Hold Auction for Victims of Sandy
In just two and a half weeks author Kieran Scott has received commitments from more than 170 young adult and middle-grade authors for a YA for NJ benefit auction, hosted by eBay Giving Works, to fill the coffers of the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.
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In Brief: November 20
This month, a group at NCTE thinks pink; a Scandinavian writer meets young U.S. fans; and a first-time author climbs to the "surface."
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Sourcebooks Releases Picture Book App
Sourcebooks is launching an app for the iPad allowing consumers to fully integrate a child's name and image into an interactive picture book.
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From Screen to Book: Candlewick's First Picture Book Symposium
As part of its year-long, 20th anniversary celebration of picture books, Candlewick Press in Somerville, Mass., went back to Cambridge, where its offices were originally located – to hold its first picture book symposium at the Cambridge Public Library on November 10.
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KidLit Cares Sandy Relief: An Update
Round One of the auction for the KidLit Cares Superstorm Sandy Relief Effort, headed up by author Kate Messner and bolstered by the children's book community, has ended – and has raised a total of $36,756 for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
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Obituary: Jeanie Guman
Jeanie Guman, sales director at Disney Book Group, died on November 12 from complications due to a long struggle with leukemia.
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In Brief: November 15
This week, author Jill Biden shows her appreciation for the troops; an Oklahoma press rustles up interest in its new releases; publishing staffers test their children's book knowledge; Laini Taylor fans can't mask their enthusiasm; Eric Carle's caterpillar meets some fans; and supporters of girls' literacy take the (cup)cake.
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This Week in Children's Apps: November 15
This week in apps features a Smithsonian Backyard app, Red Fox at Hickory Lane, about Mother and Father Fox teaching their cubs to hunt.
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News from the North: November 2012
This installment of Canadian news spotlights publishers and authors venturing into YA for the first time.
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Scholastic to Donate 1 Million Books to Sandy Relief
Scholastic has announced that it will donate 1 million books to schools and libraries hard hit by superstorm Sandy. The company will also make available free to teachers online lesson plans and activities.
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Movie Alert: 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey'
On December 14, everyone's favorite Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, will embark on his first live action cinematic adventure in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and buzz has been building in the Tolkien-sphere for some time.
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