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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 2/09/2009

| 02/09/2009 @ 07:00AM
TCP to Publish Graphic Adaptation of Bill Ayers Memoir

by Calvin Reid | 02/05/2009 @ 10:47AM

Teachers College Press has reached agreement with William Ayers, the controversial University of Illinois at Chicago professor, lauded educational theorist and former leader of the radical 1960s Weather Underground, to publish a graphic novel adaptation of his acclaimed teaching memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher.
Still Hungry After All These Years

By Sally Lodge | 02/05/2009 @ 07:00AM

Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar turns 40 this spring, and Philomel is commemorating its birthday with the first-ever pop-up edition of this international bestseller.
Q & A with Virginia Euwer Wolff

By Lynda Brill Comerford | 02/05/2009 @ 07:00AM

With the much anticipated release of This Full House, the final installment of the Make Lemonade trilogy, award-winning author Virginia Euwer Wolff spoke about creating the three books featuring LaVaughn, a teenage girl growing up in the projects, and Jolly, a young, single mother.
Deluxe Young Adult Series Delivers

By Sally Lodge | 02/05/2009 @ 07:00AM

Dangerous gossip, star-crossed lovers, backstabbing friends, a notorious cad, an upstairs-downstairs romance. All are woven into Anna Godbersen’s The Luxe, set in 1899 Manhattan, which HarperCollins published in 2007.
Los Angeles Conference Focuses on Children’s Holocaust Literature

By Wendy Werris | 02/05/2009 @ 07:00AM

“The truth of the Holocaust shatters the idea that the world is a trustworthy place and that we’re here to protect children. When it comes to literature, we must first tell the truth to the age of the child,” said Sinai Temple librarian Lisa Silverman in her opening remarks on Sunday, February 1, at the Jewish Literature for Children Western Conference in Los Angeles.
Image Adding All-Ages Focus

By Van Jensen | 02/03/2009 @ 07:49PM

Image Comics is adding children's comics to its mix with a line of news books from Silverline.
Tor.com Offers New Sci-fi and Fantasy Webcomics

By Sam Thielman | 02/03/2009 @ 05:50PM

Partnering with another Macmillan imprint, the comics and graphic novel publisher First Second Books, sci-fi and fantasy publisher Tor Books has launched, Tor.com, its own online comics imprint.
Sex, Costumes and Videotape: The Comics of Koren Shadmi

By Calvin Reid | 02/03/2009 @ 05:49PM

Moody, thoughtful and rich in emotion and nuance, Koren Shadmi's comics combine gripping, surreal imagery with narrative scenarios that chronicle the vivid, alluring power of sex and the frustration and comedy of quirky relationships
Reed Launches New Chicago Con; Moves NYCC to Fall 2010

By Calvin Reid | 02/03/2009 @ 05:37PM

Reed Exhibitions plans to launch a new comics and pop culture convention, in April of 2010 at the McCormick Place convention facility in downtown Chicago and plans to move the New York Comic-con permanently to the fall in 2010.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 02/03/2009 @ 05:18PM

Reed Launches New Chicago Con; Moves NYCC to Fall 2010; Blutch Wins Angoulême Grand Prix; CBLDR at NYCC ; PWCW Editors at NYCC ; Way Hosts Fresh Ink Online; Whedon’s Dollhouse at NYCC; British Porn Laws Target Comics; MySpace Comics Layoffs; Graphic Novel Buyers Survey; Jerry Craft Children's Book; Murder of Abraham Lincoln Reprint ; and Unlovable Book Launch; Exhibition
February Comics Bestsellers

By Calvin Reid | 02/02/2009 @ 10:37PM

The Last Straw, the newest volume in Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid Series takes the #1 spot followed by Naruto at #2 and the Azzarello/Bermejo Joker at #3
Funnies Business: The 2008 Retailers Survey

by Todd Allen | 02/02/2009 @ 09:35PM

Our columnist surveys comics specialty retailers on their sell-through on both periodicals and graphic novels.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/2/2009

| 02/02/2009 @ 07:00AM

Picture Books Mama Says: A Book of Love for Mothers and Sons Rob D. Walker , illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon. Scholastic/Blue Sky , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-93208-4 A sure-fire hit for Mother's Day, this elegantly designed book pairs a series of poems with stunning illustrations to celebrate the bond between mothers and sons.
Fiction Reviews

| 02/02/2009 @ 07:00AM

Ugly Man Dennis Cooper . Harper Perennial , $13.99 paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-171544-0 The cult novelist's collection of short stories plumbs veins of dark humor amid the sex and gore his fans have come to expect. The contents range from short shorts—a rumination on “The Fifteen Worst Russian Gay Porn Web Sites” and an abortive episode entitled “One Night in 1979 I Di...
Nonfiction Reviews

| 02/02/2009 @ 07:00AM

To Live or Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan Nicholas Schmidle . Holt , $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8938-7 Journalist Schmidle offers a gripping, grim account of his two years as a journalism fellow in Pakistan, where his travels took him into the most isolated and unfriendly provinces, and into the thick of interests and beliefs that impede that nation's peace and progress.
Secrets of Statecraft

| 02/02/2009 @ 07:00AM

Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy Leslie H. Gelb . HarperCollins , $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-171454-2 Gelb, Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist for the New York Times, sets out guidelines for stewarding American power through the 21st century in this thoughtful, comprehensive and engaging examination.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 02/02/2009

| 02/02/2009 @ 05:00AM
First Second To Publish Scott McCloud

By Calvin Reid | 01/30/2009 @ 09:28PM

First Second Books announced plans to publish two new books by acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud.
Why Hollywood Loves the Comics

By Calvin Reid | 01/27/2009 @ 09:29PM

PWCW talks to film agent Scott Agostoni, director of the William Morris Agency's comics division, about the ongoing love affair between Hollywood and comics.

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