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Talk of the ‘Times’: A ‘New York Times’ Reviewers Panel
“Serendipity!” That was the succinct answer given by Julie Just, children’s books editor of the New York Times Book Review last Saturday, when asked how she determines just which books will be reviewed in the prestigious paper. “It could be a certain cover that you fall in love with, or recommendations from colleagues,” she said. “It could just be reading, reading, reading. But it often comes down to serendipity.”
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Hungry? The Latest on ‘The Hunger Games’
One of the most heavily buzzed-about titles of 2008 was Suzanne Collins’s dystopian novel The Hunger Games, and there’s already plenty of anticipation—and news—ahead of the second book, Catching Fire, due this fall from Scholastic Press. Here’s a roundup of the latest, including an earlier release date for Catching Fire, as well as a new contest, which is being announced for the first time here in Children’s Bookshelf.
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The New York Times Debuts Comics Bestseller List
The New York Times has launched a weekly Graphic Books bestseller list that tracks the bestselling comics and graphic novels.
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Beacon Plans Graphic Adapt of Kindred; Nonfiction Comics Line
Beacon Press, a 155 year-old Boston-based nonprofit publisher with a mission driven by social justice, will publish a graphic adaptation of the late Hugo-award winning science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler’s much-praised novel Kindred, the latest comics work to be acquired by Beacon.
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Fantagraphics Brings Tardi to the US
Legendary French cartoonist Jacques Tardi is finally coming to the US with two grphic novels due this summer from Fantagraphics.
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Secret Identities Revealed
The author looks at the new anthology Secret Identities which examines superheroes, Asian artists and racial stereotypes through comics.
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March Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney's Last Straw settles in for a long run at #1; Naruto holds slots #2,3,4,5, and 10; Bone: Crown of Horns is at #6 and Walking Dead at #7.
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Comics Briefly
DC Comics Launches After Watchmen Promotion; Japanese Spidey on Marvel.com ; Death Note Film Event; Inoue Wins Manga Prize; Anime Day at Kinokuniya; IDW Offers Obama Sequel; Hillary Comic 2nd Printing; Charity Auction For Moore Book; AOTS Watchmen Spoof; Physicist on Watchmen and Two Comics Exhibits
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DC Comics Launches After Watchmen Promotion
DC Comics announced plans to launch After Watchmen, a marketing campaign intended to highlight and support a wide range of its titles in the wake of the opening of the Watchmen movie
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Panelmania- Pixu: The Mark of Evil
A mysterious marking in an apartment building slowly leads to madness and horror for five tenants in this exclusive 17-page preview of Pixu: The Mark of Evil by Gabriel Bá, Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, and Fábio Moon. Pixu will be released by Dark Horse in July.
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From Web to Print: Dark Horse’s Applegeeks
Dark Horse is publishing a print collection of the popular online comic Applegeeks, a tech and geek oriented story about four college friends
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 3/9/2009
Picture Books Just Like a Baby Juanita Havill , illus. by Christine Davenier. Chronicle , $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8118-5026-1 The collaborators behind I Heard It from Alice Zucchini offer a warmhearted story about a family with big plans for a little newborn. Davenier's luminous watercolors and vivid characterizations are the main draw; she portrays a large, loving and highly expressive fami...
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Death and 'Dirty Dancing'
Former PW editor Emily Chenoweth interweaves the story of a daughter's sexual awakening with her mother's terminal illness, culminating in a bittersweet anniversary party, in her debut, Hello Goodbye.
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Fiction Book Reviews
The Embers Hyatt Bass . Holt , $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8994-3 Director, producer and screenwriter Bass creates a riveting narrative that digs into the notion that “there is nothing that happens to a child that does not implicate the parent in some way.” Emily Ascher is planning her wedding at the site of her Berkshires childhood family vacation home, on the very hillside where...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/09/2009
On the Web this week: the father of molecular gastronomy looks at the classics, a thorough review of Gone With the Wind, getting the most "whuffie" from online social networks, and what we're paying for with our attention. Plus: Wall Street bombed! By terrorists! In 1920!
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Nonfiction Book Reviews
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower Michela Wrong . HarperCollins , $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-134658-3 Kenya's dysfunctional state is the subject of this gripping profile of an anti-corruption crusader. Journalist Wrong (In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz) tells the story of John Githongo, a journalist and activist (and Wrong's personal friend) who joined newly elected Ke...
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Orson Scott Card Signs with Simon Pulse
Simon Pulse senior editor Anica Rissi has acquired world English rights to the first three books in a new fantasy series by Orson Scott Card written specifically for a YA audience.
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Janetta Otter-Barry to Start Own List
Janetta Otter-Barry, editorial director of Frances Lincoln Children’s Books in the U.K., will set up her own list beginning next month, under the Frances Lincoln umbrella.
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Poisoned Pen Partners with NFL and NEA for Book Giveaway
As part of the National Education Association’s Read Across America program, mystery publisher Poisoned Pen Press recently partnered with the NFL Players Association to launch what it calls the Great Mystery Book Giveaway.
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A Lion of a Tale from Delacorte
In a video clip that has been viewed on YouTube (in several versions) by more than 10 million people, a lion emerges from the African wilderness to embrace—literally—two men standing in a clearing. Those men, Anthony “Ace” Bourke and John Rendall, chronicle the events leading up to that encounter in Christian the Lion, a Delacorte release with a March 10 laydown.
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