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This Week in Children's Apps
This week in children's apps features the classic picture book Goodnight Moon.
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What's Selling at Kids Ink
It's been a busy fall for Shirley Mullin, owner of Kids Ink in Indianapolis, who shares word of what books are moving swiftly in her store.
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In Brief: November 8
This week, the Boston Book Festival looks into the future; a group of Massachusetts teens get a crash-course in self-publishing; an author shakes off the "Blooz" with her new book; a town parade gets 'Rebel'lious; the 'Spirit' of John Coltrane comes alive in a new picture book; and a poet celebrates her debut book.
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HC Releases 'Goodnight Moon' App
HarperCollins has partnered with children's app developer Loud Crow Interactive to create an app for the classic picture book Goodnight Moon.
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Ruckus Reader Adds New Titles; Revamped App Coming This Month
Ruckus Media, a multimedia children's entertainment developer, is adding digital titles from five children's publishers to its Ruckus Reader app, a digital bookshelf, retail outlet and early reader learning platform.
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Surviving Sandy: Stories from the Publishing World
Hurricane Sandy touched millions of lives last week, including many in the children's book community. Here a few authors and publishers tell their storm stories.
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KidLit Community Steps Up for Sandy Victims
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, children's author Kate Messner found a way to turn her concern into action when she pulled together KidLit Cares: Superstorm Sandy Relief Effort, an online talent auction featuring services and items donated by the children's book community and benefitting the Red Cross.
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Nominations Open for Pannell Awards
WNBA is now accepting nominations for the 30th annual Pannell Award for children’s bookselling, one for a general bookstore and one for a children's specialty store.
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Modugno Joining Random House
Maria Modugno has been named editorial director of picture books at Random House and Golden Books for Young Readers Group.
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'Live at the Lounge' Brings Authors to Fans' Homes
YA readers will have a chance to spend some quality virtual time with a handful of Little, Brown authors, who are taking turns in the spotlight during the publisher's new Live at the Lounge series.
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YA Bookstore Opens Within General Bookstore in St. Paul
Two St. Paul, Minn., bookstores recently opened their doors with an unusual business model: Addendum, a specialty YA bookstore, is housed inside Subtext, an 1,800-square-foot general bookstore.
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Children's Booksellers Optimistic at PNBA Show
The change in venue from an airport hotel in Portland to an independent hotel in Tacoma helped make this year's Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association three-day show particularly vibrant for children's booksellers
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Holiday Children's Art Auction Set for Nov. 27
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) announced that it will launch an online auction of original children’s art on Nov. 27.
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Children's Sales Soar in the First Half of 2012, Says AAP
For all of the industry handwringing, children's book sales remain strong, as the AAP StatShot for the first half of 2012 shows. According to the 21 publishers reporting, overall sales from January to June are up 40.7% over the same period last year.
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This Week in Children's Apps: October 25, 2012
This week in children's apps features Dr. Seuss's Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!, a story about a guest who has overstayed his welcome. Also this week is Animal SnApp: Farm, a storybook from Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo.
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Strong Sales of Kids' Books and Other Titles Energizes NEIBA Show
The New England Booksellers Association’s 39th annual fall conference, held Oct. 3–5 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, opened with high energy, which it largely sustained throughout the three-day show.
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Sourcebooks Rolls Out 'Get Real' YA Campaign
Sourcebooks Fire is debuting a Get Real promotional campaign, whose slogan is "Telling It Like It Is. Real Issues. Real Drama. Real Stories."
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In Brief: October 25
This week, California tots get a drawing lesson from a pro; an author-illustrator provides service with a smile; a paper engineer pops up on the West Coast; a debut novelist says "konnichiwa"; and a book's characters leap off the page and onto the big screen.
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Brain Hive Adds New Publishers to Lending Service
Brain Hive, a pay-as-you-go e-book lending service for K-12 school libraries that launched in August, is adding new publishers' titles to its e-books lending library collection.



