-
New Imprints Stake a Claim
Lately, the word of the day in publishing has been “reduction,” be it in head counts or acquisitions. And while several children's imprints have been lost in recent months due to restructuring, retirements, etc., 2009 will see the arrival of a new children's publisher, Egmont USA (see “New Kid on the Block,” June 16, 2008), as well as a number of new imprints.
-
Fiction Reviews
White Is for Witching Helen Oyeyemi . Doubleday/Talese , $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-52605-0 Oyeyemi delivers her third passionate and unusual book, a neo-gothic tale revolving around Miranda and Eliot Silver, fraternal twins of Haitian descent raised in a British house haunted by generations of afflicted, displaced family members, including their mother.
-
Children's Books for Spring: H
HACHETTE/FAITHWORDS Paperback Series All About Us continues with Be Strong & Curvaceous and Who Made You a Princess? by Shelley Adina ($9.99 each, 12-up). And Miracle Girls adds Breaking Up Is Hard to Do by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt ($9.99, 12-up). HARPERCOLLINS Blueberry Girl ($17.99) by Neil Gaiman, illus.
-
YA Book Sells to Disney; Pub Rights Pending
After Hollywood interest was brewing last week for Clete Smith's YA novel, Grandma's Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast, Jody Hotchkiss of Hotchkiss & Associates has closed on a deal for film rights with Disney. The lit rights, being handled by Sterling Lord's George Nicholson, remain up for grabs.
-
Scholastic Media Has Big Plans for Clifford
“It only takes a little…to BE BIG!” The motto for Scholastic Media’s new Clifford The Big Red Dog BE BIG! campaign delivers the message at the heart of this initiative: small actions based on Clifford’s Big Ideas—among them sharing, helping others, being responsible, playing fair and working together—can make the world a better place.
-
‘The Year We Disappeared’ to Appear on National TV
This Saturday, February 14, at 10 p.m., CBS News’s 48 Hours will air an investigation of the case chronicled in The Year We Disappeared (Bloomsbury, Aug. 2008), in which Cylin Busby and her father, John Busby, describe the chain of events that occurred 30 years ago when John, then a police officer in Falmouth, Mass., was shot in the face, and he and his family were forced into hiding.
-
Q & A with K.L. Going
Children's Bookshelf spoke with K.L. Going about her new novel, King of the Screwups (Harcourt).
-
Huzzahs for Humphrey
It’s not unusual for rodent characters to make it big in the world of children’s books. Currently, a humble hamster named Humphrey is riding his yellow hamster ball to popularity as star of a series of books by Betty G. Birney.
-
Comics Briefly
NYCC09: Read Will Eisner on iPhone; Marvel Sets X-Men Stage; Focus on the DC Universe; Marvel at 70; Business of Webcomics; Women In Comics. Plus O'Neil NYU Comics Course and Death Note II on DVD
-
Marvel Makes Motion Comics, DC Teases New Format
Marvel annaounced as new "motion comics" format and DC teased other new formats at yhe recent New York Comic-Con.
-
Life in Comics: Can Creativity Save Comics from Troubled Times?
The writer muses on what revolution this economic crisis will bring to the comics medium.
-
Children’s Comics Poised for Growth
Properties aimed at readers 13 years old and under were prominent both on the floor and in the panels and the booths for publishers such as First Second, Top Shelf, Oni Press and Archie Comics were bustling.
-
New York Manga-Con 2009
Despite fewer manga publishers exhibiting this year, those on hand put there best manga forward.
-
What Recession? Strong Fan Turnout for NYCC 2009
Despite the recession, tens of thousands of fans streamed into the Javits Center for the New York Comic-con.
-
Scott Pilgrim Wins the Convention!
The oddest thing about the alternative graphic-novel publishers exhibiting at this year's New York Comic-Con was that, even though almost none of them had major new releases, they mostly reported decent-to-excellent sales.
-
Despite Economy, Fan Turnout Big for New York Comic-Con 2009
The country may be reeling from the worst economy in years, but you couldn’t tell it from the tens of thousands of fans pouring into the Jacob Javits Center for the fourth annual New York Comic-Con.
-
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/9/2009
Picture Books Hello, Good-bye Arlene Alda . Tundra , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88776-900-9 Alda (Here a Face, There a Face) attempts to enter a very crowded shelf with her photography book of opposites. For “push” and “pull,” she uses the example of a street crew trying to move a huge stone statue of Buddha; on the left side of the spread, they're shown exerting their w...
-
Three's Scandalous Company
An Indecent Proposition Emma Wildes . Signet Eclipse , $6.99 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-22662-4 Regency fans will thrill to this superbly sensual tale of an icy widow and two decadent rakes. When the duke of Rothay and the earl of Manderville make a foolish and scandalously public wager over which of them is the more skillful lover, the firmly respectable and notoriously unavailable Lady C...
-
Fiction Reviews
A Short History of Women Kate Walbert . Scribner , $24 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9498-7 Walbert—2004 National Book Award nominee for Our Kind—offers a beautiful and kaleidoscopic view of the 20th century through the eyes of several generations of women in the Townsend family. The story begins with Dorothy Townsend, a turn-of-the-century British suffragist who dies in a hunger strike.
-
Nonfiction Reviews
The American Future: A History Simon Schama . Ecco , $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-053923-8 Past performance may not guarantee future returns, but it's the best we have to go on, contends this lively meditation on American history. Looking back from the tumultuous 2008 election campaign, historian Schama (NBCC-award winner for Rough Crossings) ponders four themes in American history as they pl...
Browse archive by date:
