Children's publisher Puffin has said it is proud to be publishing John Boyne’s novel about a transgender teen, after the book was labelled "transphobic" by some campaigners, and an article the author wrote in the Irish Times about the subject received criticism on social media. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin has snapped up the rights to two feminist YA books, with plans to publish in 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books, Scholastic and Walker Books have two titles apiece on the shortlist for the YA Book Prize 2019, which includes books by the award’s inaugural winner Louise O’Neill, as well as Juno Dawson, Laura Dockrill and début author Muhammad Khan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer and Everyday Sexism Project founder Laura Bates talks to Caroline Carpenter about her first YA novel, The Burning. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Wednesday, Amélie Wen Zhao, author of the upcoming YA fantasy novel Blood Heir, announced that she asked her publisher, Delacorte Press, “not to publish [the book] at this time.” Blood Heir was born from a Twitter pitching event for marginalized creators, and it secured Zhao both an agent... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
SCBWI has opened a new work-in-progress grant program for translators, and GLLI soon will name its first Translated YA Book Prize. The post New Translated YA Book Shortlist from GLLI; New Translators’ Grants From SCBWI appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
New winners in annual awards programs are Ida Vitale and Graciela Montes, as named by Mexico's leading international book fair organizers at Guadalajara. The post Guadalajara Book Fair Announces Awards in Young Adult Books and Romance Languages appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Presenting our editors’ selections of eagerly awaited children's and YA books for the coming season. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Hate U Give' by Angie Thomas and 'All American Boys' by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely have been challenged on a high school summer reading list by police and other supporters. The post YA Novels Prompt Police Objections to Summer Reading List in South Carolina appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
With plans for multiplatform development to follow, the allegorical fantasy writings of Italian author Roberto Ricci are coming first to television. The post Finnish Digital Media Fund IPR.VC Backs Development of YA Book Series for Television appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster UK has bought the UK and Commonwealth rights to a new YA novel co-written by US authors Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, and Adam Silvera, author of They Both Die At The End. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philip Pullman is in the running for the YA Book Prize 2018 alongside previous winners Sarah Crossan and Patrice Lawrence, and début author M A Bennett. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Melvin Burgess is set to release a YA novel about a girl who discovers she has the powers of a witch this August. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our editors’ selections of eagerly awaited children's and YA books for the coming season. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Welsh publisher Firefly Press has bought a “darkly thrilling three-novella” collection from a trio of YA authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber Children's has bought a “seductive and spine-tinglingly brilliant” French YA novel after only reading a short translation sample. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Fickling Books has bought Fiona Shaw’s first YA novel, “an explosive thriller”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kids these days apparently want to read books that reflect their lives. So following that whole supply-and-demand thing we all learned in Economics 101, Kirkus is giving the people what they want. They’ve just launched Kirkus Collections, which brings together Young Adult and children’s lit... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2017-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lani Sarem’s Handbook for Mortals was taken off the No 1 spot after fellow YA authors, sceptical of ‘a book that no one has heard of’, uncovered a pattern of strategic preordersA young adult novel has been removed from the No 1 position on the New York Times bestseller lists, after detective... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The young-adult novel Handbook for Mortals by Lani Sarem pulled off the impressive feat of debuting at No. 1 on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover best-seller chart. It then pulled off the equally impressive feat of getting yanked almost immediately for what a Times rep told Vulture were... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2017-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]