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What Happened Next?

By Staff | 07/16/2007 @ 06:00AM

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? These sequels are sure to get kids fired up about reading this summer. In a starred review, PW wrote that Annie Barrows’s Ivy & Bean, available this month in paperback, “brims with sprightly dialogue” and is “just right for kids moving on from beginning readers.
Big Kids' Books For Fall

by Staff | 07/16/2007 @ 06:00AM

| July 1| How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? by Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark Teague (Scholastic/Blue Sky, $16.99). 100,000 copies. | July 2 | Football Genius by Tim Green (HarperCollins, $16.99). 100,000 copies. The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme, Book Two: The Thief Queen's Daughter by Elizabeth Haydon (Tor/Starscape, $17.
Children's Books for Fall: P

Compiled by Sally Lodge | 07/16/2007 @ 06:00AM

PAPERCUTZ Series Nancy Drew Graphic Novels continues with Monkey-Wrench Blues by Stefan Petrucha, illus. by Sho Murase ($12.95, paper $7.95, 8-12). The Hardy Boys Graphic Novels adds Vol. 10 and Vol. 11 by Scott Lobdell, illus. by Paulo Henrique ($12.95 each, paper $7.95, 8-12). And Tales from the Crypt Graphic Novels launches with Vol.
It's a Potter Potter World

Compiled by the editors of Publishers Weekly and Publishing News | 07/16/2007 @ 06:00AM

At 12:01 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time on Saturday, July 21, cartons containing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be ripped open by retailers around the world (everywhere but North America, which opens them five hours later) and fans will learn how the extraordinarily popular series by J.K. Rowling concludes.
Children’s Books for Fall: R

Compiled by Sally Lodge | 07/16/2007 @ 06:00AM

RAINCOAST Clancy with the Puck ($16.95) by Chris Mizzoni. Will Clancy win the Stanley Cup or end up driving the Zamboni? (3-up) Paperbacks Gretzky’s Game ($7.95) by Mike Leonetti. Hockey star Wayne Gretzky inspires a child teased for being too small to play hockey. (3-8) King of the Lost and Found ($9.
Spring 2008 Sneak Previews

Compiled by Shannon Maughan | 07/16/2007 @ 06:00AM

ABRAMS Abrams rolls over with The Dog Who Belonged to No One by Amy Hest, illus. by Amy Bates, a picture book in which a dog's and a little girl's parallel stories happily converge; The Jellybeans and the Big Dance by Laura Numeroff and Nate Evans, illus. by Lynn Munsinger, first in a new series about four friends who meet in dance class; Clinton Gregory's Secret by Bruce Whatley, a week in the...
In Golden Times

by Leonard S. Marcus | 07/16/2007 @ 06:00AM

These days, the ideal publishing scenario for a commercial property is 1) to land a licensing deal, 2) get a co-branding partner; 3) issue in mutiple formats; and 4) penetrate the mass market. Think: NASCAR, a Disney character, downloadable content and a big display at Costco. But that's a combination pioneered more than 60 years ago, in the heady days of the Golden Books franchise, when licens...
Children’s Books for Fall: S

Compiled by Sally Lodge | 07/16/2007 @ 06:00AM

SASQUATCH BOOKS Winston Churchill ($16.95) by Jean Davies Okimoto, illus. by Jeremiah Trammell, tells of a bear’s battle against global warming. (6-up) Book Crush Journal ($12.95) by Nancy Pearl and Kerry Colburn encourages readers to write about their favorite books. (10-14) SCHOLASTIC Paperbacks Ghost Cat and Other Spooky Tales ($3.
Children’s Books for Fall: U

Compiled by Sally Lodge | 07/16/2007 @ 06:00AM

UNIV. OF NEBRASKA PRESS/BISON BOOKS Paperbacks Lana’s Lakota Moons ($12.95) by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. In this novel, two Lakota girls learn about their culture. (8-up) Adventures in the West: Stories for Young Readers ($19.95), ed. by Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed, compiles 26 tales from The Youth’s Companion and St.
Redefining Paranormal Romance

by M.M. Hall | 07/14/2007 @ 06:00AM

Paula Guran, editor of the anthology Best New Paranormal Romance, has delivered a second anthology under Prime Publisher's new Juno imprint, Best New Romantic Fantasy (Reviews, July 9).
Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 7/16/2007

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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 7/16/2007

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Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of 7/16/2007

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Fiction Reviews: Week of 7/16/2007

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Avon Inspire Debuts at ICRS

By Daisy Maryles | 07/11/2007 @ 06:00AM

A garden party on the exhibit floor of International Christian Retail Show in Atlanta on Tuesday (July 10) welcomed retailers, agents and media to the official launch of a new Christian romance imprint, Avon Inspire.
At Summer Show, Christian Publishers Look to Winter

By Lynn Garrett and Jana Riess | 07/11/2007 @ 06:00AM

The International Christian Retail Show (ICRS) is meeting this week in Atlanta (July 9-12), returning to the steamy city after two years in Denver.
Guideposts’ Moore “Stepping Out”

By Lynn Garrett | 07/11/2007 @ 06:00AM

Last night (Monday, July 9) at the annual Guideposts dinner at the International Christian Retail Show in Atlanta, new president Dick Hopple and Jonathan Merkh, just named v-p of the company’s book publishing division, made their debuts.
Religion Reviews Highlights

| 07/11/2007 @ 06:00AM

Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen; The Best Buddhist Writing 2007; The History of Last Night’s Dream: Discovering the Hidden Path to the Soul; Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible: Flawed Women Loved by a Flawless God; Prescribing Faith: Medicine, Media, and Religion in American Culture; Shaking the System: What I Learned from the Great American Reform Movements; After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion
Anita Blake Stakes Out Comics

by Laurel Maury | 07/10/2007 @ 06:00AM

Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the bestselling Anita Blake series of urban fantasy novels, sexually charged, plot-driven thrillers set in a world where vampires are real. Marvel is adapting her first three novels—Guilty Pleasures, Laughing Corpse and Service of the Damned—as comic books that Hamilton is writing with Stacie Ritchie.
Kodansha to Publish Megatokyo in Japan

by Calvin Reid | 07/10/2007 @ 06:00AM

In a move that marks the growing stature of non-Japanese manga, the Japanese house Kodansha will publish a Japanese-language edition of Megatokyo, the American original manga Web comic and book series created by Fred Gallagher.

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