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Red Fox Literary Opens for Business
This week agent Karen Grencik and editor Abigail Samoun officially launched their new venture, Red Fox Literary, an agency representing children's book authors and illustrators and based out of Shell Beach, Calif.
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Book Summit in Toronto Offers App Advice
Book Summit 2011, held in Toronto on June 17, focused the attention of 200 or so industry professionals on digital publishing and extensions of books, particularly the potential and pitfalls of apps.
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Pottermore Web Site to Sell E-Books in October
J.K. Rowling answered several questions at a news conference Thursday, telling the world that her Pottermore site will serve as the exclusive sales channel for the Harry Potter e-books. Her print publishers, Bloomsbury in the U.K. and Scholastic in the U.S., will receive some sort of share from the e-book sales.
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Ness, Baker-Smith Win Carnegie, Greenaway in U.K.
In a ceremony on Thursday, Patrick Ness was presented with the 2011 CILIP Carnegie Medal for Monsters of Men (Walker Books), the final volume of his Chaos Walking trilogy. The 2011 Kate Greenaway Medal was presented to Grahame Baker-Smith for FArTHER (Templar).
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At Licensing Expo, Digital Was Top of Mind
Traffic at last week's 2011 Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas seemed light compared to last year, according to several exhibitors. While traffic may have been light, several exhibitors had a bigger and showier presence than in recent years.
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Butterfly Books to Close
Amy Vanden Plas, the owner of Butterfly Books in De Pere, Wisc., announced this past weekend that the children’s bookstore in a Green Bay suburb will close its doors by mid-July, after 20 years in business.
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Movie Alert: 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two'
While Harry Potter fans digest the news about J.K. Rowling's newly unveiled "Pottermore" Web sit, another, long-anticipated event looms on the horizon: the film release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two.
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New E-Book Company Takes Flight in Minnesota
FlyingWord, a Minnesota company that began in 2010, has announced it has developed an interactive e-book platform designed to enhance the experience of reading for 21st-century tween, teen, and adult readers.
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Licensing Hotline: June 2011
Simon Spotlight will publish a series of middle-grade readers for boys and girls 8-12 under the Club CSI name, licensed by CBS Consumer Product, loosely tied to the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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Parragon Renews Discovery Kids Deal, Adds E-Books
In news from Parragon, the company has extended its licensing deal with Discovery Communications for another three years, allowing it to expand its Discovery Kids nonfiction program and add e-book versions of current and future print releases.
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Penguin, Spin Master, and Cartoon Network Partner for Zoobles Books
Penguin Group has acquired the rights to Zoobles, a collectible toy brand for girls, from Spin Master and its global licensing agent, Cartoon Network Enterprises.
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This Week in Children's Apps: June 16, 2011
This week in apps offers animal games, money education, a Disney adventure, interactive dance, and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Are Teen Novels Dark and Depraved — or Saving Lives?
The Wall Street Journal published a story that said modern YA novels were "rife with depravity" and "so dark that kidnapping and pederasty and incest and brutal beatings are now just part of the run of things." The piece immediately set off an Internet frenzy.
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DDG Booksellers Turns 20
Last Friday’s 20th anniversary party for Devaney Doak & Garett Booksellers in Farmington, Maine., was "a wonderful celebration of books, community, and friendship," says Kenny Brechner, who has managed the store and owned it for nearly all of its 20 years.
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Dedham Celebrates Judy Moody Day
Here's one way to celebrate a book-related movie in style: involve the whole town. Peter Reynolds, illustrator of Megan McDonald's popular Judy Moody series, which has sold over 14 million books, took his clue from Judy Moody herself.
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The Other Black Friday for Children's Booksellers: Memorial Day
For bookstores in vacation destinations, like Eight Cousins on Cape Cod, the summer can be the equivalent of other stores' holiday selling season. But this summer could be a bit quieter for some booksellers, and not just because of tornadoes or rising gas prices.
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Kids Ink Turns 25
To mark Kids Ink Children's Bookstore’s first 25 years, owner Shirley Mullin decided to hold a birthday party for the store. When she opened the children's specialty bookstore in Indianapolis in May 1986, there were only two children's book authors in Indiana. Now there's an active group of writers.
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To Feiwel and Friends, Instant Bestseller Is a Bit of Deja Vu
Go the F**k to Sleep is without a doubt one of the most written-about books of the year so far. Today, Macmillan Children's Books threw a new spotlight on the picture book with an announcement claiming strong parallels between Mansbach's book and It's Time to Sleep, My Love, a bedtime book released by Feiwel and Friends in 2008.
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Donaldson Named U.K. Children's Laureate
Julia Donaldson, author of more than 120 books and plays for children including the international bestseller The Gruffalo, has been appointed the Waterstone’s Children’s Laureate, for the term 2011-13. Donaldson’s passion for rhyme, which she employs in most of her writing, will be a focus of her time as Children's Laureate. "With my background in plays and songwriting, I am particularly keen to develop projects which link books with drama and music," she said, "and to explore the ways performance can help children enjoy reading and grow in confidence."
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Cambridge's Curious George Store to Close
Close on the heels of this week’s announcement from Globe Corner Bookstore that it will close its bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Harvard Square, Cambridge, comes word that children's specialty store Curious George & Friends will also shut its doors this month. The book and toy store, located just a few blocks from Globe Corner, was founded by Hillel Stavis and Donna Friedman in 1995 and named for the mischievous monkey created by their friends and neighbors Margret and Hans Rey.
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