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Reigning Cats and Dogs
In the words of Houghton Mifflin senior editor Susan Canavan, “There’s no mistake about it: people have more thoughtful relationships with their pets than ever before.” And thereby hangs a tail: dogs and cats have taken up residence in American homes in record numbers, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association.
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SF/Fantasy/Horror Notes
SEPTEMBER PUBLICATIONS In the 11 years since publishing Anne McCaffrey: A Critical Companion, Robin Roberts has been collecting material for Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons, a detailed biography of the trail-blazing author. Roberts’s overview of McCaffrey’s life covers much the same ground as previous bios by Todd McCaffrey (Anne’s son and occasional collaborator) and Mart...
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 8/27/2007
Touch and Go: A Memoir Studs Terkel . New Press , $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59558-043-6 After a lifetime of interviewing others, Terkel finally turns the tape recorder on himself. At least, that's what he would have us think. Terkel's memoir is more a medley of all the extraordinary characters he's encountered through his career, from the adult loners of his youth in Chicago's Wells-Grand Hot...
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Licensing Hotline: August 2007
When the long-awaited fourth film in the Indiana Jones franchise is released on May 22, 2008, Scholastic and DK—both long-time partners of Lucas Licensing on Star Wars—will release a range of children’s books appropriate for a PG-13 movie.
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Mike Lupica to Write Series for Children
Mike Lupica, sports columnist for the New York Daily News and bestselling children’s author, has signed with Philomel Books to write a new middle-grade series called Comeback Kids.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Peter Sís
Peter Sís, two-time Caldecott Honor artist (for Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei and Tibet: Through the Red Box) draws from his own childhood in his latest book, The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain.
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Birds of a Feather
It’s not uncommon for real-life events to inspire books for children. But when the story of a hawk that took residence along New York City’s fabled Fifth Avenue, which captured national attention, spawns the publication of not one, but two new picture books, that’s reason to take notice.
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A Second Career at 90: PW Talks to Millard Kaufman
Ninety is an unusual age to embark upon a second career, but that’s just what Oscar-nominated screenwriter and co-creator of Mr. McGoo is doing. McSweeney’s will publish Kaufman’s debut novel, Bowl of Cherries.
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Fan Creativity Explodes at Comiket
550,000 attendees gathered for 3 days to buy fanzines and parodies at Tokyo's enormous Comiket show.
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Udon on the Upswing
Wide-ranging Udon Entertainment will launch a line of Korean Manhwa this fall.
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Harper Hopes Teens Fall for Miki Falls
Mark Crilley is the creator of the manga-influenced Akiko kids comics and the popular Akiko prose book series, but his new graphic novel series, Miki Falls, is a step beyond global manga.
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Kannagi knows the Ring Finger
Boys love pioneer Satoru Kannagi has written heartfelt romances for both prose and manga.
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Panel Mania: Inanna's Tears
In this 8-page preview of Rob Vollmar and mpMann's Inanna's Tears, a political tragedy set in ancient Sumeria circa 3000 BC, residents of the city of Birith prepare for a successor priest to the goddess Inanna, while powerful interests outside the city challenge the authority of the Temple. Archaia Studios Press will begin serializing the story this month.
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Comics Briefly
Dabel Brothers announce Koontz license; 2007 Doug Wright Award winners; and Thor leads July sales
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Children's Galleys to Grab
At this fall's regionals, attendees can nab galleys that range from everyday teen life to the unexpected—Norse myths, the laws of physics and even tooth fairies all get their due. Some Don't-Miss Debuts Alex and the Ironic Gentleman by Adrienne Kress (Miramax/Weinstein). An orphan goes on a quest to rescue her teacher.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 8/20/2007
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When Things Get Tough
Throughout the recorded history of armed conflict, there has been this certainty: that no writer, no matter how gifted, can truly relate what it is like to be in war. “War happens inside a man,” the great correspondent Eric Sevareid said with resignation in 1945, sure he had failed the test of bringing back to his readers the essence of the fighting, “…and that is why, i...
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Children’s Books: Week of 8/20/2007
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 8/20/2007
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Wars of the Moment…
At home, the war in Iraq has been increasingly divisive. Public support for the president has eroded; voices on both sides of the aisle are calling for various forms of withdrawal. Recently, books by politicians and journalists have detailed the war’s mismanagement, but this fall, several publishers have books that relate what the combatants have to say about their experience.
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