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Turning Civilians into Comic Book Geeks
Comics serials like Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Stephen King’s Dark Tower are bringing first-time comics readers to comics shops and turning them into regular customers
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Neil Gaiman at the Movies
Book tie-ins abound for two Neil Gaiman written films opening this summer: Stardust, based on his illustrated novel, and Beowulf, a CGI adaptation of the classic.
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Comics Briefly
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Fantagraphics Plans Special Edition of Palestine
Fantagraphics will publish a special hardcover edition of Joe Sacco's acclaimed nonfiction work Palestine, complete with new supplemental material.
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Cold Cut Offered for Sale
Cold Cut Distriibution, a 13 year-old wholesale distributor of small press and independent comics in Salinas, California, is soliciting offers to buy its operations.
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Tom Beland Reveals his True Story
The shamelessly romantic story of Beland and wife Lily continues in a new collection from Image.
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Children’s Books for Fall: V
VIKING Cowboy and Octopus ($16.99) by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Lane Smith. Stories starring two unlikely friends. (All ages) The Snowy Day, Whistle for Willie DVD and Book Gift Set ($19.99) by Ezra Jack Keats package these stories with a DVD featuring an animated film of each book. (All ages) Llama Llama Mad at Mama ($15.
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Children’s Books for Fall: W
WALKER & CO. Playful Little Penguins ($15.95) by Tony Mitton, illus. by Guy Parker-Rees, is a rhyming tale about energetic penguins. (3-6) Little Bitty Mousie ($16.95) by Jim Aylesworth, illus. by Michael Hague, offers a midnight ABC adventure. (3-6) Smile! ($11.95) by Kate Lennard, illus. by Dermot Flynn.
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Children’s Books for Fall: T
TANGLEWOOD PRESS Carmen’s Sticky Scab ($15.95) by Ginger Churchill, illus. by Barry Gott. A girl is warned about picking the scab on her arm. (3-8) Two Moon Princess ($15.95) by Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban. A princess is transported to another world: southern California. (10-up) 68 Knots ($15.95) by Michael Robert Evans describes seven teens’ summer of sailing adventures and self-dis...
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Pair of Titles on Hot Issue
Two upcoming titles spotlight a decidedly timely topic—global warming—and issue a call to action to concerned kids.
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Children’s Books for Fall: O
ORANGE AVENUE (IPG, dist.) Paperbacks Uncool: A Girl’s Guide to Misfitting In and Kiss: A Girl’s Guide to Puckering Up ($9.95 each) by Erin Elisabeth Conley round up advice for teens. (13-17) The Date Book: A Teen Girl’s Complete Guide to Going Out with Someone New ($12.95) by Erika Stalder presents safety-centered tips on dating.
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What Happened Next?
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.
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Big Kids' Books For Fall
| 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.
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Children's Books for Fall: P
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.
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It's a Potter Potter World
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.
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Children’s Books for Fall: R
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.
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Spring 2008 Sneak Previews
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...
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In Golden Times
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...
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Children’s Books for Fall: S
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.



