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Riordan, Wiesner Named Author, Illustrator of Year at CBC Gala
Rick Riordan was named author of the year, and David Wiesner was named illustrator of the year at Monday night’s fourth annual Children's Choice Book Awards, held at a gala at New York City's Chelsea Piers, which kicked off Children's Book Week. Riordan won for the first book in his new Heroes of Olympus series, The Lost Hero (Disney-Hyperion), and Wiesner for Art & Max (Clarion Books).
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Doodling for a Good Cause
Daniel Pinkwater, Neil Gaiman, Eric Carle, Mo Willems, and Jon Scizezka are among the authors and illustrators joining publishers Albert Whitman & Company, Chronicle Books, Gibbs Smith Publishers, and Running Press in celebrating National Doodle Day on Thursday, May 12.
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Castellucci Joins 'Los Angeles Review of Books' as YA and Children's Editor
YA author Cecil Castellucci has accepted a position as YA and children's books editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, a newly launched online magazine.
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Children's Art Auction at BEA to Benefit Free Speech for Kids
When the Association of Booksellers for Children merged with the American Booksellers Association last year, an ABC Children’s Group was created within ABA to serve the interests of ABC members. That group is relaunching a children’s art auction and reception that formerly benefited the ABC, which will take place on the Wednesday evening of BookExpo America this year.
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Riordan and Patterson to Appear at Lincoln Center During BEA
Rick Riordan and James Patterson will participate in a live event on May 25 at Lincoln Center in New York City. Billed as “An Evening with Rick Riordan and James Patterson, hosted by Al Roker," the event will take place on the Wednesday night of BookExpo America at Alice Tully Hall at 6:30 PM.
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Why Libraries Should – and May Be – Hawking Hocking (Soon)
For my teaching job, I recently got to borrow an iPad. Woo-hoo! No one was more excited than my 11-year-old daughter, Gigi. She immediately downloaded the Amazon app and searched for the bestselling teen books. For a mere 99 cents, she could buy Switched, the first e-title in Amanda Hocking’s Trylle Trilogy.
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Mortenson 'Under Review' at Penguin
After a damning expose on 60 Minutes Sunday night, in which the truthfulness of Greg Mortenson's memoirs Three Cups of Tea and the follow-up Stones into Schools were questioned, the author's publisher, Penguin, has said little and has not yet taken any action.
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The Week in Children's Apps: April 14, 2011
This week we take a look at apps based on the classic children’s book Pat the Bunny, and on a collection of darkly humorous poems.
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ABC @ BEA
Next month's BookExpo America will give children's booksellers a chance to see the newly merged Association of Booksellers for Children and the American Booksellers Association — or the ABC Children's Group at ABA as it is now known — in action.
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Rosemary Wells Teams with Auryn, Fourth Story to Develop Kids' Apps
Bestselling children's book author Rosemary Wells is teaming up with app developer Auryn Inc. and the multimedia story producer Fourth Story Media to launch a series of story apps for children.
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ABA Unveils 2011 Indies Choice and E.B. White Award Winners
The American Booksellers Association has announced the winners of this year's Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, selected by the votes of booksellers at member stores. Here are the winning books and authors in the children's and young adult categories.
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Bologna: Notes on a Fair Revisited
Read the observations of PW's president, George Slowik, from last week's Bologna Fair: For my first visit to Bologna in 17 years, I roamed the halls seeking to re-familiarize myself with old friends and a new world order.
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The Week in Children's Apps: April 7, 2011
This week we take a look at apps that help middle schoolers gain confidence and deal with bullies, take kids on an “a-maze-ing” adventure, teach children about colors and painting, and let kids pretend they're a part of a spy series.
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Licensing Hotline: April 2011
In January, Carson-Dellosa Publishing introduced its first products under its Guinness World Records license, which covers math and reading books and writing cards sold through teacher stores, bookstores and office supply stores. This is the first time Guinness has licensed any products for classrooms.
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Scholastic Debuts Integrated Teen Community Initiative
On April 26 Scholastic will launch "this is teen," a program aimed at connecting teens with books and authors and building a community of readers.
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Scholastic Inks Partnership with Gotham Group
Scholastic has signed a pact with Hollywood management outfit The Gotham Group to be the exclusive representative for its literary projects in the film world. Scholastic has worked on a number of film projects in-house through its Scholastic Media division including The Golden Compass and the forthcoming The 39 Clues and, with the agreement with Gotham, will retain a first-look option on its books.
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Ruckus Mobile Media to Produce Hasbro Apps
Hasbro and Ruckus Mobile Media have announced a strategic licensing agreement to jointly develop original mobile interactive storybook apps based on Hasbro brands.
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Bologna 2011: Back to Business at a Buoyant Fair
With the last few Bologna Book Fairs somewhat clouded by economic uncertainty, fairgoers found the mood at this year's fair decidedly lighter. Simon & Schuster's children's publisher Jon Anderson said, "This was easily the liveliest Bologna I’ve been at in years."
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Bologna 2011: Surveying the Digital Landscape for 'Generation Angry Birds'
From O'Reilly Media's Joe Wikert's opening remarks saying "it's all about storytelling" to Mondadori's Laura Donnini ending comment of "We sell dreams," content was the word participants kept coming back to, at the inaugural Tools of Change Bologna, the day before the opening of the Bologna Book Fair.
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Nosy Crow Inks German, French App Publishing Pacts
U.K.-based Nosy Crow has closed deals to publish its apps in France and Germany. Through the deal, with German house Carlsen and French house Gallimard, a number of the company's story book apps will be released in the European countries. The first app to be released by both Carlsen and Gallimard will be the Three Little Pigs app.
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