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Video Series from Jason Reynolds Amplifies Children's Imaginations
Just three months into his two-year appointment as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and about a month into a U.S. pandemic, Jason Reynolds is having to connect with young people like everyone else is doing, online.
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Virtual Handselling: Recommendations from Bookshop Santa Cruz Head Children's Buyer
With bookstores across the country shutting their doors to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, traditional handselling—which often connects readers with books they didn't know they were looking for—is no longer possible. This is the second in an ongoing series featuring personal recommendations of new releases from children's booksellers.
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In Brief: April 9, 2020
This week, David Shannon has a doggone good event; Fabien Cousteau has a jaws-ome reading; Ernesto Cisneros has a Live-ly launch; and Loree Griffin Burns talks communing with nature.
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Licensing Hotline: April 2020
Read on for news about Disney Lucasfilm Press's new publishing-first Star Wars storyline; Scholastic's deals for 'The Dragon Prince' and 'Ricky Zoom'; The Elf on the Shelf as it turns 15, and more.
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2020 Children’s Book Week Moves to New Format Amid Pandemic
In response to the coronavirus outbreak that has forced bookstores, libraries, and schools to close their doors for the foreseeable future, next month's Children's Book Week is being reconfigured into a virtual celebration.
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Licensed Publishing in the Covid-19 Era
Amid these uncertain times, publishing licensees are dealing with the unique challenges that come with releasing tie-ins to feature films that are being postponed indefinitely or being watched online instead of in theaters.
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International Unicorn Day Online Festival Debuts Thursday
April 9 marks International Unicorn Day, and author Kamilla Benko is determined to make sure that readers have a chance to celebrate from home.
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Booksellers Hand-Deliver Books to Community Kids
Even though the bricks-and-mortar location of Print and Page Booksellers in Crestline, Calif., is closed for the Covid-19 crisis, the owners aim to get a book to every one of the more than 3,200 K–12 students in their local school district.
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#TweetBookCon Steps In for TeenBookCon
Houston's TeenBookCon was transformed into #TweetBookCon, an entirely digital event hosted on social media.
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Children's Bookselling in the Age of Covid-19: How Kids' Bookstores Are Supporting Literacy, and Each Other
Bookstores may be closed for browsing, but a number of children’s booksellers have found ways to sell and give away books to promote literacy despite social distancing, canceled author tours, and other roadblocks caused by the pandemic.
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Children's Job Moves: March 2020
Job moves in children's publishing during March 2020.
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Cover to Cover Mixes Window Displays, Technology, for Sales
Cover to Cover Children's Books in Columbus, Ohio, has set up a window display of activity, puzzle, and game books along with a sign inviting customers to "shop this window online" using their cell phones.
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IPA, WHO, and UNICEF Offer Online Reading Series
The International Publishers Association, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF are collaborating on a program that is presenting a roster of top children's book authors reading their works aloud for children.
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Random House and ABT Unveil Partnership
Random House Children's Books has teamed up with American Ballet Theatre to launch a publishing program in September, to coincide with the opening of ABT's 80th anniversary season.
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Families Turn to Activity-Based Entertainment During Covid-19 Crisis
According to NPD Group, at a time when millions of parents and their children are staying at home due to the coronavirus outbreak, the demand for games, activity books, and hands-on learning titles has taken a huge leap.
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In Brief: April 2, 2020
This week, Kwame Alexander takes to Instagram; Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell Zoom into the digital space for their book tour; Brad Meltzer's virtual storytime soars; Maribeth Boelts sows compassion for bees; David Hyde Costello plays with paper puppets; and Lowey Sichol talks entrepreneurship.
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Children's Books and Authors Affected by the Coronavirus: March 31, 2020
With schools, libraries, and bookstores closed indefinitely and public gatherings under severe restrictions, children's authors have had to cancel their travel plans and appearances during the Covid-19 outbreak; PW is continuing to track some of the new and forthcoming books that have taken a hit.
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Children's Bookselling in the Age of Covid-19: How Bookstores Are Connecting with Customers
This is the first in a new series that looks at how children's bookstores are responding to the needs of their communities at a time when many are closed to the public.
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Indie Bookstore Partners with Nonprofit to Give Hundreds of Books to Atlanta Youth
Bookstores are among the few retailers receiving essential business exemptions to continue operating in some form during the new coronavirus outbreak, and Atlanta's Little Shop of Stories is taking its ability to provide an essential service to heart.
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Baek Heena Wins 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award
South Korean author-illustrator Baek Heena has been named the winner of the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book award.
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