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 ]
This list showcases 10 great recent picture book biographies by and about trailblazing women—get ready to inspire the young reader in your life. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-10-21 10:33:42 UTC ]
A buyer circles back to talk sell-through on bookseller favorites. Plus, a holiday preview! Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-18 12:00:02 UTC ]
Publisher Walker Books has snapped up The House at the Edge of Magic, a middle-grade comic fantasy adventure by picture book author Amy Sparkes in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-18 00:50:05 UTC ]
Jim Field makes his author-illustrator début with the perfect picture book for budding language learners. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 20:29:18 UTC ]
Puffin has acquired the first children’s book from author–illustrator Keri Smith, Wreck this Picture Book, due to publish in autumn 2020 as part of a global release. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 10:22:48 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s has landed a new picture book from Giles Andreae and illustrator Guy Parker-Rees to mark 20 years of Giraffes Can’t Dance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 00:47:25 UTC ]