A picture book newly arrived from Australia offers some advice as virus anxiety sets in. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-27 11:00:00 UTC ]
For the next installation in our interview series with contemporary poets, Peter Mishler corresponded with Victoria Chang. Victoria Chang’s books include OBIT (April 2020), Barbie Chang, The Boss, Salvinia Molesta, and Circle. Her children’s picture book, Is Mommy?, was illustrated by Marla... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-21 09:48:19 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books is publishing its first new title in 37 years from writer and illustrator Jill Murphy this September. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-20 04:50:08 UTC ]
Is there anything LeBron James can’t do? Before you attempt to form a response, let me save you some time; the answer, of course, is no. Case in point: HarperCollins yesterday announced a two-book deal with the LeBron James Foundation. James’ debut, a picture book titled I Promise,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-19 16:36:39 UTC ]
When Jokha al-Harthi and Marilyn Booth won the Man Booker International Prize last year, for Booth’s translation of Sayyidat al-Qamr (Celestial Bodies), many hurried to note that al-Harthi was the “first Omani woman writer” to have a book in English translation.While true, this may give the... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-02-19 10:26:57 UTC ]
Scholastic and Penguin Random House retained their #1 spots in our rankings of children’s frontlist fiction and picture book bestsellers by corporation, respectively, though each company’s share of positions on its list diminished slightly from 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
LOS ANGELES–BASED AUTHOR Mark Z. Danielewski recently published a strange picture book called The Little Blue Kite. The project marks an unexpected pivot from his most recent experimental quintet, The Familiar: Volumes 1–5 (2015–’17), which Danielewski described as a “love letter” to his home... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-02-14 20:00:12 UTC ]
HarperCollins has scooped the début picture book from “Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness about a gender non-binary guinea pig. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-08 06:46:35 UTC ]
Read these spectacular picture books featuring human main characters from a marginalized community. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-01-06 11:32:03 UTC ]
Author-illustrator Benji Davies reveals how his latest picture book spawned from a single sketch. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-25 06:16:49 UTC ]
Hachette Children's Group has signed a picture book adaptation of Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to be written by Peter Bently and illustrated by Steve Antony. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-16 14:03:39 UTC ]
Picture book biographies of Thurgood Marshall, Katherine Johnson, Jimmy Carter and more introduce people who just kept going, until they changed the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-05 15:19:04 UTC ]
Raymond AntrobusWho/ What inspired you to start writing? I never started writing poetry with the intention of writing books until publishers approached me. I was happy to write poems and travel and read the poems for audiences. I live poem by poem. The idea of a book of poems doesn’t really... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-12-05 12:09:15 UTC ]
The Templar Illustration and Design Award is expanding in 2020 to include categories for children’s non-fiction illustration and children’s fiction cover design for the first time, alongside its picture book illustration category. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-27 10:18:01 UTC ]
November is Picture Book Month, so these illustrated little gems are deservedly in the spotlight. In a recent blog post for Books Are Magic, novelist and bookstore owner Emma Straub curated a list of picture books. Among Straub’s picks for the best picture books of 2019 is a wonderful biography... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-11-25 12:00:00 UTC ]
‘Gay adults grew up reading straight romances,’ says writer Daniel Haack after US library withdraws Prince & Knight from shelvesThe author of a rhyming picture book removed from the shelves of a West Virginia library has hit back at protesters, suggesting that anyone concerned the book could... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-11-20 12:31:16 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Children’s UK has signed a deal for four picture book texts from debut writer Lu Fraser. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-20 06:15:25 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books is publishing a new "showstopping" children's picture book from author–illustrator team David Walliams and Tony Ross, called The Creature Choir, in time for Christmas. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-18 16:36:42 UTC ]
The organizing guru talks about her latest book, “Kiki & Jax,” a picture book with a familiar message. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-11-04 14:15:00 UTC ]
Booksellers talk color trends, tell terrible jokes, and happily sort through stacks of new books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-25 12:00:47 UTC ]