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CPSC Issues Final CPSIA Testing and Certification Rules
Last Thursday, October 20, the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to approve the final testing and certification rules under the Consumer Product Safety Information Act of 2008.
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The Mighty Mom Bloggers
Earlier this month, S&S rolled out a red carpet for 29 influential writers. If they had business cards, they did not say The New York Times. Instead, these scribes came from publications with names like glamamom.com and mommypoppins.com. Meet the new word-of-mouth publishing powerhouses: mom bloggers who share their online personal journals about motherhood.
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Lauren Myracle and the NBA: Rounding Up the Coverage
First Lauren Myracle was a National Book Award nominee. Then she wasn't. Then she was again. This past Monday, Myracle ended the story by withdrawing her name from nomination, which set off yet another wave of national media attention. We’ve pulled together some of the coverage to make it easier to get a fuller picture.
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This Week in Children's Apps: October 20, 2011
This week in children's apps features two spooky tales. Ghost House follows Charlie O'Dell, a boy who gets on his favorite TV show, only to find out that he doesn't know what his show is really like. Tacky Goes to Camp is about Tacky and his penguin friends having fun at camp, until something pays them a visit in the night.
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Licensing Hotline: October 2011
After a decades-long hiatus, Charles Schulz's Peanuts characters will make their way back into comic book stores, thanks to a license between BOOM! Studios and Peanuts Worldwide.
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NEIBA Gets Back to Children's Bookselling Basics
This year's New England Independent Booksellers Association fall conference, held in Providence, R.I., from October 12–14, offered a chance for children's booksellers to get a refresher on basics like handselling and to meet authors like Loren Long, Ally Condie, and Brian Selznick.
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Authors Wow GLiBA Booksellers
For many GLIBA booksellers attending this year's show in Dearborn, Mich., the roster of 68 authors – especially the children's book authors – just couldn't get any better.
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Linden Tree On the Move
Shortly after Jill Curcio and Dianne Edmonds bought Linden Tree Books in Los Altos, Calif., in the summer of 2010, the building that housed their store was sold. So, at the beginning of October, the pair moved the store across the street, after an inventory reduction sale.
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For Boys Only: Move Books to Debut in Fall 2012
"Moving Boys to Read" is the slogan publisher Eileen Robinson has chosen for her new company, Move Books, which is slated to launch in fall 2012, and will focus on middle-grade fiction for boys.
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Atlantyca and 21st Century to Publish One Million Stilton Books
Atlantyca Entertainment has signed with 21st Century Publishing House to publish one million Geronimo Stilton books promotionally priced for children. The agreement grants 21st Century Chinese-language rights to The Little Book of Nature.
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'Shine' Withdrawn as NBA Young People’s Literature Nominee
It turns out there will be only five nominations in the Young People Literature category of the National Book Awards. After receiving a request from the National Book Foundation that she withdraw her book from nomination, Lauren Myracle consented, a move that dropped Shine from the list. Last week, Chime by Franny Billingsley was added as a sixth nominee to the category, and Harold Augenbraum, NBF executive director, confirmed Monday that NBF staff had originally misheard Shine by Lauren Myracle for Chime when the list of nominees was read by the judges over the phone.
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B&N, Simon & Schuster, and Cartoon Network Team Up to Fight Bullying
Cartoon Network, and Barnes & Noble and Simon & Schuster have announced a collaboration to promote bullying prevention during October’s National Bullying Prevention Month.
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Movie Alert: 'Breaking Dawn—Part 1'
The on-screen Twilight saga continues with the November 18 premiere of Breaking Dawn—Part 1, the first of two films based upon Stephenie Meyer's fourth book in her paranormal romance series-turned-phenomenon.
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This Week in Children's Apps: October 13, 2011
This week in children's apps features Go Away, Big Green Monster!, an app that helps kids conquer their fears.
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Four Femmes Greet Fans on 'Pen Fatale' Tour
Proving there is strength—and energy—in numbers, four YA authors (Alyson Noël, Gabrielle Zevin, Jessica Brody, and Mary E. Pearson) with recent releases from Macmillan Children's Publishing Group are winding up a group tour.
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Blizzards in the Forecast for November Wimpy Kid Tour
Most authors would hope for good weather when embarking on a book tour, but not Diary of a Wimpy Kid creator Jeff Kinney. In keeping with the winter theme of Cabin Fever, the forthcoming sixth book in his bestselling series, the six events on the Wimpy Kid Rolling Blizzard tour will feature on-the-spot snowstorms.
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NBA Finalists Announced for Young People's Literature
The finalists for the 2011 National Book Award in Young People's Literature were announced on Wednesday. Originally five nominees were announced by former NBA Medalist Virginia Euwer Wolff; a sixth title was added a few hours later, after National Book Foundation executive director Harold Augebraum admitted there had been a “miscommunication.”
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Jackson Fish Market Books Offers Free Downloads
Two years after launching the online book service A Story Before Bed, which synchronizes children's books with a video recording capability that allows family members to document and preserve the act of reading books together, Seattle-based Jackson Fish Market Books has announced that its original digital children's books are now available for free downloads.
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Nicky Salan, Champion of Children's Literature, Dies at 77
Necia (Nicky) Salan, founder of Cover to Cover, a San Francisco bookselling institution renowned for placing children’s books in equal prominence as adult books, died at her home on October 10, after a long illness. She was 77.
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Aladdin and Simon Pulse to Distribute Beyond Words Kids
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing's Simon Pulse and Aladdin imprints have entered into a co-publishing agreement with Beyond Words Publishing and will handle sales and worldwide distribution for its children's titles beginning in January 2012.
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