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Morning Shows Say No to Newbery/Caldecott
If you turned on your TV this past Tuesday morning to watch the newly minted Newbery and Caldecott Medalists speaking about their books, you were out of luck. All of the major morning shows declined to run the until-recently traditional segment.
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Gantos, Raschka, Whaley Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz
Jack Gantos has won the 2012 Newbery Medal for Dead End in Norvelt, Chris Raschka has won the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal for A Ball for Daisy, and John Corey Whaley has won the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award for Where Things Come Back.
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Should Authors and Agents Weigh In on Citizen Reviews?
Is it time for a Miss Manners intervention? These days it's tricky to keep up with the name-calling surrounding citizen reviews on Goodreads, Amazon, and Twitter.
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Ruckus Signs SeaWorld
Ruckus Media Group and SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment have announced a multi-year licensing deal to create digital storybooks.
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Adams Literary to Rep Hothouse in North America
Adams Literary is adding a new client: British children's packager Hothouse Fiction.
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Chicken House Goes Dutch
Chicken House is poised to hatch in the Netherlands: the Somerset-based children's publisher and the House of Books in Holland has formed Chicken House Nederland, a joint publishing venture.
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Parragon Picks Up Peter Parker and Friends
Parragon has acquired the Marvel Comics license for a variety of children’s books in North America, Latin America, Germany, and the U.K.
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Disney Publishing Crosses Seven Million Apps Downloaded
Disney Publishing Worldwide has passed seven million App Store downloads, and currently has six apps on the charts in the books, entertainment, and education categories.
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This Week in Children's Apps: January 12, 2012
This week in children's apps features Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo, which takes players on a globe-trotting search for the world's strangest animals.
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Portia Clark Remembered
Portia Clark, a well-known figure in New York publishing from the 1960s to the 1980s, died on January 1. She was 91.
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Children's Authors at Winter Institute
This year more than 20 children’s book authors and illustrators will be on hand to greet booksellers at next week’s seventh annual gathering of the American Booksellers Association's Winter Institute in New Orleans. Click through for a complete list of children’s authors and illustrators who are scheduled to be at Wi7.
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Obituary: Milburn Calhoun
Pelican Publishing is mourning the loss of its longtime publisher, Dr. Milburn Calhoun, who passed away on Saturday, January 7, at the age of 81.
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Ditlow Nabs Top Spot at Amazon Publishing's Children's Unit
Tim Ditlow, who joined Brilliance Audio in 2008 to oversee the company's expansion into the children's audio market, has been tapped by Amazon Publishing for a top spot in its children's unit.
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Two Decades at Barefoot Books
E.M. Forster’s much quoted phrase from Howard’s End, “Only connect,” could serve as a tagline for Barefoot Books, a children’s publishing company with offices in Cambridge, Mass., and Oxford, England, which is about to celebrate its 20th year. Cofounder and CEO Nancy Traversy’s goal has long been connecting with families and bringing stories to life. But the way those connections are made is coming full circle from the early days, when she and cofounder and editor-in-chief Tessa Strickland worked out of their U.K. homes and sold books via direct mail to everyone in their Filofaxes.
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Peskin to Head FSG Books for Young Readers
Joy Peskin will join Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group on February 6 as division v-p and editorial director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers. Peskin has worked at Viking Children’s Books since 2003, most recently as associate publisher.
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Spellbound on the Move
On the last day of December, Spellbound Children’s Bookshop in Asheville, N.C., closed, but for good reasons. When it reopens on February 1, the seven-year-old children’s specialty bookstore will be in a larger space with more foot traffic and less rent.
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Wimpy, Hungry Holiday Titles Keep Cash Registers Ringing
The closing of hundreds of Borders bookstores in September and a strong list of new children’s titles as well as perennial favorites, including Harry Potter, made this one of the best holiday seasons in recent memory for many bricks-and-mortar children’s specialty bookstores.
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Buerkle to Join Kingfisher
Brian Buerkle will join Kingfisher in the New York office as associate publisher, director of marketing, beginning January 9.
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Scholastic Buys Singapore Supplemental House
Scholastic has acquired Learners Publishing, a Singapore-based publisher of supplemental learning materials for English-language learners.
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Walter Dean Myers Named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
As a kid growing up in Harlem, Walter Dean Myers admits he often led with his fists and struggled academically before dropping out of high school at 17 to join the army. But in the decades since, he's proved to be a master at using words to make his case — a skill that will be in high demand as he becomes the nation's third Ambassador for Young People's Literature. He succeeds Katherine Paterson, who has served since 2010.
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